That doesn’t bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.

So much worse is:

OP: “This [noun] is [adjective].”

Commenter 1: “This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY.”

Commenter 2: “[Noun] isn’t [adjective]… BECAUSE IT’S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!”

At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he’s so funny on reddit. She doesn’t really listen.

Censoring a meme on the internet is stupid.

Or the opposite of that.

And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

That doesn’t really track. You think that allowing everyone to use existing characters would incentivize them to create new characters?

A lot of the original works we do get are because not everyone has access to the “safe bets”.

The typo makes the answer incorrect. The whole question would need to be thrown out.

That’s an interesting perspective. The odds of correctly guessing any multiple choice question with four answers should be 25%. But that assumes no duplicate answers, so I still say that’s wrong.

A lot of the game is scanning planets, gathering resources, and upgrading your ship. The upgrades allow you to gather more resources, explore further, and get better weapons so you can survive hostile alien encounters.

If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend giving it a try.

Does better reading comprehension get you a better answer?

B.

This is a multiple choice test. Once you eliminate three answers, you pick the fourth answer and move on to the next question. It can’t be A, C, or D, for reasons that I understand. There’s a non-zero chance that it’s B for a reason that I don’t understand.

If there is no correct answer, then there’s no point hemming and hawing about it.

B. Final answer.

shitty.

You can say shitty.

I want to take all these censored memes and edit them so the bad words are in bold red font.

Then I remember the one time I saw a meme that for some reason had the bad word written in red, and my four-year-old daughter was looking over my shoulder and said, “Cunt. That word says ‘cunt’.”

Disco Elysium gave me this experience in a new context. But better, because it blurs the line between success and failure.

Star Flight. I played it on Genesis, and it’s still one of the greatest games I’ve ever played.

One space ship, 270 solar systems, and 800 planets. The manual included a captain’s log that was sent back in time from the future, but without that you’d just be scouring the stars for clues, interrogating aliens, digging through ancient ruins, and watching slowly as a rash of planet-destroying solar flares spreads through the galaxy.

So fucking good.

A tree stole my wallet and had sex with my wife!

I’m not convinced some people aren’t just statistical language algorithms. And I don’t just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people’s brains work.

That’s fair - for birthday gifts for my kids’ friends, I can use Toys R Us’s limited selection as long as I remember to get the gift in advance.

But my own kids have birthdays coming up, and there are some toys I can’t reasonably get any other way.

Working full time and raising two kids, some convenience is necessary. Life is hard. I’m already making it harder by not going to Target, which is two minutes from my house and sells basically everything I need. I think that’s reasonable, especially since Target is the only one of those companies that’s actually likely to cave to a boycott. But I guess I stumbled into the wrong community to voice that stance.

Because it would be rude and would create negative social consequences for my kids and myself.

Even if it is like new, I’m not about to try to convince a suburban mom of that.

I’d love to support Toys R Us again, but they don’t have a very big selection. Those other options aren’t good for toy shopping. Kids want specific toys.

My own misgivings aside, I’m not giving a thrift store toy as a birthday gift.

It’s just not really possible to boycott all three of those. If my kids have a birthday party to go to, those are literally the only three places to buy a toy. That’s true for most of the things I buy, besides groceries.

So I boycott just Target. Target used to be the least shitty of those three. Except one or two rare occasions where it was necessary, they’ve lost months worth of my business.

If we can get just one retailer to turn around on their bullshit, then at least we’ll have one place to shop.

“Pull my finger.”