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The interview in the second one really got to me. His mannerisms really remind me of a friend of mine, and the descriptions he gives of that abusive power dynamic reminds me a lot of similar experiences I’ve had, especially the inappropriate ’jokes’ made about deeply personal issues like his dad. Really hope that dude gets any help he needs.

Estuans interius
Ira vehementi

Sephiroth!

Yeah, but also BLOPS6 didn’t ’give’ naughty players anything. There was a leaked build. It makes it sound like the devs are giving out rewards for shitty behaviour.

RPS really went downhill after the original 4 writers left.

Am I having a stroke, or is that headline fucked?

Siphoning off extra revs for powering woke.

Half Life 2: Episode 2 - Part Two

Oh my god. This is delicious.

How many justices do you think there will be if there’s a new one appointed each two years and they are term-limited to 18 years?

I’m sorry, what? Why have I never heard of this?

Planetside. MMOs were a real eye opener back in the early ‘00s.

I politely, yet firmly disagree.

Team Fortress 2? I mean, Engine and Scout were always pretty hot.

I thought they literally only just allowed same-sex marriage.

Just for clarification, this was under the Tories.

Huh! My perception has always been the opposite, but that Wikipedia article appears soundly sourced. Don’t I feel silly?!

It appears I have been shown who is the boss.

Anyhow, I hope it’s agreed that the general point I had that there’s historically two different uses of that term and it’s not unreasonable to be confused about them still stands.

I’ll leave my comment up as-is for context.

They are, or rather were. For most of the world, especially in Europe, liberalism means/meant socially liberal, i.e. left wing - based on personal freedom from imposition of others’ values on their personal and social lives. However, in America liberal has (relatively recently, as in 2000’s) become synonymous with neoliberal ideology, which is absolutely not left wing in any traditional sense, focusing on ‘small government’ and freedom of the markets—I guess because pronouncing two extra syllables is too much effort? Idk.

With the internet this peculiar usage has recently (as in the last 5-10 years) started leaking out of America and is being used in this confusing and ambiguous manner.

To be fair though, the Overton window has shifted so far right now that liberal (i.e. left of the nominal centre) shares much of the same space as neoliberal. See New Labour, and the current Labour government.

Edit: Deleted a paragraph that in retrospect was unnecessarily negative.

Feels like I’m at a Chemical Brothers gig.

Honestly they should just own it. Have an entire wall of beatific potato head people.

The worst thing is when I look at my life and realise this is the best situation I’ve ever been.

Poofy Roadman