A number also took private flights. Unless you happen to live where its taking place you have to possess the means to afford travel, a place to stay, and potentially legal fees to attend a protest. You also, as you said, need to be able to afford the time off work. This restricts most protests to college students and PMCs with a few locals thrown in.

Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.

The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can’t really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.

Yep, and once you platform enough nutcases no one else wants to be associated with or listen to you.

Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.

Simon R. Greens Deathstalker series is pretty much what you’re describing. Very much space opera, melodramatic and big on action. They’re not incredibly well written but lots of fun.

Rob : You’re a total paranoid.

Alvy Singer : Well, how am I a para-? I pick up on those kind of things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, “Did you eat yet or what?” and Tom Christie said, “No, didjew?” Not, “did you”, “didjew eat?” Jew? No, not “did you eat”, but “Jew eat”? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?

Landscaping crews tend to pull trailers though. I imagine that’s why.

They played around with making an AI generated episode of black mirror but it wasn’t good enough to be compelling.

Cubas pretty green for what its worth.

I watch a lot of warhammer 40000 videos. From lore to battle reports. I’ve never once played a game.

Dictatorship at the time didn’t mean necessarily authoritarian, it just meant government. Someone always dictates however they may be elected. He felt the people dictating should be the working class.

You got down voted but you’re right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor. Western “champaign socialists” (another term I hate but it kinda applies here) use it to criticize people from countries that actually have had socialist experiments. Most of the leftists globally are not western and would fit under the standard western definition of tankie. But if you’ve never come close to overthrowing your own government, are you positioned all that well to criticize someone elses revolution while you sit comfortably in the imperial core?

Poor countries face challenges that rich countries can’t imagine often from western interference and revolutions are an ugly business. No Castro was not Santa Claus but he was a marked improvement over Batista.

Just because something is a social construct doesn’t mean it isn’t real or important.

The weird thing about analog horror is that its now being done by people who never experienced the art that they are imitating. Sometimes their interpretations are lacking.

AAA also tend to spend a lot on celebrity images and voice acting. Which is weird to me. I don’t think anyone bought Cyberpunk just for Keanu Reeves.

Elden Ring?

I think with media people tend to watch critics review entries that they can’t keep up with and they adopt some of their habits. The thing is someone who plays every game is going to notice any aspect that’s been done better before and point it out as part of their review. But the more positive reviewers will state that they did enjoy the game and that part seems to get lost sometimes.

I could spend an hour telling you things I didn’t like about Tears of the Kingdom. Its still probably the best game I played this year.

The sex scene in Zach and Mirri Make a Porno between the two main characters highlights that they actually love each other.

Light? That you?