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Can you imagine having the confidence, the absolute self-certainty, of people who post that everyone who disagrees with them must be white?

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If anyone wonders, “arguing on the Internet” is my meta-level tag for discussing recurring elements of discourse, and “the discourse” is my object-level tag for directly discussing the discourse.

Thoughts on Late Shift, part 1

There’ve been too many games that are like movies except “your choices matter,” so the characters portentously monologue about how life is full of choices that matter. I want a movie that’s like a game except there are no choices, and the characters portentously monologue about how they have no choices.

Thoughts on Late Shift, part 2

These plot hooks do not work for me at ALL. My first thought on getting kidnapped by violent criminals is “how do I get as many of these people arrested as I possibly can?” Then the “try to get these people arrested” choices are the obvious bad ones that get you a metaphorical slap on the wrist and then knock you back to the main story. The actual plot hooks are things like “you can get money from this” or “this female robber is attractive,” when I don’t care about the money, and I’m not any more interested in the attractive female robber than I was in the attractive male robber who immediately got killed off.