i could write an entire thesis about how some of their best songs were "lost" to the anemic mixing endemic to the late 80s and early 90s, until you throw on a live show and discover "holy shit the song Presto actually whips ass"

I do see what you're seeing, and i don't fully agree with her description of events. but to me it feels like an unnecessary reach to read a post outlining why she lacks clear easy answers, and doesn't feel she should be looked to for political prescriptions, and critique it AS political analysis.

this feels like a deliberate misreading. she very clearly articulated that this was a post about her own complex emotions and feelings of hopelessness, even making clear that she wished she felt differently, and yet her personal feelings are criticized as if they are policy prescriptions.

i don't know if you just picked a bad example, but "summarize some knowledge" is no different from "what should i think". if you are not evaluating or even aware of the sources of the information shaping your opinion, you are not an active participant in forming that opinion

Heretic Pride is the top of my mountain, whichever era you put it in, but I'm also going to shout out an underrated gem that i discovered by accident years ago:

Moon Colony Bloodbath (collab of TMG and John Vanderslice)

no no that's a meta-more-phosis - sounds the same, different spelling

"look at how these dots are close together, i bet that means something"
"who put them close together?"
"oh, i did"
"based on what"
"idk vibes"

Haley Cass is the author in referring to. I'm exaggerating saying no one else is good, but she just has such a lack for writing leads that feel like people i want to hang out with. i miss the characters after the books are over in a way i just don't find with most novels

that's teammates picking each other up right there. JT tried to ground into a double play and was accidentally safe, so Sosa had his back and pulled off the full double play

honestly it is comedy gold that his pinned post is about his upcoming book with the subtitle "the age of certainty and the demise of discourse"

there may be some bias because it happened when i was really coming into political awareness, but the race to the "middle" (actually the right) on Obamacare was such a brazen instance of Dems valuing an imagined middle ground over their actual base that I'm shocked anyone ever forgave them for it

"there is no moral equivalency" then why would you aim to be in the middle of those two positions??

leaving aside that the "radical left" position is largely made up, if you believe one side is morally repugnant you position yourself opposite to that, not next to it

the only one of the ST films to make space feel big and alien and mysterious. honestly, my favorite by a decent margin. i know it's not what everyone looks for in a "fun" movie experience, but it is so powerful and emotional.

I'm sure such games exist, and i would find that preferable for sure. still a fine line between "fun minigame" and "padding game time with low effort filler" but yeah

he's really fallen off a cliff this year. and while they have a ton of good starters, they can't cut him and can't put him in the bullpen. i wonder if we'll end up regretting his contract even more than Walker's, with the opposite directions they're each trending...