Merrick Garland, somehow

He's a weird fucker.

This is right on the money, and it makes me proud of my fellow musicians. But isn't it a sad commentary on the general state of social media that common human decency, as displayed in this thread, feels kind of special and rare?

Counterpoint: no single one of us is as stupid as all of us put together. :-)

How does R reference the N word?

I loved 3 and NV, and I tolerated 4. Now I'm having some fun with 76 and don't quite get the hate.

Seriously defying gravity

They intentionally break the government so they can campaign on how broken the government is. And their constituents eat it up, because it's mostly like rooting for sports teams.

I loved it and also found it surprisingly difficult in places. I think the use of mixed media is brilliant, like the various flavors of video clips and music you stumble across. A couple boss battles were very challenging. One in particular, but you can finish the main storyline without beating it.

The section of the Oldest House that opens up into a vast maze of hallways is totally epic, IMO. The soundtrack gets metal in a cinematic way right there (Old Gods of Asgard, I think, from Alan Wake? Plus Porcupine Tree!)

I enjoyed the dark and yet whimsical vibe, if you couldn't tell.

I am a Gen-Xer who was raised Catholic in America. The old-school church values of my childhood in the 1970s were mostly liberal democratic, promoting humility, circumspection, and Golden Rule, love-thy-neighbor attitudes. (Setting aside the entire organization's liability for the systematic raping of children, that is, which is a lot to ask.)

But with the more extreme politics of groups like Opus Dei, the modern Catholic Church in America, by contrast, has become a right-wing propaganda machine. It promotes a noxious brand of pseudo-religious pomposity and holier-than-thou windbaggery, practiced by preening, empty-headed bigots and jackasses who couldn't find real spirituality if it bit them in the ass.*

*Just my opinion, but I'm fucking right.

Like, wtf?

Jesus, what an absurd, chickenshit take.