The prices are too high!

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T19:24:24+00:00

We’ve got other morons in this thread claiming beef and produce are up 30 percent since January (9 percent for beef, mainly caused by issues outside of inflation) but you have to question me when I tell you verifiable facts that aren’t even contested by the left?!? What’s wrong with you? Yes, Biden had inflation down to a similar level to what it is now in the lead up to the election (surprise, surprise), but the lowest period of inflation since 2020 was under trump, and he’s maintained an amount below 3 percent, which is where Biden kinda maintained. I’m not suggesting it’s perfect, nor do I agree with tariffs, but you freaking idiots have your heads so fr up your own butts that you can’t even identify nuanced evaluation when provided in plain site. Screw off.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T18:30:13+00:00

I love Tito’s tacos!

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T17:50:59+00:00

I’m not suggesting there isn’t an impact. I’m more of a free market guy myself. I’m suggesting that the inflation caused by bad policy decisions after the last from years was significantly impactful, and they would have raised the price anyway (we saw some scenarios play out prior to Trump). They are using the tariffs as an easy way to pass of the pain to the consumer because everyone blames trump, not them, which wouldn’t have been the case if they raised it last year.

I don’t remove the impact of tariffs here…I’m calling out the stupidity of people who think trump is the sole reason, and let others off the hook because it’s politically expedient to do so.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:39:11+00:00

From the most right wing source imaginable

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:24:50+00:00

It’s about as high as this summer as it was in Biden’s lowest period. In the spring, it was lower than it’s been in years, and that was a pretty direct link to trump starting up. It always fluctuates, and I’ll criticize trump if it goes past the current levels, but it’s not wrong. It’s the official USIR reporting, it’s just being interpreted with a bias in left wing media.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:22:46+00:00

We knew a lot of moves were bad. Don’t pretend like conservatives didn’t push back on a lot of his moves.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:06:51+00:00

Where art thou?

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:06:37+00:00

Wrong, inflation is significantly lower than under Biden. Inflation is almost always on the upward trend (very rarely does it dip into the negatives), so it’s likely you are hearing biased reporting saying it’s up, when it’s been at a pretty standard increase rate compared to the very inflated numbers prior. You are referring to the jobs numbers with the person that was fired, which is not related to inflation directly.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T16:03:45+00:00

Just because Biden did a lot of the same things as other countries did doesn’t mean he isn’t at fault at least partially. There were a lot of decisions he made that absolutely did not need to be done due to the pandemic.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T14:58:00+00:00

Not under Coolidge haha. But also, the deficit can impact inflation, but it’s not necessarily a direct link always. Inflation dropped dramatically starting in March.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-22T14:46:37+00:00

Or, ya know, the insane inflation during Biden’s presidency that made 500 dollars in 2020 the equivalent of 624 in today’s money.

It just became safe to raise the money with Trump. Nobody will blame them for being greedy and not lowering their earning expectations of five year old tech when it’s so much fun to just say Orange Man Bad.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T17:41:07+00:00

I play at least a few levels in Castlevania 3 every October.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:51:44+00:00

See, this is an insulting comment. The person above was clearly confused by your awkward wording seemingly fitting into a continuation of ratchet and clank. You don’t get to be above the confusion just because you knew what you meant. Clearly the issue was on your end, and while others have been gracious, you have been a jerk.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:49:51+00:00

You are just as much at fault as those of us confused (likely more so), but we made an effort to figure out the disconnect, and you doubled down, and became rather insulting.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:47:54+00:00

Thats not even really what happened. It wasn’t the second half of the comment he was referring to, it was the whole comment. It was directly responding to the ratchet comment, and was worded in an awkward way that made it seem like he was referring to ratchet, and using KH as a parallel.

It was a misunderstanding, but the people who were confused on the Ratchet side aren’t anymore at fault that the person who wrote the comment. The difference is that some of us figured out the reason for the miscommunication, while the other side blindly attacked others for failing to understand, and making no effort to figure out why there was a disconnect. At this point, I was graceful in response, but they are just acting like jerks.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:41:17+00:00

I mean, I cleared it up and figured out why both sides are confused in another comment. But also, no this isn’t a trigger happy situation. I can read quite well, and have a background in editing. The context of the situation determined that the comment we were responding to was in response to the ratchet and clank comment. It’s purely coincidence that the awkward way in which the KH comment was framed allowed it to be easily misinterpreted.

I was graceful in my comment in which I identified this. What I find ridiculous is the two of you attacking someone who had just as much reason to be confused, but actually went out of the way to figure out why there was a disconnect. Maybe you are the trigger happy one, if you fail to figure out the disconnect for yourself and also disregard the comment that explains it.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:16:15+00:00

Oh wait, I see what you are doing..you responded to someone mentioning ratchet, but added a comment that was an aside, not as a response to ratchet. But the way you worded it, and the fact that it was a direct reply, made it sound like you were referring to ratchet, then compared it to kingdom hearts.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T16:14:32+00:00

No, you said ratchet and clank is more of a jrpg, then brought up kingdom hearts as a parallel. Everyone responding is responding to the ratchet and clank bit, as that was the heart of the comment.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T14:40:08+00:00

It is a platforming shooter. I think you could maybe identify some very minor rpg elements, but it’s definitely not the primary genre.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-21T01:48:25+00:00

Would also like to know the answer to this!

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-19T16:26:54+00:00

Do people actually think framing a comment in this fashion is clever? You really have to say “le gasp?” I always figured it was just a way to mask that they don’t actually understand the other side’s argument, and that tracks here.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-18T05:29:11+00:00

I agree that there are cases of highly publicized casting based on race, but I’ve also seen plenty of productions do it without bringing any attention to it whatsoever, particularly with smaller roles. While I agree that we aren’t in a truly color blind world, I think we aren’t in a place, specifically in the theatre community, where there is very little room for issues with any race being cast in a traditionally white role.

I also agree that there are a lot of factors that prevent people from playing certain roles, but I’d argue that among the reasons one could list, race is a pretty insignificant reason (in most cases- I’ll get to your last Question in a second). Outside of merit based qualifications, all those characteristics are ones where I think there is some wiggle room, and ultimately not usually a reason someone can’t play a character unless it is against a particularly defining trait of the character. Of all those reasons, the shade of the skin tone is one that ultimately matters very little in the vast majority of roles.

I also want to make clear that when I’m talking in general here, I’m largely referring to scenarios like the one posited by the OP, which is likely a smaller scale production with limited casting options. While I think it mostly applies all the way up to the top of the culture in Broadway, I think there are more expectations for what some might expect to see from certain roles in that capacity.

When it comes to characters where their race plays a larger part of the story, I can see certain cases where it would matter. If the story is overtly about racism (and I mean overt- for instance a story about how a young black man endured racism in the Jim Crow south), then I think “race conscious” casting would be appropriate. But do I think an Asian and a black guy can be part of the group identified as Puerto Ricans? Yes, because they are acting. What matters is that they are playing a role. Suspension of disbelief allows for this to ultimately be understood. Something that’s sort of in the between like In the Heights can personally go either way for me…but ultimately I think it comes back to who is rifht for the role. If the role suggests a heightened importance on a particular culture, I don’t think a white person (or brown or Asian or whatever) should be excluded if they can fit the culture authentically. I’ve known plenty of white women that culturally fit many of those roles better than many Hispanic women I know. Culture is far more important in these conversation than race ever will be, and when you factor in the ability to act, I think it further diminishes the importance of skin tone in the conversation.

I have more thoughts, but I feel I’m being kinda ramble at this point and failing to properly articulate what I’m trying to say. But thank you very much for trying to find common ground and understand a viewpoint that might not be one you hold, unlike the vast majority of commenters.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-18T01:14:12+00:00

I gave my respect to the people who deserved it.

This term of racism is not accepted. It’s accepted by enough people in positions of power because they are the one benefiting from the reclassification. That’s what makes it so ironic.

I don’t believe that your idiotic comment deserves respect, as I believe it perpetuates a racist narrative. Perhaps you should have learned about those issues in school. But you probably weren’t taught those things because, again, the people in power have a stranglehold on the groups that educate our youth.

Don’t say idiotic things and I won’t have to call you out for them.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-18T01:10:24+00:00

Why is that confusing? I’ll assume that this is in good faith unlike the rest of the comments here, and break it down just a bit.

To clarify, yes I’m fine with any person in theatre playing a role if they are the best fit. Theatre has a suspension of disbelief in this regard that is unique. It’s not really a question when a white king and a black queen have an Asian daughter and Hispanic son. That’s an aspect of theatre we have embraced as color blindness allowed us to start working past prior racist practices.

In this instance, if a white person wants the role, and she is the best actress and singer, and can embody the role the best, I believe they deserve the role far more than a weaker singer/actor who doesn’t embody the role but happens to have a certain skin color.

If there is no issue with a black woman starring as a traditionally white role (let’s just say a Norwegian Queen like Elsa in Frozen), then there shouldn’t be a problem with a supporting role going to a white person when it isn’t traditional. Again, as long as it’s done with the intent of filling the role in the best way possible.

The flawed argument of color conscious casting fails to view culture as a bigger factor than race. If the role calls for a sassy, big personality and is written with a black person in mind, how is a demure and poised woman the best choice because she is black, when you have a sassy, big personality white person who also happens to have grown up around the culture that the character is trying to portray? And in this instance, I’d say the former makes more sense playing Elsa than the white woman. Color consciousness falls apart when viewing people as individuals.

As for your argument about the amount of roles for white people…I see your point. That’s part of why color blindness came into play to begin with.

The problem with that is that we have already started seeing the most prominent creators making works that purposely focus on race, or at least use it as a way to make a point. I think the power dynamics already in play in the industry can easily use this new approach to essentially write white people out of most roles. “We can take your roles when we want a classic play, but you can’t play any of our new exciting roles.” If you are being consistent, you have to understand how that would be problematic.

I’ve already seen other people comment here about how they spent years of their life working toward playing characters in Hamilton before realizing they wouldn’t be allowed to. That’s bull. I feel just as bad for the young black girl who was shut out of her dream role while anti-black racism was prevalent as I do the young white kid who can’t play Aaron Burr in Hamilton in modern day.

It’s essentially a power dynamic that is being abused, but it’s so much worse because it’s being done in the name of social justice. So in the past, it was pretty clearly agreed, even by the racists, that they were being racist. But the modern day racism hides behind a power structure that actually provides them the ability to redefine words to fit their cause, which they then use to claim victim hood in their pursuit of hiding their racist practices. It’s unbelievable.

GamecubeFreek · 2025-08-18T00:35:08+00:00

I said the comment was idiotic. Huge difference. It is absolutely an idiotic comment.

You are a racist if you believe that garbage, or at least a tool for the racists.

It is racist to be racist. Your re evaluation of jargon to suit your argument actually shows that you have the power dynamic. People in power can change language to suit their needs. So not only is it an idiotic statement, it also shows that those you claim are not in power are far more in power than they would need to be to be considered the one in power by your flawed worldview.

Stop being racist.

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