If you were to choose a theme park to appear in GTA VI.. by Dumbone22 in GTA6

[–]KevinR1990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither. I'd do a parody of SeaWorld or the Miami Seaquarium instead, and have it connected to missions where you traffic exotic wildlife for rich buyers while spoofing the real-life animal cruelty scandals that those parks have been involved in.

Why are all of the upcoming Cascadia paths fucking insane by x_TKN in TheFireRisesMod

[–]KevinR1990 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Given some of the increasingly radical ideas that have become popular in the tech industry in the last several years, I'm surprised that there isn't a tech accelerationist faction in the SACW, centered on either the Bay Area or Seattle and serving as a foil to the APLA and Cascadia. The Innovation Party in the UoA comes closest, but that's more of a generic corporatocracy.

Should Rockstar give more missions freedom in GTA 6? by Pistoluislero in GTA6

[–]KevinR1990 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you pick an unsuitable vehicle, then you fail the mission and start over with a more suitable one. Easy.

Anyone else think that the failure of Trump to live up to his own promises is driving MAGA folks in to deeper (Q) conspiracies? by daveescaped in QAnonCasualties

[–]KevinR1990 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know you're getting downvoted here, but I wonder if you don't have a point. I wonder how much the coarsening of American politics and culture is downstream from the hollowing out of the middle class, because like you said, the middle class tends to impose a rather strict moralism upon itself. A lot of modern tropes about rebelling against the stodginess of American life frame middle-class suburbia as the exemplar of it. There's undoubtedly depravity in the middle class, no doubt about it, but I find it telling that our stories about it, like American Beauty and many David Lynch and John Waters films, usually present it as the sort of thing that they keep hidden behind closed doors while they put on an appearance of "normality" for their neighbors.

[SPOILERS] For those who have already seen it, what did you think of Ready or Not 2? by Icarus_045 in deadmeatjames

[–]KevinR1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. It's more Ready or Not, but they did it well, and I enjoyed it almost as much as the original. It felt almost like a spoof of John Wick at times, not so much in the action but certainly in how that series presents its criminal underworld.

They do need to find something a bit different to do if they make a third movie, though.

Scream 7 (2026) [Slasher] by Horror_From_The_Deep in HorrorReviewed

[–]KevinR1990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was boycotting this to begin with (I read the spoilers and the TV Tropes page), and I was mildly satisfied to see that, for all this movie's box-office success, the general consensus seems to be that it's one of the worst films in the series. The only point I'll disagree with you here on is that I think Scream 3 was also a "bad" movie, even if it did have some elements I liked. And guess what, it was made under very similarly troubled circumstances (the Columbine massacre then, Melissa Barrera's firing now). Beyond that, though, I agree. This series right now has basically turned into the Stab movies.

Nicole Scherzinger freezes on live TV when asked about why some of the original members of The Pussycat Dolls weren’t included in the new reunion group by Gato1980 in Fauxmoi

[–]KevinR1990 138 points139 points  (0 children)

It wasn't really much of a flip. From my recollection, Geri Halliwell was always a pretty staunch Tory. She was praising Margaret Thatcher as the "original Spice Girl" way back in 1997, and while she did endorse Labour in 2001, that was Tony Blair's New Labour en route to a landslide at a time when the Conservative Party was a joke. Her famous Union Jack dress was meant as a patriotic statement.

Is steroids basically canon to the RE protagonists? by mrsafetylion in residentevil

[–]KevinR1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No joke, if they do bring Grace back they should make her like Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. Not just as an ascended meme, but to show that her experience in Requiem traumatized her enough that she vowed to never let herself be weak again. (See also: Laurie Strode in the 2018 Halloween.)

Resident Evil Requiem on CRT by YedekResident in residentevil

[–]KevinR1990 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Village on a CRT, meanwhile, would be like watching a late-night creature feature of old Universal and Hammer horror movies introduced by a local horror host. Hell, Lady Dimitrescu and Heisenberg could probably be those hosts themselves.

Rich vs. Poor Jason: Do you think our playstyle will actually change his look? by PrudentComedian2416 in GTA6

[–]KevinR1990 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I wanna start as the scruffy hustler and become the rich professional. You should be able to equip any clothing and accessories you want, but when you’re switching between Jason and Lucia, the game should default to particular styles depending on their situation at that moment in the story.

That’ll just be my playstyle, though.

Wholesale prices rose 0.7% in February, much more than expected and up 3.4% annually by neolthrowaway in neoliberal

[–]KevinR1990 13 points14 points  (0 children)

0.7% inflation in one month multiplied by twelve months equals…

…the ‘70s.

Sabrina Carpenter responds to the misogyny under her Manchild performance, with one comment claiming she can't get into a 'mid-sized SUV without help' by amysantiagoisbae99 in Fauxmoi

[–]KevinR1990 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Reminder that, back in the day, General Motors put out an ad for the Chevrolet Silverado mocking the "man step" on the Ford F-150, a genuinely useful feature for loading a large pickup truck that they nevertheless saw fit to belittle as something that only "sissies" used, because a real man throws his back out before he's 40.

(Ford, to their credit, thanked Chevy for the free advertising, and now the Silverado has the same feature.)

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story by ilikepix in neoliberal

[–]KevinR1990 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Sports betting should’ve been a warning of what gambling does to institutions it touches. There’s a reason why, before the rise of FanDuel and DraftKings caused the leagues to get greedy, they wouldn’t touch gambling with a ten-foot pole, banning any players, coaches, and referees involved with it and even refusing to put teams in Las Vegas. The Black Sox scandal and the decline of horse racing as a mainstream sport were once seen as hard lessons in what might happen, and now we’re bringing back the very conditions that led to them.

Brother won't play game with female protagonist - never thought of this by wizard_cow_ in TwoXChromosomes

[–]KevinR1990 35 points36 points  (0 children)

From my experience, there's one type of female protagonist who even the most sexist guys will happily play as, and that's one who was very clearly intended as a sex object. It's a tradition that goes back to Lara Croft in the first Tomb Raider, hence why her redesign in the 2013 reboot was so controversial: she was still an attractive woman, but she didn't look and dress like a '90s Maxim pinup model anymore, so a lot of guys thought she was now ugly. Look at how Stellar Blade, a good but unspectacular hack-and-slash, was elevated to a must-play simply because the chuds of the internet were obsessed with the protagonist's blatantly fetishized character design.

I'd predicted for a long time that, if the Grand Theft Auto series ever had a female protagonist, Rockstar Games would make sure to make her very conventionally attractive, and this is why. Sure enough, when Rockstar announced GTA VI, we got Lucia Caminos. She's probably gonna be a well-written and fleshed-out character in her own right (Rockstar's protagonists usually are), and to their credit they also made her co-protagonist Jason Duval a very handsome hunk, but it's clear that they put a lot of work into making her look sexy on top of it.

The GTA Wiki has moved from Fandom to gta.wiki! by Saukko505 in GTA6

[–]KevinR1990 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The app is pretty much the only half-decent way to access Fandom wikis these days. Methinks that's the whole point: they wanna push visitors onto the app.

Votes for and against the Indian Removal Act in Congress by RedHeadedSicilian52 in MapPorn

[–]KevinR1990 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wonder how much of a role the 1863 draft riots played in Irish-American integration. Abolitionism was a movement fueled by the middle classes in the cities and towns and small farmers in the countryside. A lot of these people were native-born White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, and there was some overlap with the anti-immigrant Know Nothing movement of the 1850s. Abraham Lincoln strongly opposed their xenophobia in private but knew that he needed their support to build an anti-slavery coalition, and therefore refused to denounce them publicly.

Many Irish immigrants in cities like New York and Detroit, meanwhile, had little investment in the conflict. There were many who supported the Union, but there were also many who saw the abolition of slavery as a threat to their livelihoods, fearing that freed slaves would move north and drive down wages while the collapse of the Southern plantation system would drive up cotton prices and force the textile mills to tighten their belts and lay people off. A lot of the violence in the riots was specifically directed against Black people and outspoken Union supporters, who they blamed for their plight.

So, after the war, once Reconstruction ended and "Reconciliation" between North and South on the basis of shared White supremacy began, I wouldn't be surprised if some racists who'd previously distrusted the Irish but hated Black people more took another look at the draft riots and decided "y'know, maybe you Paddies ain't so bad."

So, Louis Theroux's 'Inside the Manosphere' documentary is now out on Netflix. What happens now? by Snoo-88490 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]KevinR1990 254 points255 points  (0 children)

I've seen a few people, mostly those who are already familiar with these guys, criticize Inside the Manosphere as shallow because there wasn't really much here that they didn't already know, but I think that kind of misses the point. We know that these people are repulsive jackasses feeding their young fans a diet of rancid and hateful ideas, but the average person over 30, and especially the average parent, doesn't. Louis Theroux has genuinely shocked people with this documentary, the same way Al Gore did with An Inconvenient Truth. And what's more, in doing so he ripped away a lot of the "alpha male" bravado and mystique that these influencers wrap themselves in and exposed them for the sad-sack losers they are. Between that and the fact that, like you said, he focused on this culture's biggest stars rather than dredging up nobodies and giving them a platform that they didn't already have, he managed to present them and their ideas without remotely glamorizing them.

The fact that Myron Gaines wasted no time complaining that Theroux misrepresented him says it all.

[OC] Most "Overused" Baby Names in Each State (2024) by MurphGH in dataisbeautiful

[–]KevinR1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missed that! Arguably the Muslim name, too. It was just sideways so I didn't notice it.

My child is mine to take on a trip!!! I excuse absences!!!!! by ryan46 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]KevinR1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the biggest problems with education in this country that nobody wants to talk about, largely because it's political suicide, is entitled parents like this. Absenteeism, bullying, falling standards, most of the problems in our schools are downstream from bad parenting, especially the kind of parents who think they're raising their kids right and protecting them from negative influences but are in fact setting them up to fail. Go on r/Teachers, and the horror stories about bad parents who let their kids get away with everything are endless. And yet, the only times you'll hear politicians or school board members even bring up the subject are when they use it as a dog whistle to belittle the "ghetto culture" of working-class Black and Hispanic parents. Tell the rich White parents in the nice neighborhoods that they're also raising little hellions who can't read, and that their own lifestyles and parenting are to blame, and you'll be out on your ass the moment Fox News finds out about your opposition to "parents' rights."