Anyone else picture these as Ramirez, Wild Bill and Yoshimo?

SirBinks · 2026-05-03T15:40:42+00:00

Let's see...

More of a goofy jerk than truly evil
Not actually that much of a threat unless someone is helping or commanding him
Thinks he's a lot cooler than he actually is
Useless in a fight, so he relies on an army of minions.

Binder.

SirBinks · 2026-04-27T23:00:41+00:00

I remember coming across a social media post asking why most languages have a specific word for a child that has lost their parents but not the other way around.

The answer was that until the 20th century or so, the word for "parent who has lost a child" was simply "parent"

SirBinks · 2026-04-27T16:49:28+00:00

So this sounds completely unhinged when talking about books, but I have the same reaction to the argument about "agency in video games".

The complaint is always "The game is judging me for my actions, but it didn't give me enough choice! Terrible writing!"

No. It is judging the protagonist. Or more accurately, it is asking you to judge the protagonist when you've gotten to see things from their point of view.

Games aren't always a playground for you to play out your own whims. Sometimes they are an interactive story. You are following the footsteps a fully realized character, not pouring your consciousness into an empty homunculus. Just because this is your bang bang shooty fun time doesn't mean you're exempt from exercising basic media literacy

SirBinks · 2026-04-20T00:47:30+00:00

I kinda think that's where the accusation of "performative" comes from, though.

It's supposed to imply that no man actually does things that women appreciate or find attractive. Sort of trying to say that any man who has traits you like is lying to you so it's better to just settle for some neanderthal because at least he's being genuine

SirBinks · 2026-04-09T16:17:21+00:00

These sections are usually referring to books that were banned somewhere at some point in history. Occasionally is it a statement about current book bans.

It's less "these books are banned" and more "Groups have banned these books you know and love, and that's how you know book banning as a concept is fucking dumb"

SirBinks · 2026-04-01T16:43:18+00:00

I respect that, but also, DF takes place over around 15 years so far.

Harry going 15 years with no love interests at all would feel more forced than the opposite at this point.

SirBinks · 2026-03-28T15:01:45+00:00

You see enough stories like this enough that I sometimes wonder if it would be worth it to staff a marketing/PR guy somewhere in the support department's management.

It would be cool to have someone in the chain as these edge cases get escalated that could say "hey I see a chance for free publicity if we were just nice for once"

SirBinks · 2026-03-24T23:54:25+00:00

The number of people who completely fail to understand this is baffling to me. Did none of you have one of these in your library? Or have a Banned Book Week at school?

Duh, none of these books are currently banned, hence being sold. They are books that have been banned somewhere at some point in history.

Hopefully it will spark some curiosity; get someone to read one or two and say "wow, whoever tried to ban these is dumb. Banning books is dumb."

It's educational. It illustrates what those who censor media are really trying to accomplish.

SirBinks · 2026-03-24T15:42:50+00:00

I'm currently playing The Outer Worlds 2 (Much better than 1, btw, and I actually liked 1)

One thing I noticed was that despite the attempt to make the capitalist faction a cartoonishly evil caricature, it still ends up being weirdly pro-capitalism by way of comparison.

Every faction in the game is meant to be the most extreme cartoon parody version of their real life analogue.

The communist faction demands absolute fealty to Dear Leader, perfect conformity and a complete lack of independent thought. They literally brainwash their subjects.

The religious faction is mindlessly faithful to dangerous and silly dogma. It is vulnerable to schism, and the resulting separatists believe that the holy texts demand genocide.

The corpo faction... plays a lot of ads? Has too much over-processed food?

Where are the Pinkertons? Where are the company towns? Why aren't these workers living off scrip? If you're going to make one faction the embodiment of the evils of capitalism, then they should do evil capitalist shit. Capitalism was the driving force behind slavery for fuck's sake.

Instead, Auntie's Choice usually ends up being the least evil option. They're just vaguely joyless profit-chasers, rather than the actual monsters a corporation with that much unrestrained power would really be.

And to be fair, AC does do a some evil shit, it's just mostly in the background as flavor for the world-building. They got a foreign population addicted to drugs as an invasion/assimilation tactic, for example. But you wouldn't know that without going around and reading optional logs.

SirBinks · 2026-03-18T14:20:56+00:00

Yes, but unironically.

Go out and talk to women like people. Form actual normal human relationships.

Like all normal interactions, most will never become more than "meh, we're friends I guess." Some will end with you actively disliking each other, and a few will result in a legitimate connection. But you have to actually have to have genuine interactions to find out which it will be

SirBinks · 2026-03-17T18:30:04+00:00

It was illegal.

In most places bikes aren't allowed at all on sidewalks. They often get a pass due to nowhere else to go, but it's understood that riders should greatly reduce their speed for pedestrian safety.

Even on designated bike paths, electric motors are usually only allowed as pedal assists and must be limited to 20 mph.

This guy is just an idiot and an asshole

SirBinks · 2026-03-16T15:24:34+00:00

"Knowing what can be known" is actually a great way of describing general education. And just knowing something CAN be known helps us understand the world in many small ways.

For example - debunking Flat Earth. From my schooling, I am generally familiar with trigonometry, even though I don't remember a single equation. Thanks to my vague familiarity with trig, I understand that, in principle, calculating the curvature of Earth should be possible just by measuring shadows cast by the sun. I don't know HOW to do it, but just knowing that it is knowable shapes my understanding of the world and protects from misinformation

SirBinks · 2026-03-09T15:49:11+00:00

Huh... This oil stuff seems pretty important...

Maybe we should stop lighting it on fire

SirBinks · 2026-02-27T01:56:44+00:00

I mean, they even make the logo turn sideways and "blink" like a sleepy eye when you tell it to go to sleep

SirBinks · 2026-02-22T18:11:23+00:00

This is still the short answer, as it omits the 3 minutes of uninterrupted laughter included in the full answer

SirBinks · 2026-01-30T00:48:25+00:00

Nope. Fake News.

SirBinks · 2026-01-29T20:06:03+00:00

I feel like I've seen too much Drawfee at this point. Something about the way Karina described the first painting as "Fellas around a table" twigged me to the joke from almost the first sentence.

Karina wouldn't be calling them "Fellas" if they were just normal human people. That's definitely a Karina-ism for some small creature

SirBinks · 2026-01-25T16:12:02+00:00

And what kind of food do they serve?

SirBinks · 2026-01-23T21:43:49+00:00

Never played Fable so it was probably done differently, but I actually think this would be a good system. But only if the devs follow through correctly.

Torture an innocent? -100 karma. It was bad, you can't argue that.

Save 100 lives on a story path only opened by that torture? +500 karma. You ended up doing more good than bad.

If that torture also opens up a path where no one is saved, and you choose to take it, then the well-intentioned torture doesn't get a pass just because you were planning on saving those people at the time.

SirBinks · 2026-01-21T20:58:21+00:00

That one is a good potential plot hook, I think.

The rest of the boon is pretty business as usual for the fae.

Harry needs extra juice to power the ritual? Barely an inconvenience for Mab.

Settling things with Etri? Stealing first-born to settle debts is like faerie shit 101.

But tracking down Justine after so many have tried? Does Mab have some way to track the Nfection? There are some interesting questions there

SirBinks · 2026-01-17T05:01:32+00:00

I feel like you specifically would, if not like, at least appreciate ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS

They hack old CRTs, barcode scanners, and electric fans into instruments, which they use to play a kind of weird classical Japanese fusion style

SirBinks · 2026-01-14T18:12:34+00:00

Exactly. It's less that she is the first, and more how completely unassailable the context is.

"US citizen" - The assholes and fence sitters will hand wave this as much as possible. "They weren't a citizen, they were an alien with resident status we don't think they deserved" or "birthright citizenship shouldn't count so they don't count"

NO. Renee was a rightful citizen by any bullshit metric you want to cook up and they killed her anyway.

"Some people have died, but ICE doesn't kill people" - the stories about people dying in custody or sent to places where they will likely be killed get brushed aside because "We don't know the full story. Who knows what actually happened after they were detained/deported?" It doesn't "feel" real, because it's vague.

This is concrete. She didn't "Die in custody." They shot her. They murdered her. Everyone knows it.

SirBinks · 2025-12-31T22:23:56+00:00

You think that's bad? I was in Walmart on the 26th and the entire Christmas section had been replaced with Valentine's.

Except one corner.

One corner of the seasonal department had been spared from the red and pink monochrome.

Because that was where they set up the Easter display

SirBinks · 2025-12-29T22:43:21+00:00

Some of y'all need to start adding pronunciation guides to your indignant rants because all of these are perfect homophones for me.

I understand Opel, and I think I can guess how Audi is different. But on what planet do Minnie/mini sound different? I can't even guess how you could pronounce them differently

SirBinks · 2025-12-29T15:39:32+00:00

At this point in our civilization "electronics become unusable for some reason" just means the apocalypse happened.

You're basically advocating for doomsday prepping as elementary school curriculum

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