I at least like that a few pieces of Sonic media lampshade this.

In one episode of Sonic Boom (a show designed to be watched high by adults) he’s kidnapped by an aardvark that’s a rabid fan.

“Oh! N-no, I wasn’t trying to escape, I was just…reading some of this fanfiction! Ooh. Sonamy, spicy!”
“Oh. Yeah, I don’t really even care for it, but it seems requisite for the readers.”

Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. Gawd, the visualization of Hollywood power and nepotism.

We used to have that adage about how anonymity made people worse on the internet. It always made me feel uneasy. We hit 2025, and I was dismayed to find it was wrong - the internet was a warning bell for how evil the average person is.

Why would enemies of America hate Trump, when he’s helping them destroy it?

Actually, nobody is doing the physical labor so that the company can present itself as low cost for future investors.

I watched MST3K recently (a show that clearly denotes when classic network commercials would come on)

They mentioned commercials AFTER YouTube had already shown a 1 minute ad break.

We are late for a competitor.

Nice meme! Downvoted for the asterisk, pussy. (Yes, spelt with a U, not a *)

It upsets me that in working with webpages, I regularly look at “all” the network traffic going to a website - and clearly Microsoft’s GUID is hiding somewhere it won’t even show.

Right, but this is a generation that thought the EPA is a terrorist organization. Fresh air is fucking evil.

Did you read?…Specifically the part where I specifically included the stipulation where people don’t need one under the age of 18, because I know that people online will nitpick ideas even knowing that any genuine legislation would get a dozen logical caveats to it?

Do drivers’ licenses expire at the end of the year? Why such a short expiry?

People take things for granted now. If it’s a move in the right direction, why make it far more restrictive than it needs to be?

Even just 20% of meat eaters reconsidering their habits would be fantastic, or another 30% getting the medallion but looking at meat consumption differently as a result.

It sounds like you read “you must spend one medallion to purchase meat”, which isn’t what I said. I said you must “have” one. Much like you must have ID to buy liquor - but you don’t see people in line at the DMV grinding for extra drivers licenses.

I see I’m going to have to explain things multiple times to stop other commenters from hallucinating. So, again: You must have a meat medallion. Not spend it. Have. Not spend. Have. Two distinct words.

Where did you read “every year”?

Why do you need to kill “a bunch” of possums instead of just one? Do you eat possum meat? Why not a chicken?

I mean, if you believe killing animals is needless cruelty, then…should that mean you just shouldn’t eat meat?

Infinite. Whatever you can afford with your wallet.

The point being only people who have one may buy it in restaurants/etc.

One of my ideas for slowing the rate of meat consumption: You may only buy meat if you are under the age of 18, or you have a Meat Medallion.

Medallions are obtained by successfully killing an animal over the size of a rat, on your own, with only close-ranged weaponry.

That put you off? Good! It should! Some people would still stomach it.

In one story I thought up, this is a plot point.

An ancient race that never lies writes a legend: “This relic will allow one to undo any mistake in history. All it requires is a true sacrifice.”

They define true sacrifice as giving up that which you value most. They define what you value as something you’d protect above all else. This race never had any time travel research; they just presented this concept of “true sacrifice” as a joke and a thought exercise.

It’s a dismal thing for me to say to people:

Game exclusives are, by a given measure, anti-consumer; in the same way that charging consumers for games is. It is honestly a very effective way of building up a gaming community world.

We just okay it when we like the contender. No one faulted Valve for not bringing Half-Life elsewhere.

I own Subnautica 2 just to fight contract fuckery, now I think I should buy FactorioSlaveryCuteSim just to retaliate to what Nintendo did to Garry’s Mod.

Arc Raiders doesn’t because it built the value of items around needs other than direct selling. It’s a nice way to get you to think about direct utility rather than monetary use. Honestly, in most good RPGs large sums of money are not all that useful.