There's something about it that's just so satisfying to me. Putting every piece in exactly its right place. I got into it as a kid, kept it up until college.
A few years ago I started getting into it again. At first it was just the Marvel sets, but then I got a couple of castle ones. I still love it as much as I did back then, except now I can share it with my kids.
First of all, those shooters were right wing nutjobs. So leftist propaganda was definitely not involved.
Virtually all political violence in America is done by rightwing extremists. That's a fact that's been true for 45 years. You can look it up.
If you sincerely believed that those shootings were caused by the political left, then you need to fact check your news sources and check your own gullibility, because you got tricked.
Second of all, I meant a threat to our society, democracy, and our way of life. I didn't mean a threat to individual fascists.
If tankies ever become significant, I'll be right here arguing against them. But they're not significant. That's another fascist lie.
He thinks his family actually disappeared. He remarks that they couldn't have gone to Paris, because their cars are still in the garage. The garage having been left open is even a plot point, to allow Kevin to make this realization quicker.
He does eventually call the police. It's the last step of his plan. He calls them to his neighbor's house.
The movie is seriously bulletproof. Like how Kevin spills Pepsi on his ticket and we see it accidentally get thrown in the garbage the night before.
Fun story:
When my daughter met Santa Claus for the first time, she'd recently seen Home Alone and was obsessed, and she introduced herself as Kevin.
When it was time to take a picture I said, "Ok [daughter's name which in all fairness does have an "ev" sound in it], get in Santa's sleigh."
Then Santa leaned over and whispered, "Ohh. I thought she said her name was Kevin."
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn't smell Vick's VapoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn't have COVID. It's possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn't panic about it.
Honestly I'd probably give it another shot if they just made the Master Sword unbreakable. Why wouldn't it be? It's Link's main weapon in other games.
But they're all in on this temporary weapon gameplay loop. And I get that; I understand that sometimes it can be a good thing to push the player into playing the game a certain way. Except they already did that for most of the game. If the Master Sword were unbreakable, you'd still have plenty of players doing the constant weapon swapping, but you'd also have a few more players like me actually playing the game. I'd probably even swap weapons most of the time, secure in the knowledge that I still had a weapon that wouldn't break when I need it.
Plus how good is your gameplay loop if you have to force it on the player?
But I know I'm in the minority on this. It's weird to see people loving a Zelda game more than I do, because for 30 years of my life that would never have been the case. Hopefully they return to the old formula for the next game.
I was thinking specifically of Breath of the Wild.
For me, Zelda has always been about scratching my completionist itch.
Making all the weapons temporary means I never get to feel the power of a completed inventory. Instead I'm just trading off weapons that I don't like for more weapons that I don't like. And if I do like one, it breaks anyway.
I didn't even bother with Tears of the Kingdom for that reason. It's a feel-bad mechanic, and I'd rather not do it.
Honestly the thing that sticks with me more is the scene after defeating the final boss.
The game just does such an incredible job of starting with a local problem and then gradually, believably making the stakes bigger and bigger until you have to kill gods. And then when you finally do it, you remember that all of that was just to solve your first problem, a problem so local that it exists only in your character's skull. It instantaneously gave me the scope of everything I'd accomplished. One of the greatest pieces of media I've ever experienced. I wish it had been a movie so I could do it again and again.
Walz actually would have me a little excited. He seems like a great person and a solid candidate.
I'd be more excited for AOC. It's possible she wouldn't have a chance, but if the will of the American people keeps disappointing, then at some point we have to hang it up and say we deserve what we get.
If we can't vote in a woman at this point, then maybe the experiment really is over.
He’s far from the first major political figure to express disdain for voters they don’t agree with. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, all had their moments.
Fuck CNN and this both-sides equivocation bullshit.
The way Trump speaks about and has always spoken about his opponents is beyond the pale. There's no comparison to anything that any other major politician in America has ever said. His brand of incivility is unprecedented, dangerous, and shouldn't be normalized.
Lego.
There's something about it that's just so satisfying to me. Putting every piece in exactly its right place. I got into it as a kid, kept it up until college.
A few years ago I started getting into it again. At first it was just the Marvel sets, but then I got a couple of castle ones. I still love it as much as I did back then, except now I can share it with my kids.