Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The lights are all blinking red.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

In after Baud. Damn.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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Late Night Open Thread: Tickling the Geeks

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In honor of Cookie the Penguin, here’s a couple trailers for those of us not too proud to remember where we came from. Thank goddess Facebook didn’t exist during the 1974 NYC Comics Art convention, because even at age 19 I didn’t really have the figure for a home-made “Shanna the She-Devil” costume…
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And I’ve never been a gamer, but I’d watch this just for the characters…
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Growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    PENGIE!!

    It was just Sakuracon up this way. Since I come from a family of heathens they came up for that and a visit. I ended up wayyy overspending this weekend. And it was all worth it.

  2. 2.

    Gregory

    Wil Wheaton has a new YouTube show in which he plays various cool tabletop games with friends and celebrities and describes how they play. It’s called, unsurprisingly, Tabletop. I enjoyed the first episode.

  3. 3.

    Origuy

    I saw Indie Games a week ago in Palo Alto. My housemates know Edmund, the designer of Super Meat Boy. It’s a good movie, I enjoyed it even though I’m not a serious gamer.

  4. 4.

    kdaug

    Hittin’ a little close to home with this, Anne. Not the penguin, not Comicon.

    The other one.

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    cmm

    I still have some cognitive dissonance that it is okay to be a geek and even a nerd these days (dorks still aren’t cool). After taking sh*te for my geekiness for all my formative years, I’m still a little gunshy, though I call myself a geek and a nerd and am amused when non geeks try to reassure me that I’m “okay”. I know I’m okay, it’s you guys I feel sorry for. The ones who get more from the Kardashians than Game of Thrones.

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    greenergood

    Just got this in my mailbox. C’mon all you gamers – sign it!
    Fundies will let gamers kill millions onscreen, but won’t let two guys have a smooch together – jeesh!

    “Electronic Arts (EA), maker of the highly popular Star Wars: The Old Republic video game – is the target of a boycott orchestrated by hateful anti-gay groups. Why? Because they had the courage to give players around the world the option of including a gay romance storyline in their interactive Star Wars game.

    Right now, thousands of anti-gay letters are flooding Electronic Arts headquarters, threatening to push the company and its staff to the dark side (“Homos are ruining gaming!” wrote one boycotter. “I urge all parents to keep any EA games from their children to prevent them to be AIDS-spreading, Satan-loving scum,” wrote another).

    But we can do something about it – if we channel the force for good. Companies like Electronic Arts need to be rewarded when they do the right thing. And together we can help them stand their ground. Sign this urgent letter to Electronic Arts (EA) now, asking them to stay strong and resist the dark side. When 50,000 of us sign on, All Out members will make news by dressing as Star Wars characters and delivering your letters directly to Electronic Arts headquarters:

    allout.org/theforce

    Video games – like books, magazines, TV and film – are enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the world, and the fictional characters in them often inspire us, and teach us about the world we live in. This is exactly why anti-gay hate groups are targeting them – because they know that the more LGBT people are represented as regular characters, the harder it will be to deny them equality in the real world.

    Games from Electronic Arts (EA) reach 100 million players in 75 countres around the world. When a major company like this makes the effort to create gay role models for all players, gay and straight, we need to let them know that we’ve got their back – especially in the face of an organized hate campaign.

    Sign now, and we’ll make sure company executives know the force is with them:

    allout.org/theforce

    Thanks for going All Out.

    Best,
    Alberto, Andre, Erika, Flavia, Guillaume, Jasmin, Jeremy, Joseph, Oli, Tile and Wesley”

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    cmm

    @Gregory: Thanks for the heads up. I ended up looking at all the G&S show trailers. I think I may have a shiny new addiction. I have done a little tabletop gaming and liked it. Wouldn’t mind doing more. Wish I had friends nearby like Wil and Felicia.

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    WereBear

    @cmm: I know I’m okay, it’s you guys I feel sorry for. The ones who get more from the Kardashians than Game of Thrones.

    My attitude in a nutshell. I should apologize for something that increases my intelligence and imagination, led me into a career of sorts, and has enabled me to pursue my dreams by giving me the right skills?

    As I like to think back on my JR High detractors: Like “normal” has done so much for you…

    Speaking of geeks:

    @greenergood: Thanks for letting me know, happy to support EA in this. Facebooked, as well.

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    RobertB

    “Electronic Arts (EA), maker of the highly popular Star Wars: The Old Republic video game – is the target of a boycott orchestrated by hateful anti-gay groups. Why? Because they had the courage to give players around the world the option of including a gay romance storyline in their interactive Star Wars game.

    I think there was a thread about this in Balloon Juice a couple of months ago. There are currently no gay romance options for player characters in SWTOR, and there aren’t any planned for the immediate future (patch 1.2). Bioware was making noises like they were going to include them later, but there’s nothing definite in the works.

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    mattH

    @greenergood: Technicality of sorts, but the actual option of gay relationships hasn’t shown up yet in-game. I think it’s mostly missing though because of a bit of a rush to get the game out. There are a few other small things that point to this (one race being represented by one female with slight reskinnined colors being one example) and most of those will be on the back burner, including same-sex companion romance options until other more pressing game issues are addressed.

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    Cassidy

    Jeebus the assholes aren’t even original. Didn’t they pitch a fit over the Mass effect series?

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