Now at @RemapRadio (RIP @waypoint). Appearing: @More_Civilized and @shiftf1podcast. Occasionally @3MA
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Ever since I was a kid "pain at the pump" has been treated as this urgent, kitchen-table issue and it's never been close to the expense that like housing, medical insurance, or education have been and we're all supposed to pretend that gas taxes are this populist gesture.
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"Be cool, Kaworu, be cool don't be weird just have a normal conversation. Don't say something like-
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Though I also wish I had known that a few weeks after buying this I'd get emails with subjects like: "Today" and "The Path Ahead" and "Notice of Layoff".
My last day at Waypoint, and the team's last day, will be June 2nd.
Everything I wish I'd known about the LG OLED Flex, one of the best bad purchasing decisions I've made. vice.com/en/article/7kxbpg/l…
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This is Important. Genuinely a show that changed my outlook and that I have thought about every other day for like 20 years.
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This story is a nightmare, where a driver is mauled to death by loose dogs and Amazon's internal messaging is "OMG pupper alert😍 be careful don't want to end up as 🍗 for Doggo but also ⏱️👀"
Amazon's message to workers the day after a driver was mauled by a customer's dogs and died:
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Ninja was supposed to be up there with Miss Piggy but, you know, he comes with conditions.
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One of the only things I really miss about the AIM era is getting into a new album or song and immediately pasting some cryptic, good lyrics into your away message and being like, "That'll pique their curiosity."
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Biden: We need to make sure people can pay their mortgages.
Bernie: We need to make sure nobody has to worry about paying any of their bills.
Only one of these guys actually sees most of us.
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If I were of working age in one of the most expensive cities in the world ravaged by a pandemic worsened by incompetent city and state leadership, I would simply choose not to contract the disease.
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I also kinda feel like more advance and realistic lighting techniques have contributed to this problem? Everything is busier but also fewer things pop.
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Put it in a museum.
Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, Moderna shares plunge to session lows after U.S. backs waiving patent protections on Covid vaccines cnb.cx/3b4Cb5C
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Having done a fraction of the work the Giant Bomb crew has done, for a fraction of the audience, the stamina and talent this run required is incredible. Huge gratitude to this crew.
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When facts change, plans change. We're sticking around @RemapRadio. Subscription info at remapradio.com
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"We're examining every aspect of our relationship with Activision" seems a lot more shit-eating in retrospect.
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Thanks to those who reached out. The Waypoint team remains intact after what's become a regular ritual of layoffs. As always, it was handled with great cruelty and scant reason. We know we're lucky. Our colleagues deserved better, and we're grateful @viceunion demands better.
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A few years ago, Gabriel started sending me polite but insistent emails suggesting that maybe, *maybe* I had a lot of unquestioned colonial assumptions underlying my thinking. Finally asked him to just do it in essay form. vice.com/en_us/article/4aggz…
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Man, Nate Silver benefited a lot from conducting statistical analysis in fields where people had already done a tremendous amount of work defining the questions and the data that would be meaningful in answering them. Every time he shares an intuition, it's breathtakingly bad.
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Hey what the fuck
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<reading about what happens if you just don't pay your loans> Oh shit I should not have paid any of these from age 23-34.
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Worried that the Biden transition team doesn't include any siege engineers. They need to start digging 30 yards of trench a day NOW if they're going to be within mortar range of the White House by January 20th.
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But in all seriousness, the work was a joy. The team was a joy. Waypoint Plus was a success but not enough of one to survive what's going on at VICE. The company is taking on a lot of water, as any number of articles will tell you, and this was brute-force layoff and reorg.
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Finally got these photos back and most of them are like this. Choose your guests carefully.
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The thing I will say is the sheer rate and speed at which NFT / metaverse bullshit is dropping and their obvious lack of value (by any measure, financial actually being the least important here) is doing a great job of discrediting the pitch on its own terms.
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You won't believe what the guy who made the home invasion snuff game about protecting property thinks about the coronavirus lockdown, and whether mass death for vulnerable groups is really such a bad thing.
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<finishes Evangelion 18> "Well that was about the worst thing I've ever seen in an anime."
Episode 19:
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Between this and the company's attempt to con people into mining crypto for store credit, Razer really has an ugly, contemptuous view of its customers doesn't it? vice.com/en_us/article/mb8w9…
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The part of The Menu where the dude has to cook is one of the most mortifying and horrifying horror movie moments of my life.
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I cannot tell you how cruel it is for an uncle to finally hear his cancer is in remission after years of treatment only to die from Covid like literally weeks later. My poor mom, losing two siblings to this almost exactly a year apart.
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Rowling outed herself years ago as a deeply prejudiced and mean spirited author. She just did it under a different name, in a different genre. Here how the Strike novels crystallized my feelings about her. vice.com/en_us/article/pkeyn…
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So unless I'm misreading this sequence of events, a transphobic hate mob spent the morning harassing and attacking people in LA, and the LAPD (after doing nothing about that) just started attacking counterprotesters? nitter.app/waterspider__/status/1…
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It's really heartening to see the Bon Appetit staff speaking out against their discriminatory managers and company culture. Some of these tensions were visible, some problems were implicit, but it's remarkable to see so much of the team speaking openly about it.
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It's a slippery slope if we start letting private companies remove users from their services after years of complaints, warnings, and patterns of abuse leading to myriad real-world consequences and harms culminating in a fascist putsch. Where will it end!
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At business school they teach you the classical methods of delivering value, secrets lost to us for centuries. remapradio.com/articles/pivo…
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Anyway, Microsoft now owns one of the ugliest and most pervasive set of problems in the industry along with all those franchises. vice.com/en/article/y3vbnk/m…
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Gonna be voting for Bernie today. Warren had a lot of chances to get my vote back, because I desperately wanted someone who really understood and was ready to go to war with finance. But she's status quo on interventionist foreign policy, and that's a deal-breaker.
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Political reporters need to stop approaching their subjects with a breathless "witness to history" tone. These are not tragic figures in an historical epic. They are people of small character and small ability who circumstances placed in important roles. politico.com/magazine/story/…
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This is a nightmare. I worked swing-shifts in a factory and the week of 12-8s was brutal. Just being mired in a 1-12 with no end in sight, doing a job that's way more intensive than most line production, is cruel. vice.com/en/article/y3gk3w/a…
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The thing you don't understand about making $400k in a big city is that you spend SO MUCH on status symbols, the housing whose supply you work diligently to restrict, and the private schools you need because your class allies and political servants have hobbled the public ones.
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This article is good because it then goes on to detail how the same DA office plus the local fed prosecutor are bringing the hammer down on BLM protesters, and how the cops got real nearsighted when this dude attacked the crowd.
Michael Ray Stepanek, who told police he drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in August because they needed “an attitude adjustment,” will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for 3 years. trib.al/D7P8fjp
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It's easy to remember Sierra as old fashioned game company that was overtaken by time and technology. But that's not true: it was brought down by corporate crime, and the "shareholders above all" ethos of Wall Street. vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/i…
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Me: Fast Five has no stakes or meaningfully developed characters.
Dom: The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here. Right now. Salud mi familia.
Me: <demolished by COVID, suddenly crying> He's right. Family is everything to me now.
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I'll never forget my month of vaccine summer. Beers out with friends. A haircut. Every major paper in the United States writing pieces about how weird it was people were still masking and deciding it was probably irrational virtue signaling. A movie.
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There is a uniquely American quality to Trumpism but there's something broader happening across Anglo colonial nations and it's every bit as ugly in Canada and Australia. Resurgent white supremacy takes a different quality in each place, but it's there all the same.
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Awaken to googling "shredded cheese fajita wife", fall asleep searching for "mansion gun couple".
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What I can say is that when you email demanding a refund and yelling at VICE, while I applaud the spirit, those emails are mostly going to me and Cado. So please, give us a little time to learn what solutions are on the table and don't kid yourself that a VICE exec is reading.
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Hey pals, if Patrick says something like, "Hey go wild I'll just expense it" can you do me a solid and just be like "I hate lobster" or "Oh man you know what sounds great is club soda."
My working schedule for Summer Games Fest in Los Angeles this week is basically locked. The only thing I haven't done is figured out when I'm eating and drinking with pals. Please say hi! Let's hang out! Let's drink coffee + beer! 🍻☕
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I won't be able to reply to every message on here tonight as I have planned a busy evening of numbly eating Pirate's Booty and watching sports.
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If I were poised for yet another shattering electoral defeat following ineffectual control of all three branches I would simply get a smarter electorate and win.
Smart voters will appreciate that the response to this is not to reject the Democratic Party at the polls, it’s to elect more Democrats so that Manchin is no longer relevant.
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Last thing re Waypoint: we're not sure what's gonna happen with annual subs to WP+ that can't be fulfilled. We're gonna see about refunds, but can't promise anything right now.
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Wrote most of this before E3, but have been thinking a lot about how games present the Wehrmacht, and who it has historically served. vice.com/en_us/article/j5waq…
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Definitely not the moment for Canadian liberals to be on their high horse about their country, though.
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It was going to be hard for Biden to make his campaign more out of step with the political moment, but he pulled it off.
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And the perfect end to a perfect day. After Biden preemptively admonishes protesters for violence, we watch the police forces of Democrat-governed cities hunting and beating them for sport in the street. Monday they'll announce their plan for giving them all raises.
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You've heard the real SNES music for decades. It's the new "restorations" that are suspect. vice.com/en/article/akdqbp/s…
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Haven't had gin and tonic in ages and forgot the sheer speed at which I can utterly ruin myself.
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Had never seen The Lego Movie and was worried it had been dangerously overhyped at first but it kept getting better and better and god the very last twist and kicker dropped me dead.
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After several episodes of hating the time-skipping in The Witcher, I realized that sense of confusion, of not knowing where you stand in relation to major events or of what is important, is really essential to the series. vice.com/en_us/article/jge5w…
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Waypoint needs reinforcements and, praise Waypoint+, we've managed to finance a new position. Don't sweat the job title on this listing; it might as well say "content creator." It's very much a multi-role thing. Remote as well, ignore the "Brooklyn" part. vice.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
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Oh hell yes, people are speedrunning Ring Fit Adventure. vice.com/en_us/article/jge8k…
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Someday, we'll all be available on Game Pass. vice.com/en_us/article/y3z7e…
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Aaand that is a positive COVID test. We had a good run! Dodged it for a long time, but it's here now and it SUCKS.
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Games Workshop having to explain the premise of their universe to its shittiest fans. vice.com/en/article/m7ve5y/w…
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Like genuinely, neutrality / centrism requires this almost Orwellian cognitive restructuring that has to be destructive on some level.
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I was going to enjoy the coffee Danika made but Patrick came down first and dumped it down the drain.
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You keep beginning from this position that there's some kind of double-standard. Last summer stemmed from police misconduct, and then unrest was constantly exacerbated by bad policing and over-reaction to protest.
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OK time to get into RotS. Excited, heard this one got things back on track a b-- God DAMN it, George.
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Circling back on this, how'd it go?
There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
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You think you've seen rock bottom. Then Musk starts making fun of a guy for having muscular dystrophy after deciding to publicly mock him over his layoff.
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I am really curious if the FTC sleeps through this one like they have all the others. Seems like there would be a lot of flags waving around this.
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Remember postal employees, your bosses (who love you and want what's best for you and your community) think you might be getting tricked by deceitful customers who are journalists in disguise. vice.com/en_us/article/k7qyp…
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