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If true we HAVE to make this the biggest flop in gaming history, as in ‘destroys the company’ levels of gaming flop as in a 'lesson must be taught’ gaming flop, as in 'E.T. destroyed atari’ gaming flop
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WIBTA if I intentionally included an allergen in some food so a racist couldn't eat it?
I (21M, white) recently found out that I have to attend a Thanksgiving meal with a terrible fucking person. My boyfriend "Tim" wants to go to his old roommate's/best friend's (Jacob) Thanksgiving. Jacob is great! He and Tim have been friends since they were kids, and Tim used to spend a lot of time at Jacob's house since his own home life was... not great. And Jacob's immediate family is wonderful, as well. However, Jacob's uncle "Dickwad" is racist. I went to Jacob's Thanksgiving last year and Dickwad was a dickwad. It started out okay, he and I talked about cars, but after a few beers Dickwad was very clearly racist. He also kept bragging about how he threatened a homeless man with a gun (the homeless man was trying to break into his car - it's pretty common in this area) and called him several racist derogatory terms. He never said the N-word, but it was only a matter of time, so I left quickly.
Well, Tim wants to go again this year. Everyone hates Dickwad but Jacob's parents say they can't NOT invite him since he's their brother. I say cut the bitch off, but it's not my family, and I don't want to leave Tim alone there since Dickwad has been cruel to Tim before (Tim is Asian and queer, but Dickwad thinks me and Tim are just friends and no one is about to tell him differently) and since I don't get to see Jacob that often. The rest of Jacob's family is chill and I know they would be disappointed if I didn't come.
Well, Tim recently informed me that if I'm making something to bring to Thanksgiving, Dickwad is allergic to cumin. How allergic? Not much. He'd get hives if he ate it, but he's fine being near it, touching it, etc. He just can't consume it. Everyone knows I love to cook, and I'm a damn good cook, too. So I'm planning on making something with cumin so Dickwad can't have any, because fuck him, and fuck his guns, too. No one else there is allergic to cumin. I figured if anyone asks, I'll tell them I didn't know/forgot. I asked Jacob what he thought and he thought it would be hilarious and told me to do it. I haven't said anything to Tim because he's a lot nicer and will probably try to stop me.
I don't know if this will get posted in time, but whatever. WIBTA if I put an allergen in food so a racist piece of shit can't eat it?
Obviously, the deed is done. I made the food with cumin (it was a curry, btw, and some roasted carrots).
Dickwad said that curry was “a disgusting [racial slur’s] food” so he didn’t want any anyways. Don’t know what his thoughts were on the carrots (edited to say carrots, I made a chili that did not contain any cumin)
I DID tell everyone that both dishes contained cumin before even setting them down, and I placed them on a separate counter to avoid cross-contamination. I thought that was a given in the post but I guess not. I know how bad food allergies can get. Part of how I got so good at cooking was because my sister has so many allergies and my parents refused to cater to her.
For everyone saying that I’m messing with HIS food - it isn’t his fucking food. If I sprinkled cumin on his plate, that’s his food. It’s like going to a buffet and being upset that there’s something you don’t like there. Jacob’s mom hates pumpkin pie but that doesn’t stop anyone from bringing it. Jacob is lactose intolerant but that doesn’t stop anyone in the house from bringing dairy dishes.
After Dickwad left Jacob’s dad (Dickwad’s brother) said he was glad that Dickwad couldn’t eat it and patted me on the back and said I “did the right thing.” Jacob’s mom said it was mean but not much else, and Tim gave me a stern talking to in the car.
So, Tim found this post and thought he, Jacob, and I should all update it. I’ve accepted that I was the asshole, regardless of what Jacob and Jacob’s dad thought, but Jacob wanted to give his explanation as to why he thought it was okay as well as some events that transpired after Thanksgiving
Jacob didn’t know all that much about allergens, and he says he’s pretty sure Dickwad only claims to be allergic to certain things as an excuse to avoid foreign/ethnic foods. Regardless of this, I still accept the asshole verdict. Fair enough
Dickwad is not just a racist, he’s also a Nazi. He has a neonazi flag on the back of his truck
Dickwad is no longer invited to any holiday dinners. This shouldn’t be an issue because shortly after Thanksgiving he was arrested. This is unrelated to the cumin.
I really hate how bioware at the beginning of this year was like “this year we’ll have more updates on dragon age 4!” and the updates are “we laid off 50 ppl, most are veterans, including mary kirby who is responsible for the one character we are using to milk this franchise dry :) and we did not give them proper severance pay” and “here’s a 49 second trailer telling u nothing but tune in 6 months (again) to find out whether this game is real or not! :)”
Last week they said the doctor is canonically trans. This week they say the doctor is canonically gay. And next week? You’re not gonna believe it but rumor has it they’re gonna say the doctor is canonically black
Hi can I just briefly mention that I love how Nate always acts super skeptical of the case when he first meets with the client in order to see how they defend their position and what else it brings up (and so he gets to look like a hardass) even though he’s a total sucker who’s going to say yes to every single person who walks through the door anyway?
It’s canon in the show that there are lots of cases we don’t see, I’d bet that the ones we are shown are just the most interesting/involved ones. There’s probably a bunch of people that can be helped with a one-off sum of money, and dodgy companies that can be ruined in an afternoon. To empty a vault you just need a Parker, to publish dirty secrets you just need a Hardison, to scare the living shit out of a bully you just need Eliot to look at them. Cases only end up on Nate’s radar when you need vengeance.
John Rogers show me the episode where the kids are doing mini jobs while Sophie and Nate try to get in a lunch date and end up busting up a restaurant that’s a front for something.
Just like, Parker gets a list of stuff to rob (some safe cracking, company vaults that need to be emptied, stolen cat, some creep’s house who has hard copies of revenge porn he’s threatening to post), Hardison has a list of digital hellfire to rain down (evil CEO, low-level shady government agency, weird fake health MLM scheme, the same creep’s digital copies) and Eliot has a list of dudes to beat up (gang members trying to take over a playground, asshole bothering an animal shelter, some catcallers, hanging the same creep off a bridge by his ankles until he promises to leave their client alone.)
Meanwhile Sophie is TRYING to have a mature conversation about their relationship and Nate keeps getting distracted by the shady goings on in the background until she’s like: URGH ALRIGHT WE’LL TAKE THEM DOWN BUT YOU OWE ME DESSERT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Hope you don’t mind @mr-chatterboxs-column but I simply could not let this gem languish in the replies
Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one
okay so rewatching hbomberguy’s new video, James Somerton has:
Called ND Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar women so he can make a point about how queer women have it easier
stolen an Asian transmasc person’s very personal essay on Mulan and queer Asian identity
stolen from Alexander Avila, the One somewhat well known transmasc video essayist
Lied about English courts letting Radclyffe Hall “live her happy life” because perceived-female queerness wasn’t legally persecuted, when in actuality, they were charged with obscenity and had their work destroyed
clearly a man whose very normal and chill about transmascs and anyone he sees as a woman i think
He’s super fucking gross about anyone he doesn’t see as One Of The Cool Gays. I kind of lost my shit earlier this year about some shit he plagiarized from someone else I’m sure said earlier this year about the AIDS crisis.
A second video essay has hit Somerton already and the stuff James didn’t steal is so much worse.
Todd in the shadows does music reviews but he’s friends with Hbomberguy so has known for a long time the video exposing James was coming, and when he checked on Somerton’s video essay’s himself decided to make a video about all the misinformation and lies rather than stolen content. So he spent six months fact checking all of Somerton’s videos and put together a compilation of the lies that is nearly 2 hours long. There’s some overlap, but it’s mostly stuff that Somerton made up so it didn’t get covered in the plagiarism video.
I haven’t finished watching but it is mostly stuff that is supposed to make cisgay men look good or misogynistic garbage because James hates women and is mad when queer discourse is not about gays like him, but he also decided a few times to downplay the homophobia of the literal Nazis so a warning about that. And he claimed that JK Rowling said Hogwarts wizards could use magic to change their genitals because he either wants to push the narrative that Rowling used to be ok then suddenly switched to being a bigot, or he wants to defend a transphobe, and either way fuck that. Rowling was awful long before she was a TERF.
edit: I haven’t gotten to that part but Todd does call out the same bullshit about boring gays surviving AIDs that spider responded to.
Yeah, he does, and mentions the only place he saw anybody pushing back on Somerton’s bullshit:
