"The Last of Us is the latest PC port to bomb, and players are beyond fed up"

Shit like this, friends and neighbors, boys and girls, is why we shouldn't be buying video games at launch. I don't care if they're PC ports of console games or multi-platform releases or exclusive to PC/console or whatever. These days, games are almost invariably going to be no vacancy roach motels when they're first released, so you're better off waiting a while before buying the hot new shit. This has been my policy[1] for over 10 years now, and I have not once regretted that decision.

[1] - Though, admittedly, said policy was more in response to bullshit DLC practices than it was in response to games being bug-filled nightmares at launch, but it's definitely helped me to avoid the buggy messes as well. (Unless it was something like Fallout 4, which was still a buggy mess, even when I finally bought the full game [i.e. the "base" game + all DLC], five years after initial release of the "base" game.)

Well, holy shit. Donald Trump finally got indicted for one of his myriad crimes.

It's about goddamn time.

And... the amount of breath I will be holding while waiting for something of further value to result from this (such as Trump actually being convicted and going to prison) will be zero.

(EDIT) It would be rather apropos if this is what finally brings Trump down, though. If, after every truly heinous thing Trump has done in his life for which he has managed to escape justice, it's the hush money to a porn star thing that actually gets him thrown in prison, that would be some funny (weird, not ha ha, but also a little ha ha) shit.

But... let's be real here. Trump's not going to prison. I could be wrong, as always, and I'd be ecstatic to be wrong in this case, but... Trump's not going to prison. (/EDIT)

"Donald Trump Has Been Indicted. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up."

"This is the first real attempt to hold Trump legally accountable for any of his many alleged crimes. But the odds of securing real justice seem very long."

Apparently, it mostly comes down to statutes of limitations. I am of the not so humble opinion that perhaps some crimes should not be subject to statutes of limitations at all or at least it should be handled on a case by case basis as to whether they are valid or not, but IANAL. *shrug*

Seth Abramson Twitter thread about Trump's indictment.

Yeah, this seemed like a big enough Event™ that I felt like looking up the Seth Abramson thread about it, because I knew there would be a Seth Abramson thread about it.

(Pre-post EDIT) Here is a Thread Reader page for the below thread, if you'd prefer to view it that way. For one thing, it preserves the images and article blurbs, which the below embeds do not. The only thing the Thread Reader page doesn't have is my own aside about the #TruePunditHoax. (/Pre-post EDIT)

Because the threading is all wonky at the moment on Twitter, I'm just going to individually embed all of his tweets here:

( Behind a cut, of course. )

If all of this ends up with Trump evading justice yet again and, worse, somehow becoming POTUS yet again, all this will prove is that justice is well and truly dead forever in the United States and also that there are still far too many braindead wastes of oxygen in the American voting public if anyone at all votes for Trump in 2024. But even if the best case happens and Trump ends up not only not POTUS again in 2024 but also in prison for what would hopefully be the rest of his natural life, the fact remains that he's already pretty much irrevocably ruined the SCOTUS for at least the next several decades. This has already happened, and as far as I know there's not a damn thing anyone can do to fix that grievous mistake.

"Opinion | Trump Seems to Be the Victim of a Witch Hunt. So What?"

"It’s hard to believe prosecutors would bring this case against anyone else. But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong."

For all those whinging about how nobody other than Trump would have been charged with this crime, all I have to say in response is that, well, nobody other than Trump was, you know, campaigning for goddamn President of the United States of America at the same time he was committing this crime, which, as Seth Abramson pointed out, was committed explicitly for the purpose of helping to ensure that he won said campaign, which he "did" end up "winning." And we are all the worse off because of that. So, yeah, Trump and Trump's allies (and even Trump's detractors) who might be hemming and hawwing about how "unfair" this is toward Trump can eat all of the shit, as far as I'm concerned.

I still don't think anything will come of this, but fuck you sideways with a dried up corncob if you believe this is "unfair" to Trump. It was unfair to the country to have to put up with Trump-as-POTUS for four years, too. And it's unfair to posterity to have to put up with Trump's bullshit SCOTUS appointments for the next four-plus decades, too.

Starting to get actually angry over this shit, rather than merely cynical and jaded and pessimistic about it, so I think I'll let it go for now, at least for the rest of the day. Any further ranting can wait until tomorrow at the earliest.