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Great summary work — this part makes me a little crazy:

The Agriculture Department could also turn to a specific interpretation of existing law to justify continuing to fund food stamps, said David A. Super, a law professor at Georgetown University. Under that theory, food stamps are an entitlement program, like Medicare, that is not subject to the annual appropriations process.

“The simplest approach for the U.S.D.A. would be to recognize that language in the Food and Nutrition Act makes SNAP an entitlement independent of appropriations, and continue paying benefits on the strength of that language,” Mr. Super said.

Because of course food isn’t already an entitlement program. Always money for weapons, never for starving people.

I dunno if they would have made it without him ramming into Clu in a moment of clarity.

This was what turned me away from it, too. I loved the first one as a kid. I enjoyed most of the sequel(?) as an old person.

There’s a shit-ton more they could do in that universe, a place that seems to offer escapism from reality but comes burdened with its own conflicts that parallel ours — conflicts that are solved, largely, if I’m remembering right, through self-sacrifice in defiance of money-grubbing capitalists and power-hungry rogue-program autocrats.

There’s a lot of hope in the two movies; I didn’t get that feeling from the trailers for this one and will probably be skipping it.

That does sound pretty likely.

My understanding is that humor is a very common coping mechanism — in the face of an abuse of power this absurd, I imagine it’s sometimes all someone has the strength for.

I believe they’re drawing a parallel between anti-war sentiment in WWII and current events in Ukraine. I’m not sure who the #1 enemy would be, though; maybe that’s subjective.

Haven’t played this, but I think Bastion is the first game I remember doing the grandad voice thing. I enjoyed it there, not sure about liking it elsewhere.

It had two nice movies and no one had ruined it yet. Someone in a suit couldn’t resist.