So what happens when a store is out of raw meat, or raw vegetables, or raw fruit? What if someone is a vegetarian, or has allergies or other dietary requirements that prohibit certain items? Who’s monitoring and enforcing this (and how much is that monitoring and enforcing costing?)

Rather than spending the time and effort policing what food people buy, why don’t we instead spend that time and money addressing the poverty problem that makes SNAP necessary in the first place?

Yeah, if the goal was actually to make people eat healthier, he’d be trying to limit the availability of those items to everyone, not just poor people.

I don’t care if he does. I don’t care if he was holding an “I AM A GANG MEMBER” sign when he was picked up. I don’t care if he shouted it from the rooftops. He was disappeared to a foreign prison with no due process. No matter who it is, or what they did, that should be alarming to everyone.

Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.

I’m in complete agreement with you there. If Luigi Mangione gets the death penalty, we should absolutely take to the streets and riot.

In 2023 a federal judge convicted him to 90 consecutive life sentences, after he pleaded guilty of hate crimes and firearms violation.

Holy shit.

This might be controversial, but I’m glad he didn’t get the death penalty. Not because I don’t think he deserves it, but because I don’t think we should have the death penalty at all.

Presidents pardoning corporations is such a fucked precedent, I don’t even

In Grotto, you play the role of a soothsayer living in a cave who is occasionally visited by members of a tribal society living nearby. They come to you with problems, and they want you to present your opinion, but you can’t speak. You have access to constellations of stars, which each hold different meanings, and you must present your answers in the form of a single constellation, which the petitioners are left to interpret.

You’ll feel a bit of frustration as your intended message is missed completely in favor of something that the petitioner wanted to hear, and the same constellation might mean different things to different people, but that’s just part of the game. The story unfolds around you and its progression is communicated to you only through the explanations your petitioners give for their visit. Each is a uniquely unreliable narrator, so what you believe is for you to decide.

Two endings, and an interesting story with some occasionally unexpected consequences that might make you feel bad, so if a game giving you a case of the sads is unappealing, maybe take that into consideration.