The specifics depend on the writer, but there’s some supernatural force keeping Gotham from improving. The city may have been founded by demon worshipers, Arkham Alylum might have been founded by a serial killer, and there might be chemicals from underground Lazarus Pits leaking into the water supply. It all depends on the continuity and who tells the story. Long story short, Gotham is the kind of fucked up that all the money in the world isn’t going to fix.

I even went to r/conservative on Reddit and 9/10 people were saying this is unacceptable.

Dear God, those comments.

Hopefully this just a bluff and he doesn’t actually do it.

I just… it reads as so casual about the situation. Not “Holy shit, this is bad!” Just “I hope he’s kidding”. Even when they turn on him they can only manage the weakest possible criticism.

Bonus comment about MTG demanding impeachment in another thread:

She fell off the crazy cliff. Never understood how she went wacko so fast.

NOW??!! SHE’S ONLY GONE CRAZY NOW??!!

I can’t fucking believe this. She was sane when she was talking about Jewish space lasers and dems controlling the weather, but impeaching the president for engaging in genocide is too far apparently!

Excuse me, I need to scream.

We can’t afford to take that chance.

My brother in Christ, you’re putting in in Excel!

Doesn’t NASA use older tech because it’s more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.

Shin Megami Tensei be like:

There actually is a Pokémon that (unintentionally) looks like Trump.

They said decades. Plural.

Splatoon, Xenoblade, Miitomo, ARMs, and Ring Fit Adventure all say hi.

I mean it’s not like he personally wrote the comics, and it doesn’t contradict the RPGs in any way I can think of.

The koopalings are still a thing, but I think Bowser Jr is his only real son.

According to Myamoto, he’s actually neither of those things. He’s actually an actor portraying whatever the game needs him to be.

That sounds great, but I’m sure Lemmy is going to tell me this bad for some reason.

Yeah, until chatty slime tells you to talk to a nonexistent NPC and you spend countless hours trying to find a character he made up.

Roxas had entered the chat.

This is such a weird article. It seems to be utterly bewildered by the idea of a simple toy like this that has existed for centuries, like it’s a revolutionary concept that something doesn’t have AI integration or whatever marketing buzzword is apparently necessary to enjoy anything. It’s baffling.

And yes, $35 seems a bit steep for this sort of thing, but I’m just blown away by how noteworthy the author thinks this nothing is.

I saw Big Nate.

My own personal experience? Look at the cesspool that is r/defendingaiart and behold a group of people who have never touched grass.

Hell, we get them here on Lemmy sometimes. Sometimes in this very community.

I’ve seen AI apologists say all of these things.

Pokémon are as smart as humans though. Sometimes smarter. It’s not really the same thing, is it?

I once saw YouTube auto generate captions on a video without any words in it.