At this point I'm so sick of the time-travel shtick that I don't even care about the franchise anymore. The whole point of the franchise was to get to the REAL important part--the future war where humans finally defeat Skynet. Well, they finally got to that part in Terminator Salvation, with a great performance from Christian Bale to boot. And that was supposed to be the setup for a sequel that would see humanity finally beat Skynet for good. Only the studio didn't like the way that movie performed, so they rebooted the whole thing, and took us right back to the same old tired time-travel shtick. Now they're rebooting AGAIN, with even more time-travel confusion.

So how is it even possible now to give a fuck? They've created a franchise where it's pretty much impossible to beat Skynet. So what is even the point anymore? What's the point of protecting John Connor if he's never even going to get a chance to win? What's the point of sending back Terminators if Skynet can just keep sending scores more of them back until it (inevitably) wins?

The whole franchise went from hopeful, to fatalistic but still hopeful, to absolutely hopeless. At this point, we had may as well root for Skynet to win and finally put the audience out of its misery.

Bringing the time-travel gimmick into a scifi franchise today is basically the death-knell of the franchise. It's basically the studio saying "Nothing that happens in this franchise matters anymore, because we'll just undo it or reboot it whenever we feel like it."

There is nothing wrong with having a work/life balance. But there is also nothing wrong with being proud of working hard. The two are not (usually) mutually exclusive.

It doesn't help us nerds to have a show about us, watched by millions, if the objective of that show is just to mock us. If anything, that just makes things even worse for us.

This. It wasn't laughing WITH us. It was laughing AT us.

I might see your point if he were just talking about older workers neglecting their families to slave away in thankless corporate jobs and not getting any real benefit for their hard work. But he specifically references young people at start-ups as well. Yeah, when you're starting a new company and trying to achieve something, you're SUPPOSED to work hard. That is something to be proud of, not ashamed of.

Should Olympians be ashamed of working hard to get to the Olympics too? Should they not be proud of their hard work and what they accomplished by it?

It's not the complaining that bothers be about SJWs. Complaining is what the internet was created for.

It's when they start trying to silence people who don't agree with their complaints, by brute force, that I have a problem with.

Shit, maybe. I can't even tell the parody stories from the real ones anymore. Sometimes I wonder if most SJW's aren't just trolling us, as if a significant proportion of the SJW movement were made up of deep-cover 4-Channers just seeing how far they can push the silliness without being found out, for the lolz.

Yeah, that was back when workers unionized. Now they just politely ask their employers for permission to have a protest, like they're still in fucking college.

But then, real unionization takes hard work. And hard work is toxic apparently.

Another day in Clown World.

Dad, I'm so glad you're no longer alive to see this. You would not fucking believe it.

Without those computers, Baltimore might turn into a lawless shithole.

Shit, now MS is going to have to ban themselves for offensive language.

They inspire joy-joy feelings in everyone around them and...Christ, when did Demolition Man become the most prescient science fiction move ever? It happened so slowly we barely noticed.

You’re there to play games, not insult people.

That might be a valid point if someone could at least define in concrete terms what an "insult" even is anymore. Even MS themselves can't do it. The closest thing they can produce is a vague list of "Acceptable Trash-Talk." I wish that were a joke. But, no, that's really something they did. Self-parody isn't even possible anymore.

And even that won't help you anyway, because who knows how many of those suggestions will be re-branded as offensive tomorrow. Someone could decide tomorrow that "Potato" is an offensive term and retroactively ban you for having once said that someone has "Potato aim." In a world where something as innocuous as an okay sign can be reinterpreted as a white supremacist symbol at the drop of a hat, who can even keep up with all the words or gestures that might offend someone at any given moment? It's so bad that publishers now are actually having to hire "Sensitivity Readers" just to keep up. And yes, that's a real actual thing. It's not a joke.

At some point we can only hope that Common F. Sense is going to bitch-slap the shit out of these SJWs and tell them to grow the fuck up.

Yeah, I keep waiting for the intellectual Thermidorian Reaction to this increasing insanity from the Left. But it hasn't shown up yet. I keep telling myself that, surely, sanity will prevail. But the insane voices seem to gain more ground every day. It's almost to the point where literally nothing surprises me anymore. If it was announced tomorrow that a mainstream Democratic presidential candidate was calling for stripping all white men of their voting rights and requiring all internet users to get a License to Post Content from a federal speech commission, I wouldn't even bother double-checking to make sure I wasn't reading a parody article. In today's world, The Onion could never hope to top what might be on CNN at any moment.

Why should I risk my account if I said "fuck" when someone kills me in-game?

Shit, it would be nice if it were even that concrete. I could at least make sense of a list of "words you can't say" (a la George Carlin). But in today's SJW outrage culture, it's not even possible to define what "offensive" even is anymore. Basically "offensive" is entirely subjective to the person hearing it. And since even that ridiculously vague and broad definition changes on an almost daily basis now, it's almost impossible to know what someone might possibly be offended by at any given time. Something that today is considered completely innocuous is just one 4-chan troll campaign away from branding you as a hateful Nazi tomorrow.