Using the title of a decade-retrospective listicle over a feature story collection of extremely personal anecdotes about the author’s life strikes me as a narcissistic bait-and-switch. Both genres of story are fine but readers going in expecting one won’t be happy to find the other.

> why the headline

This article is rendered immediately suspect by the author’s claim of “I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over”. This (if true) is a obviously extremely rare experience and can only be…

A runner game with a car instead of a person is not a racing game. You wouldn’t call a brawler a fighting game just because it’s about punching.