I'm sorry you've gone through that.

In both cases people are paying the same price to access entertainment. In both cases, one person gleefully takes the enjoyment from the other. It doesn't matter if it's online of in meatspace, that type of behaviour and entitlement should not be acceptable.

Very good read. There will always be assholes out there, but it shouldn't be up to decent people to avoid the assholes and change their behaviour to minimize the actions of the assholes.

You don't get paid to pay games, you pay to play them. You and everyone else has paid to have access to the game and you "playing rough" just shows that you think your money and entertainment should come at the cost to someone else.

Yeah, my ribs have always shown. They aren't quite as obvious as the mannequin's, but they're still easily visible. I just don't carry much fat at all on my torso — it likes hanging out on my butt and thighs instead and I'm definitely not underweight.

My guess? They're thinking that "the customer is always right" and that people in retail should feel honoured to serve them and thus us lowly peons will fall over ourselves to change the price to make them happy.

I get that all the time at work.

Poe's Law strikes again!

Good, I hope they're successful. Things need to change fast or the whole system will end up collapsing on itself. When a large chunk of a population can't make a living wage despite working full time and/or multiple jobs, it's a huge problem. Given that a keystone of modern society and commerce are people who are…

1-in-6 women have been sexually assaulted. Even more have been harassed if not assaulted. Studies have found that ~7% of college-aged men in America will admit to rape if the word rape isn't used. In Asia, it's about 1-in-4 men who admit to rape.

Nope, that's a stupid stereotype. There is no statistical evidence that most women are bitches or oppress others with their bitchiness.

Were you the subject of the discussion at the time or was it a group of women talking about things guys do? Because if the latter you should have realized that they weren't talking about you and not interjected to make yourself central to the discussion.

I liked Pedigree's dog commercial a while back that stated their new line will help your dog live years longer. What the commercial didn't mention that the dogs dying younger were also on a Pedigree-only diet, it was just a different line. Pet food companies really do have some skilled PR/marketing people behind their…

Yeah, lying about or omitting ingredients is definitely a problem and, if true, Blue Buffalo deserves any backlash it gets, but this is like the pot calling the kettle black. Sometimes I get curious and look at pet food ingredients at the grocery store, and Purina is always "meat by-products, broth, corn, wheat,…

Same here. If she didn't say something to my face, her actions spoke well enough for my younger self to easily pick up on how I wasn't really wanted and that I was viewed as a hindrance.

Exactly.

Them having poor financial planning abilities does seem to fit into them being bad about working on and managing a game (before walking away when it gets "hard"). Some quick math of 200k x $15 means they made $3 million. That's probably lower but still around $2 million at the lowest, and it "didn't make enough money."

Don't you just love it when a bill has a specific title but the actual legislation inside it does the complete opposite of it? It's almost as fun as giant omnibus bills that contain the federal budget and dozens of other bills that can't be separated or debated or amended because the budget needs to be passed ASAP.

Ugh, somehow I missed them making it okay to discriminate against women. And of course collective bargaining only works when the government doesn't do everything in its power (and sometimes overreaching its power) to remove power from unions and force everything in their favour.

Harper... hasn't done much?