I worked a one day contract for ESPN when they did game day at my school, 15-ish years ago, manning a booth to boost one of their PS2-era video games. At the end, I was paid less than half of what was promised per hour, and they did nothing but ride my ass all day for not having PT Barnum levels of carnival barking as…

Very true. My ex and I were looking to buy a place of our own and start a family on about $170K in combined income with only $20K student debt between us, and we basically couldn’t afford anything better than a 2 BR condo outside the beltway or an old townhouse REALLY outside the beltway with our planned child care…

I had to block her on Twitter because all her batshit takes kept getting retweeted into my timeline, by both boosters and dunkers, and I just couldn’t take it anymore.

Contractor is 100% a mass / spree killer in the making. I had a bunch of classes with a school shooter, and he did the exact same thing: obviously disinterested one word answers, told everyone his name was “No One,” made zero attempt to hide his active distaste for society in general. If he starts writing violent…

My verbal reaction to this comment: 3 seconds of silent pondering, then a way-too-loud “Ohh ohohohoh shiiiiit!”

OH MY GOD I had that exact same thought, with this exact picture in my mind. I’m just glad I scrolled down before posting!

We’re definitely going to see a #StoreCreditStacy calling the cops on someone returning a sweatshirt tomorrow.

I keep meaning to play Race for the Galaxy. But yeah, everyone I’ve introduced TM to, and the people who introduced me, all agree that it’s one of the best games ever. Winning the game feels like a real accomplishment and validation of your strategy rather than any luck whatsoever.

I keep meaning to play Race for the Galaxy. But yeah, everyone I’ve introduced TM to, and the people who introduced…

Terraforming Mars! You, either alone or with other players, race to terraform Mars by raising its oxygen, temperature, and water levels to make it habitable to humans. Single player is a race against time while multiplayer is a race against each other.

Terraforming Mars! You, either alone or with other players, race to terraform Mars by raising its oxygen,…

Thanks, I really appreciate that. It’s all long in the past, but I totally feel you on just wanting tune out the outside stuff. That’s awful that your class had to deal with that kind of stuff too, I’m really sorry for it. It’s a shock to happen once, let alone twice during your time there, but twice in a year? I…

Holy crap. I left in ‘09, and though I heard about the Radford shooter, I didn’t hear about the off-campus murders. What on earth about our school attracted so many psychos?

Oh man, I was at Tech when that happened. I had a therapist in DC after who specialized in PTSD, and she said like half of her clients for years had been VT students who’d moved back to the area afterward. That shit is no joke.

I nodded sagely at your first paragraph, cackled wildly at your second paragraph, then nodded so strongly at your third paragraph that I needed a disc realignment.

I was already extremely team 80s, and then you had to remind me of Night of the Comet, They Live, and Buckaroo Banzai. Now I will go to fucking war for the 80s, bone spurs or no.

Who put you up to this? Whatever they bet you, it was simultaneously too much and not enough.

Thank god they’re tight with Chapo rather than the podcast hosted by a bunch of joking, cursing white guys... wait.

Jujubees or gtfo. It’s the candy that keeps paying off, weeks later when your dentist shakes their head at you pityingly.

RIP Dave.

I audibly gasped when I read that it was under the covers with you. That is pure unadulterated nightmare fuel.

CNN sucked in 2004 when Jon Stewart laid their rotten soul bare for the world to see, and they’ve only doubled down on the horseshit since then. The only difference is they replaced nascent klansman Tucker Carlson with a rotating crowd of tea party cast-offs and Trump fluffers.