Sure, "angry gamer nerd" is still in the cultural zeitgeist, but that doesn't make gamers some kind of oppressed minority.

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Are you serious? Nielsen estimates that over 56% of American households have a video game console, and ESA research shows that 68% of households play computer or video games. That data is a few years old, too, and doesn't include mobile gaming on tablets and smartphones. The majority of people, at this point, play…

Yes, you've summarized my position succinctly.

If you want to turn your brain off and look at pretty lights, you can sit in an empty field and stare into a kaleidoscope. It'll be a lot cheaper than whatever you're paying for game hardware and software, I promise. Here is an a article about how to make one with some common household items:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/…

I'm assuming, based on the fact that you're posting a comment on a gaming site, that you're a gamer. You do realize that, every time you say something is "just a game", you're dismissing your hobby as a meaningless waste of time, right?

I thought it was polo?

One of the interesting things that I think gets lost in these conversations about photo retouching reinforcing negative body images for women is that photo retouchers are just dudes/gals with jobs. And they need to justify their function to keep those jobs.

Four contrasting thoughts:

I feel like this is the blog post version of: "FINE. I redid it the way you wanted, but it was hard and I didn't like doing it."

Don't use this. You don't want this. You don't want to know.

Right, but what about the guys from Top Gear?

Alternative ideas:

Personally, this is my favorite everyday math shortcut:

A Triple-Plus, list perfectly underexplained, would read again.

I heard some casino magnate out in California blocked it for some reason? He seemed like kind of a sketchy dude, though – I read somewhere he might've killed his wife's first husband and made all his money through questionable insider sports bets.

Sounds like the perfect solution to me. Heck, if you can get enough fuel and air up there, and you've got enough delta-v to push the mass, you could link up two or three of these suckers into a dang space train. And then maybe we save weight on Orion launches by resupplying the parked modules in smaller, unmanned…

Jaywalking is a made-up crime, invented to shift the blame in automobile fatalities from drivers to pedestrians:

Yes, but the job is Parisian duct cleaning.