Yeah, it's Chekhov's law: if you hide a gun in the popcorn machine in the 8th act, you have to add butter to it in the 10th.

Reading screen names in multiplayer is like a cultural anthropology of contemporary society in 20 characters or less.

Stay with this feature. People like us are why I'm doing this, and I'll be curious to hear your reactions as I continue.

That's so funny you mention The Last Of Us. Not being able to get through any of the shoot-outs in that gorgeous game was what motivated me to start this project in the first place.

Tell me more about this "Counter Strike"…

I had a lot of (very boring) background of this kind in my first draft, which you should be very happy was excised from this. Suffice to say: I don't play PC stuff. My gaming for the past however many years has been largely on a PS3 (and PS2 before that).

You're having the same revelation I did. Give it time; it's a doozy.

That time-lapse of the Mr. Robot storefront could've gone all night and I would've been happy.

Not only that, but having Christian Slater deliver that line was like a perfect storm of '90s perfection.

We'll see what the show gives us tonight. Who doesn't like research?

I am still waiting for John Teti's acknowledgement that I called who the killer was halfway through the season.

Yeah, I'm going to talk a little about this next week.

I mean, also upvoted, Geats, because well-played, but still.

Are you suggesting my implication that all these guys are interchangeable when it comes to their appropriation by The Simpsons is anything less than perfectly clear?

Yup. I love all my gangsters equally. Just like The Simpsons, when it comes to appropriating likenesses.

[cue mind exploding sounds]

Full disclosure: This entire writeup is just cut and pasted from my Tinder profile.

Oh, absolutely. But I like this better.

Good catch! I had completely forgotten about that. Updating now.

Agreed, although I think in his mind that's how he justified it, by telling himself it was necessary for both of them. I don't think he expected to reveal as much as he did.