I mean, I play World of Warcraft and yet IRL I have not imprisoned even one dark titan bent on the destruction of all life

Tbh I could see EVE as a nice outlet for someone who is under a tremendous amount of professional stress rather than evidence of a fundamental defect of character

Monopolies are frequently very convenient to their consumers. People sure didn't appreciate having to have new phone contracts when Ma Bell was broken up. Competition is always a trade-off between convenience and the potential of better prices or service quality. And that's... Probably fine, in the case of digital…

Yeah! I found that out later. It’s that initial experience of surprise encountering something I thought no one else would ever remember I’m talking about. Obviously I guess it's not a surprise a talented artist would go on to work on other creative projects 

His overlapping repeated VO in response to ineffective player violence against invulnerable NPCs really cracked me up.

There was a reference to early 2000s Keenspot webcomic RPGWorld in Steven Universe and I reacted exactly the same to both of these. Just ... Confused that anyone had encountered a piece of culture that was so obscure (but so beloved by me), almost as if it was more a personal memory than a cultural object.

“Blank actually just other incongruous thing” is a very typical template for an Onion article headline, though usually it would be more incongruous, like "Horny Looking Mobile Game Actually Just Cheese Grater Applied Directly To Your Scrotum"

McNeal issuing a blanket denial about knowing about this behavior, immediately being forced to walk it back in a totally unconvincing way by other people in his social circle speaking out, and then being outed as an abuser himself was just sheer perfection 

I mean, it can both be a great horror movie and also be really rich with symbolism and themes. Every person in America having a secret double hidden in a parallel underground world is pretty suggestive to me.