This disease has a name: TWFM

The World is For Me

There’s this episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that I watched with my kiddos wherein Rainbow Dash keeps pranking everyonepony and it’s super stressful for her friends (except Pinkie Pie, who IS INTO IT). The episode ends with all the ponies pulling an elaborate prank on Rainbow Dash to make it look like…

A prank isn’t funny unless the person you played it on is laughing too.

My youngest was obsessed with the idea of April Fool’s Day when he was 5. I decided to play a prank on him. I saw it online. Put red Jello in a drinking cup with a straw inside. Tell your child there’s a glass of Hawaiian Punch on the counter. Watch as they try to drink the jello. I did this. He laughed. Then he ate…

She cried for like, two minutes, and she’s the happiest kid ever now.

Ban children under the age of X(12? 10? 8?) from appearing or just do not allow parents and family vloggers to monetize videos. Remove the carrot and they’ll stop or try to find another platform to spout their nonsense.

I don’t think that’s totally fair, if only because I believe DA:Inquisition was really good and that the DA series in general doesn’t have any bad games or expansions.  Inquisition was great and left a number of logical, natural paths in the story of that series to continue into 4.

These mechanics are specifically designed to exploit unstable/impulsive people like this guy.

“Young man yells at Cloud”

Jason, I’ve been a developer on more than one of these types of monolithic ambitious-but-aimless projects that eventually lurches over the finish line (late). You’ve gone through months (or years) of very real suffering to get it to that point, and when it arrives, you’re embarrassed at what’s been put out. It’s…

These articles, while absolutely incredible, all become depressingly similar after a while. And again, I don’t mean that as a knock on you, because I love your work and look forward to your deep inside looks.

Other than Frostbite, Bioware seemed to be their own biggest enemy on this one.

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

23 year olds know that this sort of behavior is unacceptable in the workplace, and if they think it isn’t, they’re wrong. I was 23 less than six months ago. Age is not an excuse here, and if I had done this at my workplace, you better believe I’d have been fired just the same as if one of my older colleagues had done…

How to turn off image display in Gmail to prevent the sort of tracking shown in this article:

I’m always deeply disturbed that these people are so quick to assume modern medicine is dangerous despite huge bodies of data suggesting otherwise, yet are more than happy to try methods that have no evidence of efficacy or safety.

Exactly - which takes away from research and initiative to find effective ways for people with autism to live in and cope with a world that is stuck on hyping what’s ‘normal’. The world needs to open up to all humans so they can do what most of us want to do: contribute with their talents and skills, and be loved and…

Holy shit, that ‘mother warrior’ paragraph is fucked:

As a doctor, I will never forgive Jenny McCarthy, ex-Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and people like this for disseminating such misinformation to the world and causing such a backwardness in the public scientific knowledge base.  May they rot in hell.

Of course, they never, ever talk with any actual autistic people. To them, if we don’t come out normal and perfect, we are ruined.