Yeah I had a similar experience with those… Like, at first they thought they had to market those games as at-least-somewhat gritty, macho sci-fi action, with the implication that despite the cartoonish game design, it was OK to imagine it as a violently heroic comic book or movie or something - the cartoonishness…

OK, I decided to take a minute to respond to this; hopefully it's interesting…

For me, the worst movies are the ones where you can just feel the time slipping away; like, where every few minutes you think of something else you could be doing instead. So, an example that sticks out in my mind is when I went to a screening of The Rock; the mix of predictability, aggressive stupidity, and…

Aw I was really banking on Rollergator. :(

At first I read that as 'grade school' instead of 'grad school' and I was very impressed.

I'll never forget the DVD format wars. I stormed the Best Buy shelves on HD-Day.

No, see, that link would have worked if not for immigrants.

At first I thought that this Sweden thing was an example of Trump's power to shape discourse: he makes some arbitrary, ill-informed, off-the-cuff statement, and then millions of people scramble to find ways to justify it, pulling at distant points of data to try and find a sensible version of what he could have said,…

Beast better have my money

That's the one!

I remember something I read by a guy who's around Watson's age: he said that when he was 13 or so, he was very attracted to Watson (who was also around 13 at the time) and so he started posting in Emma Watson message boards, and he met lots of other guys, all united in their attraction to Watson. They developed a…

I just posted a similar thought but you beat me to it…

I know that Archie comics have a reputation for good, clean, childish fun, but there's always been a lot of implied sexuality (these are comics about the love lives of teenagers, after all). Honestly, though, it wasn't until I saw some of Dan DeCarlo's 'adult' cartoons that I realized how sexualized the Archie…

I actually think this is a cool idea but, as with that Amtrak writer's residency, it's also a pretty naked social-media play.

I said we going to the mall
Going, going to the mall
Going to the mall
Going, going to the mall
I said we going to the mall
Going, going to the mall
Going, going, going

I've never actually used the Uber app (and have only ever taken one Uber ride, via someone else's account); I had been meaning to - it was the thing to do, for a while - but what soured me on them before I ever even used the service was an incident which I think may not even be included in those above-linked articles:…

Also, whenever that line of thinking comes up, it's worth noting that computer science used to be a largely-female field, and coding was conceptualized as a sort of 'women's work' (since it involves a lot of patience, dedication, etc.). Basically, it was only after people figured out that there was a buttload of money…

A: "It's acceptable for people to have these feelings, as long as they don't act on them."

A: "It's acceptable for people to have these feelings, as long as they don't act on them."

"Hey guys, check it out! Look! I hate feminists, liberal orthodoxy, all that stuff!"
— "Great! So do we!"
"Yeah! Yeah! And also, you know, I hate trans people! Like, I fuckin' hate 'em!"
— "Yeah! Love it!"
"Oh and I basically think gay people are degenerates. Like, I'm gay, but I still think that!"
— "Awesome! So cool!"
"And…