Also: let me just add, as someone who grew up in SF: If you raise your kids in Menlo Park, you need to accept that they are going to grow up to be softer than baby shit. It’s fait accompli. Your glorified trampoline isn’t going fix that.

Valley Libertarian BINGO!

Silicon Valley “big think” checklist:

wear it on your head or give it to a dog, this bisexual gender-nonconforming polo shirt will unlock the prison beneath the sands of time and burn away your past with balefire

Why do they need to instruct the purchaser on how to wear all these very basic items of clothing? Is it because said shopper is currently browsing the website in a bathrobe with tissue boxes on his feet?

Schilling looks like the truck driver at the counter in some diner in the middle of nowhere ready to tell you how the world REALLY works, which they aren’t gonna teach you in some fancy college.

The thing is it’s one thing to be in the middle of a game and ask to change characters in order to change tactics, it’s another thing to demand that someone picks a specific character even before the game has started.

I actually like having distance damagers on attack. When you’re dancing 3 enemies at once on the point, it’s reassuring to know someone is helping you (out of view) to take them out.

The important thing to know as a sniper (or maybe even Junkrat) is that if the people on the objective die, it’s your job to step it.…

“This makes sense if you’ve read the novels/extended universe”

Significant Backtracking - I’d rather play a shorter game than one padded out by having me retrace every step I just finished taking.

Lately it’s been giant open world games. I love them, but I haven’t had any real desire to play one for at least 6 months. I’ve just been craving smaller, single player experiences. Uncharted 4, the Bioshock Collection, Ratchet and Clank, stuff like that.

Reading novels worth of text. I’m sorry Pillars of Eternity, I love you, but could you get to the friggin point already and let me do something cool, I have to read enough emails and code at work.

Open world schenanigans. Why do I need to drive everywhere? Why can’t I just start a mission? Why are there so many icons on the map? How many of these missions do I HAVE to do? Why am I constantly interrupted by nonsense? Why can’t I just fast travel everywhere? Why do these games waste so much of my time?

Video Game Shit I’m Too Old For: Grinding.

More like hurriCAN

So one of my best Overwatch Moments Of All Time happened recently in competitive Ilios. We were wrecked in the first round thanks to the enemy Genji. So in the next round, I said “fukkit” and switched to Symmetra. And. Completely. DOMINATED.

I feel like sombreros and tequila aren’t cultural appropriation as much as cultural reduction

I go to Bowdoin and I work on the student newspaper, and I’m honestly so fucking tired of journalists like Lionel Shriver completely mis-reporting the facts of the tequila party. There was a decently complex lead-up to the tequila party that led to the students being so roundly punished, which obviously she totally…