I own a secondhand XBOX loaded with early 2000's numetal. I refuse to delete it because it is so on the nose.

I worked part-time at a shop like that. Town of 20,000, several hours from the nearest real city. Card/comic/CD shop was the only place to get Magic the Gathering product and the owner knew it. He kept prices high, hoarded sealed product, and over-charged. Killed the hobby.

If ‘Soundsystem’ can’t get me through the day, I’m in the shit.

I love ska and have since the mid-90's. The thing with ska is that playing someone one song won’t make them a convert and forcing someone to listen to a bunch of new music all at once won’t make it stick. The radio is no help. Ska is just a thing people have to find at the right time. Nothing makes a day better for me…

This is a real pain point in my household. My partner is going back to teaching and took a substantial pay cut to do so. Using the local thrift stores to rebuild her wardrobe, since her tech job didn’t require anything but jeans and tees, is a challenge in our city. Resellers haunt the local Goodwills and snatch up…

When I lived in rural northern Kentucky, the Turkey Vultures were huge, hideous, and completely unbothered by humans. A honking horn or a yelling human could not scatter them from a deer carcass in the road. 

I mean, when I lived with my dad, I would have to move rifles to pull out a chair at the dining room table. He’s a bit of a nut, though.

You might as well be writing my story. I went to a con, bought a pile of comics, and my beloved Ted Kord Blue Beetle got shot in the head. Between that and Identity Crisis, comics had lost their charm for me. I still pick up trades of things like Keith Giffen’s Justice League or 80's Captain America, but I’m mostly…

My experience with my abuser was one of exhaustion. She used the same tricks and strategies over and over, to the point of predictability. I always knew how she would react to things. We haven’t had a fight in two days, here comes an argument over nothing. I’m having a decent time at work or socially, time for her to…

What always amazes me about terrible men is their banality. It’s abuse that’s equally at home in the Hollywood Hills, the trailer parks of Kentucky, and everywhere in between. These men could have anything and they want... this.

The eye of the needle between fast food and a restaurant with a wait staff is difficult to thread. Fazoli’s, Boston Market, Jason’s Deli, etc. never quite feel worth it. Chipotle does well in that niche. When I want cheap, I hit a drive through, when I want to spend $30+ for two people, I want something nicer than…

Alex Jones’s crew were saying it was easily a million. That makes me think it was like 15 people. 

It is important to not that he references Banned Dot Video, which is Alex Jones’s video platform. He has become an InfoWarrior. Gross.

The only console I owned the last few years was an original XBOX left in the basement I was living in. While I quite enjoyed playing the handful of games I have for it, I was disappointed with how pricey Phantom Crash and Stubbs the Zombie have become. Sadly, neither game is available on Game Pass. 

Much like QANON, this is repackaged Satanic Panic and Stranger Danger from the 70's and 80's.

As a young Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast, I remember TSR’s official D&D magazine, Dragon, had a lot of editorials and letters to the editor dealing with the Satanic Panic in the early 90's. With D&D being as mainstream and wholesome as it is now, it is important to remember when there was a moral outrage over…

The same people who say we should “get over” America’s slavery riddled past are the ones who want to celebrate Colombus, who directly engaged in the slave trade. It is exactly like the Holocaust deniers who celebrate Hitler, a smokescreen to hide their shameful approval of horrors perpetrated against minorities.

Knowledge Fight has also covered it, through the lens of Alex Jones, and it fills me with a mix of amusement and horror.

Here are their Tenets:

Lord, people are capable of some real mental gymnastics when it comes to breakups and moving on. I was in a very serious long-distance relationship, the kind of relationship where we were making concrete plans for me to relocate to NYC. Then came my birthday weekend/Memorial Day weekend. She didn’t want to talk on the…