Go watch The Expanse; it will make everything better again (as long as you stick to physics and not biology).

Yeah. He’s pissed every other cohort off. White males are all that’s left, and 30% of us are liberals who would rather eat our own feet than vote for Trump. 70% of white males and 0% of any other group == loss.

Oh, you young people have no clue.

Somehow you failed to mention the most important factor driving my own purchase decision:

This. This exactly. Spectator sports are a thing because those sports are fun to watch, even if you’ve never played them yourself. “E-sports” seem to appeal only to people who play the same games competitively. That’s a pretty tiny audience.

Once you’ve made your shopping selection... get off my lawn, youngster. 30? Hah. You ain’t seen a thing yet.

Madeleine, I know you aren’t trying to make me feel old. But you make me feel old. Very old. Really really really fucking old.

And I found my new desktop wallpaper. Thank you.

I used to PVP in the BC/Lich King era. It was really challenging and a lot of fun, but it also required an insane amount of grinding to keep your edge, and, as a real-ass adult there was a certain feeling of futility in competing against people who apparently had absolutely no responsibilities in life and could…

Oh look, an Independent Thinker. Please, tell me about how you do not even own a television!

Right, and the chances that you grew up in Western civilization (and are now employed in journalism, no less) but managed to remain completely ignorant of major works within popular culture, are approximately the same as the odds of surviving a direct assault on an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Nice Gretzky-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off on the cover there.

Except, in one important respect, it is different: if the project succeeds, investors make money. Kickstarter backers get a shiny tchotchke and a pat on the head.

I understand that this will not be a popular opinion here, but:

Well, I was born and raised in Canada and, as an adult, moved to the United States. If nothing else it provides a ringside seat for the Fall of Empire.

Aaaaaand that’s why I took a low-pay, but low-stress job in the public sector. No matter how fast you run on the treadmill you will never reach the carrot.

I’ll take “Standards of beauty are culturally determined, and so this question is meaningless” for $1000, Alex.

Suddenly I am inspired to create a Pokemon-like mobile phone game where you and your friends feed, house, and train a stable of douchebag MMA-wannabe bros in a virtual-idiots’ fight club. The fights would take place at a variety of epic backdrops including Mom’s Backyard and The Alley Behind The AM-PM.

Are you a Japanese gangster by any chance?

Misrepresentation. A casino couldn’t get away with calling itself as a “second income stream for Mom” or whatever. Everyone knows that you don’t take money to the casino that you can’t afford to lose. But these “daily fantasy” leagues represent themselves as something between a pastime and a newspaper route and fail…