So Steam doesn't want to be steamy. Hmmm.

Well damn straight I'd win. King of the monsters baby.

This. Without fail.

Denying things that actually happened is called gaslighting, in case you didn't know, and pretty serious emotional abuse in my opinion.

Don't worry. You are Gen X.

Or my personal favorite:

How do you know my mother??

Yup. My husband's mother does this. She was/is an addict and is physically and emotionally abusive. But she did a GREAT JOB b/c he's successful! Someone give that woman Mother of the Year!

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

I love how C-3P0 can converse flawlessly in three million natural languages while R2-D2 lacks the self-expression capabilities of an iPhone.

Yeah, I used to work a retail job, and it was the same type of situation (albeit not nearly as aggressively awful as this sounds). I would assume that it isn't just an American thing (although we're amazingly self-centered in our consumerism), but holy shit, do people lose all sense of perspective when it comes to our…

This is exactly why I was getting mad at gamers during this whole DDoS attack against Sony and Microsoft. Yes, it sucked to not play games online for a couple days, but for crying out loud, it's such a first-world problem. We complained about "our holidays" being ruined or messed up, but we had no problem not thinking…

Russia: invades
NATO/EU: wrings hands endlessly, imposes sanctions, gets lucky when falling oil orices collapses Russian economy.

Three years without a test? What do they think those swabs are, FSU football players?

FAMOUS INTERNET GUY BAD!

You bought a human?!

I love Zatoichi, but more for the music than anything else.