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Gamergate.

I think I listened to Cameron Esposito's new album for ten minutes before I gave the most exasperated sigh and turned it off. It felt like someone had taken Hari Kondabolu's act (which is amazing), stretched it thin, and spent the whole time winking at the audience.

This story sucks.

sorry for your loss?

Sounds like mine, only my mother died at the end of the year. So mine starts out innocuous, dips a little when Robin Williams dies, then promptly nosedives in November before featuring a funny macro in December? Yay, 2014?

I've had people try to appeal to my sympathy by saying that pedophiles have innate preferences that they can't help, and I can see that, but once you actually hurt a kid, you can fuck the hell off forever.

Which Governor's School? Because I actually attended the SC one for Science and Math for a semester.

So far people have been civil enough, unless I'm too dumb to realize I'm being trashed (this is possible!).

Admittedly, it is very strange to consider a friend, or even an acquaintance, as a predator.

It's Such a Beautiful Day. Fantastic stuff.

Do you genuinely believe it is a vast conspiracy that is the reason for most gamers, press, and assorted strangers thinking that Gamergate is about harrassment?

That's fair. I'm definitely projecting my frustration with twerking being credited to Miley in the mainstream.

I am really tired of white girls singing the praises of booty. I apologize if this comes off as body-shamey, but Miley Cyrus is probably one of the last girls who can play the poster child for booty. Even Trainor, who is definitely more curvy than Miley, is still very white girl in the booty department.

Yeah, gamers have been pissing their pants over her for two years. Sterling told you dumb bastards to quit your bellyaching, and all it did was buy her more publicity. And no, she's not under investigation for Utah State, because the campus police were the ones who took the calls in the first place. So maybe you

Because everything you're saying is a lie.

I'd say the pinnacle of it was the dude from Breitbart making jokes about Brianna Wu's dead dog. Very ethical.

He sees a kid with a Lazer Tag gun, shoots the kid, and gets to keep his gun. Oh, but now he's too SCARED to ever use it again. That's the real tragedy! He should have been fucking indicted. And then, at the end of the movie, Karl's brother rises from the dead, and Powell shoots his ass, so the feel-good ending of the

If sweet chili ketchup is a thing, I can understand why. I'm not up-to-date on my condiment shopping, so are there other varieties in the States, and I just haven't noticed?

whenever I want to be slammed by reality in classic movies, I watch them with my wife. She doesn't care a fraction as much as I do about them, and it's led to some startling revelations. The chief two: Scarlett O'Hara is a fucking sociopath, and "It's a Wonderful Life" is about a man who is completely miserable, but

"But the bruises on her body would only work if the rapist was LEFT-handed!"