He looks strangely like Severus Snape + Hans Gruber, and *not* in a way that pays tribute to Alan Rickman

Childless implies a loss. For those of us who never want children, trust me: we’re not sitting here agonizing over it. It’s no loss.

you’d think so but the fact that there’s no legit proof of him ever doing so suggests otherwise. dkf invalidated *3* of his high score submissions. if he was capable, he’s had plenty of time to come up with a by-the-rules entry.

The problem now is that I don’t know when/how I watched it.

Whoa, dude. You watched Pixels?

Good. Since the King of Kong movie this has been my impression of Billy Mitchell:

There’s a Billy Mitchell Kill Screen coming up.

I don’t think that I can watch this. There was drama called “Liar”on in the UK and I pretty much had a nervous breakdown at the last episode and told my mum how I had been raped once and sexually assaulted three more times. She did say that she wondered why I was wary with regard to men and had her suspicions, but…

Sooooooo gross. Years ago, when I was single I went on Amazon and bought one of those “how to talk to women” books. Got about half way through the intro before I threw it out. As lonely as I was, I hated the idea of pretending I was something I’m not just to get laid. Now I’m married with two kids, so I was clearly…

Shit. I’m sorry.

There are so many stories like this. So many. And for years we were all just leaving it in the past for the most part. I can only speak for myself but I didn’t fully confront all of these instances from my childhood until recently. It seemed silly and frivolous to do so. I survived, right? I’m okay? I mean I had…

Jesus, this sounds like my story. At 46, I’ve also begun to unpack my sexual history and what I thought was consensual at 14 (losing my virginity to my friend’s 28 year old brother after doing cocaine one evening) was not. I was a child. It’s confusing and I’m interested to see how this film handles it.

Out off all of them I think Neil Strauss is the only one to have gotten married and started a family. Then wrote a book about how all the shit in The Game is not helpful to a healthy relationship.

You seem real mad.

I have no clue what you’re getting at, but turning a night where a bunch of teenagers sit around playing games with each other into a recruitment event for the military is really screwed up.

I like the look on the sergeant’s face. The barely concealed disgust at having to award a trophy to people who play at what he does for a living.

Huh? The DOJ splash screen saying “don’t do drugs” wasn’t a recruitment vehicle to join the DOJ...it was, no matter how poorly executed, an attempt to stop kids from doing drugs.

The local ROTC unit in my home town sponsored an America’s Army night at the LAN center.

I didn’t know that was part of the night when I went there with a friend. It was so uncomfortable having ROTC guys giving out ARMY memorabilia and talking to us about shooting skills in the game.

Yvan Eht Nioj

See you next week, when you actually take the time to make a burner account so you can drop the same shitty hot take on an article you ostensibly didn’t want to read yet still showed up to comment on.