I once showed up to a gun range to target practice cause my SO and I wanted to test run the gun we might buy. As we were waiting to sign in I saw another customer ask a clerk who was running the gun safety class for the day. The clerk gestured to the teacher WITH A GUN. We turned around and left.

This was the product of birthday/Christmas/tooth fairy money and what I made from my family's yard sale (whatever toys my brother and I decided to sell, we got the money for), so I was SO serious about trying to pick the "right" one. I think I went by sight, trying to figure out if a particular stomach looked bigger…

I was so happy that there was at least one true human being amongst the peripheral characters— that boy had absolutely the right response and did absolutely the right thing. It's so sad that he's an anomaly.

I want to find one, just one positive in this story, so good on the kid who recorded that drunk fucking scumbag. He should go into police work or something. You can hear him forcibly questioning "Brian," without cajoling him, and successfully getting a confession. Good on you kid. A+ job for an amateur.

I teach sixth grade, and we just finished watching The Outsiders movie (you know, the one starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze...).

I know a few Christians who have read the bible, they tend to be sweet, thoughtful people who believe everyone has the right to make their own choices as they have made theirs.

They tend to be very open minded and look to the church for fellowship and community. They also don't tend to talk about their beliefs much…

OK...

Same here. Yesterday I was looking for my friend and her BF in a crowd. He has a beard and she has chest length dark brown hair and wears those giant bug like sunglasses. I must have almost talked to 3 different couples before finding them.

Ignore him. He is obviously a troll. I am an actual former mercenary who has been deployed in several areas and it was always as a defensive/protection role, never a combat one. Mercenaries are hired to secure and protect areas in a conflict zone. We helped train local security forces and even offered self defence…

Let's be honest here, her career is not reducible to her attractiveness. She has great games under her belt, certainly more than many developers whose movement in the industry has been commented upon, like Notch.

Celebrity Edition!

She was there since Assassin's Creed 1 and she helped shape that game into what it was. Ubisoft grew immensely since then, they're a powerhouse, have an open-world formula that has become a huge part of the industry, with many big franchises under their belt. Wherever she's heading to next, I'm sure they'll be very…

I have a friend who trained with them for a few months then worked in several locations in the Caribbean and US. These people are no joke. Most of the training is about building a dossier of information that amounts to probable cause for police to get a warrant to raid "massage parlors" and other fronts for sex…

I'll just wait here for the #notallgamers crowd.

I'm a gamer. I have been for thirty years now.

I'm also a heterosexual, cisgendered white male—and while I sometimes have questions or concerns about Sarkeesians methods and research practices, her message isn't off the mark at all. She's onto something, and I think…

Was chatting with a guy in the office last week about games and as we got into it, we slowly realized we were on opposite sides of the GG argument, he was for, I was against.

So after a long term relationship recently ended, I decided to just be like "fuck it" and joined OK Cupid. I've never done any kind of online dating before, I have a friend who actually met her husband off of that site (and they are happily married for four years now and have a kid), so what the hell have I got to…

I just got The Immortal. What do you honk of it?

I spent so, so, so much allowance money on Christopher Pike books. I also wasted a good chunk of a Saturday morning recently when I found this blog that does plot recaps / reviews for many Pike books.

"Whisper of Death" was so good. I read these books 20 years ago almost totally forgot about them, and this thread is making me remember so many good stories.