You’re clearly living in your own little world. Switching schools as a child is rather rough. Not only are you moving into different sub-sets of curriculum but you also have to factor in the social aspects of it. As someone who changed schools nearly every year I can tell you the process is debilitating.

Shep, I really wish you and Giz wouldn’t promote this company. After the recommendations seen here, I picked up the Elite over black friday. Fast forward to after some use and more in-depth research, I discovered what a terrible product they actually put out. The thing tastes like plastic and has been shown countless…

Shep, I really wish you and Giz wouldn’t promote this company. After the recommendations seen here, I picked up the…

Counterpoint - It was never cool.

Counterpoint - It was never cool.

i was about to say the same. this is basically like advertising marlboro. you have teenagers browsing kinja.

i was about to say the same. this is basically like advertising marlboro. you have teenagers browsing kinja.

Good morning Shep,

Good morning Shep,

No one is saying they shouldn’t run ads. There are plenty of other ad formats that aren’t auto-playing videos smack-dab in the middle of long-form text content. Polygon does the same thing, and it’s basically a slap in the face to people like me who try to support sites by disabling ad-blockers.

The Kinja ads completely destroy what is otherwise a really nicely designed and well-written review. I counted 8, middle-of-the-content ads, 2 or 3 of which were incredibly distracting autoplaying videos. Come on guys... I really want to support long-form content like this, but I’m really close to enabling adblock…

I’ve seen that before; a variant of it also gets trotted out when something horrifyingly sexist or racist comes out of Japan: “It’s their culture! Don’t judge!”

...it’s like, dude, I get it: respect for a variety of cultures is key to being a reasonable person—but not every part of every culture is praiseworthy, even…

I appreciate the sentiment, but also am extremely dubious at the idea that a teen boy isn’t watching porn based on the amount he’s willing to report his use to his mom.

That sounds like the kind of thing somebody says before getting slapped.

So agree on that last sentence. I really disliked GotG 2 for this very reason. Star-Lord does NOTHING to drive that story, everything comes to him. Plus, too many moments that were supposed to be emotional that had zero impact because not enough set up was done to build up to them.

I can kind of see where both sides are coming from here. On one hand, mass shootings count for a bare sliver of actual gun deaths in America, and most of the focus and panic is being driven by the fact that this is very emotionally intense: it happened to children, it happened in a “safe” place, and it looks dramatic.…

The flaw in his argument is that it’s reasonable and well articulated.

I am also in a situation where I’ve only got an hour to game on any given night, though it isn’t child-related. Two at the most. I actually have the complete opposite feeling about open-world games. The fact that I can only get a few map points checked off before I have to quit and get some sleep leaves me feeling…

I’m here to win medals and get laid, and it looks like they’re all out of medals.

If I could make one suggestion, use Velcro ties instead of zip ties. God forbid you have to rewire that thing one day. You’re left with trying to stick a knife/scissor into something that has hardly any opening plus doing it at awkward angles. A pack of 50 is only like $7 on Amazon.

I HATE THAT KID

Trump is the kid who always hit the reset button on the Super Nintendo right before you beat him at Street Fighter 2.

My wife is the exact opposite. No matter what restaurant we go to, she will order a Caesar salad with chicken. I will order the restaurant’s speciality and she will eat about half of her salad then pick off samples of my meal and regret not ordering it.

“finding anything and everything racist and getting offended by anything and everything”