All of which are official 2020 Olympic events..

Nope, Death Star plans where the first mission of Dark Forces. 

Who’s recommending this scaremongering bullshit?

Nope. I said I have a tendency to be in love with the sound of my own voice; it’s a backhanded way of acknowledging that I talk too much.

That you read my posts as being self-serious is on you.

It’s a definite personal failing—but not one that I plan to fix, as it only ever rears its head in this particular environment, which I primarily use to not be serious about things for a short period of time.

I forget who it was that said this, and I’m definitely mangling the aphorism, even in paraphrase, but it goes something like “if you have no critics, you’re not saying anything worth responding to.”

its weird you would use a word so heavily traded by the far right.

Or he’s a virtue-signaling fuckstick who gets a rush from articulating the most banal, uncontroversial ideas possible, in a number of words (and paragraphs, and chapters, and volumes, etc) inversely proportional to the significance of the ideas themselves.

Can you shut the hell up for once in your life? You’re such a fucking windbag. This kid doesn’t need your well-wishes. He’s doing this shit either way.

The GTA V gameplay trailer debuted Aug 29, with the game coming out in mid September. TV spots started heavy rotation in early Sep. So, for a game coming in late October, they’re pretty much following the EXACT same promotional roll-out.

Then you’re making a rather foolish assumption.

‘Remember: “No.” is a complete sentence.’ is probably the single best statement to come out of your columns here, and I tend to feel your columns are very, very rich in solid advice/perspective.

An idealized homeland for a displaced people that is founded with the best of intentions and worst of fears?

This game came out twenty-two years ago. It is old enough to buy alcohol for kids who are in late high school. Or at least the ones who have survived various shootings.

Some other Fahey greats:

My favorite Mike Fahey story is second hand. He was at Comic-Con, sometime before 2011. He and McWhertor were down there together. Mike had saved up his dough to buy a bunch of toys from the floor and I guess he went there after the panels were done on Saturday. McWhertor came back to the room and found Mike laying on…

Forgot the link: https://go.twitch.tv/kotaku

What COD needs is a mechanical overhaul more than anything. All the campaigns are the same sorts of set pieces with different paint jobs. They should be pushing themselves to provide new twists on their gameplay, like maybe destructible environments or squad commands for more tactical play. That’s what I, as a lapsed…

In the old days, we just called it stalking.