Wow I totally forgot about this! How the heck did that work using dial-up internet connections?

Life Is Strange is so grounded in reality. I mean sure there is time travel, and the teen-speak is cringey at times. But its setting and characters are so god damn normal, and it's refreshing. No zombies or grunts or magic. Just normal people doing (mostly) normal things. I was a big fan of Remember Me despite it's…

13 and old enough to do this shit is old enough to spend time in juvie. Fucking idiot.

I see what you are getting at...

Most of them involve some sort of frustrating technical issues. Plenty of those!

I can honestly say that in the early days of the Internet, when chat rooms were just becoming a big thing, I became truly addicted to the Internet for a while. I was in my mid teens and constantly used Microsoft Comic Chat, IRC, and Yahoo chat rooms. This was a true addiction, not just an obsession. I'm obsessed with…

I attend a self help group called SOS, and there was an individual who came in expressing an addiction to the internet. This person had been fired or quit jobs, distanced themselves from family and friends and had an overall decrease in the quality of their life because of an unrelenting desire to constantly occupy…

Good grief. Can you imagine the shitstorm if there was a "Make Bayonetta a man" jam, or "Fix Tomb Raider by making Lara into Larry" event?

The only think worse than not tipping are the self righteous douche-nozzles who leave the "Have you found Jesus" pamphlets made to look like a folded over $100 bill.

I have never known a single server that actually succeeded in getting their employer to make up the difference. Not one.

Tipping IS absolute bullshit and I would love to end the practice, but that's not gonna happen unless wages for serving staff are brought up to reasonable levels. We are unfortunately stuck with an awful system of compensation for a very small segment of the working population for the foreseeable future.

As someone who used to work in the industry, this is something I've always tried to stress to people when they've asked me about wrestling. Of course the first question is always some variation of "it's all fake, right?"

Yes, and part of the social contract as currently constructed is that you are expected to tip, because by not doing so, the only person you are punishing is your server.

Even easier than that: download a free tipping app on to your phone. This is 2015, we have the technology.

Years ago (I think I was about 9), my parents, aunt, and I were visiting some giant mall in Boston. I found a holographic Raichu card from the Fossil deck near an elevator. I looked around and didn't see anyone, so I picked it up off the floor and stepped into the elevator with my family.