“My oldest kid is 10 and we don’t have a video game console of any kind”

“you can skip the grinding, and jump straight into battle.”

“you can skip the grinding, and jump straight into battle.”

Yes, they were operating under the theory that he was a summoned elemental and needed at least a 5th-level spell to return him to his home plane.

Who are *any* of these people that “Has anyone ever eaten at Jimmy John’s or Arby’s?” are legitimate questions? I had no idea the Deadspin staff was so fancy.

I almost bought 15 this week before I looked at my game shelf and reminded myself of the problem.

Case in point: My backlog is so bad (and I love 100+ hour grind games, which doesn’t help) that I bought Witcher 3 a year ago, haven’t touched it, and then month ago bought the complete edition for $25 because in spite of its redundancy, it was cheaper than buying the expansions that I know I’ll eventually want.

“Weirdly, towards the end, perhaps as I became a little buzzed, it became much more tolerable”

Weirdly? This is like the core feature of shitty booze.

As I read the WaPo story where the cops were saying “it’s not against the law to spread rumors on the Internet,” I was thinking, well actually...

In no small detail:

Thrilled to see a career-oriented mercenary campaign. I vividly remember the joys of choosing contracts, making money and — above all — buying and customizing mechs in MW2: Mercenaries. It wasn’t just about piloting giant killer robots — it was about piloting *your* giant killer robots.

I’m reminded of my favorite NYT correction:

It tickles me when big-city Americans think they’re hardened to aggressive driving. I visited family in Italy a decade ago. They’re up in the mountains, where the roads are full of those switchbacks. My cousin picked us up from the airport and proceeded to push triple digits on most of the drive, both looking to pass…

For some reason I read “a decent chunk of aid every year” as “a decent check of eye aid,” and now I’m picturing a back-channel deal where we pay an Ecuadorian assassin with a crate full of bifocals.

Same. I don’t want to escape reality for a grand space opera adventure so I can spend time harvesting Thurrgia Ore to make slightly better armor.

I don’t know — I wasn’t particularly impressed by the clip, but I also wonder how a random two-minute bit of ME2 would play without context or prior investment in the characters.

All of this presumes he paid attention to — or indeed, attended — the briefing in which they told him about them.

Don’t be silly. Why call him black when you can call him a muslim?

You want them to wear *sleeves?* What is this, Raqqa?

It’s not that weird — it’s borrowed straight from the playbook of your friendly neighborhood dictator. In Iraq, everyone voted for Saddam because they loved him and everything else was a Western lie. In Ukraine, everyone loved Russia and just wanted protection from thugs and agitators. In Syria, everyone loves Assad…

It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human rectum.