I get where you’re coming from - it’s like people being outraged about the vulgar language Trump used when he said “grab em by the pussy” when what they should be focusing on is the whole “sexual assault aspect”. While legally dubious, the real issue here is the power differential between a fan and the artist they…

I really hate to jump in here, but while I agree with you that men do face harassment, women face harassment online that immediately goes way over the line and usually straight into something involving sexual violence or rape. Men don’t frequently get messages screamed at them/posted at them talking about raping them…

I almost bought Zero Time Dilemma but I'm a big scaredy-cat. Is that one any good?

The problem is that you wouldn’t actually need both parties to be that stupid. I read an article a while back about a man who was harassing a woman (with her children in the car and her boyfriend/husband in the store) for parking in a handicapped spot without a placard. The guy was yelling at her to the point that her…

This is why I don’t like the idea of buying from the eShop. Even Google Play gives you the opportunity for a refund within two hours of purchasing and beyond that, you can ask the developer themselves for a refund directly (I had this situation after purchasing the Exploding Kittens game - I found out I wasn’t able to…

I feel you on this one. I considered working at GameStop because I like playing games and the ones I don’t play, I enjoy reading about them. But I heard about their store practices, especially regarding their employees, and decided to steer clear. I had the same problem when I worked at Movie Gallery, the customers…

My fiancé has been playing Assassin’s Creed: Origins exclusively for the past few weeks, but just this past weekend he wanted to play Fortnite and Rocket League with his brother online. I watched as he spent ten minutes waiting for Rocket League to update, then they switched to Fortnite and he had to repeat the…

I think I was 6 or 7 - my dad was in the Navy so we moved around a lot and he would have to stay overnight at the base and mom would go out shopping or be working so I would be alone at home quite a bit day-to-day. Again, latchkey kid of the 90s. But my mom had a special phrase for if anybody came to pick me up from…

At which point, you’d hope another congressman would think to bring up Australian-like restrictions on guns. They could just as easily (if not more so) blame guns for mass shootings - any one of which is a perfect example - then point out how Australia has banned most guns and doesn’t have mass shootings.

I agree with this FOR MOVIES. I actually rarely watch movies on streaming platforms anymore - I watched movies on Netflix in college but for the last five years or so, I’ve mostly stuck to streaming TV shows. And especially older TV shows you just can’t find on TV anymore. Then there are shows like Supernatural - with…

I agree, I absolutely LOVE watching shows that I was either too young to catch while they were on the air or just missed entirely. Ally McBeal, Cheers, I just finished Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, News Radio (my breau got me into it, I’d never even heard of it but we found the entire show in one box set for like…

I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. At 18 years old (or 17, for some folks like me), college can be very much dictated by a person’s parents - where they think you should go or where you believe they expect you to go (for both the weight of the institution in future job-hunting and the prestige - or…

I realize N64 cartridges are too small for this kind of thing but when we bought some games for it a couple years ago (my original copies from childhood were stolen back in college), my breau and I opened them up to replace the little battery so they’d have a longer shelf-life - because I still enjoy actually playing…

EWWWWWWWW!

I’m reminded of that episode of It’s Always Sunny where they try to sell cocaine they find in hot stereo equipment or something.

“NEVER get the undercoating!”

I’m with you on this, you have to be okay with unpopularity - I was made fun of at my last job for never ending a sentence with a preposition in my emails. Incidentally, “it’s taken care of” was the bane of existence. I’m most troubled when an article is missing a word like “of”, “an” or “to”, etc. I think this…

I couldn’t agree more. We had a “business and finance” class in high school, where they taught us all kinds of common-sense-but-no-one-ever-tells-you kind of stuff, some not even related to business or finance - like “on a list of ingredients, it goes from most to least present in the food item”. But if I remember…

I’ve seen this mentioned before but I’m sorry, I just don’t agree that folks won’t tend to ditch a terrible film earlier on than 70% of the way in. I can attest that even on a streaming service, if you’re invested in a movie you’ll try to stick it out til the end - even if it’s terrible - because you’re really hoping…

While I agree with your position that men don’t live under a lot of the same scrutiny and objectification that women do, they nonetheless DO undergo stress from society’s requirement that they “act like men” - no crying, less emotionally demonstrative/available, no talking about feelings or being vulnerable and the…