They’d have to pry Tagalongs out of my cold, dead hands. As long as they sell those cookies, they can call themselves whatever they want and do whatever they want.

Finally, the gritty origin story for Clippy we’ve all been waiting for.

I’m an adult man in a co-ed hockey league. The best player on my team is a woman. I’m worried the league is going to make her go up a division next season.

You missed Chris Cillliza and the political news media turning this into a story about...Hillary Clinton and something something something....who the fuck even knows? They hate her, and she must answer for everyone’s crimes! But only when they ask her, every other time she must hide in a forest and shut the fuck up.

Except that before puberty, there are no appreciable differences in performance, and usually for admission to competition the trans girl in question must either show that they are taking puberty blockers or estrogen. There is no innate, genetic-level difference between athletic performance in men vs women, it’s all…

Even if it’s not “gambling,” that doesn’t mean it isn’t playing on the same exact psychological appeals that gambling does. And when they give people the ability to pay actual money for the loot boxes—even children—that’s just super poor form. It makes me think back to comments that Jonathan Blow made in a game design…

Well according to the ESRB (and to be clear I am not agreeing with their position, merely restating it) while yes you are spending real money you are not gambling. You’re just purchasing randomized content.

It’s about “the children” being the go-to strategy for any issue

Sometimes it’s cathartic and maybe even a little uplifting to see everybody come together to call an asshole an asshole. To this point 20 comments and zero stars. That’s gotta be good for something.

Everyone has a dark side. Some of us keep it in check because it’s the right thing to do and others only because they’re afraid of the punishment. That’s very much the difference between a good and a bad person. When the rules fail us, some of us are this guy.

Your true self sucks.

Great news! I can get back to work on my adaptation of this.

I’m also in awe of Terry speaking out, I really hope this encourages more to come forward, if this ex football player macho man can come forward, so can you, there seems to be this narrative that being assaulted means you’re weak.

It can actually potentially be as much of an issue with a Korean speaking doctor. It’s not just soft hearted adult children that don’t want to give Ma bad medical news, but a cultural difference overall in some Asian countries that there is a reluctance to give patients an honest medical prognosis when it’s serious or…

Oh, hey, I’d been wondering about this...! Since California is, like, BURNING and shit, I was curious about whether or not we’d get any world-leader attention, y’know, like the way the hurricane people do? But no, nobody’s speaking up. Not a single tweet out of Twitler or Congress or Hollywood or anyone else... not…

So one out of three still living.

Weird Al Yankovic

I worked as a government social worker/clinical counsellor for 28 years. You are totally right that the numbers for boys are much higher since it was my experience that disclosure with boys was so rare. The one thing I know for sure is that early treatment/intervention (pre-adolescent) is crucial.

We hate the porgs we do!

So Chewie’s basically using it as the Falcon’s dashboard ornament?