“Would the world be a better place if 20 years after Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings, any movie producer could make awful movies based on it, without Tolkien’s permission and without him (or his estate) getting a penny?”

It’s interesting how people see 25 years as too short! I assume it’s a result of comparing it to the absolutely monstrous and repulsive 70+ we’ve all grown used to. But you know, it just strikes me that if you keep getting paid for the the piece of work you finished doing over 20 years ago, you’re in one hell of a…

it always cracks me up when people point to the $7.25 minimum wage and say it’s intended for high-school age kids to earn, not for adults to try to survive or raise a family on... while they go to fast food places during lunch, shop at WalMart during a quick work break, and go see a matinee movie in the middle of…

Except when Karen Jr. gets like soooooo drunk over spring break and gets pregnant, but like, that’s a totally justified abortion because it would be too hard to finish up her degree while pregnant and it’s not like she’s using abortion for birth control like all those slutty girls out there.

I’m sure there’s people that will still tell him that he’s wrong, and it’s ‘waves’ anyway. Y’know, cuz they know better than the guy that wrote it. Like the Simpsons ‘car hole’ vs ‘car hold’, where the writers even said it’s ‘car hole’ and the internet nerds told them that, ‘No, despite the fact they wrote it, they…

I had a real opinion shift that was brought on by the Lego games. It dawned on me that I literally couldn’t lose, but I was still having fun.

Why should someone have to jump through hoops, though?

Your fundamental flaw is in thinking that the point of playing a video game is to accomplish something.

and this is why gatekeeping is a plague in the fandom.

Exactly. Replaying content is not fun at all for me. That’s why I don’t grind in WOW for instance.

Its pixels on a screen, not an olympic sport. Its not a 'challenge' you 'rise to', it something you do for fun and you aren't a more valuable person for having to work harder at it. 

You clearly have a very interesting perspective. Could you elaborate on how my ego issues are manifest in this article, to the degree that they are the only reason this article exists? 

I’ve never understood the “git gud” mentality beyond a bunch of man-children (or literal children) looking for something pointless to brag about and rag on others over. It’s so fucking childish.

It is for some people and that is valid for them, but adding an easy mode to a game does not make the difficult mode any less hard for them

Personally, Games are escapism relaxation from the day to day life.

The Final Fantasy ports have triple speed and an invincibility button. I had 100 spare hours to play a game like that when I had a summer vacation. I don’t get those anymore. So having that option is probably the only chance I have of playing these games again.

“Once I told a therapist that I thought restaurant jobs stunted me socially, to which she responded “interesting.””

Look. Some of us are old now. Those 12+ hour marathons are 20 years in the past. I try that now and all I’m going to accomplish is a blood clot. And folks can snicker, but their day will come. Eventually you won’t give a shit about learning the timing of phase 3 of whatever boss fight you’re stuck at.  You’re going to…

It’s something that only white people say, because they aren’t forced to think about race constantly due to the actions of, well, white people. It’s easy to say you are color blind when you aren’t being discriminated against for the color of your skin.

It’s like when rich people tell you that money doesn’t matter, or…

There’s a reason he’s the cover athlete for MLB 2021: