Your essay there is full of a lot of valid points -but they still don’t add up to a consistent whole. You are certainly wrong that I “don’t know what I’m talking about”. :) So I will see your essay and raise you a longer one, if you’re truly willing to do what it takes to have the discussions necessary to save the…

Actually I had a friend who was a highly paid consultant in your mode, for Accenture. :) So don’t give me this shit about how hard you work. Sure, you’ll pull 48 hours deploying enterprise software, once or twice in a gig, maybe even a few times - then after a few months, the gig ends and you get to go sleep for a…

Actually, you can indeed have a stroke, aneurysm, or develop other serious medical problems from studying too hard.

College-level or serious honors courses taken in high school are generally weighted to 5.0, not 4.0. Advanced Placement (AP) classes which allow the taker to place out of first-year college courses - and require a college-level 3 or 4 hour exam at the end of the year - are the most common variant. (If you are…

Urza Block was the most fun I ever had in Magic. It was broken beyond words, but so much of it was broken and fun and fresh and creative that even the most degenerate decks were amazing and interesting to watch, and even to play against. Between Tolarian Academy, Show and Tell, Tinker, Sneak Attack, Gaea’s Cradle,…

Of course you don’t believe it. :) It would deeply hurt the massive ego you’ve developed to believe that a random stranger knows more about these things than you do. I’m guessing the ego and arrogance are some kind of protective response to avoiding the kinds of circumstances and behaviors that addled your brother?

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I absolutely understand that some tech consultants work hard. I still haven’t met any who work harder than pro gamers, because pro gaming is much harder than you think. And when it comes to being arrogant, entitled, prissy babies - I’d guess the field is about equal, based on the consultants (all U.S., some for very…

I bet you’re not pining for Fallen Empires, though.

If I had a dollar for every player who had ever cried that Magic was “ruined” because of a power combo, I could buy a notebook full of Moxen.

You will only TRULY ruin Magic by calling to nerf it and make it safe, people. Magic has never succeeded because it is a balanced game. It has always succeeded because it is a…

Actually, there is nothing more foolish than the belief that *all* conspiracies are false and that all “conspiracy theorists” are mentally deficient or inferior or “rationalizing”.

“I’d love to be a punter in the NFL but since I haven’t done it in over 20 years it wouldn’t turn out well.”

I’m also willing to bet you’re also not willing to put in the work required to become a pro at anything. Easier to shit on others on comment boards? Have you ever once in your life tried to become world-class…

Yes, right. Because in baseball you can go replace Derek Jeter with Tim Tebow at a moment’s notice and it will have no effect on your bottom line. You have no idea how this scene works.

No offense, but a lot of tech consulting is an “extended break”. You get on planes, you sip refreshments, you prepare presentations on your laptop. Then you go sit around meeting rooms and business lunches and make recommendations to others who will be doing the actual work, unless you are one of those very rare tech…

“People playing video games don’t need “time off” because they’re not doing anything but playing a video game. There’s no risk of having their head slammed into a wooden board, or being tackled by 3-4 burly men and having their knee turn the wrong way during the tackle.”

No - what you have instead are risks of chronic…

Oh, please. Consulting is the softest, cushiest, laziest gig in tech. No empathy for you either.

Sounds like they’re being smart to me. But go work your 70 hours a week. Brag like shit about it.

You ain’t the only one who thinks it’s cool fam! While I doubt Gita meant to truly crap on anyone’s career here, Penny Arcade addressed this syndrome pretty well recently.

Personally, I think this skin is mad fly. But I don’t play Overwatch, so I’m clearly not the target demo.

Oh, what a surprise. Tinfoil hat jokes! I’ve never heard those before...except from every lazy jerk on the Internet who finds them easier than doing any actual research.

Sorry. I learned all of what I needed to know from your response when someone else reminded you that slavery was the law too once - and you told…

Yeah bro, I’m sure it would have been better if our soldiers in Iraq could have just kept killing civilians and planting guns on the bodies and gotten away with it until the end of time, right?

Motherfuck your politics too! These wars are corrupt and have been corrupt since the beginning. Look up “Oded Ellner” for a…