When I worked in a movie theater ticket booth, dudes would try to impress their date by asking “Hah hah two children please hah hah”

I think you really nailed it.

100% this. And I think it’s really important to remember that in the age where we have 8chan trolls warping what definitions are of trolling, through undermining and re-associating imagery, social critique that’s so weakly identified as such that you can’t say that it really is that... then it tends to exist in the…

This just shows that it will take years for facebook to ever do the right thing. Why wait for them to fail you, when it comes to hate directed at you? Delete your Facebook now, and you won’t have to wait for their moderation to inevitably drop the ball when it comes time to protect you from trolls and mobs.

In a small concession to the game being designed for the console, Capcom did give players a new ability: the double jump. It made surviving a little more manageable. But to be completely candid, that “aid” is just an illusion because the ability to double jump results in some excruciating new obstacles requiring…

If you like those Aukey power strips, but want to mount them and don’t want to screw around with the mounts underneath and out of sight, the Trond Prime II series is only a dollar more, and has the keyhole mounts on either end of the strip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M06IJA8

If you like those Aukey power strips, but want to mount them and don’t want to screw around with the mounts…

FYI - if anyone is eyeballing this as a switch for your entertainment center, be aware the plastic housing doesn’t have any screw holes for mounting. You’ll have to use some sort of adhesive if you want to mount this.

FYI - if anyone is eyeballing this as a switch for your entertainment center, be aware the plastic housing doesn’t…

His “Funhouse” album is one of my all-time favorite bits of comedy, but his latest standup album not only recycles bits he’s already released, but has a lot of gross misogynist notes in it that feel super uncomfortable.

Mortgate?

Mortgate?

Oh we gotta talk about Nightmare House 2! A *REALLY* good and free mod for Half-Life 2 Episode 2 (http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/).

For those of us who have Impostor Syndrome in concert with Depression and Anxiety, reaching that 3rd stage of LARPing is often not attainable. But there’s a really important idea here: Just !@#$ing own it. Completely. You have impostor syndrome, and you make peace with the fact that it’s not going to go away. Start…

I never did read the original Stand - the uncut version was a gift given to me on my birthday in 1991... I’d found a copy of “The Shining”, and been pleasant surprised at how much fun it was to be scared shitless when reading a book. My sister said “Well, if you like *that*...”

I know it’s an oldie, but Minerva: Metastasis is an excellent fan-made mod set in the HL2 universe, and has some incredibly clever level design. It landed the creator a job at Valve, it was so good.

"Did it hurt?"

On a side note: I worked at a movie theater when North came out. It sold out constantly opening weekend, because everyone wanted to see exactly HOW bad it was.

I don't know... the prophets send a squad to kill him, led by the Arbiter - who is culturally the personification of the violence behind their zealotry. And how much expository dialogue can he really afford to engage in as the station appears to be plummeting down a gravity well because the guy facing him just went…

Why? Were we bad?

Funfact: If you did the normal mash-up of names for couples using their last names, Matt and Ben would be Daleck.

I rather suspect that with everything else going on this news cycle, this was more a case of "HA HA (nervous laughter) THERE WERE NO WATER BOTTLES THEN! (grimacing smile)" style self-distraction than full on pitchforks-and-torches-fan-rage.

Man, I don't know how we're ever going to get to a place where we can talk about consent if every conversation where an example is used is immediately turned into a rancorous discussion of the validity of the claim - but I have to thank you for trying, Patricia.