There’s a disturbing amount of overlap between Christian sacrificial doctrine and the postmodern “alternative medicine” and “wellness” industries that put that old wine into new bottles while trying to convince people that they’re smarter than obsolete religious superstition.

I’ve found that it’s generally safer to avoid anti-vax families not because you’re worried about getting some horrible disease but because being around stupid people is just bad for one’s mental health.

Only thing staring at a screen ever got me was the occasional migraine. Or, if Civilization V was involved, seeing a sunrise when I had work in two hours.

When I moved to Reno from Boston in November of 2002, I encountered the most depressing stretch of road in America, namely I-80 from Omaha to US-385/where the old Oregon Trail splits off. We rolled out of Omaha at 8 in the morning. It was just getting dark when we got to Wyoming.

As far as whisky goes, if I ever break my sobriety, it’ll be over an imported Speyside single malt. So good it’s almost worth beating someone nearly to death in a drunken rage over.

I’ve been poor for pretty much my entire adult life, and before that the only reason I thought my family had money when I was a kid was because my mom fed the family the cheapest slop possible (discount groceries unfit for homeless people) and generally skimped on everything except maxing out the credit cards at…

As an American, it warms my heart to see another country in the world with politicians so verklempt that even my pathetic failed state of a country-of-citizenship looks like the pinnacle of good governance.

As someone who’s old enough to remember YTMND, I think there’s something to be said for us oldsters trading in old memes and having a good laugh.

Occupy Wall Street never struck me as a serious movement.

The bigger difference between games and films/books in terms of preservation is that movie studios and book publishers don’t generally crack down hard on people who circulate used DVDs/VHS tapes or old books to preserve them. Movie studios do get a little twitchy about format conversions, but that’s a tech issue.

Came here to comment a variation on this theme. Microsoft knows (having experienced a complete blew-up-in-their-face launch in 2007 with Windows Vista—I worked for Dell at the time and my sales dried up when MS decided to just stop allowing OEM companies to load XP even if the customer wanted it) that PC gamers expect…

When someone fixes real sports, we bring the hammer of the gods down on him—see Rose, Pete.

I already knew I was an old fart when I started saying things like “you’re young enough to be my kid” to people who are old enough to rent cars.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s time we start paying more attention to the wellness industry.”

Kimmel is (and has been for his entire adult life, it seems) a walking men’s magazine. No surprise the dude can make a decent pizza.

Jimmy Fallon has been on my permanent shit list ever since he and Drew Barrymore stole the thunder of the greatest moment of every Bostonian’s life (every Bostonian younger than about 90, anyway) in 2004 so he could get a fairytale fucking ending for his stupid dollar-store knockoff of a much better British film.

Bloody Scots deep-fry pizza. I can get a deep-fried chocolate bar at an American state fair these days, but so far as I know, you still have to go to Scotland to get a truly next-level deep-fried pizza.

True, and that’s one reason I enjoy 100% runs and outright longplays where nobody’s trying to speedrun more than I enjoy any% wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am runs.

That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it, you do the gaming on the Twitch TV...

Electric bill guy, I’ll make fun of mercilessly.