Just looked it up. I have a deep need to check this out. It didn't even occur to me that a person could take the idea the other way, i.e. extracting damage for all slights. I just assumed that most people, under this completely ridiculous system, would be so far in the whole partway through childhood that it'd be…

I find it interesting that this whole thing involves the term "no-platforming", as I don't think that many of the students would actually see it that way. To younger people, internet access automatically grants a valid platform; after all, the thinking might go, people will follow your blog or Twitter account if you…

Are you good at budgeting, minor household repairs, and being comfortable in solitude and silence? If you think that any of those three are lacking, take the time to practice one of them. They're not exciting, but they'll help you survive.

If only you were in Canada! You could have moved forward assured that everybody in the store secretly hated them solely for being in the goddamned way. The line is a social contract and you do not stand in the way of people buying coffee, damn it!

He's had to cancel a lot of shows due to illness. That said, it may be that he's basically OK, but no longer able to handle touring (which is a lot worse on one's body than it looks). I don't know. He's very private about his health and I don't like speculating about someone's health when it's none of my business,…

1) My answer isn't healthy at all - I am, in fact, trying to replace it - but fuck it, maybe somebody can relate to it.

9" long, 0.5" in diameter. Basically an electric knitting needle.

My biggest relationship influences are sort of split between several periods of life.

There's something fishy about it all. That whole "my new girlfriend is trying to trick me into her fetish" fear sounds exactly like a fetish porn plot. If that's his first thought about this, it makes me wonder if he's more familiar with that fetish than he's letting on.

Cold sody could hurt your teef?

See, I loved Super Mario 2 as well. I learned about the reskinnings later on, but that didn't bother me. It was just par for the course in those days. I liked that sequels wouldn't necessarily be the same as their predecessors. The fact that they started making the game as something else doesn't devalue it in my…

They really made the magazine worth buying every month (though we probably would have got it anyway). I don't think we knew how lucky we were to be getting actual high-quality serialized comics in a monthly format in the 90s. What an odd time that was in retrospect.

I remember reading it as it came out (yes, we bought every issue of Nintendo Power, what of it). At the time, it was the obvious standout of the magazine. I had no idea at the time that the person making it was a legend.

Buzzfeed listicles? My favourite is the one where every bit of text in between the gifs is just "This.".

I mentioned this on another article, but I think that Zelda II comes closer than most of the other games to actually seeming mythical. The temple dungeons have a very ancient Greek feel (fencing skeletons, animal-headed knights, and the temple sealing up and turning to stone when its boss is defeated), the way that…

Zelda II may as well be the reason that Nintendo Hard became a meme. God, the endless cheap shots.

"The power of Christ compels you to STOP BEING SO FUCKING ANNOYING"

I can't remember the name, but there's one early on in Link to the Past that's like a giant segmented worm rampaging around a pit with open sides. You'd hop in the pit and get pushed around as well as attacked, so that early attempts would tend to end with being non-lethally pushed into a lower level from which you'd…

Something about Zelda II's dungeons was incredibly exciting to me as a kid. Just walking into one of them gave me the unavoidable impression that the fight was on. The rudimentary fencing with the skeletons gave the whole thing a very adventuresome feeling, like Jason and the Argonauts or something like that.

Bluegrass is definitely the way to go. You wouldn't actually have to change the rhythm much, the fiddle could take the verse riff, and the banjo would provide a nice feeling of motion. It'd be significantly faster, of course.