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necess for DUAN

I can’t stop laughing at this

FOOTBAW!! THE BIG GAME

Counterpoint: they’re both media items and are by definition escapism fantasy with a real world setting. Friends is as valid a portrait of New York in the media, but is not an accurate portrayal of New York at all.

+1 fight win prevail

It’s the summer of 1997 and I’m playing a lot of Tekken 2 and listening to whatever’s on the radio because I’m 10 years old and don’t have a taste in music yet, and all the time the radio stations in sw Florida are playing this song by Live. It has been an touchstone for that time period ever since.

Agreed. Fun fact: this song was also on the soundtrack to the movie “Hackers”

This is fine.

The cyborg equality act of 2057

+ 1 goo punch

They play the rox too many times for me to back them, but when our season invariably starts flailing like Jhoulys Chacin I’ll be thinking black and yellow

I have a feeling this kid is really bad at Tecmo Bowl

I feel that there are valid points on each side, but the modern marketplace of writers is full of every kind of fiction imaginable. If anything, the status quo of publishing needs to catch up with the variety of writing that is happening on the internet, but I inagine they are hesitant to go into business with the…

relevant

zuh?

Privilege is more important. I grew up in London, and I've lived in New York for 18 years. I'm white, I'm male, I'm upper-middle class, I even have an accent which makes me sound smarter than I am. If you don't have my advantages in life, it's going to be harder for you than it was for me.

THERE MAYYYY BEEE NAAAARRRCOOTICCCSSSSSSS!!!!!!

Christian Scientists believe in Christ/Christianity, but don't believe in inoculation or preventative medicine. These are the kinds of people who get tried for manslaughter for not allowing their sick children to go to a doctor, but even then, they are observably less crazy than Scientologists.

this reminds me of a Ted talk (...I know, ugh) about social modeling. The speaker was saying that we need to have models to strive to emulate, like parental figures, celebrities, etc., but that in failing to become like these figures, we end up becoming more like ourselves. Great read.