Casey, a bunch of people are criticizing the article, but as someone who read this with an indica in hand, I just want to thank the fuck out of you for posting this.

Yeah, I think I know why that disc is all scratched up. It’s been sitting on the floor in the back of your closet for a decade and a half, and the other side says “TRY AOL NOW! 1500 FREE MINUTES!”

Exactly! If I can include post-production magic, I’m not going to give myself a stupid boomerang power. I’ll have a thirty-pack of abs and ejaculate flaming kittens.

Remember that scene in Jaws when the two kids wore shark fins as a joke, then lifted their heads out of the water and realized there were a bunch of rifles aimed at them?

You can make your kid a banana that looks like a dolphin, but they’re still going to be jealous of the kid whose mom sent in boring, cookie-shaped cookies.

Having kids is the default. And even being on the fence about having kids invites a whirlwind of pressure from family, friends, and neighbors. I speak from experience.

Our local middle school considers cough drops to be a medicine. Teachers can’t give them to a kid coughing his brains out. Instead, the kid has to get a pass to the nurse, then request a cough drop.

I’ve heard that argument before, and yeah, nothing really follows you from middle to high school. Except your work ethic.

It’s possible to get over the nausea. I’ve gotten carsick most of my life, but years back I went on a cross-country road trip. After a few days of being on the road for 10-12 hours, I could read, play games, whatever. Unfortunately once I was back home for a week, my body went right back to assuming being in the back…

Still on Windows 7 and likely will be for a while. Updating to Win 10, I’ll have to deal with potential problems with drivers or programs. I’ll have to reconfigure peripherals and such (fuck the idea of redo-ing my dual joystick Elite Dangerous configs).

It reminds me of the early days of Everquest where the focus was just keeping you grinding as long as possible, and *anything* that shortened that grind was considered cheating.

You’re completely right. And it seems like more and more companies would rather use the banhammer than get their game properly working.

I built furniture while on shrooms once. No, wait. I *sat* on furniture while shrooming, then went outside, laid on my back in a field and looked at the horizon upside-down, then gripped the ground tight when I realized I was clinging to the surface of a ball spinning around in space.

I completely agree. It sounds to me like this is just one of those “time theft” rules. Drones are not permitted to smile! Back to your labors.

Exactly! It’s *your* phone. I get that some people have company-provided phones, but everyone I know with one also has a personal phone. My employers have zero rights to tell me what to do with my property.

I know what you mean. My neighbor’s ex-girlfriend’s cat’s previous owner was killed by a pair of underwear.

Another ploy to get us on Windows 10, eh Microsoft? It wasn’t hard to get Minecraft working on an Oculus DK2. I’ll be minecrafting in sweet, succulent Windows 7 soon enough.

Reading what the Citizens Police Academy Program is put a lot of this in context. It sounds like the “good guys with guns” training camp.

Huh, an education-based decision that disproportionately affects the poor? Sounds about right.

Is there anything keeping the red and green shapes attached to the rest of it? The actual Olympics symbols has them all interconnected. The right side of the logo looks ready to fall off.