Amongst themselves, sure. But not when confronted with someone outside the culture criticizing games. In that situation they put games up on a pedestal as the highest form of art imaginable.

Hang around this comment section any time there's a new study published about video game violence. You'll run into them. "Video games saved my life and cured my cancer!"

Except it's basically the exact opposite of that: dismissing the fears of those outside the culture offhand without giving them any real or fair consideration.

There are tons of people who act like games are the second coming any time anyone outside the culture begins to criticize them. They circle the wagons and cross their arms and refuse to hear any disparagement, regardless of how reasonable.

Between male and female is a nearly infinite continuum, but sports demand rules, categories, dividing lines that form a frame of reference. Otherwise, contests are meaningless.

Man, that's like half the season. That's practically the entire runtime of the original movie (which was hilarious). If you can't be funny in 90 minutes, I'm not giving you another 150.

That’s quite an analysis based on my opinion of one TV show, Dr. Phil. Don't quit your day job.

Child abuse if overkill, obviously, but participation trophies are incredibly dumb.

Or they’re people with opinions that are different from yours.

No. If someone has wasted a hour and a half of my time, I'm not interested in wasting any more on them.

it’s just not a comedy gem, definitely not for cynical 20-somethings. But I meant it is definitely an “easier” comedy that someone who doesn’t like satire could enjoy.

If so I would imagine the original movie wouldn't still be funny to me, but it is. The show is like if a bunch of actual random teenage drama nerds tried to make the prequel to Wet Hot.

The original movie has been on Netflix for ages. The show, though? I don’t just mean that there were no out-loud laughs. I mean that it wasn’t funny. It was almost aggressively unfunny. It was like watching a bunch of actual random teenagers trying to make a prequel to Wet Hot American Summer.

Holy shit, man. You just unlocked some serious repressed childhood trauma.

I think part of the problem is that the same amount of time was put into both, but the end result of the movie is just the best bits made it in. When you have to fill 4 hours, you get a lot of chaff included with the wheat.

After 3 episodes and not a single laugh, I bailed. I love the original movie, but the magic just isn’t there for the show.

The Catholic Church gains control of the cruciform creatures in a tenuous alliance with the Techno Corps. They use it to make resurrection (which the techno corps have assisted them in perfecting so it no longer leaves you retarded after a few rez's) an actual part of the Catholic religion, and in the wake of the…

Eh, it's no Wild Zero, but it's all right.

This is the same bullshit that killed Dan Simmons's Endymion books. Such a great setup in the Hyperion books, and then such a letdown in the sequels.

Too short for sure, but his sounds like a life well-lived.