I’ve done this song and dance too many times, to be frank. Every time there’s a new narrative game, folks crop up to ask if it is a game at all. The rub with that is there’s never been agreed upon criteria for a game beyond what I mentioned. Games are guided experiences. In the case of video games, the first word…

I was going to include him, but his wasn’t a legacy admission in the traditional sense (generations of one family get in, equipped or not).

If shorts are good enough to save someone’s life or lift heavy boxes, they are good enough to attend a powerpoint presentation meeting and say things like touch base, run it up the flag pole and circle back

Yeah I think this feeling doesn’t resonate with me because I don’t measure my worth through beauty and fame. Only wealth.

I don’t know. I read that article this morning and was surprised at the number of comments about it being “sad.” IMO, just the fact that Smith is 94 years old and has enough mental acuity to be aware of her irrelevance automatically makes it not sad. What is unfortunate is that she only defines herself by what she…

It took a fucking documentary to give you empathy for an abused woman who got her head cut off by her ex-husband. Think about that.

I’m a filthy casual when it comes to fighting games, but for me the issue with a lot of them isn’t too many inputs, it’s unintuitive inputs. A button being punch on one character and kick on another, for example; or button sequences that need to be memorised for special moves.

In a different way, the same thing applies to Bill Cosby. I heard rumors about his alleged inappropriate behavior when I was in my early 20s. But again, it was whispers. And again, what was I supposed to do? Research what I heard? Take my thoughts to the authorities?

I am a nurse. I have cared for a few people who had hiatal.hernias who were also young. All but one was also obese. I am not sure that this all tracks.

Double-bag it next time. It’s best way to stop your garbage from leaking.

There are spicier hot sauces than Texas Pete.

This was a lot of stuff to hate.

“And if someone knows of this place by the name of “randyland,” please do let me know. I’m intrigued.”

Thank you for sharing this. Maryam’s passing is hitting the math community pretty hard. Cancer can go ahead and divide by zero.

My best friend was murdered 10 years ago this year. I decided to look up her family, maybe get back in touch with them, or at least send a card. They are all dead. Her grandma and her mom had cancer, her brother killed himself and I think her dad just got old. It is the weirdest, most surreal feeling. It feels like…

Police: “Freeze!”

I think there’s a way he even could have included this anecdote that would have been not horrible — if it had been about his mortification at being a poor host, and not hers about being A Poor, and him realizing that as an out-of-touch rich guy he has no idea how to code-switch.

Instead he chose to be the assiest of…

I COMPLETELY agree.

Suggesting an alternative place to eat for somebody who isn’t comfortable isn’t weird. Assuming they aren’t comfortable because they aren’t as educated as you and telling that to the country is weird.

There was this shy and quiet girl in my middle school class. Years later, I ran into her walking around my college campus, and I finally spoke to her. She tried to mutter some words that I couldn’t understand. I found out she was partially deaf, and I didn’t even realize it during middle school.