As a lifelong Cubs fan, this is my favorite Kotaku article ever!

Just finished listening to it last month. Absolutely loved it and am glad I did!

Yup. I grew up right across the state line in WI as a big Cubs, Bears, Bulls fan. I always would cheer for the Hawks but could never watch them because they were never fucking on. Honestly most of my knowledge of the Hawks growing up was from the NHL games on Sega Genesis. It wasn’t until I moved to Florida in 2008…

Oh god my ex-wife used to insist on playing “scene it” together all the time, despite knowing that I ran a movie theater from 1995-2002, watch way too many movies and tv shows than I care to count, am 11 years older than her, and grew up in a household where I could watch whatever I wanted (unlike her). She insisted…

If it’s any consolation someone told our boss pretty much right away and he made sure he found a reason to can them all within the year. I have no proof he did it because of this but I know he was pissed and they were all fired for petty shit that he normally would have let slide before this.

I was at a work conference in Vegas about 5 years back and a bunch of coworkers went to some place that has some wing challenge for eating these super spicy wings or something. I chose not to go and just stayed at the hotel and had dinner.

Jim Steranko is an absolute treasure.

It’s just one of those things where when people I talk to discuss Pavement, usually it’s CR,CR or S&E they talk about. I get that, I just love seeing anything from BTC. I have a strong personal connection to it from crap going on in my life when I listened to it the most.

I am completely down with that order. I had an early Saturday morning radio show with some friends at our local college radio station when I was 15 and discovered Pavement there in 1993 (along with other favorites like Hum and The Lemonheads). I have been in love ever since. I actually just finished reading “Perfect…

I don’t comment on here often (I always mean to), and just wanted to say “Brighten the Corners” is a criminally underrated album that I never hear anyone talk about when they talk about Pavement. I am going to listen to the whole thing now. Thanks.

My aunt and uncle still carry the scars of it. My cousin was in a fight with his wife and she said she was taking their son and leaving (she was also pregnant at the time). He didn’t take it well and took his life. My uncle was the one who found him. Seeing his daughter that he never got to meet always gets me. It is…

Sbux barista here. Big thanks to my grandpa for dying this week so I didn’t have to be there for this shitshow. From what I have my store was a madhouse so far. Thanks gramps. Miss you.

Before my cousin killed himself, he was the last person I knew who I would have said could hurt himself. Sadly he made a snap decision in a moment of pain and sadness and did it. My family would probably say the same thing about me, but I would be lying if I said it has never crossed my mind when I was at my lowest.

And dammit this is already being discussed. That’s what I get for taking a shower.

Stringer Bell strikes from beyond the grave!

Oh god I forgot about that gunk. I don’t even want to know what it was.

Yeah that’s not necessarily true. In my time there I saw some printine stuff come through the doors also. Plenty of it. I worked for GS for 8 years and will bash them (for the most part) until the cows come home, but I can guarantee you that “we have to treat this system well because one day I might trade it in to…

After running a Gamestop for 5 years, I lost count of the amount of times I pulled out and turned on a system someone was trading in only to have a roach walk or fall dead out of it. I was consistently shocked by the state of terribleness people will bring their possessions in to trade. I would say a good 30% of them…

The Wisconsin Badgers had a player named Duany Duany. From Sudan. I knew that names sounded familiar, though spelled different.

Wasn’t there a basketball player by that name? I seem to remeber that but I could be crazy and google is failing me.