1.) We don’t know that the young man is dead. He may be, but he may also have kept walking—and I’m holding out hope for the latter.

2.) ...and here you are utterly mistaking an attempt to share a personal struggle as a bridge to discussing mental health before it gets to the point of potentially jumping off a bridge as…

My dude, order of statements is important, but so too is subtext and implication.

I teach composition for a living. I’ve said it too many times, but I am literally a professor of English, and have been for nearly two decades.  You’re playing a very obvious rhetorical game, and it’s not slick.

Sounds like it hit you a year later than it did me.

I’m not even sure what the initial trigger was, to be honest. I had my first major (that I recognize, anyway) panic attack the summer after my 34th birthday. My wife and I were driving on the 294 loop in Chicago in heavy traffic, which wasn’t that out of the ordinary…

Here’s hoping Amofah is found alive and well—and gets the help he needs. It’s not looking good, and dragging that kind of body of water for one person is very much the epitome of needle-in-a-haystack work, but until his whereabouts are confirmed one way or another, all anyone can do is hope he set his stuff down and…

Same thing happened with Super Mario Galaxy 2. Initially it was going to be kind of like a director’s cut that just included new levels on top of the original game, and they realized they had enough good stuff to just make a whole new standalone game so they did that instead.

Did this half-assed work for Owen’s ‘shop contest years ago.

Reading your comments, I honestly don’t care what you think.

A couple of things to consider (this ended up being a longer post than I thought it would; I know, a long-winded Arnheim post—shocking):

1.) Most people don’t understand that argument—at least in the academic sense—is an intellectual exercise as often as it’s intended to actually shift a person’s perspective on a given…

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but please, don’t let anyone else speak for you—even me.

We lose our voice when we refuse to exercise it--and I guarangoddamntee you that yours has merit.

“Censorship is okay when its something I don’t like” 

Once was enough. That it keeps happening--and all we can do are offer “thoughts and prayers” to a god that is not listening, never existed, or is dead (or all three)--tells you everything you need to know about how much this country values life when weighed against its Rambo fetish.

This isn’t a “Gamer” thing (though those still clinging to the Gamergate banner are likely worthy of your scorn)—it’s a feckless fucking asshat thing.

People who have power fantasies that play themselves out in murdering other people with a gun, when those people have no means of fighting back are exactly the kind of…

SPACEBOUND

Welcome back, Fahey. I’m absolutely certain my usual bloviations wouldn’t do what I want to say justice, so I’ll just say this:

You’ve been missed, sincerely, the entire time you’ve been away, and this community did not feel whole without you. You’re a goddamned boss for clawing your way back from what you suffered,…

I’d say the problem with the idea that “literal children” are part of the consumer base is that those children have to have access to a credit card in order to purchase games from the storefront (or a gift card, which would be a different kettle of fish; I’ll do what I can to differentiate those ideas below):

In…

I mean, xenophobic bullshit is one way to divert the conversation, certainly.

$3600+ on my Steam account since I signed up 13 years ago. $276 a year, less than $1 a day. Not too bad!

The look on his face as he’s walking away tells me he just won that $20 dare from his friends.

Them: “The all-digital future will be great! No one needs physical media anymore! Get with the program, olds!”

Me: “You won’t own a damn thing you purchase (not that we did with physical media either; dem EULAs), and eventually, companies will start selling your childhood back to you via subscription services.”

Them:…