Knuckles Gamgee

I hadn’t seen one for a few years until today. Then this pops up on my feed.

I am vaguely and generally suspicious

No I’ve never had problems with left and right.

Compass directions get me every fucking time though. I have to cycle clockwise N E S W to remember that west is “left”. If I’m in a fast-paced action packed video game and they say “head east/West” I’m going the wrong way every time.

The problems you’re talking about in the OP are purely monetary. Advertisers don’t want it so media/content can’t do it and survive.

The upcoming generation are behaving less unruly these days I think for 2 reasons :

• Everything is being recorded and shared all the time. You fart in an elevator and you might go viral. God only knows the fear you’d experience waking up hungover after a party in this world.

-Regular rebellion against the previous generation. We had eminem, limp bizkit, rage against the machine, Bart Simpson, an entire barrage of “fuck authority” as a culture. Only real way to rebel against that is “fuck yeah, authority”.

Cant do what I want to do because I need to do the other stuff first. Cant do what I need to do because brain says no.

Depends. Could my family come too and we play multiplayer?

If you asked me 20 years ago I’d have signed up so fast and would actually have gotten a little resentful when finding out its just hypothetical. Now, I’m needed. There’s nothing you could offer me that would be worth more than being here for the kids.

Except :

Got corn?

Got beans?

Exam.

Its properly tense, and relatively believable, but theres one scene in it where they’ve got someone tied to a chair and are going to papercut their eyeballs. A truly heartstopping moment of terror, but people will think I’m fucked in the head.

Also the ending is a massive letdown.

I’m scared of appearing to be gay, because i went to school in the 90s. Being gay was the worst thing you could possibly be. If there was any evidence that could potentially point towards you being gay (wearing anything remotely pink. Accidentally listening to a girl band. Getting an ear pierced was trendy but one of the ears meant you’re gay. The pitfalls are endless.)

I want to clarify that I enjoy seeing gay people. It feels like a little victory for mankind. This is a very learned fear. If you’ve never had your ass kicked my multiple people, all of whom could beat you 1v1 anyway, its hard to explain, it gets deeply instilled in you. I know I shouldn’t touch fire. I know I shouldn’t fall from a height. I know I shouldn’t be seen to be possibly gay.

start a new game

first we’ll need a crafting table

hit the tree to gather wood

alt+f4

If I had a group of friends willing to play and endless time I would enjoy these games. Unfortunately I have neither.

My first attempt at online gaming was 90s. Tried playing counter strike using a 56k dialup. My dumb child ass was waiting for it to load. Every 2 minutes it would refresh and the screen would fill up with text of who killed me.

My boy experienced lag for the first time about a year ago while playing fortnite. Another player was rubber banding about the place.

He looks at me and says “bro why is our internet so bad?”

I was legitimately amazed that he’d never seen that happen before, and equally surprised that I’d just sort of forgotten about it myself.

I believe they’re out there. I dont believe theyre cool Star Trek aliens flying around in spaceships and shit.

Its fun to think about though, and could be real.

Like Scholarship programs and Mentorship programs and stuff like that?

I feel like we’re saying the same thing. Would you say these are social issues that could be addressed by being excellent to eachother?

Yeah but I’ve got absolutely no control over what goes on in subsaharan Africa or the middle East or wherever.

In the UK women are legally equal. There’s still a lot of social issues to work out, which the bill and Ted thing pretty well covers.

I did until the gender wars intensified online. Now suddenly the word feminist conjures up images of wild misandrists.

I still believe in the core concepts, but now since all the big systemic fights have already been won its just Bill and Ted rules.

That’s the angle I take. Its fine now, sure. What about when Nazis end up in charge again?

I think once you already know how to play with any level of competence it would be great