Blue Screen of Death

Orange Screen of Success

"He’s quite happy for Russia to be the smelliest, farting uncle at the barbecue,” Mr. Tesch said. “The signal is, ‘Yes I am a disrupter. I can act in ways that increase the complexity of what you’re trying to manage.’"

In America, women hold up the entire sky.

Unless it can't be held without bleeding, it isn't thin enough.

They just assume the preceding eras were worse

I say as the psycho-reactive slime from the ghostbusters sequel slowly fills my tunnels.

Long live the lambda-calculus of the proletariat

We are all Hamas on this blessed day

No reason, don't worry about it

Cool to know that I could nuke Paris and it would be morally okay, because none of the frogs would see the malice in my eyes as I smashed the button.

It's beyond video games, you see this with music and movies as well. Gamers are just particularly odious. A lot of adult children NEED their choice of treats to be validated by others.

It's not like the seminal work of high fantasy that inspired an entire genre is actually a direct response to the author's personal trauma suffered by war or anything. It's surely not a (wee bit racist) allegory for the dangers of industrialization, industrial war, and a paean for an idyllic simpler pastoral/peasant life that never existed.