Think of how much people whine about printer ink without A) looking for alternatives and B) questioning why their printer was fucking free (with rebate).

Nor are a man and a woman.

My take has more to do with how accessible the methods of violence are. Most kids playing GTA aren’t (dog willing) going to have access to an arsenal of fully automatic weapons or sporty cars. At that point, they might as well be using wizard magic. I think even a young kid can recognize that it’s fantasy.

But I remember in GTA3 (or maybe Vice City?), you could use a screwdriver as a stabbing weapon. That’s kinda fucked.

I personally remember trying a move from Mortal Kombat on one of my friends when we were rough housing when I was like 7. While he was on his back, I jumped (off his bed I think?) and landed with my full body weight on my knee on his sternum. Probably could have cracked a rib. Certainly knocked the wind out of him. Learned that day that even the non-stabby bits of MK should stay in the pretend realm.

To some degree, I know kids will try to emulate what they see. If what they see is fantasy, nobody gets hurt.

I remember one review commenting on how the controls were mapped to only need one hand.

Who needs that when you’ve got Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2?

I’ll stick with my dog. She’d never snitch on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallic_strip

Yep. 2011 was really the year we lost the plot.

Peaking in 2009

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Back in college, we had “Random Standard Time” where midnight was midnight, but it wasn’t “tomorrow” until 5am.

sitting on it’s morals

Assuming that’s not a typo, the phrase is “sitting on its laurels”.

Also to not fall for pitifully obvious scams.

I mean, I buy stuff off eBay a lot, and it’s often from small mom-and-pop shops. I needed new ribbon for my typewriter recently and ended up getting it from a store that just sells ink ribbons. They have an off-eBay presence too.

You got a subscriber! Looking forward to more.

What game do you play that needs 10 dice?

Funny that you never hear anything from the quiet vegans.

with B-2 steak sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl4IBsqS2gY

(Not a real gun, but thought you’d appreciate)

Yeah, that’s why I brought it up. I always assumed they were high in the 60s too.

Was going to bring up interest rates, but apparently a 30 year mortgage in 1960 was something like 7%. Which…isn’t that bad.