I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.