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

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.