I had hoped that the rush into a fad with dubious real and spiritual value would eventually spawn a reckoning over how gullible people have become in search of "counter-culture", as well as how much these fads peck at latent gambling addiction in hobbyist spaces. Wrong on all counts!

"Why would this young, ambitious person wanna do a thing like this?!" repeated ad nauseum in the right forums, at the right parties, and all of a sudden you're now the head of CBS, or you're writing for Vanity Fair.

Never mind that you've tap danced for genocide or sucked off RFK while "reporting"!

All i wanted was a top 8 instead of top 6 and all I got was elite pedophile conspirators!

A top seller at my store. Enjoy!

Even the IOC understands that there are no guarantees for a "long-term" partnership at the rate they're burning $, and even if there is, it's a humiliation ritual - use only our IP, pay us all the money, and we get all the goodwill.

You can't play with gangsters, it rarely works out in your favor

"It's Always Sunny makes me feel seen" is a sentiment you could not torture out of me.

Update: works like a charm!

On forums, a guy who posts a ton and is frequently wrong, but it's all within the context of like some dumb fighting game or talking about a cartoon or something. It's endearing, almost, a brotherhood of low-stakes brawling.

Never really asked to venture outside that arena!