in a very unsubtle and terrifying way, some random asshole on metafilter has provided my latest and greatest simile for explaining how everything sucks

this is how i feel about sex

thousands upon thousands of words by dozens of continentals reduced to one line, thanks to a context none of them were ever likely to imagine or consider worth their time

camus knows better though

there's nothing worth doing in a game either

Cheer up Tom, only 2 paras earlier he says "In its favor, continual user updates have kept Outside current; there are always new things to see and do Outside", and he's right!

That's a beautiful bit of satire btw. Especially the stuff about parental attitudes.

And his mention of guilds has got me thinking too. In Outside, if I think about logging on but realise that none of my guild-mates are online, I just don't bother playing until they are. But in WoW I'd just play anyway, and carry on exploring/levelling/etc on my own. Maybe I should start doing that in Outside too!

Camus can do, but Satre is... oh never mind.

philosophical turths in popular culture #2: you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life.

turths

or conesquecnes

actually, us sitcom theme songs are a gold mine of homespun philosophical wisdom. the Diff'rent Strokes theme alone has at least three lessons to live by, albeit variations on the same theme.