Welcome!

I’m interested in the ‘live like it’s early 2020’ bit; what do you mean there?

Forgot the ‘exercise’ part.

Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important…and telling.

I don’t intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or…just get looked away from, in the end. It’s a pattern I’ve seen again and again with this man.

I refuse.

Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader’s inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.

But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.

Thanks!

May not quite be alone but Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate has some very strong themes of isolation.

The “oh so nerdy” references weren’t quite so ubiquitous earlier in, were they? The question popped into my head the other day but I don’t feel like going back to check.

Again? I thought this happened already? What’s different about this one?

Even just the name Penny Arcade had me in flashbacks!