I was standing up scrolling through my phone. I was the only one of this table that had three chairs; although it was busy, there were other tables around me. One that was occupied was occupied by a lot of people. I didn't notice that another person joined them. He apparently wanted a chair. He saw the one that was next to me. And he just took it, and used it to sit down with his friends.
No, he didn't ask me. And he should've. Sure, I wasn't using it. But it was obvious that it was a chair that was at a table I was at, so a quick, "Hey, you using this?" would have sufficed. That was too much to ask of this guy, who sat his incel ass down and, I think, began scrolling through his phone.
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It was a bear to drive down the Megamall Black Friday. The on-ramp to the first highway I hit was backed up, the drive into The Lowry Tunnel was backed up, and my God, the traffic to park at MOA was backed up for half a mile.
I finally parked. I'm walking in, and I hear these clomping footsteps behind me. There's this tall White dude who has this IDGAF attitude coming up behind me. I fling the first door open for him; he keeps it open while not saying thanks. At this point he's about to clip my heel with his toe, so I open the second door for him. He doesn't say thanks; he just keeps striding, almost leaving what looks to be his kids in his dust. I sarcastically give him the thumb's up; it's only comeback I can think of to let him know what I feel about his fast, intrusive walking.
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There has been a school of thought that video games cause violence. That idea has been debunked by researched a long time ago, even though I think a lot of people still cling to the notion. But there has been very small evidence that video games cause aggression. There are some studies that note a correlation, especially in the short term.
I'm going to be so bold as to believe that video games do cause aggression, and not just in the short term. I think that the advent of video games coincide with societal coarseness. I believe that more people have become dicks since video games became popular. I will go out on a limb that these two arrested development motherfuckers play them, and as a result have no manners and go about life thinking everything's about them, they don't have to wait their turn, and they do whatever they want, fuck everybody else. A lot of people are like that now, in this country and around the world. And that's also partially why Trump's in office -- well, that and Russian interference (which Trump asked for, which is illegal) and Musk and social media (also illegal). And while aggression isn't the same as violence, the former can easily bleed into and beget the latter. That would be a correlation, wouldn't it?
People scoff at calls to ban or limit video games from the youth until their brains are more fully developed. Those calls have been proposed to curb violence. I'm going to say it: Maybe video games should be limited as a way to curb aggression, and then that curb on aggression can lead to a curb in violence. All things are connected to each other, and in a world that is going mad and is hellbent on screwing the little guy, maybe we need to think about doing that. Then, maybe these supposedly "frustrated" boys will actually grow the fuck up.
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