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He was scared so hard he went pale from fright, which I think was the intended joke.

It went to his erection.

Ahh, a labyrinth callback! That's my favorite one!

My feeling is that sex offenders should get life, and a relatively comfortable prison life, in exchange for no possibility of parole.

If you know what you are and choose to act on it, no second chances.

D&D, so probably one of those fancy video tables.

We mostly play online but also play board games together, so it'd serve a double purpose at least.

...but also yes.

That's not true. People have been robbed of their cryptocurrencies or lost access to a hard drive / wallet with the necessary information.

These aren't exactly analogous to other dangers with other valuable things, but quite similar.

That's it!

I'd forgotten it was a match 3.

So imagine you have two of the same color side by side with no gaps.

You have the same color on the bottom of your current piece.

You could slam that piece into the matching ones, hoping that they would bounce up and allow all three to match in a row.

It was the one linux game I had that most friends would ask to play when they came over.

An old game that never really took off, Orbz.

I was one of the best players in the world while it lasted.

Simple little game, you're a ball and you throw yourself at stars. The more you hit in a row without missing, the better your combo and score.

Essentially pong, but you play the ball, and it's on a landscape rather than somewhere you fall off and die.

I made a few levels for it.

Another was Triptych, which my friends and I called jelly tetris. Imagine tetris but the bits are springy and bounce a bit. It was a blast. Both were commercial games available on Linux at the time, early 2000s.

Fight Club, for the right reasons.

I was entranced by the idea of 'hitting bottom' deliberately and pared things from my life that weren't serving me well.

"The things you own end up owning you" was major for me, and I got rid of a ton of possessions.

Another was deciding I had always wanted to build a house; I spent the next decade reading about alternative homebuilding and made a plan.

Unfortunately my job and health failed before that plan went into fruition, but going through that planning process made me reach out and grow in new areas. It really did change my life.

Now I'm older and married but have never given up on the idea of building a cordwood shack and living in it for the rest of my days.

1990, through a local dialup university system that had security issues.

Within a few years after that we had home dialup internet.

In 1998, cable modems came to town. My neighborhood was the beta test area, so I had friends in my living room playing Everquest almost daily.

It's Joseph Fiennes, not Bradley Whitford. Had to look it up.