My social surplus, let me show it you...

[yakalskovich]

However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.

That article is something to thrust into everybody's faces when they claim we're wasting our time with pretendy funtime online games: at least we're not drinking gin or watching TV!

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[yakalskovich]

'Xactly. Even clever blokes that write clever and fascinating essays are still blokes.

So he makes that brilliant analogy with gin and TV, then goes on to say that the many billion hours of TV watched around the world today are an enormous potential for grassroots participation, and then fails to realise that this is not an either/or situation.-