I have my own show! I recommend a variety of pop-culture media in the same vein as a particular video game, and I pretend I’m a teacher! It’s like a hip gritty reboot of Reading Rainbow for the 21st century, to get the damn teens to try some new things instead of just shooting things in their Xstation 360s.
(Reblog this or I will go homeless and die.)
I know that dude!
(Also, I enjoyed this. I learned a thing or two!)
Why would you do this to meeeee
ahhhhhhhhh stop it stop it STOP IT
The 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs opening montage from “Hockey Night in Canada.” Awesome.
Fucking glorious.
“I think I started having more success when I stopped feeling like there was a narrative to my life. I think once you let go of that idea, then first off you stop seeing yourself as the most important thing in your narrative, you see yourself as more of a component. There’s no art to my story. There’s no like, climax or anticlimax… so trying to find where things connected or what’s ‘in my arc’ didn’t make a lot of sense. And once I let go of that — cause that was a big thing for me in high school and college — I think I started having more success or became happier.”
Justin McElroy in the little documentary The Verge made about Paul Miller’s year without the internet (via christinefriar)
Hey, that’s my managing editor! I can confirm that Justin is an awesome dude — if his guest appearance in ‘Finding Paul Miller’ didn’t confirm that — and that I’m on the same page as Paul: Justin’s my hero, too.
Anonymous asked you: I finished high school last year thinking that everything would start to get better once it was over. However, being outside of a comfortable school environment has highlighted how fucked I am at talking to people and making friends, and as a result I’m pretty consistently…
Salient point here: “…if you sit around feeling like a depressed lonely piece of shit, you’re probably going to continue feeling like a depressed lonely piece of shit.”
Years before I got my current gig at Polygon, I spent way too long complaining about my mediocre situation instead of actually attempting to do something about it. (Not that I’m above reproach now — I’m doing the same thing with my slowly growing gut. I’m unhappy about it, but while I’m trying to eat better, I haven’t actually started to exercise yet.)
A truly MINDBLOWING lesson on the origin of American Southern accents.
The gif could not be more perfect in describing what just happened.
yay historical linguistics!
So cool
Whoa!
(Source: ask-changeling-lyra-closed)
Man vs. Camera: how to take great shots with even a point-and-shoot (by TheVerge)
Ansel Adams said a good photograph is knowing where to stand. With even the most basic of compact cameras - like Canon’s best-selling SX260 - you can take great pictures if you just keep a few things in mind. Or so says Michael Shane.
Classy.
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I’m Samit Sarkar, a 26-year-old reporter for Polygon. You may also know me from my four-plus years as an associate editor at Destructoid.
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