Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
CS Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
If you haven’t heard of it, the Mandela Effect is a conspiracy theory that uses the shared false memories of multiple people as a jumping off point for outlandish ideas about alternate realities and diverging timelines. While initially appearing to be an interesting thought experiment, the most cursory exploration reveals it to be profoundly retarded.
That, or it’s a big joke that everyone in the world but me...
A gamergate is a reproductively viable female worker ant that is able to reproduce with mature males when the colony is lacking a queen.
Wikipedia, defining what I wish was the only usage of “gamergate”
The web is a machine made to take in stupid ideas and put out overblown campaigns based on hearsay and ignorance. For reasons beyond sane comprehension, the “#GamerGate controversy” exploded onto the Twitterverse a few months ago and instead of being a short-lived, ultimately failing troll attempt, has become a horrible debacle and dragged on for...
