This Week - Sep 13, 2013

At last, our chance to be that asshole 16-year-old we couldn’t be the first time around, because we were too busy getting jock locks and swirlies. Even if we really weren’t, we remember it that way, because that’s what it is to be a geek, that’s the geek story — and that’s why the world owes us an endless, consequence-free adolescence.

— Penny Arcade, Geek Culture, and Hegel’s “Beautiful Soul” (Spackle Flan)