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Justin “Hoops” McElroy

10 months

come engage with me

Justin McElroy (@justinmcelroy) on Threads

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. he/him. 22K Followers.

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Justin “Hoops” McElroy

@JustinMcElroy

4 years

abracafuckyou

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@jk_rowling

4 years

‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate

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7 years

I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.

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4 years

fucking wear a fucking mask you fucking fuckos

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Because it apparently still needs said: Denying trans people their basic human rights is immoral. It’s bad. If you do it, you are a bad person who no one will think to mourn when you die. Trans people are people, for fuck’s sake. Vote for people that don’t fuck that up. Fuck.

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6 years

You’ve done it, you’ve read all of Twitter! No, don’t keep scrolling, this is the end. Congratulations! Now that you’ve completed Twitter, we’d recommend “books,” “cooking food,” “calling your mom” or any number of other more enriching experiences. Enjoy!

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4 years

You know, the quarantine was a lot easier when we were all in it together instead of constantly driving past packed restaurants and feeling like the Ghost of Christmas Present is showing me what a chill party everybody is having without me.

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5 years

hey fellow introverts, welcome to the bathroom. Just hiding out huh? Yeah, me too. You want a book, or some tea? Nah? OK, great, well let’s just sit here in silence then. ....................... OK, you rested up? Ready to get back at there? Let’s go!

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

I didn’t wanna say till 2018 was out of the room but fuuuuuuck that guy

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

why does every fantasy novel have to start like “He was from Treador, an island of the Kellestaron archipelago, some 5,000 leagues west of the Dribicular mountains but north of —“ YO I’M NOT FROM HERE, JUST TELL ME WHO HAS A SWORD AND WHAT THE SWORD IS NAMED

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

I’m not considering reaching across any aisles until the other side believes every one of my friends and family have a right to exist and love who they please.

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6 years

Hello! How are you? I am very well, because Cooper McElroy was born on this day at, you guessed it, 4:20 p.m. She is well, @sydneemcelroy is well. All is well.

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6 years

Anthony Bourdain had money, he had fame, he was respected. He had maybe the coolest job I can conceive of. This is all by way of saying: Depression doesn’t give a single solitary fuck. Get help if you need help. We need you here. Suicide prevention hotline: 1-800-273-8255

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6 years

2017: The year so bad that a child molester losing an election IN A SQUEAKER is enough to give you a spring in your step.

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4 years

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

I know everybody is sacrificing, and I know it’s right. I just wanted to say that I finally let myself feel sad tonight about the fact that I didn’t see my brothers on Christmas for the first time in 40 years and it fucking sucks.

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

Hey, I turned 40 today. Thanks to everybody who helped make it feel special. I’m glad Donald Trump won’t be the president anymore.

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4 years

True Story: So last night we met Paul Rudd and I got drunk enough that I walked up to him and asked if he could generate a “nude Tayne”. He waited a beat, and said “I’m sorry, I can’t do that, would you settle for a printout of Oyster smiling?” So anyway I love Paul Rudd.

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

And unto us this day a savior is born

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

The emotion “joy” is hereby renamed “he got the news while he was GOLFING”

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

Without kids I’d have to PAY for abstract art

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3 years

Syd said this picture (which our daughter took) was a “thirst trap” and then kept raising her eyebrows and eventually just shouted “because Mountain Dew”

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

It was through that experience I realized something that should have been immediately obvious. She wasn’t my girlfriend: She was my hero. My advice to anyone: If you can, marry your hero. I love you @sydneemcelroy . Happy birthday.

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Canadian Justin McElroy is up to some real Justin McElroy-ass shit here

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@j_mcelroy

4 years

nobody: me: in the history of disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs, and i'm going to tell you about each of them

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4 years

My least favorite current movie trope is when the iconoclastic free spirit defiantly throws away their psych meds as a symbol that they are a free thinker who won’t be tamed by society. You never inspirationally see someone chuck their insulin into the ocean.

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4 years

But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you.

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

And as Bong Joon Ho clicked off the light, he thought, for what must have been the 20th time that night: “I can’t believe my movie is as good as Green Book.”

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

This is why it’s not as simple as “why can’t we just disagree and still be civil”? This man would rather dismantle the government than accept a loss. And at least 70,000,000 people in America are desperate or craven enough to support him.

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

The fact that a Louie Zong-made MBMBaM cartoon doesn’t exist on TV is a literal crime

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

well I built a TARDIS

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

If you are offered a vaccine, get the vaccine. It’s safe and effective and hesitancy about it make the effort to roll it out to everyone even harder. Nothing gets better without everybody doing their part. Please, please. Get the vaccine.

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3 years

Syd and I were folding laundry with Charlie tonight and talking about COVID deniers and as she finished folding a washcloth Charlie announced “They’re a bunch of fucking simps.” ... ...so yeah she’s been banned from watching youtube

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

in brighter news, a car at Charlie’s school had a bumper sticker that read “my anxiety is chronic, but this ass is iconic” so we’ve got that going for us

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5 years

I just want everyone who has ever lived to like me and think I’m smart and funny and harbor me no ill will whatsoever. Is that asking so much?

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

the McElroy brothers will be in trolls 3

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

To the person who canceled their Sawbones donation because our reward pin says that homeopathy is pretend (and going so far as to call us “ignorant”) I ask sincerely: How did you make it this far?

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3 years

You know that feeling when you’re a kid on a long road trip, and it’s dark, maybe it’s raining, but you’re not freaked out because an adult is driving? That’s a nice feeling.

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@JustinMcElroy

1 year

Hey, we didn’t win the race. We’re doing OK. My wife is my hero.

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

It became clear my mom wasn’t going to survive skin cancer around the beginning of 2005. My girlfriend at the time had been dating for around six months or so and I kind of assumed we would just sort of … take a break. No one would go through that sort of thing willingly.

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@JustinMcElroy

2 years

BRING ME OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON TWO or have your desk empty by 5 o’clock

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

I don’t wanna rain on the parade, but I hope in the midst of all the celebrating that Trump has been fired, we’re able to stop, breathe, and take a moment to celebrate how many of his administration’s shitheads are about to lose their jobs too.

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Justin “Hoops” McElroy

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4 years

Just because so many of you have enjoyed her pictures over the years, I wanted to let you know that C.J. passed away today. @sydneemcelroy had her for 15 years, and she was as good as cats get.

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5 years

Syd said “I really want to see Us” and so I held my phone and said “there we are!” and folks she was LOVING IT

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Does it reflect poorly on me that the most monstrous person I know personally is my two-year-old daughter?

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

Please please please white people: Let this be the last time Black people have to save the country because we don’t do enough to fight racism.

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5 years

Happy #BiVisibilityDay to @sydneemcelroy . She is a bisexual woman, my best friend, a physician, the mother of my children, and the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I don’t know where she finds the time.

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

As promised on @EmptyBowlShow here are pics of the cereal bowls @travismcelroy bought me for my birthday

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@JustinMcElroy

6 years

Hey, pal: You made it out of 2017 and that ain’t nothin’.

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4 years

Try to cling to this joy you feel now next year when the entire Oscar ceremony is Tom Hanks walking solemnly on stage and announcing “Sonic wins them all”

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

In the distant future of 2020, six year olds will be able to express their displeasure with you from any room in the house!

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Update from Cooper, who, being two years old, has predicted no elections correctly. Today she is predicting that between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, “bohf of dem” will win. This is a BIG swing from Election Night, when she predicted a win for Donald Duck.

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Finally got the results I’ve been waiting for

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Saw a dude today who didn’t have a mask, but did have a pistol. It’s the perfect way to show the world that you’re serious about protecting yourself and those around you, just not against actual danger.

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2 years

The worst part of losing an episode of MBMBaM to technical glitches is that it means I just spent an hour talking to my brothers FOR FREE

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5 years

god success has changed @griffinmcelroy

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2 years

Y'all. Y'all. It's happening. She's gonna fix everything.

McElroy for WV

@McElroyForWV

2 years

My name is Dr. Sydnee Smirl McElroy and I am excited to announce today my candidacy for the WV House of Delegates 26th District.

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5 years

I’m tired, I’m wasted, I love you dahling

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Charlie plays Animal Crossing, but doesn’t work. No mining, no farming, she just waits for her Mimi and I to fill her mailbox with free stuff. I guess I’m saying my daughter is an influencer?

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4 years

Hey, I’m not trying to censor anybody, but before you casually joke about “the apocalypse” please consider that’s a pretty tough anxiety trigger for a lot of folks.

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5 years

havin fun

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

Fellow white people: Do you GENUINELY not understand why response was different today than with BLM protests? (Psst, it’s because they were white, and it’s illegal to kill white people in America.)

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5 years

Happy Sibling Day to my best buds on Earth

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

you may disagree with this, and if so, you’re the exact person who needs to hear it: you should really really really vote for joe Biden or things are about to get so much worse

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

So the first Huntington Pride Festival was a triumph and if you missed it, I hope we’ll see you next year

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

This is code for “straight white guys can’t say whatever the fuck they want with absolutely zero fear of repercussions anymore and how can I make boner jokes in that sort of environment!?”

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

5 years

Todd Phillips stated “go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture” when asked if he would develop more comedies. He adds that comedies don’t work anymore “because all the funny guys are like, ‘Fuck this shit, I don’t want to offend you.’” (Source: )

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3 years

Finally got my Adventure Zone board game and I’m pretty sure this is the greatest card in gaming history

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@JustinMcElroy

6 years

for the millionth time the first amendment protects you from the government not the justin

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

It’s weird to think that right around 2035, DJs will be able to ignite any dance floor by playing Baby Shark

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4 years

With any furniture assembly project, it’s important to always have an assistant to help things go smoothly

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

I don’t want to WATCH Paul Blart mall cop 2 I DONT WANNA

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

if you had asked me yesterday after I rode it if I liked pirates of the Caribbean I would have said yes but

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3 years

It’s been 15 years since the best person I ever met agreed to be my best friend forever and ever. Happy anniversary, @sydneemcelroy

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6 years

when jimmy fallon said “go get em justin!” I was debating getting some more pizza rolls so i was like yeah ok universe I get it

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

I’m sharing these thoughts, darker than my usual, in the hopes that you will know that you’re not alone and also to remind yourself to take time to feel shitty if you’ve been fighting it. If you want. I dunno.

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3 years

You trust science when you ride in a plane, car or bus, when you sleep under a roof, when you use a blender, when you eat food from a store, when you drink water, when you brush your teeth. ... So get your vaccine.

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4 years

this recording of MBMBaM is getting weird

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

Given several opportunities to condemn white suprematists, Trump declined. Period. If you’re still voting for him, that’s your guy.

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

more like justin snackelroy

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@JustinMcElroy

3 years

the main problem with my marriage is how infrequently my wife wants to talk about how Star Wars cantina music is called “jizz”

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

Extremely powerful art alert

Louie Zong

@everydaylouie

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ORIGAMI STEVE and CURSING JERRY

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4 years

Happy Valentine’s Day which is bullshit up unto the point it prompts your parents to watch your kids for the night then it is SACRED and HOLY

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3 years

Still confused by TikTok? Allow me to explain: It is a malicious AI designed to get clips from The Backyardigans stuck in your head

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4 years

If you want it, I made this, #ACNH

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

I didn’t see Cats when I COULD have seen Cats, and now it’s GONE and it’s ILLEGAL to see Cats until like March or something and now I need Cats like OXYGEN I just really need to see Cats

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@JustinMcElroy

4 years

WELL, UNDECIDED VOTER, HAS THIS JUST ABOUT CLEARED IT UP?

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

STAN YOURSELF

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@JustinMcElroy

5 years

hello, the woman next to me at Disney on Ice just filmed ONLY the Cars segment (in its entirety [in vertical]) and then left. So if there are any police reading this I guess you’re welcome for me catching the zodiac killer (sorry I let her escape)

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Justin “Hoops” McElroy

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4 years

Probably the wildest bit of COVID theater is restaurants’ “wear your mask until your food comes” thing. What ... what do you think changes when your food comes? Onion rings are great, but they ain’t filtering out pathogens.

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3 years

Yo, check this cool vaccinated hero

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1 year

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace

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4 years

if my work has inspired just one kpop stan to stay in the fight I will consider myself a success

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4 years

I’ve recently found hand washing strangely pleasant and soothing and once the pandemic ends I’ll be sad to give it up.

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5 years

One pretty good way to pass the time is Thanksgiving is to wait until teenagers are sending a text message and then ask “OK, so is THAT Fortnite?” and also giving thanks for Fortnite during the prayer and also describing delicious side dishes as “Totally Fortnite”

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3 years

My mental health is the worst it has ever been in my whole life, I haven’t hugged a lot of people I love in nearly a year and frankly friends, I’m DONE. Also I feel like everybody is going through it so I can’t rely much on others and there’s nothing I can do to make it better.

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To my utter shock, she didn’t run, she held tighter. She was the wind that kept me moving forward when I had nothing left in the tank, she was the patient janitor that reassembled the pieces when I fell completely apart. She was the only reason I survived.

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4 years

my dad was in a gin commercial and it’s the best day of my life

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@JustinMcElroy

7 years

Some of us are just trying to keep humanity on the rails and some of us are Cracker Barrel.

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6 years

And finally, here it is, my last selfie on my last day of being a game journalist. Thanks for making me feel like this every day for the last decade. Video games are great, you’re great and I’m just lucky.

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