The path to the to the dark side they are.

I seem to faintly recall those things...

But they say it's the way to achieve true happiness... a house a car a kid a dog a tree in the front yard a holiday in the Mediterranean once a year...

You have both? That's the solution right there. Your family thinks you're at work; your boss thinks you're with your family, while you quietly sit in the attic playing video games.

Wise man say: You want happiness, you buy Babylon 5 box set.

Well, considering the amount of time I spent there, I might have qualified as a squatter. (And, if we're being idiomatically pure, the alternate, non-physical connotation, for "ejaculate" is concerned with verbal incontinence.)

But I take your (very literal) criticism (what? No metaphors allowed? I want out of this post-truth epistemological nightmare …).

So, I was forcefully removed from the premises (and —probably— asked never* to return).

Hmm, if any, I was expecting different criticism.

* Due to a combination of the lack of a corporate policy (videlicit, personae non gratae) and the wage-slaves' lack of coördinated policing, I was able to flout the restriction with impunity. The next day, IIRC.

"Computer games" always sounded so better to me than "video games". I don't know why, but it's always just resonated well. I feel like "video" implies the game relies solely on its visual representation. Doesn't do service to interactive fiction, simulations, perhaps even strategy or more "artistic" games.

It also differentiates us better from dirty consoles and mobile phones since people never tend to refer to those as "computers".

PS: Damn kids get off my lawn!