Excuse Me, My Son Purchased Some of Your Bathwater and Never Received It

Excuse me, I don’t usually do this kind of thing, and while I certainly hate to complain, my little son Dylan recently used some of his paper route money on a small vial of your bathwater, and it’s been two months and he hasn’t received it, and the poor little guy just isn’t the same. 

I can’t stress this enough: I get it. It’s been a crazy couple of years. You’re clearly working from home, doing what a woman has to do to support herself, and I not only understand that, I applaud it. I’m so happy and proud of you for choosing to support yourself and follow your own goals. 

Where I draw the line, however, is when my irrationally angry son is misled about the nature of his purchase. You know all my son wanted was an ounce or two of water that just may have grazed some of your more intimate nooks, but you couldn’t do that for him. The laziness is astounding. Hell, just send him some Dasani, you think this kid knows what a woman’s bathwater smells like?

It’s become clear to me that as an independent businesswoman, you don’t take your customers seriously. Shame on you for that. I’m sure you think the nature of this transaction is silly, but how far would any business go if they didn’t commit to quality in their humble, early days?

People used to ridicule Larry Flynt when he stood outside of a Burger King attempting to sell hand drawn pornography for a nickel a pop. They said he’d never make it in this business. They said he’d never compete with the big boys. They said he had to leave this Burger King immediately. And what did he do? He dug in and kept drawing, eventually selling enough art to buy a camera, and eventually selling enough pictures to start a small publication called Hustler. You’ve probably never heard about it though, as it centers on fucking girls and not my 13-year-old son. 

My little Dylan is so distraught, the only word that comes to mind to describe him is “inconsolable.” He has some more colorful words for it, but that’s what I’ll stick with. I’ve tried everything. I bought him that PlayStation 5 he wanted, I let him drop out of school, literally everything I can think of. He just really wants to get his hands on that bathwater. He only stops crying to scream lately, and sometimes vice versa. 

Please make this up to me and him. I know you take baths. There’s no way you’re selling all of the water each time. Just do this for me, or you will have made a very, very powerful enemy. It’s not too late to fix this. 

P.S. If you really want to make it up to him, maybe use some extra spit on the envelope when you lick it. Oh yeah, Dylan will like that a lot.

Doctor Prescribes Memories of Friends to Shōnen Hero as Treatment for Broken Legs

MURA VILLAGE — Local hero Shen, 14 (but also, in a way, an ageless immortal being), is feeling better today after his doctor told him to remember playing in the fields of his childhood home with friends who love him dearly, healing his broken legs.

“I’ve done this procedure many times in the past,” explained Dr. Lee. “You simply set the patient down, and tell them to look into their heart and recall the good old days with their young pals. I always insist they remember in sepia tone to heighten the curative properties of the memory. Usually, just visualizing the voice of their loved ones shouting their name in the distance is enough to heal them, whether it’s a broken heart or a broken limb.”

According to those familiar with the situation, Shen went back to the time he saved his sister Ayane from a wild boar, and when he and his friends Chizu and Eiko shared ice cream with each other. Shen immediately stood up on his previously-injured legs.

“If done right, the healing should be near instantaneous, almost as if the injury never occurred,” Dr. Lee said. “Usually I’ll prescribe the memories mid-fight, to allow the patient to make a stunning come-back and defeat their foe, or win whatever competition they’re currently involved in. I don’t foresee Shen having to come back to the hospital, unless of course, God Himself has budget cuts and we need to spend a few weeks without a lot of action.”

As of press time, Shen went back into town to hunt down his rival, holding his memories close, all while an intense and stirring orchestral score played behind him.

Headline by Owen Crowlie, article by Jon Ruggiero.

Gaming Session Meant to Blow Off Steam Just Makes Everything Worse

SAN DIEGO — Local gamer Trevor Ingram’s plan to just, like, chill out for a little while and play some games at the end of a crappy day has resulted in everything just getting so much worse, sources have confirmed. 

“Oh, well fuck it all to god damned hell,” said Ingram, after losing the second chance tournament he’d entered in Rocket League, having entered the nightly 3-on-3 tournament to try unwind after a particularly taxing day at work. “Why would so many people play a game when all they want to do is fuck around and drive like idiots? Do that in a casual match you absolute motherfuckers. That does it, I can’t take this anymore!”

While it would later be blamed for his subsequent string of arsons, ironically the gaming session was originally meant to calm the dude down. 

“Well he had a rough day at the office, that’s for sure,” said Sheridan Gray, a co-worker of Ingram’s, when asked of the potential cause of his historic and criminal meltdown. “Without getting into too much jargon, let’s just say we lost a big account, the company lost a lot of money, and it’s almost entirely Trevor’s fault. He said with the divorce proceedings coming up and all of that he must have lost focus when constructing the contract. Damn. He said he’d be okay once he went home and just played some games. He said that’s his hobby and what helps him destress. I need to find something like that.” 

Nicole Fuller, Ingram’s ex-wife, said that he generally kept a calm head throughout their marriage, which lasted from 2011 until earlier this summer, and that she was surprised to hear about his violent outburst, which saw him ultimately be arrested.

“That’s just so unlike him, I don’t understand,” she said. “I didn’t leave him for his brother because of anything he did or any temper problems he has, you understand. That’s why this is so puzzling. He can handle Tony raising his sons, but a video game sends him over the edge? It doesn’t make any sense to me, but then again, we turned out to be pretty incompatible. Not like me and his brother.” 

As of press time, having used his savings to bail himself out of jail, Ingram had downloaded League of Legends after hearing it was a chill game to play.

Insufferable No Man’s Sky Fan Liked It Better When It Sucked

OKLAHOMA CITY — A smug fan of space exploration simulator No Man’s Sky reportedly preferred the initial version of the game that sucked real bad, sources have confirmed. 

“Psh, get out of there with that ‘It’s good now’ bullshit,” said Brett Poole, who’s been playing the game on a special designated PlayStation 4 that he keeps offline, so as to keep the game from updating. “Anyone that gets onboard with the game now is a spoiled brat who hasn’t earned a fucking thing. They deserve the hand holding polished drivel you get when you open up that turd now. Everything they’ve added is a slap in the face to the immersive, desolate experience they first delivered. Back when it was good. And don’t even get me started on the bases, freighters, improved visuals and locations, expanded crafting, and additional missions. Bunch of pandering crap.”

Friends of Poole’s allege that his personality is unfortunately entwined with being staunchly opposed to popular opinion. 

“Yeah, he’s like that about everything,” said Will Armstrong, a longtime friend of Poole’s. “Somehow his opinion on things always, always seems to be in direct conflict with what everyone else is enjoying. I get being against the grain, but it’s like his whole thing. His favorite Coen brothers movie is The Ladykillers and he always wants us to go eat at Long John Silver’s. It’s too much. I can’t be around this guy anymore.” 

Makers of No Man’s Sky appreciate his fandom, although they implored him to check out the additions they’ve been working on in the five years since its release. 

“Thanks for playing, Brett!” said Sean Murray, lead director of Hello games, in a personalized message he made for Poole after hearing of his commitment to the release day version of the game. “But we really wish you wouldn’t insist on playing a bootlegged version of the original core game in that frankly embarrassing version we put out in 2016. You don’t have to live like this, dude.” 

As of press time, Poole was begrudgingly checking out a modern version of No Man’s Sky and using the added multiplayer feature to complain to his friends about it.

New Animal Crossing Update Includes Fatalities

TOKYO — Nintendo announced today in a surprise Direct that they are adding even more features to Animal Crossing: New Horizon, including gore-filled Fatalities. 

According to Nintendo, the update adds a new option when interacting with fan-favorite NPC Isabelle in your island’s town hall. There, she will give you the option to learn devastating and deadly attacks from her time away from your island.

“Thanks to my relationship with The Doomslayer, I’ve been able to meet other game characters, like the gang from Mortal Kombat,” Isabelle dutifully explains in the announcement video. “They all seemed like they were having fun pulling off these moves, and each others’ body parts, so I wanted to share what I’ve learned with all my friends back on Youberg!”

Many of the Fatalities available to learn are taken straight from the MK franchise, including Scorpion’s skull-and-spinal-column removal and Kano’s heart-ripper from the original game. Thanks to some tools at your villager’s disposal, a new suite of moves is also available.

“Be sure to have your tools handy when attempting a Fatality on island residents,” Isabelle insists. “For instance, with the axe you have the ability to cleanly remove your victim’s legs before splitting their entire body in half. Even better things can happen when using a golden tool, so be sure to experiment!”

As of press time, Nintendo revealed that, after learning this new moveset, 91% of ACNH players immediately went to Tom Nook and ripped his head off.

Facebook Changes Name to McCree

MENLO PARK, Calif. — In a major rebrand intended to better align the company with its ethos, Facebook will be changing its corporate name to McCree, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“The Facebook brand is no longer representative of who we are as a company. McCree, however, captures the true essence of what we stand for and hope to achieve in the future,” said Zuckerberg. “McCree is bold, McCree takes risks, and McCree is ready for any trouble that may come our way, not that we foresee any issues with this rebrand. Now that I think of it, we never actually googled the name, but I’m sure it’s fine.”

Fans of Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch were quick to note similarities between Facebook’s new name and the former name of a certain gunslinging character now called Cole Cassidy.

“They literally just stole a canceled character’s name and made it the brand,” said Blizzard fan Avi Barker. “This is total bullshit and I’m just going to call Facebook ‘The Cowboy’ from now on.”

At press time, Zuckerberg apologized for causing offense and promised to rename the company after one of Facebook’s own sexual harassers.

Is This Felix Kjellberg’s Gaming YouTube Channel? An Investigation

Felix Kjellberg is one of the hottest influencers on the internet and the star of the biggest controversies in recent memory. He’s also the host of PewDiePie, a YouTube channel with 110 million subscribers that focuses on making humorous reaction videos and video game streams, fans and independent investigators believe.

An open-source investigation has found that, before he was a star, Kjellberg was just another dweeb on YouTube, showing off his no-scope headshot compilations to a massive, worldwide audience. Kjellberg’s public relations team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

4,400 gaming-related videos have appeared on the PewDiePie channel since 2010, when Kjellberg would have been 21. Every video follows the same pattern: A young person shouts obscenities and the occasional slur in front of the camera while playing a video game. You can’t see their hands on the controller, but you can clearly see their face and voice. It sounds and looks exactly like Felix Kjellberg, when compared to images of him taken at the time.

“What the fuck is that?! I think he wants a hug,” the YouTuber said in his first video, Minecraft Multiplayer Fun, in a clip where his player appears to be gawking at a Minecraft zombie stuck inside a door. “Oooh, yeahhhhhh, he likes it!” PewDiePie then runs around the zombie, breaking several blocks while continuing to laugh at the situation. The other 4,399 videos are more of the same.

As PewDieVerse and other fan pages have noted, PewDiePie sounds a lot like a young Kjellberg. We asked several companies and researchers that do “basic fact checking”, a field of study that attempts to match different points of data to a single verifiable fact, on known clips of Kjellberg from this time and on clips from the PewDiePie YouTube channel. Unfortunately, none of them responded.

It’s worth mentioning that basic fact-checking is a somewhat controversial field of study; some academics believe it is not terribly accurate depending on the techniques used. With that in mind, Hard Drive decided to go with widely used speculation techniques that just kinda go with whatever feels right in your gut to arrive at a pretty strong hunch that Kjellberg is indeed PewDiePie.

The first evidence we found that PewDiePie is Kjellberg was a video posted to the PewDiePie YouTube page featuring a face cam feed of Kjellberg posted on March 26, 2011. The video shows a young Kjellberg playing the game Crysis 2. For our interests, what matters here is the video showing the face of the YouTuber PewDiePie.

Now note Felix Kjellberg’s face in an unrelated photo.

None of this is definitive proof that Kjellberg is PewDiePie, but it’s compelling. The identical voice, the identical face, and thousands of hours of recorded footage all come together to paint a picture of a youth spent secretly gaming the days away on YouTube.

UPDATE: After this article was published, we googled “Felix Kjellberg PewDiePie” and realized we had wasted a whole afternoon.

You Can’t Read This Article Yet. Come Back After You’ve Completed Your Work Missions

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Gamer Tells Everyone How Small Her Ex’s Monitor Was

BALTIMORE — Recently single gamer Stephanie Rivers has told several mutual friends of her how small and ineffective her ex-boyfriend’s monitor was, several sources within the social circle have confirmed. 

“He talks a lot of shit online, but he’s actually got a pretty small monitor,” Wood said, about her ex-boyfriend Jeff Turkington.  “I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but it is what it is. And besides the size, Jeff just also just didn’t know how to use the thing. The colors were all off and the brightness was way too high to where he’d get zonked out after just a few minutes of gaming and say he couldn’t go on anymore. Amateur stuff, man.” 

Rivers’ friends swore they wouldn’t tell anyone what they’d heard, but proceeded to discuss the gossip amongst themselves, as well as several of them speaking to the press earlier today. 

“Oh wow, I can’t believe Jeff has a small monitor,” said Chris Green, who has known both Rivers and Turkington for years. “It makes me realize that whenever he was making fun of our monitors or saying that a woman would laugh if they saw our monitors and stuff like that, he was clearly just projecting. Oh, those pics he sent in the group chat must have been fake too, huh? Weird.”

After hearing of the allegations, Turkington categorically denied the allegations, and dismissed the validity of them even if true.

“Oh man, she’s saying what?” said Turkington, who dated Rivers for eight months. “That’s so fucked up. First of all, it’s completely uncool to shame someone for the size or specs of their monitors. That’s just a low blow. And secondly, any avid gamer can tell you that with the right tweaks and settings, a little 19-incher can show you the best night of your life. I just think she’s desperate to get back together so she’s lashing out, that’s what I think.” 

As of press time, Rivers was hooking her PC up to two different monitors she just found at the same time. 

George R. R. Martin’s Mother Won’t Let Him Leave the Dinner Table Until He Finishes ‘The Winds of Winter’

SANTA FE, N.M. — While visiting family, fantasy writer George R. R. Martin was told that he would not be allowed to leave the dinner table until he finished the sixth novel in his series A Song of Ice and Fire.

“If you don’t finish your fantasy series, you don’t get to leave the dinner table and play with your friends. Those are the rules in this household, and George has to follow them just like everybody else!” said Margaret Martin, according to those familiar with the situation. “There are children all over this planet who are starving for the satisfying conclusion to their books and it’s time for George to appreciate what he has! The boy needs some discipline in his life, or he’s just going to end up being a wasteful author. He needs to learn that if he’s not going to finish his series, then he shouldn’t take on such a big story in the first place!”

Close sources revealed that George R. R. Martin was incredibly upset about the situation, frustrated that he couldn’t get up from the table as a result of him not wanting to finish “The Winds of Winter.”

“It’s not fair!” Martin yelled, slamming his hands against the table. “What does my book even have to do with the dinner table? I finished my dinner. I ate chicken breast, glazed with a honey garlic sauce made from scratch. It was like nothing I had ever had before. As a side, I had quinoa, an organic mix, expertly salted and cooked, as well as an oil-doused asparagus, baked to perfection, its aromas filling the entire kitchen. Then came the sweetbreads and lemon cakes, frosted in sugar. I remember thinking I was so full, I could barely stomach another lemon cake, and yet I obliged, allowing myself to indulge in a delicious dessert while visiting my family for the first time in a long while… sorry, what were we talking about?”

As of press time, George R. R. Martin was still sitting at the dinner table.

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