Outside the shabby apartment block where the meeting takes place, a woman sifts through a vast pile of stinking rubbish at the side of a dusty, potholed road.
That we're all corrupt, broken, and it's not just the page views we do this for, but also the worst thing of all: filthy, stinking lucre, at the expense of the people whose money actually feeds the creation of new games.
The good ones usually click instantly and the truly bad ones — the stinking slop at the bottom of the bin liner — make me want to make Vincent van Gogh look like the half-arsed wuss he was, and this current batch of R&B inflected dross is the ashy, scrambled eggs made by the flatmate you can't stand that slops out of the tatty binbag on your way to the wheelies.
"O, stinking injustice, tremble at how vigorously I shake my fist at thee!" "The blog I wrote about gender-neutral pronouns took me all night to compose and was worth it".
But he and his family believe that his real punishment was being held by the police for 20 hours, locked up in a small, stinking jail cell at central booking in Manhattan, where other inmates harassed him and threatened to rape him.
"One more landfill around here and the toxin levels in the buffalo milk will go over the safety limit," says Ettore Corvino of the Caserta region Coldiretti Farmers Association, staring at a stinking municipal tip, now closed, near Caserta.
Stinking thinking, they called it at the rehab center.
San Francisco is at its seamiest, stinking of sexual license, sexual menace and rotting garbage.
The streets are choked with honking cars, while goats - and a few ragged-looking people - pick at piles of stinking rubbish overflowing from metal wheelie bins.
Both directors employ this radical tool to dig at the raw, stinking muck of contemporary life, smearing it on the screen in ways that are instructive and bolstering.
