Background: former Xbox pinup J "I once was a teenage hair model" Allard and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal made a bet. If J lost, he had to wear a dread wig for a month. If N'Gai lost, he'd get his head shaved on-stage at E3. J lost. Yet a year later has not worn the wig.

Dismayed at J's shirking of his manly responsibilities, N'Gai has called in the experts: a clinical psychologist, a sports betting expert, a gaming researcher and Director of the Gambling Intervention Program at Southern Illinois are all on-hand to try and explain why it is that J's been dodging the hairy bullet. Fantastic.

And while their straight-as-an-arrow answers are good reading, N'Gai's questions are even better:

It's been said that, at the end of the day, all a man has is his word. Once a man has consciously and deliberately broken his word, is it ever too late for him to find a way to regain the honor that he's squandered?

Double Life: James "J" Allard's Big Bet, Revisited [Level Up]

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