Did you just equate Anita Sarkeesian with Donald Trump?

You could at least aspire to a 50/50 split and settle for a 60/40 split in which the 40 no longer have reason to complain that the 60 are making their lives miserable and impeding their careers. Sounds like Riot isn’t even making a sincere effort to get that far.

SING OF JOYFUL GOLDEN SHEEP, HURRAH

Nardelli, formerly of General Electric Nardelli? No wonder. Explains everything.

Please explain how bigotry, sexual harassment, unstable hours, employee persecution and outright theft are necessary and desirable parts of running a business.

“The market” only works as advertised when participants have perfect knowledge of options, when they have the freedom to enter and exit the market at will, when the participants are numerous, and when the goods or services offered are of comparable quality. For job seekers, the job market sometimes meets the last two…

When it comes to the Russian mafia, I don’t think people worry about jail. I think people worry about poison.

Maybe not kompromat, but definitely leverage. Russian oligarchs launder their money through Trump’s properties. If Trump steps out of line, they can ruin him like Thanos.

The U.S. Chess Federation does something like this. In chess lingo, it’s called “setting a rating floor.” For instance, one you hit class A (rating 1800–1999), your rating can never again fall below 1600, the lowest class B rating.

No. Ban them for life.

If you throw a game in a chess tournament, not only will you almost certainly get ejected from the tournament on the spot, you’re likely to be barred from future tournaments as well. The U.S. Chess Federation does not fuck around with sandbaggers.

Democrats need to run on people’s wallets—but they also need to run on people’s feelings. People feel angry: run on justice. People feel disrespected: run on dignity and equality. People feel anxious: run on caring. People feel outraged: run on decency.

I’m neutral-to-cool toward Tammy Duckworth, in large part because I remember how she entered politics as a candida handpicked by Rahm Emanuel to knock a progressive Democrat, Christine Cegelis, out of a House primary.

I have no philosophical problem with loot boxes, but I do have a problem with an overly permissive approach toward toxicity and immaturity that’s allowed other players to rob me of the value I get from a game I paid for. I’m grateful for LFG and look forward to seeing how it improves the game. But I haven’t spent any…

At least it’s not another Western European.

These two issues are unrelated. Toxicity occurs when people don’t face consistent consequences for their toxicity. That’s it. They need no other incentive.

The game is great. It’s the players who make it occasionally unbearable.

It’s “leviOOOOsa,” not “leviosAAAA”

Count me as one player grateful for those escape exits. I hate when games make you waste time running from the innermost part of a dungeon all the way back to the exit. That’s time spent not playing.

In chess, this principle is known as “The threat is stronger than the execution.”