Hi, kids. Welcome to 8th grade Civics. Today’s lesson is on the US House of Representatives, sometimes referred to as “the People’s house”, because of the way candidates were often pulled from to local citizenry, rather from the political establishment.

I can appreciate that you don’t like it. I’m not a huge fan, myself, and am also in the camp of “wait till the price comes down”. I only rarely buy games at launch, and even more rarely bother with “special editions” or DLC. (Exception being for a “complete” or “GOTY” edition re-release, if it comes in under $50.) I…

Here’s a little logical problem for you to puzzle out, fuckboi. You’ve had nothing but bad experiences interacting with women. This the likely source of the problem: a) all women, a diverse group comprising 51% of the human species; or b) you.
Take your time.

That’s a huge of the problem right there. Not everyone involved will have those truckloads. For one thing, when Riot tanks, it will do so after having hemorrhaged money for months, if not years. Then, it won’t be those 23 at the top losing out. Most of them will parachute out with buy-outs and severances worth more…

Yes, they do need to. They need for AAA games to make more the $60 a unit over the games’ lifetimes. They need blockbuster games to cover the costs of smaller or under-performing games (in the same way the film industry needs their blockbusters, or the book industry needs bestsellers).

The AAA developers and distributors already know about you, Jeff, in the broader sense that “you” are the part of the customer base that won’t buy the game at launch, and will wait for the base game to be discounted, or the full game (base plus all DLC) to be re-released some time later. You are already part of the…

Fuckin’ marginal tax rates, how do they work?

For all your doomsaying, I have to say, you lack of imagination is astounding.

I hate to say it, and I have no way to know for sure, but I suspect your machine won’t run WoW Classic either. It’s not like they’re just pulling an old DVD-ROM out of a desk drawer and reinstalling it.

You got a source on that, chief, or is this an ethics in gaming journalism kind of thing?

I restarted after the update. My starting planet was radioactive, with additional radiation storms just for funsies, very little cover, my hazard protection was at about 50% to begin with, and I didn’t realize that they’d changed the conditions of the beginning of the game so that you had to fix your scanner before…

I think the difference (besides umps not often calling batters back) is that, unlike most of the hitters in that link, Barnes at least pulled in his elbows to his ribs.

IOW, dodgy as fuck

Hello, 999? Yes, I’d like to report a murder...

Oh dear. Get well, Mike.

He has a kindliness and patience with the kids that’s impossible to fake. Just watch the other hosts to see what I mean. He clearly switches into dad mode. He won a well-deserved Emmy for that show.

17000 isn’t a small sample size. A poll of 17000 has a margin of error of less than 1%.

Yeah, that’s the rue meaning of Heathers, right there. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Goddamn will someone tell me why I keep smoking these?

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug