I mean maybe it’s ok if that old story doesn’t follow him around like a scarlet letter. Crazy idea, I know. 

I remember testing a game that was delayed because of a rating controversy, so we just kept doing playthrough after playthrough after playthrough until we were completely lobotomized. One time me and a colleague had an idea: each level came with a 5 star rating at the end, which wasn’t particularly hard to achieve,…

Just so I am understanding the comments correctly:

i love articles like this. i love hearing about people pushing games to their absolute limit. amazing stuff by this dude

This is very cool. God I still remember the time and effort put into unlocking every cheat. The Facility to get the Invincibility cheat was brutal.

“Hey, what should we name our team after?”

How do you or Barry know about what this lumpen proletariat think or want, and whether their public infrastructure is getting ‘gutted’?

In theory I’m not in favor of public money for pro sports stadia either, but come on Barry, have you ever even been to Calgary? Are you really so concerned with social services there and what municipal voters would really want, or is this just an Al McInnis imitation windup against an admittedly easy-to-build…

I’m permanently banned on Deadspin for no reason I’m aware of, so while you’re here just wanted to mention unsolicited that I enjoy your writing!

Is it because she’s dumb and bad at takes? It’s prolly because she’s dumb and bad at takes

It’s weird to say this, but I think Nick was actually one of the better writers here? 10,000 word diatribes aside, more often than not even if I disagreed with the premise he presented in whole or in part, I at least respected the way in which he took it and how he crafted it.

We aren’t that lucky.

take libby with you.

God damn it. When you said 850 I thought you meant Volvo 850.

They can find his dad?

I have about 15 years experience of investigating myself, I can tell you it’s NSFW.

“Mueller was asked whether or not the investigation was impeded in any way, and he said no.” In other words, there was NO OBSTRUCTION.

I honestly can’t tell whether this is just the most Captain Obvious reply of all time, or whether I’m missing a joke.

They have separate AL and NL MVPs, so Yelich/Bellinger won’t affect Trout, who barrng injury is a lock to get AL MVP.