I feel like they could have spent a day doing market research to realize that nobody wants this. Especially not from Google with their unreliable history.

I think an unintended (or maybe it was intended by the bill payers) side effect of advanced metrics is that it has killed the star in baseball. You can look at it as trying to find a market inefficiency, sure, but it also can be looked at like “we don’t want to spend money, let’s find a cheaper option.” It’s weird…

If baseball is going to grow in ways that go beyond revenue (or survive the inevitable bursting of the bubble in TV contracts) it will need people to care about it—the people that already do, and others on top of that

Me: The prison-industrial complex must be destroyed, there is no just incarceration

Yeah, I need to defend this part of it too. I frequently fall asleep playing games, and it has nothing to do with quality or entertainment value. Simply m y work/life schedule doesn’t permit me to sit down and relax till 11PM most nights, and I need to be up at 5:30-6 AM to get the kids ready for daycare and me for…

Sometimes you’re comfy on the couch, and it happens. You're already a little sleepy, just want to close your eyes for a second while it loads and BAM. It's an hour later

Imagine fucking a PR bit so badly that you have to say this:

“Please don’t censor any games nor appeal to the SocJus crowd, you guys are doing fine as is,” to which Brock replied, “Thanks! We’ll try to stay that way.”

Hey, that’s because our sister site io9 was doing an excellent (and now published) report of their own.

No one’s saying it’s your fault as a man that other men do shitty things. You’re oddly committed to that disingenuous canard for someone who “doesn’t want to be made out like an MRA.”

The thing about this being a men’s issue is that it largely is. That doesn’t mean every man is guilty of it—but it does mean that we, as…

Yes, their comment literally read, “Kinja user fleshsword is a rapist”

No, it didn’t, and stop taking it so personally when the word “men” is used. You’re male and NOT a rapist? Great, then you shouldn’t be bothered one bit by that comment.

let’s not mince words: it’s a men’s issue.

Very good article. Unfortunately, at heart, this isn’t even a video game issue. This is a people issue -you see similar creepiness everywhere from professional athletes to politicians to Hollywood to music to, yes, video game players.

Most republicans are exactly this right now. It isn’t about the country, or making things better for anyone in the long run, it’s about being angry that others are finally achieving some parity with them, and the mistaken belief that in order for them to succeed others (anyone not them) must fail, or be destroyed.…

And yet they don’t see the hilarity in them calling people snowflakes nonstop like it is the worst insult ever, when they throw tantrums over the way people are talking about them or to them.

Idiot republicans have unlimited gall calling anyone a “snowflake”. They are rude, selfish brats and should be put in a very long time out.

One of the more lamentable aspects of the Roger Goodell era is his clip-artification of the NFL. From the boring, homogenized Super Bowl logo to the dull-as-mud Conference Championship trophies, the league abandoned its quirky, rec room aesthetic to looking like a PowerPoint template.

lol calm down this is a politics website 

I got about halfway down ready to go “well which of these two is the good guy again?” usual snark given Pitchford’s history of contemptible behaviour in the industry.

How would you know if the hard drive had child porn on it?