Well put. Lot of people are conflating “she didn’t have to do that!” with “it didn’t make sense for her character to do that!” Respectively, no she definitely did not have to, but yes it absolutely did make sense.

But what about all those public crucifixions, which we all know was a definitely reasoned and not cruel method of punishment (don’t get me wrong, they deserved some severe comeuppance, but goddamn)

I’d even go a step further to say that Rhaegal getting taken down wasn’t even that inconsistent with the subsequent uselessness of the ballistas... They were cruising in to Dragonstone and got ambushed and hadn’t even known those things existed. The believability of the surprise itself is obviously up for debate, but…

They did a sportscience segment on this on ESPN, in the context of diving into first. Short answer: no, it doesn’t help. In the time he’s in the air he could have taken at least 1-2 more steps to propel him further/faster than he superman’ed. But this looked sweet and he still won so I’ll allow it.

Another Hot Take: anyone who finishes a post with “@ me.” is an insufferable, smarmy dickhead

See, this is why I was trying to find the complaint, since it’d spell all that out. There might also be some kind of dispute resolution provision in the agreement itself (i.e. if he disputed a fine he had x days to initiate arbitration, otherwise he waives the right to etc etc etc). So yeah maybe you’re right. Just…

I think you’re right that it’s not believable in this instance and fair to defer to the investigation that apparently concluded this one was not, in fact, a punchy-game-gesture. But I also think it’s worth pointing out that before the white supremacists started using it, it’s very possible people did do it on…

The Cubs’ indications that their investigation concluded it was likely used with the racist connotations seem to indicate that he was aware, in which case their reaction was spot on.

Also any ambiguity (and ambiguity abounds here) will be resolved in favor of the homeowner, since the HOA drafted it. From my very in-depth understanding of this case from a reading of a blog post, the HOA’s case is a dud.

Not necessarily; I can’t find the actual complaint (which would answer that question one way or the other) but the HOA’s attorney says above that they’re suing to enforce their covenants, in which case they have to make a showing of which covenants were broken and how. They most likely can’t just say “we fined him, he…

Gabe also misstates the “obvious injury” language - the entirety of what he’s excerpting says that the refs may (not must) stop play if “it is obvious that a player has sustained a serious injury”...which fits with Whitmore’s explanation. So even if it was obviously a serious enough injury, it’d still be up to the…

I saw the same take on Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog

The Rams/chargers numbers are almost exact inversions of each other, which leads to the obvious conclusion that Charger fans generally have a better time at home games than Rams fans. 

buying into spoiler culture is to be played by the brands

I believe I was hit by the same troll. Username and comment consisted only of one subtly misspelled very important piece of information. Despite what the author of the above extended old-man-cloud-yell says, I really would have preferred not to know, since at a certain point it became painstakingly obvious what was…

I think you mean attempting to destroy others’ enjoyment...I’m pretty confident that if his “friends” are such huge fans, they won’t really be swayed by one cranky review on a sports blog forwarded to them by one smarmy dickhead.

Yep. And Bruce Willis was dead the whole time

I loved Keith Jones mentioning during the intermission that he wasn’t sure Tarasenko meant to go 5-hole on his first goal...motherfucker, you give Vlad that much time and space, he could put it between your eyes from the red line. Goddamn is he fun to watch, though

Honestly I’d rather just have the regret

I’ll take False Equivalencies for 600, Alex.