Hitbox has been used in other competitive fighting game tourneys for years without issues. You just make sure the programmable buttons are wiped or disabled prior to play as I recall.

Unions aren’t just about preventing abuse. If they were, law and regulation could take their place. But just as important, or perhaps even more so, is that unions exist to give workers a more even negotiating position vis-a-vis their employers.

This is my favorite post of the week.

I am so hard right now.

You gotta draw a line in the sand, says Dr. Nerdlove, and I agree. For all the same reasons. But man... it sure does hurt when they choose the other way. All these years later I still think it was the right thing to do... but you’ll always wonder what might’ve been possible if they’d chosen differently. Still, you…

How can you even read this shit without wanting to vomit?

By trying to keep a sense of perspective and not over-stating things for the sake of drama.

I grew up in a pretty poor family, but I did play Magic. I built my collection slowly, over time. Rarely buying, always trading, up and up and up, a bit at a time. I worked hard to build that collection, and I was proud of it. Then one night my entire collection, by then worth at least a couple thousand dollars, was…

The supreme court is why I crossed the isle for the first time, during Obama’s re-election campaign. For all the good it did me. I worry for all the people still fighting for their rights, and what the coming supreme court may bring. If we presuppose that Trump will not start a war during his presidency, the court is…

Simple. If you can never serve more than X terms, you can never rig the system, or the vote, in any way that would allow you more than X terms, no matter how clever your logic, or how great your power. Implicit rules are great most of the time, but if you truly want to prevent something from happening (in a game,…

Look on the bright side. The border wall won’t become a reality because it’s literally impossible. The geography would never support it even if you wanted to do it, and it’s so ruinously expensive it would never be approved. And even if it were approved, well, it would be a political debacle once it became clear what…

Forgive me for saying so, but the Democrats are just as conditioned to believe half the country is literally evil. You can’t go five feet in the comments without finding someone saying precisely half the country is racist, misogynist, bigoted, bible-thumping immigration-hating rednecks. No people with legitimate…

I do not doubt that what you say is true to some degree. I’m simply skeptical about magnitude. In a polarized 2 party system you could nominate a goldfish and get 40% of the vote. Most people will vote for their team regardless. But even those who voted for trump often disagreed sharply with him on immigration, Muslim…

Well, what can I say except, we’re stuck with it for the moment. So I see no reason to go looking for trouble.

Not dead. Not yet. We have stumbled, as we have before and surely will again. Make no mistake, I grieve just as you do. Perhaps this will make you feel a little better: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/11/its-going-to-be-okay.html

Sorry, when you say he, do you mean Trump? I’m unsure which part of my comment you’re referring to.

To offer a slightly contrasting view, Trump and the Republicans won the presidency, fair and square. We now, all of us, have a vested interest in the President’s success. His successes are our successes, and his failures will hurt us all. I loathe Donald Trump and everything he stands for. He has so far embodied…

If you’re upset that Trump won (as I am), you want to look into how to beat him next time. If you want to beat him next time, you need to understand the reasons, the real reasons, he won this time. Not some comforting story that can be summed up in a single sentence. If progressives hope to learn from this defeat,…

Addendum: Last I heard last night, Trump had won 51% of the female vote, but that number has been revised to 44%. However, my point stands.

Forgive me for saying so but it seems pretty silly to suggest that 110 million voters were single issue voters and that that issue was “being racist”. It is not adult thinking to paint so large a group with so broad a brush. Trump won over 50% of women. Does that mean most women are mysogynists?