Oh I'm sorry, I meant the rest of the world, not the competitive bubble. You know, the one that bought over 12 million copies of Brawl? The Brawl that got perfect review scores from Famitsu and Nintendo Power and boasts a higher GameRankings percentage than, gasp, Melee? That "well-received" game. Yes, believe it…

I seriously doubt Nintendo actively thought, "Hmmm let's screw the competitive scene of Smash." as much as wanted to try making a game that built upon the prior foundations while simultaneously appealing to the much larger base of non-competitive people playing the game and changing some aspects like every other video…

I'd have two points/semi-questions here. One, considering new evolutions of games are how video games have essentially always worked, "betrayal" seems a bit melodramatic. Was Nintendo supposed to never make another Smash game due to allegedly discovering perfection and/or basically clone Melee with better graphics?

That still seems to be somewhat missing the point, though. Admittedly I'm not part of the competitive scene, but isn't the point for players to grow and learn new things with different games as time passes? It's not that I would expect everyone to dump the old game - there are still people setting Donkey Kong…

The difference I see is that nobody ever expects most board games or sports to get "sequels", people just tinker with the rules and settings because the base "technology" pretty much never changes. But with video games, evolution, growth and new entries are how the medium works, and I'm just consistently baffled at…

While I loved Cloverfield, I'm still somewhat disappointed it wasn't that long-in-development-but-never-actually-made Voltron live action reboot...when I saw the first trailer, I could've sworn the guy in the street yelled, "I saw it, it's a lion and it's huge!" when he said "I saw it, it's alive and it's huge", and…

I'll also add on, as more of a general point about the Seahawks than Sherman specifically (though it often bleeds over) that the whole paranoid persecution complex they have regarding the media - again, though somehow Wilson is entirely ok with reporters - gets old really fast. Seattle acts like they weren't…

Thanks. That's entirely fair, and I do agree that there's a lot of unfair crap slung at him. Even though he fell right into the "angry black man" trope after that NFC title game, "thug" was used waaaay too much with some pretty clear undertones. But, again, that was to an extent his fault too. You even saw it at…

Full disclosure, I'm a 49ers fan, so feel take this with as large a pinch of salt as you like...but if anything, it's the fact that he actually can be really intelligent and cutting that gets on my nerves more. I'm black myself, and after watching his whole scaring-the-shit-out-of-Erin-Andrews angry black man routine…

Full disclosure, I'm a 49ers fan, so feel take this with as large a pinch of salt as you like...but if anything, it's the fact that he actually can be really intelligent and cutting that gets on my nerves more. I'm black myself, and after watching his whole scaring-the-shit-out-of-Erin-Andrews angry black man routine…

DON'T REMIND ME OF SPLIT/SECOND DAMMIT.

It was built in 1922 and intended to reduce the steep grade of the hill for cars and pedestrians...of course, now it's a ridiculous looking tourist trap instead.

I'm not really familiar with that being a thing, but yes that would be a problem too.

You're missing a major point though, that being that the vast majority of harassment comes from men. It's not that the stuff coming from women isn't still "wrong", it's that when it comes to problems we need to address, it seems logical to start with the largest amount first, especially when it's coming from a group…

Please, point out all of the numerous instances when the harassers of feminist writers are women. Because obviously that happens a lot right?

My mom, who grew up in the Jim Crow South and experienced heinous discrimination, gets instantly angry with me whenever I try comparing the current gay rights movement to the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. Ok sure, I'll concede that gays haven't had it in this country as badly as blacks had it (source:…

Oh they basically already are. There's a constant persecution complex (see: Doug Baldwin yelling about how "Nobody believed in" the defending champs who were Vegas favorites basically all season), anytime a ref call goes their way they still bring up Super Bowl XL and act like last year's title wasn't won on assuming…

GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR FACTS AND LOGIC.

I like the idea of pulling for a sinkhole to open up under the field. The night before, nobody needs to get hurt.

GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR FACTS AND LOGIC.