On the first point, I can’t think of particularly many trans celebrities popping up to begin with in recent years who we knew as one gender first, and certainly no recent ones in athletics, certainly none as iconic as Jenner.

That’s an entirely fair point, but it’s not like Colbert was subsequently run off television and forced to stop performing comedy. There was a minor storm and things were ok. Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most successful comedians in America over the past quarter century, his career wouldn’t be shot down by one…

Went to EDC Las Vegas last year and immediately knew I was headed back this year, so my two cents:

Only been to one EDC, going to #2 in June, but also have a few other similar events under my belt...in terms of acts you want to see, you pretty much have to go in accepting that you’re going to miss people, and also accepting that there will be conflicts. You can plan for a few key artists but, aside from those,…

“Millenial” here, can’t specifically speak for East Coast events but as far as I know their vibe is similar to West Coast ones, and you’d be more than welcome :) Last year at EDC Las Vegas - the flagship for Insomniac and one of the sheer biggest, in terms of spectacle, populatio and talent, in the US if not in the…

I definitely did chuckle, even as a PS4 user, so well played. This is how that should be done.

Well, because for all intents and purposes he (along with IGA, also no longer there), has been: he’s been at the forefront of the creation for Metal Gear, Silent Hill and Zone of the Enders, and his group’s FOX engine powers the last few PES games. IGA spearheaded the last decade of Castlevania.

Maybe the greatest alternate history possibility in gaming history: what if Nintendo hadn’t shafted Sony out of a deal and they’d ended up making the Nintendo CD add-on as originally intended? Does the PlayStation ever exist? Is Nintendo the most dominant company of the mid 90s and early 00s, as they were for the 80s…

It’s not specifically the Reptile Tower, just the Mortal Kombat 1 Tower. You have to be online and it’s the under Living Towers (the gold one), not just the single player traditional towers. If it doesn’t show up - and sometimes they won’t - just exit and reload them.

While I agree, somewhat, in principle, considering they’re entirely optional things with no bearing on the match - and, at least offline, you can literally pause and look at the fatality - I don’t have much of a problem with this. Weird comparison, but I think of it like I think of items in mobile games like Candy…

Lifelong Warriors fan, still can’t fully wrap my head around the idea of them as prohibitive favorites to at least make the Finals and possibly win it all. Wow.

Two points there: One, Josie Harris isn’t a public figure who gets interviewed on national television and has children (aside from her own) using her as a role model. That doesn’t make her actions less wrong, but it does mean we should probably spend more time on Mayweather’s, as that’s who people are currently…

While I definitely think Floyd’s race plays a role in some people’s thought process, it’s far from the only thing. I’m young, black and frankly enjoy some personality every so often...Andrew McCutchen, Cam Newton, PK Subban, Lewis Hamilton, Steph Curry etc. As long as they’re not also busy looking like assholes and…

IT’S LIKE RAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN

You know, I can’t stand the Yankees and I’m not A-Rod’s biggest fan either, but I’ve increasingly believed he got shafted by MLB/the Yankees just as Bonds did by the Giants/MLB/pretty much everyone. So fuck all of them, an All-Star berth would be hilarious. I’m in.

I know this is an old comment, but...

^Exactly. Probably 80% of sports fandom is inherently irrational if you stop and think about it, but that doesn't slow most of us. Things you'd normally consider completely ok are crazy in that context and vice versa.

I’d say that’s pretty fair, but respond in two ways.

The thing is, though, that’s pretty much exactly what happened in the NFL, and what always happens. Obviously there’s a much longer timeframe between changes but gaming as a medium moves faster in general.

UCLA also carries almost unimaginable pressure. It’s not that Texas isn’t a pressure cooker in its own right...but it’s a football school. Barnes was there 17 years. Meanwhile, you can rattle off on one hand the other schools that would have as much basketball pressure as UCLA: Kentucky, Indiana, Kansas, UNC, Duke.