The bulk of SAG members are not irreplaceable either, but movie studios work with SAG because stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bruce Willis are members. Most unions base their power on the fact that a few of their members are irreplaceable and that they have large numbers. If Joe Nobody playing hapless civilian #3 walks…

Before anyone says “this could never work because game developers are so expendable”, I would contend that in fact, many of them aren’t. The engine builders, the guys and gals that get deep into CPU and GPU architecture to squeeze every bit of power out of a piece of hardware are really difficult to replace. If this…

You misspelled “night”.

“No one wants to see Félix succeed more than we do, and we believe he has a bright future ahead of him.” - Dallas Fuel owner Mike Rufail, after the Overwatch League team released Félix “xQc” Lengyel when the player followed up a January suspension for homophobic remarks with a March suspension for racially…

Even though it doesn’t quite look like the Hound, I love the bucket of HFC in that cosplay.

I could see giving him good striking stats, but everything else? Nah. This is really dumb.

Technically speaking, the conviction is “vacated”; it’s sort of like a pardon. Basically the conviction never happened in the eyes of the law, but Hernandez was not definitely “not guilty”. This article has a better run down:

Counterpoint: She’s one of the few interesting characters in the game. Virtually every character in the game is an archetype of a particular train of thought, representing the church, or the rogue mages, or the conservative mages, etc; Sera is some of that too, but she’s also the sort of person that is ahead of the…

While CTE certainly impairs certain brain functions, it isn’t recognized as a form of legal insanity. In order for a person to be legally insane, they have to be incapable of understanding that what they are doing is wrong. Hernandez may have regretted his decision(s), CTE was almost certainly a factor, but that…

Aaron Hernandez (I think). I can’t say for sure that he killed that guy...but it sure as hell seems like he did. The fact that later on, when he killed himself during the appeals process, he was essentially granted a status that’s not quite innocent but isn’t guilty seems right as well to me. Yes it means he “didn’t…

They signed up to do whatever the Catholic Church told them to do, and now they’re complaining about it. You don’t want to do what the church tells you to do? Then fucking quit. I get it, it sucks to move, it sucks that the convent they live in is being sold without their permission or their input...but legally the…

My comment is extremely relevant now:

It really is. Iowa is considered a key “swing state” and it is largely responsible for our large corn subisidies, but there’s about 90,000 corn farmers in Iowa. The steel workers that Trump just pandered to acount for about 150,000 people. Coal miners, a key demographic that Republicans in particular try to court,…

Actually he didn’t. The Nice attacker had legally rented the truck and had proper licensing in France (as this article in French lays out:

You could ignore most of the geographic country, but by population you could not ignore most of the country. That does mean catering more to the needs and wants of cities like New York City, Chicago and LA, but given that those metro areas provide the vast majority of the country’s GDP it makes sense to do so on a…

To be fair, in a free to play game I don’t mind lootboxes. I know some people have problems with them, but I generally don’t, maybe because I bought the original lootboxes aka Magic: The Gathering card packs back in the day. What I object to is the idea that a game I payed money for has lootboxes and micro…

I mean, as weird as this sounds...that’s better than it used to be. Before reporting systems, your only chance to try to weed out toxic people in the game community was to get a hold of a server mod for your server and point out the asshole. And on some servers, since it wasn’t a company but some dude(s) with a tower…

In your scenario you can report them for abusive language, that’s an option in pretty much every multiplayer game now.

I’m not seeing a lot of cover available in the picture. Sometimes you just gotta go and hope for the best.

“Fight the New Drug” is basically just an arm of the Mormon church. Those creepy fuckers want you to fuck 8+ babies into your wife, thus their objection to porn.