“Our officers are dispatched 1,800 times each day when our community needs us and 99% of the time we get it right,” 

Please don’t use African subjugation as a defense in this. Many countries in Africa are still under colonial law and crippling debt after their independence as a way for Europeans to maintain control. Also, those who stand up against their corrupt leaders are murdered as an example.  

I’m sure this one will come with a tutorial that actually teaches you something. >.>

I love reading about the silliness that happens in Paradox strategy games but they’re so obtuse. I don’t really want to watch a youtube tutorial series or read a bunch of forum threads and guides just to be able to grasp how to play…

Luke, how many hours would you say that you’ve invested in CKII? 400? 800? More? And I ask the same questions of current players, do days and nights vanish while you are playing?

I enjoyed the article, until the plug. And when I realised the plug was f*cking long and more a sales-pitch than a simple plug...  I felt a little tricked into it. 

I have a sense that our new I-C overlords don’t particularly care if they tank this place. They already took Splinter out behind the building and gave it one behind the ear.

Looks like someone forgot to include the ‘sponsored post’ tag. 

So the “foolproof guide” is just... unless it’s the most simple of mazes, you’re doomed to be lost and also buy this game?

So who’s going to be the scapegoat for Cardinals fans? My money is on Dexter Fowler, former Cub and admitted person of color.

This font’s italics don’t slant far enough to the right to emphasize what pure chaos this might be!

Brack’s statement concerning Blitzchung’s statements “having had nothing to do with their decision” is about as full of shit as it gets. They absolutely kowtowed to China, and now they’re trying to reverse course amidst a firestorm of pushback.

Here’s the thing: corporations absolutely have the right to associate…

It’s more complex than that. As Mike Rosewater wrote, everyone likes winning, but for Timmy and Johnnies the reason for playing MTG is the experience of it, not of winning. Timmies like big things because it’s fun to play the big thing, not because it’s fun to win with it.

They’re all one guy? Dayyum, he’s got range.

I wish the narrators of Supergiant Games’ games, especially Bastion’s, would do audio books. I’d pay good money for that gravelly, soothing voice reading... pretty much anything to me.

AsaTJ on reddit for the latter. The “What They Actually Mean” series is definitely not for beginners, but for veterans, it’s both funny *and* more informative. The guy is very good at contextualizing the patch notes while also making jokes.

No CEO gives one shit about their employees going out of work. Believing that they do is no different than thinking companies actually have core values they aspire to beyond ‘profit’.

Also I loved Brent asking after “Mexican William” and “White Guillermo.” “William” and “Guillermo” are like “Peter” and “Pedro” in terms of name equivalencies.

This was fascinating and illuminating. Glad Deadspin is sticking so closely to sports like this.

+1 Alderaan being blown up by the Death Star

And like that, the laughs of a million Steelers fans were suddenly silenced.