You know, it’s funny they actually state that it wouldn’t lead to an increased opportunity for a paid gig there, because that’s testable. How many paid writers do they have that started as what they’re now calling Trusted Users? If it’s more than some trivial amount (defining that amount is the tricky part, but a…

I mean, it’s not that tough to figure out which goes to the future star and which to Butt:

I appreciate that at some point in the last decade the phrase “logical fallacy” became a reliable signifer of someone you should just tune out.

I could finally feel good about a Univision-led layoff.

The sky should be dark, because all the stars should be on your comment.

God, the soundtrack! I was lucky, Bebop first came to the US when I was 12/13 and had been into anime for a couple of years, so I was hooked from the first release. I then hunted down every official CD release affiliated with it (I was also lucky to live in Indiana but somehow be in driving distance from a store that…

I mean, it feels like a pretty big story! Deadspin has had ~10 articles (+1 podcast) tagged here on Ohtani since the season began. Last year through April, Aaron Judge was tagged in 5 Deadspin articles, and while what Ohtani’s doing IS more impressive, he’s also not doing it every single day, nor is he playing on the…

To be fair, maybe he’s not even counting it, as he lists 6 cheeses up there.

One thing I really loved, and that’s stayed with me *way* more than w/any other MCU movie, is the design work. It’s not like all Marvel movies have had bad design, but there’s been a sort of obvious-ness to it — “Oh, Kirby was an inspiration, you don’t say” — whereas for BP I’m kind of tempted to slam down the $40 to…

I 100% agree. I always think of Krusty’s line “ ‘Talk to the Audience’? Oh god, this is always death.”

The Nomad was exclusively a car-based video game system in my childhood. We had a charger than ran from the cigarette lighter and I just popped the battery pack off. Sure, it meant that I could only play when we were driving, but that really only mattered if I was trying to play a longer game with no save states.

Yup, TR is my default. Got a detached retina in his left eye while sparring while he was president. When his doctors told him he had to stop boxing to prevent further damage, he took up jiu jitsu.

I say dunk, but the rules here really matter. Are you given infinite chances at each? If so, it’s tougher. I’m taking “without practice” to mean that you get one shot, then the next person comes up. There’s some variability in someone’s ability to reach the rim to dunk, but not to the same degree as distance a ball…

Man, not sure it’s worse than Frisco, but god did I hate the name “Hotlanta” when I lived there.

Agreed that it’s annoying, at the least, but Calcaterra was talking about it on twitter last night. Apparently every video watch generates 50-100x the amount of ad revenue a pageview does. Given that, the shift to video makes sense even if 98% of the audience would rather read.

I had a childhood lab who ate all the mudflaps off our car. She also ate fiberglass insulation on a different occasion, and valiantly tried for several minutes to eat a large nail before my mom gave up hope that she would stop and just took it from her.

A great flop, but I am a bit partial to that time Lance Stephenson slapped himself and flopped hard:

It’s cool; back when the Pacers almost-mattered, it was “gotta get Solomon Hill on LeBron, he’ll be able to keep him in check when Paul George is sitting.” Yours is way less pathetic.

My wife & I went over to London for an NFL game once (well, we went to London for a vacation and also went to an NFL game going on while we were there) and I found it hilarious how performative drinking a Bud Light, the water of beers, was. Tons of Londoners were buying one and taking selfies of themselves drinking…