I really appreciate a more causal fan’s take. Again, I’m not anti-Houston or anything. I’d agree that the coverage in the first three weeks was pretty even keel, and covered quite well the individual matches as they happened. Around mid-week 3 (so last week), both Compete and the Polygon Overwatch vertical published…

Yeah, there are only 12 teams, but the five “worst” teams have records of 3-5, 1-6, 1-7, and 0-7. Houston happened to play most of those teams first. If any of the other upper tier non-Korean teams also played those five teams in a row, we’d probably see a similar narrative. Yeah, there are only 12 teams, but the top…

I don’t object to their coverage in principal, but it seems like they are being covered to the exclusion of all other teams. The commentators’ coverage last night was downright blatant though. Yeah, LiNkzr wasn’t there, but they have a roster full of other players. If your winning depends on the presence of a single…

No one has mentioned this, and I find it very frustrating. Houston’s five game winning streak was against the five worst teams in the league. There seems to be a narrative in support of Houston both on the internet and in OWL’s commentators. At multiple points last night both the table and the color commentators…

I asked this yesterday too, but why does Compete have such an apparent hardon for Houston? They are tied with Valiant with regards to match wins, but you made no mention of the LA team at all. Valiant has already played two of the “hard” teams (NYXL and London, their two loses) while Houston has only played one…

Is the whole “women no longer wearing bras on TV shows” thing a new phenomenon? I’ve noticed it a couple of times (Padma on Top Chef immediately comes to mind), but am curious if it’s a conscious decision on the part of the producers (we want to make our female characters risqué) versus some loosening of FCC…

As a geneticist, it gives me immense pleasure to leave this here:

Mei is used to get above point A on Anubis, that seems to be it. At least on the map selection they are currently playing.

Based on the OWL, I’d completely disagree with the notion that no hero is indispensable. Have we been watching the same streams? The comps are ALWAYS the same, with maybe one or two subs depending on the given eccentricities of each team. There’s dive comp, slambulance, pirate ship and modified pirate ship,…

For Houston to move into first place would require a lot of very good teams to just up and lose horribly. Houston is tied for fourth with Valiant, which had a great showing last night as well. Looking at the upcoming matches, New York will probably win against Shanghai and Dallas, giving them a 7-1 record. London…

With the numbering scheme, I thought it was leading to Kirk breaking out in song at the bottom of the article.

To the best of my knowledge, HLJ will not sell or ship to the US, hence the need for a proxy service. Of the stores that will sell and ship to the US, both the normal and limited preorders are already sold out on Play-Asia as of about two days after they went live. It looks like Nippon-Yasan still has preorders…

Good luck getting this now. Went up for preorder a week ago. Probably only available now for a reasonable price with a proxy service.

I can’t really comment about any of this, seeing as how I play Overwatch and collect cosmetic skins and also collect scale figures. Stones and glass houses.

Convinced your significant other that you are a big Robert Browning fan?

Zelda isn’t that strange of a name, not like it was invented out of whole cloth like some others. If people ask, could say that you’re just a huge F. Scott Fitzgerald fan. The Great Gatsby just really spoke to you, you know?

His run at AGDQ 2018 was really entertaining, nice to see him setting the new record.

Valiant is the “American” team that I ended up deciding to back, so happy to see them move into fourth place in the rankings, as of the end of last night’s matches. Just watched the VODs for the games and was certainly worth watching.

I adapted it from a Cook’s Illustrated recipe titled “Rich and Creamy Cheesecake” and a Kraft recipe for “Cookie Butter Cheesecake.”

The link to the basic batter is broken, at least as of 12:47 pm EST. I still like making individual cheesecakes sous vide in 8 (?) oz Mason jars. Some recipes turn out better than others (cinnamon Biscoff was great, chocolate mint was a little grainy), but they are still way better than just cooking it normally in…