This is, far and away, the only community online I’d be willing to pay to access.

That’s moving the goalposts, though. We can’t adjust for “availability” when we’re trying to figure out how popular older shows are, like we can adjust for inflation.

Congratulations, Jim! I don’t like sports but I would read Deadspin. I don’t like cars but I would read Jalopnik. I’m not American, but I checked Splinter dozens of times a day.

“Beloved” is probably the wrong word, but it definitely has better name-recognition and household penetration than any of the other things you named. 

I don’t give a shit about sports but I’d read great articles on Deadspin constantly. I don’t give a shit about cars, but I was frequently exposed to great reads on Jalopnik because the sites are all connected. I’m not black but I’ve read some amazing content on The Root. I can only assume other readers are like me,…

I hear you. I’ve been reading the AVClub for over a decade, way before it somehow got tied to the former Gawker sites. The editorial voice there has been on the decline for a while, but it’s getting tough to watch now.

Whatever’s happening behind the scenes, you guys have always done amazing work. Just another voice chiming in to say that Kotaku’s gaming coverage is excellent, but it’s the variety of subjects and topics that keeps me coming back, and the unique editorial perspectives. If I wanted rote, uncritical, sycophantic,…

I agree, and I think if all things were equal in this situation, that should be one of the top options.

So, real talk: what would you do? You have three real options as a Canadian voter: 

person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul > beard

I have a buddy that I play local co-op with, him on his desktop and me on my laptop. Here are some things we have learned the hard way:

There’s some important context you’re skipping here. From the article:

Yes, I’m close friends with all of them.

Hey, I fact-checked this for you:

Yeah, like what else could it possibly have been referring to?

Did anyone else get strong Maury Povich vibes from the video packages for each of the top 4 queens? A’keria’s was the most obvious, but the whole “floating camera, black-and-white confessional, combined with street footage” approach was RIGHT out of the Maury playbook

How come no one asked Bran any questions about how this would all play out? Why didn’t Tyrion, who made a point of sitting down and chatting with Bran when no one else could? Why didn’t they ask about Cersei’s plan, or the risks to their own forces, or even just how the battle would play out? Why did Bran never once…

A depressingly loooong time ago, I tried to catch up on season 1 of 24 before season 2 started airing. It was 24 hour-long episodes, and I was in school, so it took a while. I was so close to the end, so very close, when a friend blurted out to me “Could you believe Nina was the mole??” 

Pretty sure Dan himself acknowledged that when he wrote:

Did anyone else get absolutely stonewalled by the keyboard puzzle in the original Myst? I’m not sure I ever made it to the Age in question because I just could not match those musical tones. Even got my Mom to help (that was a fun interaction) but she couldn’t get it either.