Fun fact: "Chippy Nonstop" is Cookie Monster's nickname for his wiener.

That is a lovely picture, but unfortunately Google streetview doesn't have Norilsk mapped. Murmansk is the most hideous Russian city I've found that is mapped in detail. A few months ago I tried to find another northern Russian city that was worse than Murmansk but couldn't. What I especially love about Murmansk…

If you want to see the world's most depressing city I suggest Murmansk. Google street view has the city mapped out in glorious hi-res detail. It's the largest city north of the Arctic Circle and a rotting carcass of hideous semi-abandoned Soviet architecture. The population has declined precipitously in recent…

SLAP BASS. Back in the late 80's and very early 90's I loved the zany slap bass stylings of Flea, Les Claypool, and similar dudes. LOVED IT. Then one day I realized the slappy stuff had lost some of its charm for me. Two months later, I realized it had become annoying. Two months after that, I wondered why the…

I can't think of any pop culture that isn't tiresome to me lately except hard rock and Starcraft 2 Twitch streams.

I can't help it. I just can't enjoy Christmas music 12 months out of the year.

Christmas music becomes a chore around March, but my interest revives in July or August.

I can't imagine anyone not noticing the backlash. In my crowd the population of backlashers was 100%. We watched a lot of MTV back then and let the Black Album videos play, but that was as far as it went. We had zero exposure to the songs except through MTV, and none of us wanted more than that. None of us cared…

Yeah I remember those Lars interviews where he said he loved the sound of Dr. Feelgood and wanted that for Metallica. That was enough to permanently lower my expectations for any future Metallica projects. A few years earlier it would have been unimaginable for any Metallica member to say he wanted Motely Crue's…

Huh? You don't recall the fan base rebelling? Literally every metalhead I knew abandoned Metallica when the Black Album came out. It's not revisionism. I saw it happen.

It's Metallica's sellout record. After Justice the band undoubtedly knew they could get their music on heavy rotation on MTV and rock radio if they could make some simpler and shorter songs that conformed to traditional pop song structures. Their loyalest fans didn't want that shit. I had spent numberless hours…

This community has taken a principled stand: we are for Scarlett, and against Korea. Which side are you on?

He is cool.

OP is largely right IMO. The trolls are a conspicuous and ugly minority. Scarlett consistently gets the biggest viewership whenever she plays a tournament match or streams ladder games and it's not trolls that give her those numbers. She really is the best foreigner right now by a wide margin, with Swedish player…

So we're all in agreement: Koreans are horrible people.

You have groupies for being a compulsive eater, and you're not even a general compulsive eater. You only compulsively eat a very specific food type(cookies). If that can garner groupies, then so can winning at a video game.

As far as I can tell the players have accepted her by now and she definitely doesn't have the flavor of a novelty act anymore. I watched the last Homestory Cup and I didn't sense any tension in her interactions with the other players. Everybody knows she's proved she's legitimately excellent at the game and the…

SCII is really complicated. You have to watch a ton of games before you can understand what's happening on the macro level and what the options for the players are at any point in the game.

300 actions per minute for top pros? That understates the matter. Some of the best Koreans are above 400.

Your premise — which is fundamentally idiotic, is that since it's impossible to reduce exposure and access to drugs to zero, any attempt at reduction is pointless. You're the idiot who would have told David Bowie there was no point in him leaving Los Angeles while he was trying to kick cocaine. He'd be as dead as…