The lack of loyalty to a game seems like a problem inherent to esports. People in the NFL, for instance, have mostly been playing football their whole lives, and once they decide to stick with it, they (kind of have to) stick with it. (Even LoL, which is practically ancient by videogame standards hasn’t been around…

Years ago, when I still played fantasy sports, I read Berry’s autobiography. It was so unrelentingly bad. He had seemed like a good dude in my brief exposure to him and his writing, but his book makes it clear that he’s just a giant douche. This video fits too perfectly.

Definitely doesn’t matter as much as it used to, both because of the way we get news and then also the increasing disappearance of the traditional 40-hour, Monday-Friday workweek, but more people are still online during the day on weekdays than at other times:

Compliant AND pliant.

Just gotta get up first and look at the wallet!

For a lot of industries, it’s less about new products than brand loyalty. Advertising Coke not only keeps Coke-drinkers drinking Coke, but reinforces the idea they have of themselves as Coke-drinkers. This kind of thing is especially important with car ads--and is why there are so many pickup truck ads.

Fun fact: right before the war, Sherman was living in the south, as first president of LSU.

Now you’ve got a convenient excuse!

I’m at a big SEC football school, and every student I’ve ever met from band has 100% scholarship. They get their travel expenses covered to and from games (including bowl games) and for smaller sports, they get paid something like 100 bucks to play an event (presumably that option isn’t available to everyone in the…

I really like 2/2/2, but in some ways it’s only exacerbated one of the fundamental problem of Overwatch: leavers. Multiple times in comp I would queue as a DPS and wait the 10 minutes to get in (as a support main, that doesn’t bother me), only to have someone quit right away. It’s happened numerous times in QP, too,…

First date with a woman I mate on a plane. We go to a local staple that’s known for its food and bar. Waiter comes over, tells us the specials, one of which is some cocktail that sounds just atrocious (I don’t remember the details, but I remember thinking, who would order that?). So, my date orders that drink. It…

It will be around, but the population on which it draws will only get smaller and smaller: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/malcolm-gladwell-football-will-become-ghettoized/311620/

You can get more traffic by connecting the A’s with the Patriots, since Dave Kaval and Nick Caserio graduated from the same high-school class (along with the founder of Fitbit).

At one point, Cleveland’s baseball team was called the Spiders. How have they not gone back to that?!

Too many people don’t understand what “meta” really means, which means they think that the pro / top-tier meta that people focus on is the only meta. In reality, every rank has its own metagame, which is why you’ll always see plenty of bronze players run, say, Bastion regardless of what the pro meta is. Just too many…

Some of it is people being impressed with degrees (universities are brands, etc.), but UCLA is a world-class university and—by most metrics—is better than any Canadian university. (Not an insult, just a comparison.)

It nauseates me that his partner is still going to go to NFL games. An organization like the NFL is only going to change if its bottom-line takes a hit. This kind of stuff will keeping happening until everyone just stops watching.

Some of the changed ones look great (I actually like the Eagles logo this way).

We wouldn’t even need as many IT people if schools didn’t decide to change assessment software, classroom management software, etc. every five years--each time paying these companies hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions for the programs.