The too many men rule has an explicit exception for guys who are within 5 feet of the bench that aren’t participating in the play. The offside rule doesn’t, for fairly obvious reasons. The offside rule is an objective, either/or rule. It was never intended to be interpreted based upon how much impact a player has on…

Joss Whedon already laid the seeds for this in 2015 when he answered a direct question about it by saying “Did (Cap) fail? Or did he stop?” and leaving it at that. The fact that some people weren’t aware of the fact that this has pretty much always been the explanation doesn’t mean that the Russo brothers are…

Not to mention that it made precisely zero sense for Cap to be able to move it A SMIDGE but not actually pick it up. Mjolnir says you have to be worthy to wield it- either you’re worthy or you’re not. You don’t get to move it to varying degrees depending upon how worthy you actually are. Worthy is a binary. The fact…

Explain how he was able to move it at all in Ultron then. What, he was worthy when he grabbed it, moved it a smidge, and then lost his worthiness in that exact moment? The scene in Ultron was clearly supposed to be a playful joke, but that’s the thing about writing- once you include something it’s there and has…

Their explanation is literally the only one that makes any sense. In Age of Ultron was Cap supposed to be “sort-of” worthy? He made it move- how could have done that at all if he wasn’t worthy? It’s not a “he who shall be on a continuum of worthiness shall be able to control me to varying degrees depending upon where…

“Landeskog had zero impact on the play happening on the ice.”

I’m not sure what the complaint is here. The rule should have a “if you’re offside but not helpful, AND the play ends up being AWESOME, then we’ll overlook that you’re offside” exception? Offside should only be called when guys actively participate in the play? So, what, the refs shouldn’t blow a play dead when a guy…

Dude, just google search for “calculator”. The one that google provides allows you to enter the whole equation in accurately before getting the answer.

I always took the order of operations to be the way it was so that you apply an exponent to the completed parenthetical. So if there HAD been an exponent (say 2), you don’t square the one and then square the 2- you add the 1 and the 2 together, and then square the three. After that, you just do standard order of…

Agreed. Pretending like Denver should have been the clear, obvious, overwheming favorite makes zero sense. They only lost twice in the regular season after Nurkic went down (admittedly over only 9 games), and looked great in the first round. This series was ALWAYS going to be tight and hard fought because the entire…

So happy that someone else recognizes how dumb the plot of Yesterday is. If the Beatles came out today nobody would give two shits- hell, their music doesn’t hold up as well today as a lot of other music from the same era (I’ll argue until I’m blue in the face that the Rolling Stones catalog is better to listen to…

Why TF is this an article on deadspin? 

I love how all the people who are pointing out how ridiculous the basic premise of this article is are all still stuck in the greys. Pretty much every single greyed out comment is “WTF are you talking about Gabe? This play was fine.”

The fact that the other team’s coach doesn’t have a problem with this should be all you need to know. This was unfortunate (if his injury was legit), but not against the rules, not unsportsmanlike, and not a play that required a whistle to be blown. Chalk it up in the “shit happens” category rather than trying to gin…

True, but the only reason it went to OT was because he was turning the ball over and missing every shot he attempted to close out the 4th quarter. Honestly, he was hot garbage at the end of regulation. I was shouting at the TV and begging Houston to give the ball to anyone but Harden by the end of the game because you…

My thoughts exactly. He’s performing about as well as he always does in the playoffs.

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Exactly. I hate the total strawman that people that couldn’t care less about spoilers construct. They claim that spoilers don’t totally destroy the experience, that there are other things to enjoy in the movie, and that whining about the whole world being ruined by spoilers is stupid. However, that’s not why unwanted s…

I’ll never understand why this is so hard for some people to figure this out. If you WANT to know the end then go right ahead and read the last chapter. A lot of people (the majority of readers) don’t do that, and they don’t do it even though they could easily do so. If you want to know what happens in Endgame, go…

Wait wait wait...people are being stupid on sports radio now?!?! What is this world coming to?!?!