The difference is that back then, they were going up against 220lb guys who ran 5-second 40s in practice. Now they're going up against 300lb roid monsters who run 4.4 40s.

I had literally never heard of coaches needing qualifications. Must be a European thing.

My issue with tipping is that I don't think it should scale linearly. That is to say, the problem with tipping a percentage of the bill is that you're just tipping based on how pricey the place is, not whether the service and food were any good. Is a server working at a fancy restaurant really doing so much more work…

it's especially strange that it's happening at a time when suspiciously high Metacritic scores are the norm for AAA releases.

Pre-orders make sense only for collectors items. For example, special editions of established franchises. I initially pre-ordered Skyward Sword collectors edition, because it was only $20 more than the regular version and came with a gold controller, meaning it was actually about $30 cheaper than buying the regular…

The most populous part of India is the north which is on the same latitude as the Mediterranean. I think you are overestimating the population of the equatorial region. It consists of Tropical Africa, largely jungle, northern South America, also largely jungle, and Southeast Asia. The total population of these areas…

Playing video games doesn't get me nearly as riled up as reading Gawker sites. Seriously, coming here has taken years off my life.

That's because the Light Side gets lame powers like "improved healing" while the Dark Side gets powers like "force lightning" and "choking people telepathically"

... except that Gall-Peters is also distorted, as well as generally being ugly. All projections are distorted, as you probably know. You might as well use the one that, a) people are used to, b) distorts the map to create more space for the more-populous higher latitudes rather than for the relatively underpopulated…

I was confused by the fact that you referred to maybe the worst UFC card of all time as "delivering a very solid night of fights". I mean... I guess. Nobodies can have good fights if they're evenly matched, but it doesn't change the fact that the level of competition is much lower, and that they're not recognizable.

"apparent Polish avenue Jorvorskie Lane"

Well, MS' enterprise side might be shying away from exclusivity, but I think the gaming side is still wedded to that idea... or desperate enough. They paid for Tomb Raider exclusivity, what, a month ago?

it's the Zynga/Rovio effect, and Notch is smart to cash in while he still can.

The reason fascism has become a "byword" for the pro-western government of Ukraine is that it does, in fact, contain fascist elements. There are members of parliament from Right Sector, an outspoken neo-nazi group, and many of the prominent "protestors" were in fact members of Right Sector and other similar groups. In…

This has increased my respect for Ovechkin considerably.

This sure is a hot take! HOT TAKES ALL AROUND!

If you use the name #yoloswag anywhere, I hate you.

I put about 250hrs in during the first few months after the PC release a couple years ago. This game absolutely enraged me. I was a 1000+ hour D2 player and they basically took a dump over my nostalgia for D1 and D2.

I've pirated tons of games that I already own, because the publisher's ridiculous DRM often means that playing a pirated copy is more convenient than playing the copy you bought. For example I've bought every Farcry and Assassin's Creed game for PC, but if I want to play them, I play a pirated version simply to avoid…

What about people who are literally too poor to buy the games? A lot of piracy takes place in poorer parts of the world where there's no chance in hell the average person will have $60 to spend on a game.