One, so, so awkward.

Have all of the stars.

I'm not so keen on it either, but do you really think that people respecting their parents too much is a major issue in the world? Because if anything my anecdotal experience has been the opposite. There are a lot of spoiled brats out there.

The Old Testament God sure is an asshole.

The narc horse thing reminds me of:

Most of what you state seems like it would be replicated by having a cat, which also doesn't give a shit about you. I'm guessing the horse therapy thing is pretty exclusive to high-end rehab places... most addicts can't afford a place that has fucking horses.

I think the GOTY thing was so overdone by games that really had no claim to being the best of any year, that even games that could unabashedly declare themselves GOTY have started using alternative naming (think Skyrim Legendary Edition)

So, basically, this is just like Barbarian Invasion for RTW II, only they're going to charge full price for it? Seems about right.

So no Cousin Sal podcasts for three weeks? That's like 20% of the Cousin Sal podcasts we get all year, ffs! Go to hell ESPN.

This is barely even the most critical thing Simmons has said about Goodell recently. Strange. Maybe he was on double-secret probation.

What's stupid about it is that there's nothing wrong with grains and starch, they're good for you.

The paleo diet is a joke. Grains are nothing to be afraid of. As a matter of fact, complex carbs (ie starch) are far and away your body's best source of energy and uniquely suited to replacing muscle glycogen.

The NFL is going to keep chugging right along. People are really looking at this shit the wrong way: the NFL doesn't need to kiss the asses of fans and advertisers. The NFL is America's national religion. It sells itself.

Cool, I must have missed that. But my point still stands... most of the clues didn't really lead anywhere. And given the caliber of their subsequent work, I think it's safe to say we were giving Abrams, Lindelof and everyone a little bit more benefit of the doubt than maybe their abilities deserved.

My main problem is just that it doesn't feel like Diablo. Diablo was always about mowing down legions of skeletons and stuff. D3 is a game where you often find yourself chasing around tiny little Elite spiders with a million HP for ten minutes trying to chip away at their health.

Not so much an explanation as a cool and interesting conclusion. My problem with the ending isn't that they didn't "explain" the physics of time travel and magical islands. My problem is that it's just straight-up bad writing, a lazy deus ex machina, and completely out of line with the tone of the show.

In any way less half-assed than "surprise! they were dead all along!"

The thing is, the ending does kind of ruin the rest of the show retroactively. Part of the appeal of the show was the sense of mystery, the idea that seemingly-innocuous things were actually subtle clues about what was going on, hooks you could hang increasingly elaborate theories on. The ending, however, showed that…

They were, but "doped" in a 70s context is child's play by today's standards. They were taking anabolic steroids and test, that's basically all that was available at the time. It's nothing compared to the more sophisticated steroids, HGH, blood doping, etc. that's available now.

I call bullshit on this. They made a conscious decision not to put Halo on PC in order to try to sell Xboxes. From where I'm sitting, this is silly, because why leave money on the table? I'm not buying an Xbox One, but I would buy this on PC. Basically they're saying they don't want my money. Oh well.