In your defense Imad, I don’t know if a tournament in Brooklyn can really be called a “small local tournament.” There’s more potential players in that area than almost anywhere else in the US. It may not be a big-name, high-stakes tournament, but it’s likely going to draw competitors that are beyond what you’d see in…

So when I was working for Blizzard in CS in 2012, they laid off about 600 people across the department worldwide.  Those people who got laid off were given severance packages, based on their tenure with the company, which ranged from a few weeks to a few months of pay.  Although this was not optional for those…

Oh it’s definitely venue shopping, I’m just not sure why they are allowed to file in the Northern District. I mean, if they were suing on behalf of another plaintiff who was located in the Northern District then that would make sense, but I don’t know why the State Government, based in the Western District, can sue in…

I’m perfectly willing to be corrected (as stated, I am 100% not a lawyer), but I think this is a bit different than an interpretation of a law - this is a determination that the law as a whole is unconstitutional. You are right in that this does not automatically mean that the law ceases to be for all other districts,…

No problem, and I hear you. The Republican Party these days is basically the party of “Fuck you, I got mine.”

If you’re just bemoaning the stupidity of this situation, then I fully agree with you, and you can ignore the rest of this post. But if you genuinely aren’t sure why this happened, I’ll take a stab at answering that.

Well, I may be wrong here, but I think they can’t say “convicted” because he entered a plea of no contest, so there was no conviction (as that implies a jury or judicial verdict). It’s not “alleged” because he entered the plea of no contest, which is an acceptance of a guilty verdict without an admission of guilt. And…

They literally believe this.  Yes.  Peter Singer, in “Practical Ethics,” coined the term “speciesism” as a direct counterpart to racism.  Yes, it’s messed up.

I was gonna say, every church I’ve ever been to has had charities of the exact form described. But so that I’m not simply citing anecdotal evidence, here’s a partial list of services that the parish I grew up in provides:

“my mom passed away recently and my abusive a-hole father got all her assets due to lack of planning for me while she was alive.”

I agree with you, not only is this problem way bigger than women getting paid less on average, but misleading statistics is a huge problem, especially since it makes it much harder to use actual statistics in discussions. After all, skepticism of numbers is not without cause - telling the difference between good…

So, I just want to preface this by saying that this is purely a quibble about the statistical validity of this, and not an attempt to downplay the problem. Any percent of systematic pay difference between genders is unacceptable, and I’m only making this point because I believe the quickest way to lose an argument is…

I think “Alexander is a shitty journalist” is a much more likely take on his piece than “Alexander knew Stanich was an abuser and deliberately didn’t mention it because he’s consciously or unconsciously attempting to protect the power of the patriarchy.” This article is clearly intending to imply the latter. Further,…

Yeah, I wasn’t so lucky as to be able to spend time in only one place, so I spent a lot of time walking across the 40 acres. The majority of my classes were in either Burdine, CLA (now renamed Patton Hall), Jester, or in the 6 pack. And since I was in the LHB, I spent a lot of time on the far east side of campus.

Minor correction: it’s not “a couple blocks” off campus, it’s literally across the street from the northern border of the primary UT Austin campus.  I used to park in the 28th St garage every day when I was an undergrad there, and it was across the street.  But yeah, as close as it is, it’s 100% not on campus and is…

I think it’s a bit disingenuous to use the success of God of War as a cipher for the profitability of video games in general. By all accounts, God of War was a masterpiece, the kind of game we don’t get even one of every year, and it also had great press and publicity. I don’t disagree entirely with your conclusion…

As someone who has gotten platinum in DQ XI, I say, finish Act 2, then decide whether you want to play RDR2 or keep going into Act 3. I will also say this: Act 3 is when the kid gloves come OFF in DQ XI. Shit is hard, some bosses are pure RNG, and grinding to gain levels becomes a necessity.  The sudden pivot is…

No, but now that you mention it, that could be more effective...

That pun was at the top of its clast.

Yes, in Houston for sure.  Most of the rock there is limestone due to the area being an ancient sea bed, and limestone isn’t terribly hard.  Combine that with the fact that most of the metal gates are wrought iron, and the most it would leave is a little white mark that you could brush out easily.  It won’t dent the…