You’re not wrong (on any of those counts), but similar to poker, there’s a vast amount of people who watch these with elation. I don’t get it either, but c’est la vie

My girlfriend was supposed to meet my parents for brunch the day after her birthday. So we celebrate her birthday . . . a little too much. So we’re struggling in the morning (her a little more than me), but we make it to brunch and manage to be lucid and articulate throughout the meal, despite being hungover and…

Adding to this: I love fighting games, but the fact you basically need to MASTER really complicated systems to do anything is really annoying.

Ugh, yuck, really? I’m a longtime DS reader, but I dig reading about stuff like this. Sorry my brethren are such choads

McConnell’s been saying the same shit, so yeah, it’s definitely on purpose

Chicken, meet egg

GBBO has none of what you speak of. It is truly QUALITY television. Watch it with someone special; it will get them HOOKED

How funny was Chris Webber during that stoppage though? Spent the entire time taking a messy dump on the refs

I’m not gonna lie, I find this perspective alien and bizarre. Let’s say Richard Spencer made a game where you play a Nazi killing minorities. The gameplay is terrific, but the actual premise is utterly reprehensible. You’re saying you would buy it?

Brian: nice. As one of the pedants from yesterday, I appreciate the retitling

This is TAME compared to my daily commute. Fun fact: apparently all New Jersey drivers believe they have the right of way

As others have said, it’s the fact that careers are so short in the NFL that players are incentivized to take as much money in as short a time period as possible. But the other fact is that there’s no international league where the players could work in the event of a leaguewide strike. MLB has Japan, South Korea, and…

My first thought too. Poor Luol Deng

THIS is the trenchant commentary I was looking for. Have a star, won’t you?

I truly have no idea what you’re trying to say. Theo proved he’s the greatest GM in MLB history by winning championships with two historically unwinning teams. Going to the Cubs was a declaration of confidence in his own abilities to make decisions and get positive results.

Didn’t Texas criminalize Uber and Lyft? I thought that’s why they utterly disappeared from Austin, despite being vital to the community

Regarding how to capture that feeling of joy: is it crazy to say they could play a few games a year in a minor league stadium or something? Indianapolis is surprisingly baseball-hungry, for instance, and they’ve got a decent looking park.

Fucking EXACTLY. I’m sick of taking the high road with this monstrous subhuman

This is really interesting given that the New Yorker outed the Mercer family as the architects of Trump’s rise. What kind of communications was Rebekah Mercer having with the Russians???

Came here to say that as well. It’s a really big pet peeve of mine. I LIVED through 8 bit, and no games looked remotely this good.