And even then everyone’s always looking at their tablets.

Great points all around (and I didn’t think you were disagreeing with me, I was just expanding). There are of course many nuances which are easily lost in pithy exhortations (as I am fond of saying: “for every complex problem, there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong”).

Yeah, basically my opinion here is “as long as nobody actually dies this will be the funniest news story ever”.

Sure, but he *also* said things that resonated with people who heard the Democrats message of “everything is good and it’s just going to get better”, looked around at their lives and saw that their lives were worse than their parents and saw that their kids lives were worse than theirs (and not incorrectly - life…

Wow. That is pretty awesome...

I really don’t think you do.

Planeswalkers come into play with a number of loyalty counters (the number in the lower right). Once per turn, at sorcery speed (e.g. during a main phase w/stack empty) you can activate one ability, adding or subtracting the requisite number of loyalty counters. If loyalty goes to 0, they die. Planeswalkers can also…

This.

Having only played 8-ball/9-ball pool and never having seen Snooker played until I watched this clip, that was weird at first.

Other people’s obviously inappropriate responses notwithstanding, why click on and comment on an article about Esports if you find nothing redeeming about it? I mean, if you’re looking to have what will inevitably be a fruitless internet conversation, have at it I guess, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish.

I am not. I had no idea that the y and a were transposed until literally this minute.

Thank you for writing this!

Ugh. I promise that on some reddit sub where I dare not tread dozens of people are probably making this exact post.

There’s also a strong stripe of libertarian “free speech means I can be a dickbag without consequences” (source: I live in Mountain View).

This wins the thread. Christ.

I know what you mean. As a 43 year old who grew up in California, my early associations with the Confederate flag (and for that matter ‘Dixie’) were entirely from Dukes of Hazzard and ergo pretty much positive (“yeah, jump that car! you guys are cool!”). It took me a while to really internalize what an offensive slap…

Huh, I haven’t played baseball since little league, but I remember we were always taught to yell “ball!” if we had it or “help!” if we didn’t because “I got it!” and “you get it!” can sound a bit similar when running/yelling (especially because it’s easy to drop the I/you). I just assumed this was general practice.

But but but...why can’t they just, you know, buy cartons of juice and put them in the fridge? Also, it’s not like juice is some kind of staple - it’s soda with better PR.

What needs defending? He’s a guy who realized that there was some basic shit about how money moves around in this country that he had never understood (because he never had need to). He *correctly* surmised that *most* Americans, regardless of income level, don’t know this stuff easier and started a project to try to…

I assume you meant “aren’t” secrets. The news contains more information than anyone can possibly digest. What percentage of Americans do you think are aware of these things? If it’s more than 2% I’d be astounded.