A great many, given the remaining propoganda/statues and Communist Party. His actions? Substantially fewer.

Indeed, it could be more prudent to speculate which esports no one has conceived of yet that your Gen Z child will root for in the 2030s. Weird times we live in.

Fully 60% of the world’s population lives in Asia and your list is two figures from Christianity and three Americans. I’ll concede its a funny theoretical question, but come on. Where is my man Genghis Khan? That guy literally controlled land from eastern Europe to China to India. Surely many people know and knew his…

You ever hear the term “boofing”?

Girlfriends sometimes says, “Oh honey no!” to refer to a lady doing something embarrassing. Not even directed at me and I get worked up on behalf of this person I don’t know from the pure, white-hot condescension. Love her.

Can’t believe I forgot chief, wonderful addition to the affection/insult term index. 

My favorite insults of this non-expletive variety are the sort a grandfather might use to refer affectionately to his grandson, like “sport”, “pal” or “champ”. Call someone an asshole and odds are they let it go, but there is something infuriating and delightful about the condescension of being told, “Alright, ease up…

Surreptitious murder and a Chinese business dinner are basically the same thing, so you’ve hit the nail on the head here. I too have sampled both ends of the baijiu spectrum, and even as a man of Chinese descent who would love to see more aspects of Chinese culture find a home in the US, I am dim on the prospect of…

I get where you’re coming from but the statement that this doesn’t affect anyone else isn’t true, at least not in the aggregate. There is real cost in healthcare, especially for those who end up with medical emergencies. Soda is rarely going to be the sole factor, but the research seems to show it is a strong…

I die a little bit inside every time I hear Mark Jackson say, “you know this is a make-or-miss league”. “MAMA! There goes that man” is deeply meh, but stating the rules of the game like it’s a profound observation makes me irrationally angry in a way I can’t describe. 

lol nary

Jesus, leave it to Nintendo fans to see the company make an all-time classic, absolutely enthralling game that made a concerted effort to grow beyond the constraints of the formula, and wish they’d just go back to the old formula.

This aged extraordinarily poorly.

It’s fascinating and encouraging to see these more “niche” (at least to certain parts of the world) sports start to take off outside the western world. I worked for GoPro in China for a summer, and it was very interesting to see a company so entrenched in niche action sports try to market itself to a country full of…

The ending of Mass Effect 3. So many choices, so much unparalleled video game world building and storytelling, only to reduce your 100+ hours over three games to three different colors of the same beam and a few different still images. That such an amazing series went out with such a whimper, and then followed it up…

This is a point that doesn’t get brought up nearly enough, I knew this was true but until I read your comment it didn’t fully dawn on me how amazing that is. Brewer and Noah are both capital “w” Washed, barely clinging to roster spots on bad teams after getting jettisoned multiple times each. Al has arguably played…

Everything Gettleman says brings me back to any Desus & Mero clip imitating Mike Francesca talking about a guy who, “plays the right way, scrappy, blue collar kid”.

I’m extraordinarily impressed with your ability to write about these dreams, and in such detail. Baring parts of your subconscious, ugly parts and all, has to be terrifying, as does reliving some of the less pleasant dream-memories.

“mostly never actually” is an awkward phrase to read

“Sends the wrong message to children”. Having nipples is bad...?