Funny, I did exactly this same thing. The All Digital was on sale for $150 over Black Friday, so I made my first Black Friday purchase ever to own my first Xbox since I lost an old 360 to a fire years ago. I am also rarely compelled by Microsoft exclusives as a Nintendo lifer, but I’d been dying to play MGSV and…

Metal Gear Solid 5 baby.

Uh, did you just say seeing a Mario platformer narrative through is the point? Spoilers: Bowser captures Princess Peach, Mario collects maguffins until he can rescue her. Odyssey was magnificent and contained Nintendo creativity, joy, and depth of Mario’s movement control in spades. Just because your kid liked…

How did you have a three week old baby a couple months ago?

Please read this interview with Raphael Bob-Waksberg in Vulture, which really nicely sheds light on what you said in your second paragraph. Sounds to me like he knew where he was going, but he happened into nearly perfect circumstances, without which he freely acknowledges the show might’ve never gotten a second…

So two people who have nothing to do with the story or the medical field? What exactly is your point with this helpful reminder?

I vacillate back and forth on whether Rocket League belongs on this list personally. I’ve hit my highest highs (lol) and lowest lows trying to navigate this twitchy-ass game while stoned. Sometimes I find the zone, others I’m 8 steps behind wondering if I ever knew how to play it. Regardless of my performance however…

Does Rocket League count as sticking to sports? Asking in case my other favorite Gizmodo site is suddenly asked to “stick to nerd shit” by HERB-LOOKIN-ASS JIM SPANFELLER. Someone really ought to lift Paul Maidment’s balls from in front of his eyes and show him the page traffic data. Fuck. 

Jim Spanfeller is a fuckin HERB

If you are ever sitting behind one Jim Spanfeller on a plane, you can get him to stop reclining by breaking your complimentary pretzels into sharp pieces and repeatedly sticking them deep into his ear canal. Fuck Jim Spanfeller.

I think the same thing about Ian Eagle, but I like his work. He calls both college and NBA games, including all the Nets games for YES, NFL games, tennis and I think he guest called some MLB games. That guy is everywhere.

This is the first time I’ve ever read the phrase Fuck that to describe gameplay in a review, so thank you for that, I love seeing reviewers take a strong stance on these copy/paste microtransaction-riddled messes. Granted I’m biased and seeking this sort of disparagement actively for these sorts of games, I loathe the…

I swear by the simple pleasure of rolling a joint and bringing a little tube along in case I want to cap it. I live with a non-smoking SO, so I take a walk around the neighborhood when I want to smoke at home, I have as much of the joint as I want, put the rest in the tube and finish it later. Dabs and vapes are cool…

Drew for the love of God man, stop buying weed vapes in DC. They are wonderfully convenient, no doubt, but when DC legality is in such a gray area, I cant help but worry. The site I used to figure out who to buy from here, run by a lovely guy known as the Gentleman Toker, recently took the entire site offline because…

Very much a real thing, somehow. There are prize money competitions and a small but dedicated set of “pros” who make a living off the content they produce and competing. This guy is probably the most famous: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/sports/basketball/jordan-kilganon-best-dunk-youtube.html

I guess given speed climbing is a relatively new discipline they’ll just have to live with being shut out, it just seems like a strange way to introduce these sports to the Olympics. The purpose is to see the best athletes in their narrow discipline compete against each other, though I concede that a number of other…

I’ve now read the format and it does sound cool, they frame it like a climbing triathalon. Sounds like fun for the viewer, but I can’t help but think the competitors would object to being asked to reach outside their discipline. Or they’re just happy to be at the Olympics at all.

How the hell are they planning to combine climbing disciplines for a medal?? The superficial resemblance line needs more prominence here, these are entirely different sports. This is like asking pro dunkers and NBA players to compete for the same medal, there’s a bit of skill overlap because they both have to get the…

They weathered an electric start from Corbin, who struck out 10 batters in the first three innings

Plays the game the right way y’know, not like these yahoos out here grandstanding with their dabs and their flosses or whatever the kids are up to these days. Corporal punishment and prayer back in school, that’s what I say. What were we talking about again?