Come ON! Deicide Huxtable deserves this win. C’mon folks, it’s not decide, it’s DEICIDE. A seminal heavy metal band, and also an awesome word:

The Night King can win for all I care - and he may very well could. No one said this Song of Ice and Fire is meant to have a happy ending. It sure as shit didn’t have a happy beginning.

He started at 50% of all that. Still, if you can do 50 push-ups, 50 sit-ups, 50 squats, and a run a 5k every day then you’re in pretty good physical condition.

Really? No way? Not sure you’ve ever tried actually sticking to a workout routine. You can see a noticeable difference in two weeks of working out 4-5x a week.

Excellent piece Mike. I’ve really never read anything quite like it. I feel like most writing about NDEs and dreams is always bogged down in pseudoscience and/or religious interpretations, it’s fascinating to see it presented so straightforwardly and earnestly. Thank you for sharing this and best wishes on your…

To borrow a phrase from Deadspin’s commentors: Always Highlight Truthers.

“I know I’ve beaten this drum a couple of times before on previous hard runs in the past”

I’m usually more into action games, but hearing so much about Return of the Obra Dinn, I gave it a go (it helped that it’s pretty cheap, too), and I had a blast! Really enjoyed going through it with my girlfriend, bouncing ideas to solve things. I thought the music was great, in particular!

Which is funny because widespread Google fiber connections would be helpful in this new endeavor.

As with all Streaming platforms, how do they work when you have piss poor internet? Poorly or not at all. There is no other alternative than, Poorly or not at all.

So online required 24/7, no lending games, no used games, basically the original Xbox One Microsoft wanted to launch which then got shit on by everyone. Now the question is, will consumers shit on this, or eat it up even though they were against it years ago?

I’ll take the over, I mean somehow Google+ somehow was kept on life support for like 7 years.

Yup.  Given the lifespan and commitment of and to Google Fiber, I’m not holding my breath for this to be any different.

I give it two years of being basically underused and forgotten before they shut it down unceremoniously, as is the Google way.

Why are you assuming everything in your comment... nobody is going to be walking around talking like a cholo gangster or calling everyone bimbos.... and where is everyone being crude racial stereotypes? There’s mexican gangs, theres black gangs, there’s white gangs, there’s white characters, black characters, asian…

“Some of the stuff on these streams is bad. People role-playing as gang members regularly draw on crude racial stereotypes for their accents and storylines.”

Every time I read anything about this game I want to love and play it, but then I do and it sucks.

basically 8 bit EVE Online

Who the people who made the game that brings more collectivejoy in a single minute of existence then most people do in an entire week? Or the streamer who has managed to monetize what he loves doing and provides a service that evidentially also provides happiness to many people?

i don’t think you understand dude.

Buying a game on launch day isn’t a “right”. He can simply wait.