I think the most damning thing is that ESPN.com doesn’t have a page for AAF.

Honest question: why just the racial faux pas?

This illustrates how “reparations for slavery” is a terrible way to phrase the argument.

We have plenty of evidence that groups of people aren’t starting at the same point. Making it a case because of history opens up the far-right changing the narrative to try to argue stuff like this, and we don’t get to discuss the…

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

but how does talking directly at you make any new *storytelling* difference? Sure a new tell for when an NPC is lying might be novel, but it’s still just a type of user prompt. Similarly, we have had lots of ways to show damage and some games (Uncharted comes to mind) have novel ways of not needing a bar on a HUD to…

I’m not sure VR is going to affect the style of storytelling much. It’s like how people didn’t stop painting when they invented photography, it’s just a different display.

so of the Novel/Novella lists, what’s worth reading?

(warning: gaming rant follows....)

there’s a world of difference between fighting for civil rights, and being held to a different standard of any advocacy because of ethnicity.

I think what reconciles that is that broadcasting is not reporting. In fact, calling a game is pretty close to just being editorializing.

Thoughts and prayers and walls.

(Only bothering to reply to make sure you’re not putting words in my mouth.)

Going year to year would be crazy in a team sport. If the club has a bad year, if no one else in the lineup can get on base to get you RBI, if the manager is an idiot who keeps pulling you after 5 2/3, these things all mess up the perceived value you’re arguing for.

It’s amazing how black people are held to such a higher standard than white people.

I’m sure the wall would have prevented this.

It also might be an emergency because something else was grabbing the news cycle. Funny how these crazy things happen right when there’s talk of impeachment.

This morning when I read that the justice department had pondered the 25th in the wake of the Comey firing, I had foolishly asked how he was going to generate a distracting story to shift the news cycle.

This man seems to not have noticed that when the kneeling started Kaepernick had already been demoted to a backup in favor of Blain Gabbert.

Here is the resistance’s most daring pilot, Poe Dameron. This... is not his story.

Do you find it strange that his merciless legions were nowhere near Starkiller when it got attacked?