Not a Pokemon player but have plenty of experience with similar games (MTG, Hearthstone) and honestly, Pokemon is late in jumping on this. MTG switched to untradeable five-card packs when Arena launched, and Hearthstone has always been that way, the obvious (business) superiority of which is probably what spurred…

whoops, wrong article lol

Most of these are pretty clearly not deliberately racist. But the optics are terrible, the cards aren’t relevant in trade or tournament play, and corporations are all tripping over themselves to make empty gestures to hide their complicity in structural racism

They forgot my personal favorite, https://scryfall.com/card/mir/278/reparations

Or, y’know, maybe it was heartfelt? You’re robbing people of their agency when you just assume their gestures were performative. Maybe it’s possible to feel empathy for someone who made a tragic but obvious mistake and is going to spend the next ten years in jail.

FWIW, the bird in the Falcons logo has its foot sticking out because its silhouette is supposed to form a stylized ‘F’.

It’ll be a milestone in television history, if only for its massive spectacle and budget and the size of its audience, and the influence it had on everything around it. For my money, getting three awesome seasons out of a TV series is a momentous accomplishment—most turn to shit long before that—and they had at least…

It may have been the right choice for a series of massive novels and the wrong choice for a television series, even if its creators had made the right decisions every step of the way. Totally different media, totally different constraints.

To be fair, HBO series usually have different endings than their source material, to keep things from being utterly predictable. Although having the whole roadmap ahead of time certainly couldn’t have hurt.

I think what’s confusing people is the fact that multiplication and division are equivalent and share a precedence level. It’s definitely 9.

It’s 9. Left-to-right, and division and multiplication share the same level of precedence, because ultimately they’re the same operation.

This is the quintessential AV Club comment.

The game is bad, though. At least Apples to Apples requires a modicum of creativity. Cards Against Humanity is basically “who has the card with the raunchiest dick joke on it?”

I tried to read this article, but the glare of the Commissioner’s and Lombardi trophies is just too bright and it’s hurting my eyes.

This specific incident is ridiculous, but it’s unfair to pin the whole feud on the Hillary people. The leftists didn’t do a damn thing to keep Trump out of office, and then spent the next year trying to engineer a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. There’s bad blood on both sides, because both sides acted like…

Robert Kraft paid for 100% of the construction costs, a rare instance of an NFL owner privately financing the construction of a stadium.

She’s right. It won’t pass the Senate. Its wildly aspirational tone is already being misinterpreted, both willfully and accidentally, by hucksters and rubes alike. I don’t think anyone who writes for this site has paused to consider that establishment Democrats might know what they’re doing, or have a better handle on…

I’ve heard at least a dozen people repeat this stupid canard today. This “insight” is based on what, exactly?

Taxpayer subsidies?

I grew up 15 minutes from Brookline. My late aunt was his friend in grade school. Acquaintance with Trump notwithstanding, Bob Kraft is one of the classiest individuals in pro sports, and is something of a folk hero around here. It was a foregone conclusion that the Patriots were headed to St. Louis until he swooped…