Thanks to a panel-wide misunderstanding of Asian geography and some nimble betting work, he won.

What are your objections to the article? It seems like a fairly thoughtful analysis.

Yeah this is my issue with the whole thing. This whole “Well... eeakchually it’s not gambling...” defense is both really pedantic and hand-wavey.

Even if it’s not “gambling,” that doesn’t mean it isn’t playing on the same exact psychological appeals that gambling does. And when they give people the ability to pay actual money for the loot boxes—even children—that’s just super poor form. It makes me think back to comments that Jonathan Blow made in a game design…

You took the words from my heart and published them as an article. Thank you.

Oh god I so hope this is the opening volley in the labor battle that destroys the NFL

Just to nip this in the bud.

This is now the second time in a month that ESPN has fallen on its face while trying to discipline one of its biggest personalities for daring to talk politics on Twitter.

first guy: if you gotta declare you’re “woke” to make sure we don’t think you’re a little weird on race...you might not be woke. just one of those things, my dude.

Cant wait to get to this stage in Cuphead

This is like the time me and some buddies were driving down to Buffalo to see a Sabres game. We all met up at my buddy Aidan’s house and we were about to get in the car and, with it clearly in sight, I called Shotgun. Clear rules, right?

I can’t speak for OP, but as someone who also grew up there, all the other comments cover a lot of it, but it’s especially unpleasant if you’re, say, an under-21, non-religious, non-hyperconservative kid. There aren’t too many engaging social spaces for that type of person, and the city is kind of a cultural black…

And the North East side, no less. If this was Old Colorado City or Manitou, I’d feel bad.

“We accidentally did something good and smart, sorry about that, fixed now.”

I would love to see a larger company play a little hardball with Sony to get crossplay happening.

You know what I’m weirdly nostalgic for? Ultra-compressed, shitty videos in old computer games. I have no idea why, but there was just something about encountering a super grainy video on like, an in-game TV screen or movie projector or whatever else.

No, it’s comedy for a selective audience.

Risk is the best strategy board game you’ve ever played until you play literally any other strategy board game.

obligatory

I got to work EVO this year on the social media side and it was an amazing weekend. I think part of the appeal of FGC tournaments for me is that fighting games have a pretty simple visual language when it comes to competition: it’s simply this guy vs. this guy, represented on-screen in an equally mano a mano…