"My problem, is that these heavy animations tend to feel like input lag. Your button press initiates an animation, rather than an action." Can't agree more.

I haven't played the full game, but I've had a few matches of the demo.

Oh yeah. And not just in PA, it's everywhere. I know first hand of someone who had a strong opiate addiction going. His dealer basically told him that he'd be happy to keep selling him hundreds of various pills every week, but heroin is cheaper and gets the job done quicker. It's how most people get hooked on heroin.

Not even close. In 2010 the weight of the average American woman was 166.2 lbs.

It's so flipping bizarre not being able to pick up beer or wine while I'm grocery shopping. No booze, guys, but should you want fireworks?! THOSE you can have.

I spent my formative years on my mother's farm in Southwestern PA, and I still think of it as absolute paradise. The Alleghenies are, to me, the most eerie and hauntingly beautiful region on the East Coast. That being said, and despite my tender, ardent, indulgent love for all things PA, LOOKIT THIS GODDAMN BILLBOARD…

Research has shown that the market for heroin and meth is driven in no small part by people who got addicted to prescription opiates. When their prescription runs out, or if the cost of obtaining legit meds is too expensive, they turn to street drugs.

On the plus side "silver lining", cheap heroin is what is keeping "krokodil" from flooding the American markets. My family has always had a running bet as to who would bring us the zombie apocalypse first, the drug cookers or modern medicine. I was sure our hospital was incubating the next uber plague, but then we had…

Ahhh I have really mixed feelings about all of the PA hate going down in this article and the comments. On the one hand: everything you posted is true and it is all terrible. On the other hand: I grew up in Amish country, and I have so much affection in my heart for that conservative shithole. I remember when our town…

Um, beer is WAY cheaper here than in NYC. I've bought beer in both places.

When I was young my mother was offered a farm in central PA... She turned down a free farm because "There wouldn't have been anything for you or your brother to do other than drugs in the barn."

While I like mocking central PA as much as the next gal, this is so not just a pennsyltucky issue. Heroin use is up all over the place, and our efforts to deal with it are ridiculously inadequate.

Use of heroin is increasing all over the country because recently severe restrictions have been placed on obtaining prescription painkillers. People get addicted to painkillers because they are in a lot of pain and doctors over-prescribe them until a person is addicted. Now someone who is addicted can't get their…

Malachi McCourt described it as letting go of the two buckets if shit you're carrying around, because you can't grab anything better if you're carrying a bucket of shit in each hand. It doesn't mean absolution.

Thank you, that's an excellent point I didn't even think of.

That's basically the process. When I was in HS in New England, there was an Oxycontin problem. Eventually pharmacies were getting burglarized and wouldn't stock it, and also it's expensive. So when I ended up back there during the recession in 2009, people in my age group were on heroin. In fact, when I was in…

Do they have a high addiction rate to Oxycodone, because I've read people with that addiction turn to heroin since it's cheaper and easier to get plus it's an opiate.

Avoiding fish because of fear of mercury exposure may actually be more harmful than eating it. This is because fish is very high in selenium which binds mercury. Most fish has so much selenium that it will bind whatever mercury is in the fish with enough left over to help protect against exposure from other sources.

god you're stupid

I don't take that as homophobia. I take that as a challenge to Michael Sam.