At this point, I honestly think the strategy is to drag things out to the point where Cosby dies before going to trial, not to actually win. Or at least before the verdict is read. He’s so old that he could pass away literally any day, and this trial could be extended to *years* due to the appeals. If he dies before…

Middle Dakota is real god dammit!!! :P

Here’s a good rule: If you want to be mourned after your passing, be someone in life worth mourning. People requiring others to waste energy feigning any sadness over this man’s passing make no sense to me. Death is coming for us all in the end. How about don’t use your time on earth to actively make it miserable for…

I love how we let a guy get all the way to the highest court in the land who is essentially a legal fundamentalist, the way that some hardcore Southern Baptist believes the Bible literally word for word. The argument that “the Founding Fathers didn’t write about it, so it mustn’t be” is like saying there were no…

Handjobs are the Macklemore of sexual favors.

One would hope. I’m actually surprised neither Jezebel nor Deadspin have posted anything about it.

He isn’t that kind of Christian. He’s the ‘judgy’ type of Christian. He read “Let he who is without sin throw the first stone” and said “Whelps, that’s me, better warm up my throwing arm!”

In the interest of balance, I am going to rub a chicken with a paste of butter, garlic and smoked paprika, and roast it. I shall serve it with dumplings, Brussels sprouts, and bacon. And wash it down with wine.

Yep. My feed is FULL of this. I honestly think there’s a lot of douchbros who are genuinely relieved they can still vote for an (old, white) dude and still call themselves “progressive” while rejecting a female candidate.

God bless #GamerGate and their extremely important work.

Sanders is dependent upon voter turnout with young and first time voters.

While Bernie Sanders is more appealing to me from a military spending standpoint, ultimately I cannot bring myself to vote for him.

Danny Glover has a stand up bit where he asks why women don’t have the crazy ex stories that men do. Then he says it is because the women are dead. In the version of his act that I heard, the audience groaned, and he responded with "What? Too real?"

I think “for reasons of trivial offense” needs to be added to the list of aggravations.

The real problem that I see, is that MOBAs are not fun to watch, and that is the genre that seems to be being pushed, hard. Counterstrike and Halo, ok, possibly - but LOL, HOTS, etc - these are not good esports to try to break into the mainstream with.

Agreed. Fighting games are the only genre that has a chance as far as I can tell. The analog with boxing/MMA is there. The opportunity for narrative hooks like win streaks, rivalries, trash talk, etc. are all there. But again, they’re very balkanized communites. MMA fans will buy a Floyd Mayweather PPV, but do Street…

This is a great point, and points to another issue with esports coverage and goals like “becoming the ESPN of esports”. Not only do people tend to focus on the competitive side of games they play, but there really doesn’t seem to be much of an “esports audience” the way that traditional sports have a lot of people who…

Esports will never have mainstream appeal. At least not in North America. No one is going to want to learn a dozen different sets of “rules” because there are a dozen different games played competitively, and then learn a dozen more when new games replace old ones.

It’s possible but it really would depend on the game. The problem I see it often facing is that most esport games are VERY hard to follow if you don’t have a preexisting knowledge of the game. I can look at a football game at a glance and see the score, I can tell which way the ball is going. And the overall play…

Imagine a venn diagram with two groups. “Group 1: People Who Play X” and “Group 2: People Who Watch X”. In traditional sports, the more popular sports, Group 2 is huge, but Group 1 is small. Very few people play football, basketball, baseball or hockey, but millions of people watch it. And that gap is different for…