But imagine if this was used for good instead of evil! Analyzing individual player trends to match them with players with compatible play styles, or complimentary role preferences, instead of simple win-loss elo rating! Putting players into matches that they are likely to enjoy, or dropping them loot that matches…

Look, maybe you can stomach Interdimensional Cable (most can’t), but it certainly under any stretch of the imagination isn’t what you suggest to people to give them an idea of what the show is like. Like, in “Rick and Morty’s Mindblowers” they even joke about how at least it isn’t another Interdimensional Cable...

No, it isn’t.

Yes and no. Yes, the $600 hammer is an urban legend. No, the phenomenon it represents isn’t. In 2014 the coast guard was expanding housing in my hometown of Kodiak, during a freeze on new construction nation wide. To build 10 duplexes (for a total of 20 new homes), they spent $19.5 Million. That is not typical of…

This was really the only pvp shooter I ever got into... so much more fun and lighthearted than all the other grimdark Battlefields!

I had a note from my mom that I didn’t have to either... which always left me feeling smug and self satisfied, not frightened that a teacher would physically attack me. I’m still surprised despite everything when I come across new stories like this that expose how white privilege has been at work in my life.

When I moved to LA from Alaska, I couldn’t understand how anyone wore anything... much less how anyone went down on anyone! Constant ball soup! Then I realized you’re supposed to blast your AC and constantly stay indoors or in a well conditioned car, and that only Poors and Exercise People went outside during daytime…

I don’t understand what this is but its my new everything.

To talk about how important community feedback is, and then in the next breath express surprise over the near universal panning that the revised art for FFV and VI received... well, it doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence about what channels that feedback is going to be effectively communicated through. Dont push me…

Secretary is a great film and helped me (briefly) save my first long term relationship, don’t you dare drag it into this! Leave Maggie alone!

Lot of arm chair child psychologists here. I’ve worked with juvenile justice, read a bit about it here and there, and worked on several cases involving violent juvenile crime. Never come across an expert yet that holds the opinion that kids under 18 are developed enough intellectually and emotionally to be held to the…

Maybe. My ideas about what sort of racists lurked out there has unfortunately changed a lot in the last six months, and it seems there’s a lot more bigotry out there than I’d ever imagined. I’m not an expert on racism or homophobia or sexism by any stretch of the imagination, and it could be that this is the tip of an…

Yup, sounds like Court and Congress really should have drawn the bright line at food preparation, not eating on the premises. Maybe they’ll update that!

My position is not that Papa John’s is a restaurant, my position is that restaurants are public accommodations while bakeries are not, according to federal law. You sound like a real expert on Papa Johns, so I will concede your point: sounds like a Papa Johns could probably get away with discrimination.  

Unfortunately, those are both good reasons for why we find it so difficult to get rid of old assholes like Young. He’s been in office forever, and is pretty well connected and chairs some important committees. And when you’ve got a young, poorly populated, expensive state like Alaska with fewer representatives than…

Don Young is a fucking troglodyte, and we are all very embarrassed by him. He has been rude to me and my family personally on multiple occasions, and always manages to find a way to make agreeable positions (such as the one he was advocating for during that clip) sound very disagreeable indeed. He makes a great case…

I agree with you about what “should” happen. I guess I just weigh the likelihood of the worst case scenarios on both ends of the spectrum differently... do I think it’s likely that we’ll ever go back to being a country where entire classes of people are refused services by the majority of vendors? Nah, not really...…

Not if they’re attached to a gas station. I’m getting tired of this.

Look, I’m not writing a fucking brief just to vindicate myself to a bunch of assholes on the internet, but let me give it a shot. Congress and the Supreme Court both thought it prudent to stop short of lumping all businesses together as public accommodations, and instead drew the line at those businesses that play…

“No State shall...pass any...law impairing the obligation of contracts.” There isn’t an explicit ‘right to contract’ or ‘right to do business’ in the constitution, but for those who believe it exists (and I’d wager there’s a few in the Court right now), that’s part of it.