Right, the purity of the pop-off is what saves it for me. It’s exclusively trashing someone’s game performance and its scope is limited to the moments immediately after the match. It has almost nothing in common with the crazed hate campaigns that seem so common in the broader gaming world.

The basketball comparison is the right one, except that the straight-rounds victory was the dunk. Shit-talking during play is actually way worse, because the limited time and frantic pace of a fighting game match makes that sort of distraction potentially really damaging.

jesus christ shut up Mark Jackson.

Trumpcare,

Hail Hydra.

One of the most personally offensive things Trump has done to me is make me respect Justin Fucking Amash. He’s an Arab who’s been the target of disgusting GOP racism and he seems legitimately committed to stopping any new program, so he should be a solid anti-Trump vote most of the time. His district is (alas) so…

And if you take those drugs and they don’t work, you’d better not say anything or you’ll be sued into oblivion.

That’s not what Trumpites are referring too with “deep state;” they’re talking about a sinister cabal of career civil servants under direct orders from Democratic Party officials. And they’re being blamed for trying to make the government run when Trump wants to break it.

More simply, he’s the smug know-it-all kid you knew in middle and high school who doesn’t really know shit.

On the other hand, he hates the West Michigan Dutch Mafia (that brought us Betsy Devos) for intimating that his family were terrorists, and to the extent that he rubs their noses in losing their home district I support his thoroughgoing dickishness. His dunking on Pete Hoekstra after the 2014 primary (“I’m glad we…

I think a lot of the e-sports headlines recently have been sponsored articles by Gillette, so you’re seeing them instead of, like, Dollar Shave Club or Huckberry or whatever.

Related: No funding is available for international aid, OMB unsure why.

The progressive ones were public; the implausibly far left ones were private, which is exactly what she said in the comments you’re referring to. Her example of a private political preference she doesn’t use in her platform was single-payer.

I get that you’re trolling here, but fighting games have been played at a semi-professional level for decades at this point. It’s only in the very, very recent past that big (well, “big” by FGC standards) money has gotten involved; just a couple years ago Nintendo tried to prevent one of their games from being played…

She’s picked the best providers of appealing, marketable daytime-talkshow glop.

“Jeff Sessions” in the headline should have let you know that everything below was going to be stomach-churning-hideous.

Nah, if you say he colluded with Russia to steal the election you distract from the vital fact that Hillary Clinton sucks and the Democrats deserve to be punished for letting her win their primary. An authoritarian, expansionist foreign power having kompromat on literally every member of the executive branch is of…

The rebuttal is where political careers go to die, and the guy managed to sell the ACA to a red state. There’s no sense putting a rising star out there to become a punchline (Thirsty Marco, Jack McJindal).

If only the Democrats had the good sense to remove a majority of their voting members from the party, then they’d find a candidate with more popular support. I bet they’ll insist on letting primaries decide who runs in 2018, too!

Democrats didn’t design the US’s government structure, so they’re not the ones keeping third parties marginalized. First-past-the-post and strong executives make a two-party system the only equilibrium.