It's because the Lakers play in the Western Conference and many of their opponents have been legit contenders (Warriors, Grizzlies, Rockets, Spurs).

He was at a Japanese restaurant too, right? I bet Cesar has an Asian fetish. They're just so much nicer to him than mean old American (aka White) women! And dontcha know, Asian women have a natural predilection for awkward and losery non-Asian men?

It's about social status. In many American schools, the Greek scene determines your place in the social hierarchy. If you're not accepted and favored by the cool Greek people, you're the equivalent of a high school chess club member.

Have you seen the success rate that teams have in drafting franchise QBs? Tim Couch was once a #1 overall draft pick, as was JaMarcus Russell.

Lots of angry dudes who think that the reason they can't get laid by 8s and 9s, and why they're not starting QB for the Dallas Cowboys is because of FEMINISM.

It's symptomatic of the "devil's deal" that the public has with male professional athletes: we'll treat you like gods (if you're good), but that also means that we get to belittle and criticize you as much and as unfairly as we want.

Who said anything about people having easy control over their own preferences? But the fact remains that sexual preferences are much more malleable than sexual orientation, unless you believe that homosexuality is a choice. You just have to trace the shifting beauty standards through the different eras.

You can't compare sexual orientation with sexual preferences, unless you believe that people are influenced to be gay in the same that people were once influenced to find plump people attractive.

Better than Fallout or Fallout 3. Just the best.

Thief is probably the scariest game I've ever played, and it's not because of ghouls or hellish beasts. Just the footsteps of a guard is enough to make you freeze.

I think the difference is that Katy Perry is actually from California.

The GamerGaters can make a mod where all the victims are ugly feminists who, after getting riddled with man-bullets, rise from the dead as hot Playboy models who realize the error of their ways and sex up the misunderstood angry White male protagonist.

Yeah, I get the feeling that even though most people are prone to become hyper-hysterical when it comes to potential outbreaks. much fewer are willing to even slightly inconvenience themselves for the sake of potentially not infecting others.

Those preferences have been around for a long time, not just "nowadays." They are the natural outcome of a racist system that posits that Whites are the ideal medium between a hypermasculine Black race and a hyperfeminine Asian race.

It's the perceived loss of ability to call the shots and have everybody cater to your whims.

I don't think it's as much about having sex at all as it is about having sex with the hot girls you think you deserve.

I doubt that all of these "nurds" are people like Sam, Bill, and Neal from Freaks and Geeks.

Modification: "to a somewhat narrower group of gamers who believe women should be punished for having sex [with men other than them]."

For a sec, I thought Valbuena was the child.

The racist dig at Brianna Wu's husband just shows what abject and selfish hypocrites these "Gaters" are. Emmett Rensin (on Vox) and Devin Faraci (on Badass Digest) have already written about how trolling is a predominantly White male phenomenon that is founded on a combination of sexual frustration and fear of losing…