I think you just hit on what makes it such a genius idea. A whole bunch of basic features, unique only in that they’re deployed in randomized combinations, on something that mostly exists as a gaudy status symbol?

Keanu is just happy to be making people happy, even if it’s because they’re a bunch of internet perverts modding video games to perform questionable sexual activities with his digital form. 

Stroll is not particularly good, but pointing out that he’s 11 points behind Vettel mostly speaks to a pair of anomalous results in Baku and Hungary (which wasn’t counted) for Vettel. Stroll has 7 points finishes; Vettel has 4 official, 5 if you include Hungary. In races where both finished, Stroll has finished above…

I can barely show my face in real FM circles because I have only gotten Crewe to the pinnacle of world football, rather than leading FC Andorra/the Andorra national team to a CL/World Cup double. Oxford’s like playing on story mode.

CK has so many moving parts that it has a rather rich and storied history of minor details creating incredibly silly knock-on effects due to interactions between various elements, so I don’t doubt what they’re saying. CKII famously had a bug where, if you had too many Greek people in the game world, they would spend…

A Changli. Because then the odds are much lower that they’ll feel the need to PIT maneuver me into hell or to shoot up the vehicle. They’ll just walk up alongside, push it over, and grab me. 

An absolute classic of the genre: a self-indulgent screed about nothing beyond your desire to demonstrate just how pure your politics are.

- You can make excess kids champions/knights and they’ll die super easy in big battles.

I could barely hang with the AI above medium difficulties in IV, and I played a lot of it. My last game of VI, I eliminated every enemy city on the largest map by 700-something AD on Immortal.

I have money that I really want to lose, but I’m not sold. Do you have some sort of completely irrelevant personal hook that will sell you as a future Giant of Technology? Do you have a signature item of clothing? A strange voice? Do you show alarming signs of an untreated personality disorder? These are the things I…

I have a 2010 Mazda 3, and it has spent nearly a decade in real-by-God Canadian winters. There isn’t the slightest bit of body rust on it. Floor’s fine, subframe’s fine. Had to replace the rear shock towers because they were rusting, but that’s cheap and to be expected after that much use. Muffler will probably need…

There are times when 3;45pm weekday games aren’t so bad. 

I’m sure that you can find plenty of places that will tell you that free helicopter rides are fun and cool and it’s nice to see the skyline from the sky. What really is there to say by way of review beyond what was said...namely, that it’s really fast compared to a cab, and will cost you $200? The only logistical…

It could have been worse.

Bennett can do something: Bennett can state that it’s absurd that, in a sport awash with money, he as the coach is the only person actually kicking in money to assist the players in any capacity after they leave the program. He can point out that it’s a bit crazy to have a $500k ‘career development pool’ for…

Simple. It involves a harness, a poncho, and drains in every wall and the floor. 

I was the guy who was once in a position to make mistakes (and did). Now I supervise the people who make mistakes, because those errors were considered in context. It’s remarkable how much more perspective you have on routine errors when you’ve been there and understand how those errors come to pass.

They weren’t going to have success this year. Signing expensive players in seasons where you’re going to be bad isn’t wise, because the value in most free agent deals is front-loaded: you’re burning the best season when it doesn’t matter, and paying more for the privilege later.

Yeah, the Jays’ committed payroll next year, including minimum salaries and likely arb awards, is $40m-ish (assuming Galvis and Giles are traded), and a large part of that is Tulo. They’ll have plenty of money over the next couple years to build out the roster, plus one of the best groups of young talent in baseball.…

Because they made the playoffs with the oldest team in baseball; most of the members of those teams aren’t even competent major league players anymore. They also got rid of a lot of their farm system to facilitate those runs. They were going to be really bad for a spell whether they tried to rebuild or not.