What I don’t get is, why have we not had similar focus on Kobe’s rape trial during this hagiographic retirement tour? Have people not read his police interviews or apology statement?

The shit White does in this one I’m talking about is unreal. You can tell the judges just don’t understand the dunks — like they don’t really process what he just did.

Lee had some moves! Some cool stuff like throwing it over his own back shoulder.

Diablo without clicking a mouse is sacrilege.

Greatest dunk contest I ever saw: high school dunk contest between James White and David Lee. They both were great, but White was robbed on a couple dunks and Lee won it.

ACC:China was my pick for game of the year last year, and I’m loving India. It’s awesome how they’ve switched up the art style for each iteration while still maintaining this abstract, “living painting” vibe.

Part of the problem here is that people have responded to one annoying politicized way of viewing sports by creating a completely opposite annoying politicized way of viewing sports. I get the impulse. But it leaves the actual fun part of sports kidnapped by this endless, exhausting battle to squeeze every outcome…

“All the data” = two small-n studies of dubious methodology from a decade ago.

I have some friends who were really upset because they thought that his victory would somehow be a big win for racial justice, or something. And as much as I get wanting to shut up people who were stupidly mad about a young, amazing athlete having fun, this is why you shouldn’t read so much political content into…

So you always say. With total confidence. Which is always the attitude of people who justify piracy: that literally no one has ever pirated a game that they would have otherwise paid for. Which...

It would be so much easier to parse this run if McKesson would be led cagey about whether he embraces the same terrible neoliberal politics of most TFA people. But he hasn’t been very forthcoming.

OK, number one, why does a grown man need someone to take him back and forth from the bathroom?

Corporate antiracism at its finest: sorry we poisoned a majority black city’s water, but on the plus side we didn’t give away these t-shirts.

you do you, kid

I’m loving Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, just as I did its predecessor, ACC: China.

yuck

So I imagine it’ll turn out this guy is a scumbag and he’ll get tried for this murder, but, uh, that’s an awful lot to call an “obvious conclusion.” Kind of exactly the leap to judgment we’re trying to avoid in reforming this here carceral state.

The thing is that Hinkie stans are the kind of people who would rather say “I told you so” than to win their battles. So everything is set up perfectly: the new-look Sixers will draft Ben Simmons and he’ll be amazing, the team will actually achieve not-garbage status, and the Hinkie truthers will say “SEE! The process…

I’ve really enjoyed these podcasts, thanks.