Why do you have to have such performative contempt for people who just want to get the full value for their tickets? I 100% agree that coaches need to be free to make choices about when to rest their places. I also think that fans have a right to be upset about this stuff. Why do you treat basic human empathy for…

I was so bummed out by the comments on the last post on this issue. I agree that resting stars is a fact of life in the NBA and that teams have a right to do it. I also have a lot of sympathy for fans that paid outrageous ticket prices to watch bench players. It seems easy to me to believe both things. But almost…

Yeah, everything was fine in the Obama era, where there was no assassination of Muslims attending weddings, rampant expansion of the theater of operations of our endless wars, prisoners rotting in cages in Cuba without charges, limitless warrantless surveillance, black men being systematically targeted for harassment…

Is it possible to express your support for the right of teams to sit players without engaging in open-mouthed derision and mockery of people who just want to see their favorite players play? Performatively shitting on fans doesn’t make you a sophisticate. It makes you an asshole.

I simultaneously agree that teams should have the right to rest their players and also think that all of the treatment of fans in these comments as ignorant losers is really indicative of why “smart” sports culture is so fucked right now.

what was it originally!

I predict this game will become the kind of year-after-year sandbox tinkering platform that GTA V has become.

I’d dig a Kotaku article on the Civ 6 backlash - you can check the Steam reviews for what I’m talking about, and it’s floating around out there too. You guys have been pretty uniformly positive, but I for one agree that the AI seems just about broken in fundamental ways. I also agree with those who say that the city…

Gently, or you’ll end up with an Alex P. Keaton scenario.

crazy thought: you can think that Jose Fernandez showed terrible judgement and be mad at him about this and find his death tragic and miss him

Basketball is more fun when there’s less homogeny

Exactly so.

A fun activity is to go back and find the times Bill Simmons said that Elfrid Payton could be the next Jason Kidd.

AI in general is the biggest, most obvious shortcoming with Skyrim. I’ve often felt it was such a shame that such a huge and beautiful world always feels so empty and lifeless thanks to the limits of programming for creating realistic characters.

You’d think Pau would start, yeah?

If you’d like a comprehensive history of how the CIA’s utter immorality has been historically matched by its serial incompetence, I highly recommend Timothy Weiner’s meticulous history Legacy of Ashes.

Are there any arguments in sports that you don’t think are fully divided between complete idiots and the people who are completely correct? It bums me out so much that every argument in basketball plays out this way online - there’s no legitimate disagreements, just idiots on one hand and the enlightened on another.…

I thought the second half of Jessica Jones was dreadful, personally.

Not surprised but disheartened by all of the incredibly naive takes on science as an unerring guide to human political action going on in the comments here. Politics didn’t just lead scientists to grapple with the legacy of Hiroshima; it led them to develop the bombs, too. Politics in science brought eugenics as well…