They also said Clinton had a 99% chance of winning Michigan in the primary.

Can’t wait to play the army that beat the Germans!

I was really surprised by how uniformly positive professional reviews of Civ 6 were because the AI has been trash. I know people always say Civ games take time to get good but as someone who’s played since the original I’ve never felt that the AI was as bad as it has been in 6. Hopefully this is a effective overhaul.

But how can those necessarily subjective criteria ever be subject to a fair outside review in a way that stands aside from artistic value? When we rightfully say that we need better representation in media, we necessarily say that this is something different from the artistic value of that media. A piece of art can be…

National. Single. Payer. Now. Medicare for all.

Globalization is a fake internationalism predicated on the continued existence of national borders that perpetuate inequalities in living standards and working standards; it’s a fake internationalism. We need real internationalism - a total elimination of the borders that separate workers and create unequal labor…

They are just saying “this is fucked up.”

what does that even mean

these fans have the most egregious sense of entitlement when it comes to everything after that. Lebron doesn’t owe you, guy in the 400 section who scrapped a couple hundred bucks together to see Cavs @ Clippers.

“Teams have no responsibility to those fans” is almost a self-parody of the “enlightened,” too-smart-for-its-own-good sports snob mentality.

It costs $500 for a family of four to attend the average NBA game. The median weekly income in this country is $844. But yes, those fans are so entitled for wanting to get some value for what they paid for.

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…

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.

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