This is unfortunately not a simple answer, but the gross oversimplification is that copyright breaks down in two two separate rights: distribution and reproduction. Your game license comes with limited reproduction rights to install it. It comes with no distribution rights. Steam’s does, but with caveats. Apparently…

Can you imagine if he’d agreed to throw out a first pitch? If this had happened while he was in the middle of the field walking to the mound with no escape... no way for the cameras to just awkwardly cut away.... he might seriously have refused to throw the ball and walked off the field. 

Let’s be clear what’s going on here: the Garden added 500 new seats not to improve the fan experience, but to make money: tens of thousands of dollars in additional revenue for every game. It did so knowing it would make the fan experience that much worse.

You’re right to be surprised; Petchesky is doing the classic Deadspin move of bitching about something without actually doing the intellectual work of reporting on it correctly. The 500 extra seats were almost exclusively added in new seating areas; only 20 extra seats total were added to the lodge and balcony…

Since 2001—your cutoff, not mine—the Patriots are also 30-10 in the postseason against only the top teams in the conference/NFL. That’s a 75% winning rate, which prorates out to a 12-4 season (only over three times the sample size), which is a great record by any standard in any division, in any conference.

You’ve obviously got an axe to grind with iPhones. And that’s fine, this service is not for you. Just like the $699 iPhone is, quite clearly, not for you. It’s for the hundreds of millions of current and future iPhone users that exceed all three of those current consoles combined, because everyone carries a phone and…

Totally unsponsored review: I have the older, slightly less powerful model of this pressure washer (which lacks the improved brushless motor) and it was still pretty good at that same price.

Totally unsponsored review: I have the older, slightly less powerful model of this pressure washer (which lacks the…

My iPhone X on the upgrade plan had a visible crack in the screen. I returned it by mail, and as I recall I got an email asking me whether I wanted to take it back (at which point I would have to pay it off and own it outright) or pay the $29 Applecare+ deductible which would apply to the screen repair. I paid the…

The upgrade plan, or “the Apple treadmill” as I like to call it, doesn’t really reduce your cost in any way. It’s the same price as buying a phone and an Applecare+ plan.

Could not more highly recommend you fix this issue. Mad Max: Fury Road is a strange as hell movie that is awesome in lots of ways. 

Seems pretty obvious the post is about Watson getting the job done and Houston’s defense blowing it.

The only reason they’d take that cap hit is they gave him the big guaranteed money before he’d played for the team. They gave a big contract to the wrong guy—which happens all the time around the league. So then they decided to try and fuck him on his guarantees and then cut him. It was the Raiders decision the whole…

The issue is nobody forced the Raiders to (a) trade for a guy who didn’t want to be there, (b) sign a guy to a big deal who didn’t seem to want to be there, (c) void the guarenteed money in his deal and think that wasn’t going to cause some problems, and (d) eventually release him.

Gaslighting is incredibly common from abusers. The lack of empathy and respect for the other person keeps you from giving a shit about being honest with them or about their personal or emotional well being.

I mean, BAD-FAITH TROLLING has basically been on the Deadspin unrecognized secret article tag menu for ages. And you know that’s exactly what this is, given that they tagged it “MEDIA MELTDOWNS” when the article is about the fact that there currently is silence and has been no meltdown.

You left a very different theater than I did.

And on The Root, of all fucking places, to be that ignorant of other cultures that he didn’t even realize the acronym might not be in English...

other than being spectacularly illegal and making Adam Silver cry, the move really has no discernible downside

I didn’t see your comment on the Supermax back then, but I’ve always felt that the issue with the NBA salary structure is not the cap–it’s maxes at all. Why wasn’t a team free to offer Lebron (when he went to Miami or back to Cleveland, both times unquestionably the best player in the league by a large margin) half…

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