Exactly, it’s awful for the derankers’ opponents when the derankers are going down (getting stomped for almost the entire game until they throw at the end) and going back up (getting stomped for the entire game). People who do things like deranking are toxic to online communities, since they make everyone else’s games…

In my experience, there are two main kinds of people who play games to excess: people who are going through a stressful time and use it as an escape to avoid their overwhelming responsibilities and people who are legitimately addicted, and it’s important to distinguish the two, since the treatments are totally…

Yeah, I remember when MJ walked off into the sunset after winning the second three-peat with that last minute shot. What a great ending to one of the best careers and teams in basketball history.

Glad he didn’t ruin it by going to an entirely different city, playing in a mediocre side, and seeing his skills and…

If she looks uncomfortable, you can always ask “hey, can I get your help with this?” or “hey, can you look over this email before I send it?”. If she doesn’t want the interaction with her unbidden guests, she’ll take you up on it.

There’s nothing wrong with saying no to stuff you want now in favor of stuff you want long-term. That’s called discipline.

The messages a video game sends may be more important to you, but they’re not more important for most gamers, who play games for entertainment, rather to change their ideals and views to those of the developers.

I have no issues with games having diversity or different views or anything like that, but I’m not spending…

I think you missed his point. Fun may be subjective, but it barely gets a mention in the article, while the article goes in depth about what social issues the author would like to see. I can agree with the author’s views and not really care if they are represented in the video games I play, especially since part of…

I didn’t believe that and had to check for myself. I guess there had to be one site that wanted to be different.

It goes past defending him. Why does she want her boyfriend to go to him and apologize? She took her boyfriend to meet a group of friends where she knew that he would face hostility without a warning or anything, and she expects him to make it right when it blows up. She could have managed that *so much* better. Maybe…

George is not interested in being your friend. You’re only giving him oxygen that he will use to attempt to be toxic to the relationship.

You can try to be friends with other people in the group. You can ask your girlfriend directly why she puts up with this behavior. But anything involving fedora bro isn’t going to be…

Black soldiers made up a near-majority of the Free French forces, and those units were integrated.

The UK armies were racially integrated.

In both countries, units were raised geographically (i.e., a division would be raised in India and have predominantly Indian soldiers as a result, or West Indian, or Algerian, etc.).…

If you look at the way the economy of Germany was set up during the 30s and WW2, it was a crony capitalist oligarchy, where wealthy pro-Nazi industrialists were disproportionately given contracts, and during the war, slave laborers, to the detriment of the German war effort. There was no unified German industrial…

If you give them enough room, activity, and enrichment, most pets will have happier lives than their counterparts in the wild. For example, about a third of hedgehogs in the wild will die every year because they do not eat enough food in the late summer/early fall to survive hibernation, and domestic hedgehogs are…

My guess is the cats realize fairly quickly that the hedgehogs are covered in spikes and will generally lose interest after that; that’s been my experience when cats and hedgehogs have met.

Hedgehogs are nocturnal and they like to find a dark, covered area to sleep during the day, so that’s why they invaded your garage! But yeah, they’re much less common now with development reducing their natural habitat.

So there are two different issues here; Serena’s WTA ranking and her RG seeding. Tennis players’ WTA (and ATP) rankings are based on getting points based on how well they do in various tournaments, with bigger tournaments being worth more points. Often, after a major injury, you’ll see a really good player at a very…

The Witcher series wasn’t a statement on colonialism and national oppression like Black Panther was desgined to be a statement on colonialism and race relations.

The part in history that the Witcher world is analogous to is 1100-1350 Poland, where the country was divided into small duchies and vulnerable to external…

I remember when the Obama admin kicked out Fox News from the press briefings in 2009, all the other media banded together to protest, which is why behavior like this bothers me.

I could understand Republican politicians defending Sanders, but what is with these journalists defending her? She is rude and condescending to you and your colleagues every day, but you feel the need to defend her? Shameful cowardly, sycophantic behavior, from the people who are supposed to challenge and act as a…

“ The criteria the commission used to decide whether loot boxes constituted gambling were whether there was a game element involved, whether a bet could lead to profit or loss, and whether it was based on chance rather than skill.”

I think that’s a fair way of defining gambling. The first and last clearly apply to loot…