I think one solution to the atmosphere thing would be to make monster placement or AI more random. That way, even if you played through once already, you only know there’s a monster ahead somewhere, instead of “4m behind the third door, thirty degrees east of due north, facing west.” Predictability is the enemy of…

Smart people don’t often double down on the dumb things they say when it’s pointed out, though.

Can someone leak the unretouched version?

I suspect his point was originally that he’ll be 29 for most of the season, so that what they’re paying for is mostly a 29-year-old player. That would be very easy to clarify, but this being the internet, he picked a fight instead.

1. Wins are what matter.
2. Wins are what matter.
3. Wins are what matter.

Anything advertisers and the government can do, people with worse things in mind can also do.

How is this any different from what molten lead and water would have done?

Reinhold Messner is astonishing; they’ve changed the rules so no one can ever a) solo climb Everest, b) in a single day, and/or c) without supplemental oxygen. It would be like if the Belmont Stakes put up a speed limit so no one could ever run as fast as Secretariat again.

I don’t think it’s about the gambling/image thing, I think it’s about the NFL hating that fantasy football allows people to make money on their sport without the NFL’s involvement (and profits). The NCAA is tolerated because they are useful idiots, but they hate letting anyone else tap football as a revenue stream.

Owners > players

I think there’s an assumption that if you’re a New York creative professional, marriage is something people do when they’re old. But in reality, lots of people get married straight out of college or even high school, yet that’s something you never see reflected in comics. I never thought of married Peter as being…

It’s much more likely that it would evolve into a much less dangerous sport, rather than be banned altogether (which has already happened at least twice). How exactly that is to happen this time, I don’t know, but I doubt anyone would have guessed “forward passing” before 1905.

Then why not do it like football and have completely separate offensive and defensive squads? Shortstops are paid to hit, they’re paid to field.

I’m a reasonable guy. But this remake is a very unreasonable thing.

No, it’s like calling them “Vikings”. Vík means bay or inlet - as in, Reykjavík. Víkingr as a noun for a person is attested to in the works none less than Egill Skallagrímsson himself, who I am quite sure was more familiar with the intricacies of the Old Norse language than you ever will be.

I give flowers under two circumstances: to my mother, for Mother’s Day, and anonymously. Not even in a “secret admirer” kind of way, just birthdays or special occasions, because a) the mystery makes it more exciting, and b) I’m shy and deathly afraid said person will get the wrong idea slash sometimes it’s actually…

For 3., I’d add “cost” and “difficulty” to the list of possible reasons for disappearance. With the decline of the Viking Age and a shift in how battles are fought, it might not make sense to stick with a costly and elaborate forging process, and techniques can be lost if their practitioners think their successors can…

This is somewhat tangential to the point being discussed, but how long will it before we have to stop saying “blackballed” because it’s deemed to be racially loaded?

Police officer isn’t even in the top 10. Electrical utility workers are.

It isn’t hard, but not paying them is part of the strategy. This case is already being made out like they’re punishing regular cops for doing their jobs, rather than enforcing the law against bad cops who killed someone: the courts are against them. The people are against them. Now that they’re not even being paid…