You wrote twelve paragraphs saying how awful cats are because cat owners might be exposed to the same parasite anybody can get from eating a salad or a rare steak and somehow I’m the smarmy tool?

You’re way more likely to pick up T. gondii from eating unwashed produce or undercooked meat, though, whether or not you own cats. But I guess expected Burneko to know anything about what he’s writing about is a little silly, isn’t it?

Well, yeah. Bruce Banner learning to control his rage over the course of a 90-140 minute movie is a lot less of a gripping storyline than him lowly losing control because of bad guys who don’t realize what they’re in for. The former is the definition of anti-climactic.

IMO it’s that Hulk by himself is more of a monster-movie character than a superhero. The best of these - Jaws, Godzilla, etc - limit the monster’s screen time to maximize its impact. Hulk needs to be treated similarly, as there’s only so much “standing around” and “smashing things” you can have in a movie before it…

Professional players may not care more about winning the World Cup than they do about their salaries, but lots of players’ market value skyrockets after a good WC performance. If you’re from a smaller country and paid as a replacement-level player but think you are worth a lot more, then skipping a few league matches…

So, instead of an insanely violent clown/pinup girl, Harley Quinn is a raver that got into heroin?

Strictly speaking, the odds are against everyone.

No way. If Brady wins, I see it working in Goodell’s favor - we already know Goodell doesn’t have too much of a problem with people thinking he’s an incompetent jackoff as long as the league is protected, so he would make himself into a folk hero among the owners and insiders by admitting he was wrong. “See,” they’ll…

It really depends on the teacher. Some of my teachers were absolute bastards and I wouldn’t put it past them to do something like that to prove a point about something or other, but others I would be shocked if they did it.

Re: toilet stalls without TP, this is why you have a packet of tissues in your pocket everywhere you go. You stuff your wallet with membership cards and programs you never fucking use, you can find a place for a packet of tissues.

Can I just say that’s a really, really well-written post? I’m impressed and hope he goes on to great things post-football.

His strategy is very successful, if you look at it as a strategy to keep his job without having to win or be good at anything.

Don’t be a menace /
To South Central while drinking /
Your juice in the hood.

Seeing as how they’re just starting development now, it probably means “We’re writing it for PS4 and we’ll see what happens.”

I’d say rather, it’s difficult to *know* to do. My first gf could turn me on any time of the day or night just by telling me she was really turned on, but for me to realize that took a while (and a couple of fights). I thought the way my sexual response system worked was the way everyone’s worked, and even the…

Yeah, but it was a lush kind of dreary. It probably wouldn’t be easy or even possible to do with a realistic 3D lighting model - spotting the color and texture of wooden planks or rusted metal on the background is hard without bright lights - but those huge, gorgeous backdrops were part of the charm. And the mix of…

Well, consider me an observation against your hypothesis. VII was my favorite, but I thought VIII sort of went off the rails at some point and I thought most of the surprise plot twists were stupidly, stupidly contrived. I liked IX until the final boss, and didn’t care for X or XII at all. Nor do I really think VI was…

I was a huge fan of FF7 back in the day, but I understand how you feel about this. I’d rather have a *new* game with *new* characters, a *new* world, and a *new* story, instead of “FF7: The Special Edition.” The same plot twists with better graphics will never be as breathtaking as new plot twists.

Billy doesn’t actually know anything about soccer. He just writes fervid prose about the Beauty of the Game.

I think MLB’s response to this would be that fans of awful teams wouldn’t bother to vote, and the All-Star Game is supposed to be some dumb part of the summer baseball mythos that everyone participates in. If Phillies fans don’t get the chance to vote for their own crappy players someone will complain about Important…