What I’d like to see: rumors spread about the possibility of bringing Aeris back, even disabled code in the executable to keep people hunting, but it isn’t actually possible. Alternatively, you bring can bring her back but if she’s back, she gets killed again in Disc 2.

“We looted the economy, destroyed the system of lifetime employment, filled the universities with useless but expensive administrators, and all you do is sit around complaining you can’t find a job? I tell ya, this generation doesn’t know what it means to ruin things for their children.”

Wouldn’t a better solution be to explain to kids how trophies, “earned” or not, are all equally worthless? Winning a competition is what makes you good and what you should feel proud of, not the cheap ass coated plastic hardware they hand out with it.

Garfield, I am convinced, was never meant to be “funny”. It exists more to inculcate the an understanding of the formalism of cartoon gags without having to rely on any of the social or cultural background that actually makes things funny. Your average just-learning-to-read Garfield fan was never going to be able to…

There are two dimensions of play in soccer: national teams and clubs. National teams are made of up citizens of the country they play for (there are eligibility rules) while clubs have whoever they sign a contract with (more or less; some countries have rules limiting the number of foreigners that may be on a team).

I don’t know. “Real Salt Lake” is beautiful in its stupidity.

That’s true, but it’s also the case that the accused is often convicted in the media long before the case ever goes to trial. Think of the UVA or Duke lacrosse cases. Heavily publicized false allegations can have very unpleasant consequences for the accused.

No. It looks like, sarcasm aside, Billy is actually right and Yanga-Mbiwa was trying to provoke a physical response that would get Messi cautioned or sent off.

One learns something new about how to possibly not get killed by a wrathful Nature every day.

If your survival ever depends on your ability to outrun a hippopotamus and you’re name isn’t Usain Bolt, you are in very, very big trouble.

More specifically, why do they always think you like them or want them when you don’t?

I think part of the alleged “safety advantage” of bare-knuckle is that it’s so brutal the fight stops sooner. Gloves are primarily for protected the fighters’ own hands, not their opponents heads, but it does cushion blows slightly, meaning a fighter has to take more punches to break through the adrenaline rush or for…

Nah, it was supposed to be long and drawn out. Kraft and Goodell could have settled this amicably via back channels and then announced it as laying down the hammer on the Pats, but the NFL set it up almost perfectly to be another stupid sports controversy and the Pats did both sides a solid by complaining about it.…

The policy against gay leaders was announced (or, to hear BSA tell it, “clarified”) in my last year as a Scout and our ASM, whom I’m pretty sure was gay, resigned two weeks later, citing “family issues”. The following year the church that sponsored our troop convinced him to come back the next year, though. For a…

The bigger problem in my eyes is making sure Windows doesn’t trash your system during the update process. That happened to me with a random Patch Tuesday update around this time last year, and even System Restore couldn’t recover it. I had to reformat and reinstall to get the machine working again. I turned off…

My bigger problem with that passage is the implication that a rear naked choke is somehow emblematic of the capacity of MMA fighters to hurt people. If you’re a lot stronger than someone and they aren’t trained in martial arts, a regular old “grab their neck with your hands” choke is just as dangerous.

No one was dragged for “launching” (funny way of spelling “buying”) Tidal. They were dragged for offering a more expensive, less-bang-for-the-buck streaming service and expecting people to bite anyway because it had big names attached to it.

What a crock of shit. If you think exploitive economics is a new thing in China you must know literally nothing, or literally nothing true, about Chinese history.

Maybe it’s because nobody wants an NHL team?

WWE basically tried to put Cena over because he was a dependable guy and did what he was told, and they wanted to reward that. But Cena isn’t really that compelling of a guy outside of his work ethic so it doesn’t work. The only way might be to embrace the “Cena sucks” narrative as a kind of reverse psychology…