Not okay Toulouse - stick with the Pre-Impressionists

And yet, somehow, no one who goes to Hogwarts actually comes from a poor background. The Weasleys get mocked because their relative poverty is noteworthy at Hogwarts, but their father is a high-placed civil servant. Why are there no children of bus drivers or janitors or waitresses at Hogwarts? Tom Riddle was the…

He stood alone at Gjallerbru.

Steve Rogers is the new Spider-Man.

I’m pretty sure this is also the reason the government farms so much work out to contractors, too. They fuck up and it’s just, “Well, what are you gonna do? Private sector, right guys?”

“This was GRRM’s idea” doesn’t necessarily equate to “This is what GRRM planned all along.”

Well, yeah. When you have a fanbase of millions that love coming up with theories about what’s going to happen or be revealed next, a few are going to end up being right. Someone on Kotaku or io9 or Gawker has already written a comment accurately describing the conclusion of Arya’s character arc (it’s probably in the…

In particular, I hope the origin of the White Walkers isn’t done the same way in the books. “We created a weapon we lost control of!” is a ridiculously overplayed trope in fantasy and SF.

I assume they are doing this deliberately - Melisandre has all but admitted she used some tricks to convince people to follow her, even if they didn’t come from the Red God, so it’s not far-fetched to suppose that the Red Priests deliberately divide their loyalties as a way of hedging their bets. Their magic may or…

I’m sure they use third-party contractors for these things exactly so they can scapegoat them if necessary.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it fair use, but a recording of a game probably counts as a derived work and therefore has its own copyright protection.

It’s a play on words, not a pun.

From Kneeling to Sucking: The History of the Use of the Word ‘Tebow’

The unnamed sucker in this story was presumably someone in Human Resources, whose entire job is to know laws and regulations pertaining to employment, including that it’s generally illegal a) for a company’s executive to ask for this information, and b) to share it with anyone in- or outside the company. I don’t even…

Hi there, nice to meet you! I’m Reality, just checking in, and I wanted to let you know that the sooner you get over yourself and stop pretending that doping is limited to a particular time period or particular sport, the happier you’ll be. The entire controversy isn’t fundamentally different from the debates about…

The thing is, there’s no quantified stat for it, but Steph Curry also has arguably the best handling skills in the game today. It only gets overlooked because his phenomenal shooting is an even bigger story, but all his moves are just kind of ridiculous.

Yeah. I mean, what the fuck do you expect him to do if he sees his coaches are making bad decisions? Just sit there, “know his place” and wait to get injured because he’s the one who bears the burden of Shanahan’s fuckups?

It’s an interesting debate, because most leagues have been consolidating in terms of dominant performers during a period where the Premier League has experienced unprecedented competitiveness. In the past four years, it’s been unthinkable that anyone other than Bayern wins the Bundesliga, anyone other than Juventus…

The first thing you need to know about reading soccer articles on Deadspin are that Billy’s offerings aren’t journalism, they’re a rather sarcastic deconstruction of the way British and European* writers talk about the sport. If you don’t believe, go to the Guardian’s website and read some of their soccer columns.**…

Well, that’s true. But even a civil engineer would be a better commentator than Joe Buck, whereas your ability to tell a completely irrelevant story with an even more irrelevant lesson and do it in an interesting and entertaining way is exactly what sports commentary needs.