Thanks, the approval of internet poster Riot Croissant is what I was shooting for!

Contra for the NES was an immensely big part of my childhood, and that code is seared into my brain forever. It’s such a great piece of gaming history.

Starting this convo with a fuck Tulsi Gabbard.

We thought that about McCain himself and look where that got us.

Also, how have we not learned anything from Stalin and Soviet Russia/other assorted socialist nations?

I’ve been reading some of the new sites that Splinter and Deadspin alumni have gone to like the Outline, New Republic, Vice, and Slate. Chapo Trap House also has connections to both sites (and is really great) if you like podcasts.

There is a pretty good community going on Discord. Some of the frequent contributors at Deadspin have been putting a lot of effort into maintaining and moderating. It had been scratching my itch

I have some of the same muscle memory taking me to dead sites a few times a day out of habit before I curse and get mad all over again. Your mileage may vary, of course, but I’ve been reading Wonkette more since Splinter and Deadspin went down, and I’ve spent more time following individual writers from both on Twitter…

about the best I’ve found is Vice, but there is not near as much content.  The creators are awful people but they have some good writers/reporters on the staff.

I loved Splinter / Deadspin because...

I’m amazed this even got published. I was really thinking there was a firing-level edict against even mentioning the shutdown and firings.

For those curious, here is the full text of the Ballot Proposal (Amendment #2):

I’ve never understood everyone’s need to make her into some kind of sympathetic figure or quasi-ally. She is not those things. She never has been. 

Shout out to the dumbasses in charge who haven’t figured out how to turn the comments off on the subblogs yet. You brain geniuses show your asses at every possible opportunity and we’re all better for it.

Bears like eating plants.

This is what it looks like when you give a rural police force Army equipment and no reason to use it.

Counterpoint: If you expect someone who paid for a seat that reclines to not recline it because it inconveniences you, the monster is you.

A question for the Funbag: why should I keep reading anything on this website after Jim Spanfeller and Paul Maidment went to the lengths of firing Barry, like cowards, for the dumbest of reasons?

I want to support the writers here—this is both the best website that exists, and has ever existed, and the best sports…

Man, I love people who self-own through being hilariously inept. You know, pumpkin thieves, thin-skinned vulture capitalist owners of blog sites, those kinds of folks.