Whereas if the levels were fixed, they would be solved in days and the solutions available online instantly. If your game is about exploring (which this is, in a roundabout way), procedurally generated content is the only way to keep your game from being beat in an afternoon.

Implying that a wife’s rooting interest might have an effect on her husband’s impartiality makes me a sexist caveman? OK.

It does, in that people aren’t blasting into each other at full speed several dozen times in each match. Also, the simple fact that you need to be able to running around for the full duration of the match means players can’t focus on strength to the point they weigh 350 pounds.

You’re aware of the importance of avoiding even the *appearance* of imporpriety, yes? And that having someone connected with the refereeing of the game (even if tangentially so) clearly favoring one team is a shockingly bad idea, yes?

Yeah, because he’s a pretty boy married to a supermodel playing for the Yankees of the NFL (if the Yankees cheated). Better comparison - did people throw this level of hate at Brady in his first Super Bowl?

Wasn’t one of the Xbox’s advantages supposed to be that programming for it is much like programming for a PC? Wouldn’t PC+Xbox exclusives be much easier to make than PS4+PC exclusives?

To truly replicate this feat, you should play DotA while running a hibachi.

This. The odds he gets crippled in that dogpile are probably better than the odds he wins the game.

Seriously. As a Packer fan, I’m intimately familiar with what a brilliant QB being failed by the rest of his team looks like, and it looks like this. At least, it does to anyone who wasn’t dying to slag Cam Newton.

I like to think he received a vision from a parallel universe where he did jump on the ball and received a career-ending injury. Or was visited by the ghost of RBG III.

Honest question - how is this different than the NASL dropping big money to get foreign players into a U.S. league? That was good for generating quick press and a lot of attention, but did nothing to give the sport a lasting following here.

American teams would not survive relegation - probably not in any sport, definitely not in soccer. European and Latin American soccer teams benefit from decades-old fan commitments that will follow them into lower leagues, something no team in the U.S. has.

Dirty game story time!

Just wondering - are there European basketball fans who argue that Euroleague will never compare to the NBA until they abandon relegation? Because abandoning it in a market that’s used to it makes as much sense as adopting it in a market where it’s completely alien.

I think people underestimate how much relegation relies on decades-long, bone-deep tribal affiliations people have with local clubs. And absent that kind of commitment, relegated teams would just fold within a year or two.

“The major difference is that in Europe supporters will still show up to every Aston Villa or Saint Etienne match no matter what league they are in; in the States most fans will probably drift away and never return.”

Yes, it’s that telling other people what they’re allowed to enjoy that’s always the sign of a happy and well adjusted person.

You seem happy and well-adjusted.

When did “terrorist” and “idiot” become mutually exclusive?

Well, they *are* jamokes, *and* terrorists. AB is arguing that they are fantastically stupid - a point on which I think we can all agree - and just assuming that this stupidity means they’re not terrorists. I favor the both/and approach here.