Why do you care, though? If they enjoy the game that way, how does that affect your enjoyment?

Exactly! The Smash community has grown both in spite of Nintendo and wholly separate from Nintendo. More than any other esports community, Smash doesn’t need-- and often doesn’t even want-- official recognition and support.

You’re 100% right, but the Smash community also isn’t obligated to support Nintendo’s official tournaments if they don’t like how they’re run. Like some of the pros that were interviewed said, there’s room for other tournament formats, and Smash is a diverse enough game that almost any game style will be entertaining.…

If you read the article, you’d see that M2 is handling the emulation, and their work has generally been very good. Just, you know, scan the article before you leave a super negative comment.

Durant was obviously fouled before the shooting motion. That’s clear. It still should’ve been called a shooting foul, especially given the NBA’s generous limits on that. But if you want to get pedantic, the foul was before the shot.

Dear god, I just hope the newer models have a better internal antenna for WiFi. It’s absurd that I have to be right next to my router to get good enough signal for online play. None of my other devices have any issues, including my 3DS!

I would be happy if Doug Gottlieb disappeared and never wrote or said anything about anything ever again. That guy’s the king of turds.

I really hate it when legitimate criticisms are characterized as backlash. When you call it backlash, it makes it seem like the negativity is purely rooted in hating positivity, and wanting to be different.

In reality, what seems like backlash is most often just the fact that the easy media narrative is everyone either…

Izzo’s an asshole and Michigan State is a trash institution. I used to really like him and that team, but the last few years have destroyed that impression. I mean, Henry is literally a child. Fuck off, Izzo.

I really hope that more developers adopt this game’s graphical techniques when adapting games based on animation. Like, can we get another remake of DuckTales that’s done in this style?

Also, the game is super fun and the presentation is flawless. I’m so happy more people will get to play it, and that I’ll get to play…

Regardless of who is providing the streaming games, though, working with the United States’ awful internet infrastructure is going to be a reality. It doesn’t affect me when I’m watching streaming video, because that can buffer to compensate, but that doesn’t work with video games.

That’s the biggest hurdle. Otherwise,…

The difference is that FGC rules explicitly disallow coaching. You may disagree with it, but those are the rules. An audience member shouting out what essentially amounts to coaching is no different and the tournament organizers should have dealt with it immediately.

The audience member that caused the disruption should have been talked to MUCH sooner than after a player stormed out. An event worker should have immediately talked to them and kicked them out if they refused to stop.

But the player who stormed off essentially forfeited. As frustrating as the audience was being, he…

Heather’s right about social anxiety. It’s not just video games, entertainment in general is obsessed with dystopia. It’s in literature, movies, TV shows, everything. It’s especially prevalent in YA, like Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. Our culture is completely overtaken with pessimism and decay. It’s in the way people…

Yale would like kids of rich white people to get into their school the right way: by having their parents make a massive donation as a thinly veiled bribe.

It took YEARS for Netflix to remove Danny Masterson from his awful show, after the numerous rape allegations. Netflix let Jeffrey Tambor stay on Arrested Development even after he was fired from Transparent on Amazon AND verbally abused Jessica Walters on the set of the former show.

Not that what Lori Loughlin did…

Is it just me, or does it feel like Dwarf Fortress has been out much longer than 13 years? I know it was in development for a while, but it just feels like it’s been around since the mid-80s or something, not since the mid-2000s. I’m sure the ASCII graphics contribute to that.

I HATE the feeling referees have that they can’t call fouls in the final seconds of the game. They always say “we want to let the players decide the outcome,” but you’re not. Defenses KNOW that officials swallow their whistle at the end of the game and deliberately play extra physical defense, knowing they won’t get…

This Flash movie has gone through so many directors and scripts, I can’t even keep track. I’ll be surprised if it ever comes out, at this point.

No no no. No darker. That hasn’t worked for DC lately. And it is definitely not right for The Flash. The Flash has always been my favorite super hero, and what attracts me to the character is that it’s not so grimdark. Dark stuff happens, sure. I mean, the Allen/West family history is dark as hell, across dozens of…