While the rule isn’t great, the NBA also openly encourages players to speak freely about causes they care about without fear of getting blackballed by league owners.

All hail Peely. 

Based on the articles the last week or so, I’m beginning to think working in video game development sorta sucks ass. 

I think more practice, too. Pro sports teams really don’t run that many full speed practices during the season. It sounds like all these esports teams are running full practices almost every day. 

Fair point.

balance and gameplay issues

Maybe I’m in the minority, but my issue with DA2 wasn’t the scope. Following the story of how one person becomes this sort of legend mostly by being semi-capable and being in the right/wrong places at the right/wrong times was great. It’s just that the short dev time meant I was doing everything in the same 5 room…

Yup, it’s pretty clear “BioWare magic” is just borderline abusive crunch time.

It’s not that EA didn’t cause issues, it’s just that EA isn’t the ONLY problem. Bioware is causing a lot of their own problems, too.

There’s no great solution to this.

The next one is plate appearances, not at-bats. Walks, sac flys, hit by pitches, etc. are not counted as at-bats. 

An at-bat and a plate appearance aren’t the same thing. Walks and sac flys and the like are plate appearances, not at-bats.

I love me all the dumbass shit the Lakers have done, but I think they were in a lose-lose situation with Russell. Everyone in that locker room HATED him after the Nick Young incident. So the choice is either trading him for pennies on the dollar or keeping him, having everyone freeze him out on and off the court, and…

You’re saying “gross” to sexual innuendo in the comment section of an article about banging a mutant ghoul, in which the author–whose main beat here is sex and sexuality in games–makes a whole ton more sexual innuendos.

Sam Rockwell chewing scenery will always be a yes for me, so I don’t mind IM2 that much.

The A.V. Club is revisiting all 21 movies in this mega-franchise through a single, significant scene in each: not the best or most memorable scene, necessarily, but the one that says something about the MCU as an ongoing blockbuster phenomenon. This is The Marvel Moment.

It doesn’t excuse the call, but as the announcers mentioned last night (or at least I think they did) the Auburn player made a mistake fouling Jerome after that. I would much rather take my chances with a desperation heave which Jerome was clearly going to take after recovering the ball than give Virginia an out-of-bou…

There’s also Norton’s well-known penchant for wanting his hands in the script and vision of any movie he’s in. Another amazing part of the MCU is that besides a few outliers (Howard, Norton), everyone checked their egos at the door and let this whole plan play out. 

Exactly right. For a situation where someone would actually have an argument, I’d point to the Fallout Shelter/Westworld case where it was pretty clear code they didn’t have the rights for was lifted wholesale.

On your last point, Spider-Man is just one of the games that has adapted the Arkham series’ general combat system of timing dodges and counters. Which is good, because it’s a really satisfying system!