Well if that’s not proof that QBR is an extremely important and useful statistic, I don’t know what is. 

not just sports media; the New York Times itself spent all of 2016 hyping butter emails

You came to a video game website to state your ignorance of why people play video games?

its fun, it has way more style than any other battle royale. its cosmetics are substantially better than any of the other games (lol Apex), speaking of which it has a better battle pass and pay system than Apex. Its constantly changing adding new weapons new map design new features new modes new everything.

People play…

Not Lord of The Rings, maybe one of the 7 three-hour movies they made based on the 300 paged prequel book. I think he was in Hobbit 5: Electric Bugaloo.

Many of his films—silent films—were reissued well after his death.

So, like James Dean but not nearly as famous? Ok. 

Very similar to the results I conducted where I asked about policies that several Democratic candidates are advocating, then asked the respondent how they felt about them after I informed them that if any of these passed, the young lady at the grocery store they have an inappropriate crush on would stop smiling…

No, you’re mistaken. He’s from The Goonies and then went on to play for Notre Dame and they made a movie about him. 

No, Sean Astin is the guy from Stranger Things 2.

Umm, that was about Sean Astin. And he’s probably more famous that Rudolph Valentino. 

They made the movie Rudy about his life.

I’m 42 years old and I have no idea who Rudolph Valentino is and I consider myself relatively worldly. I don’t think he’d be in the top 1,000 most famous people. 

It’s actually pretty common - it’s similar to “off the record,” basically. The idea is to educate a reporter on an issue before you’re ready to announce news. For example, I once met with reporters to discuss the foundation for my company’s decision to divest from certain stocks, even though I couldn’t tell them yet wh…

Maybe a well established company could make a product and then sell it, instead of getting consumers to front the cash.

Doing right by your writers is independent of wanting to get better benefits and get a stronger barrier of security in case things change in the future. For example: HBO could decide tomorrow that they don’t want to be an investor in The Ringer anymore, which would cause the website to downsize its editorial staff by,…

The money in that company comes from podcasts, which are a bit more personality driven. Which is not to say the platform doesn’t provide much of the value, but still.

“the establishment of a 401k program”

A protracted labor fight would certainly be the weirder of the media fights. So much of the Ringer’s stuff is the staff talking with each other. Jonah Peretti and Ben Smith didn’t have to go on 5 podcasts a week with their angry writers, but Simmons and Sean Fennessy have to joke around with their staff about Freddy…

Current indisputable GOATs: