The AI gets “worse” because the added complexity of each iteration adds more opportunities for human to find small advantages to exploit - e.g. the removal of unit stacking gives human players a tactical advantage in combat.

Deadspin is dead. They deleted all the comments. And the staff just resigned. Yet, here, and at the other G/O sites, writers are posting and continuing on as if nothing happened. Shame.

It sure would be terrible if people started calling Jim Spanfeller a herb.

Free speech principles are not co-extensive with the legal parameters of the First Amendment.

It’s near the end, where he taps in from two yards away after Mbappe does all the work to create the goal. 

“the second-best player in the world”

If you don’t extend a plus 1 to everyone you invite to your wedding, you def don’t deserve anything more than their corporal presence at your wedding. 

Sorry, just cause you and a bunch of Barca-Bayern-City sycophants repeat this ad infinitum, doesn’t make it true. Alternatively, Pep is a 48-year whose probably thought about nothing more than football for his entire life.

Didn’t even have to wait 12 hours. 

If you think this had anything to do with morals on NE’s part and not the pure calculation about them having to deal with the “adversity” of any “distraction” and having to pay him $4m on Monday, then I have 1,000 bridges to sell you.

I assume that the letter section is filled with indignant St. Louis(ians?) because no one in LA actually cares enough about the team. One of the underrated terrible things about every Vinny, Sully, and Billy moving to LA from all the cold and depressing East and Midwest towns is that it convinced the NFL that people…

Sure, but Ronaldo and Messi have set such a ridiculous standard though. There’s plenty of space to be not as good as arguably the two greatest players of all time and still be a great player.

No, it’s not. But that shift already happened with the introduction of slow motion reply, offside freeze frames, etc. All VAR does in cases such as over the weekend, or last year when Sterling was offside, is align the ontological frame of the officiating decisions with the ontological frame through which the sport…

Wait, do MLS teams not charter flights? That seems like a completely legitimate thing to complain about.

If Paris can sucker Barca into giving them 100m, Umtiti, and Dembele to get Neymar out of that dressing room, they need to close that deal before someone at Barca comes down from whatever new designer drug they’re on.

Yeah, but you cannot really do that as easily with a national team as you can with a club team. Also, there is a middle ground where you build your team to maximize the collective, not defer to what the star player wants the tactics to be to maximize his own individual performance.

It also ignores that Messi wants to play in a style that arguably makes the rest of the team worse.

Sorry, you’re right about Jackson, I forgot he came back as soon as he did.

Yeah, but this isn’t attempted murder under any interpretation of the relevant statutes. You simply cannot show the required intent for a homicide.

The second Lakers dynasty was basically split between 2000-2004 and 2008-2011. The Spurs won in 2003 and their other titles came during other years. Let’s put it this way, the Spurs won a single title during the years that Phil Jackson was the coach of the Lakers and they were considered to be championship contenders.