Look at that completely jumbled chart. It’s that way for a reason, because “clearly laying the odds out”, as the author does here, looks remarkably different and way less enticing than the mess of numbers and points they present to you entirely because confusing the odds is how they get people to lose money.

I don’t even have to see the autoplay videos because I’ve fixed my browser. But I just locked my work computer and a notification is on the screensaver about the thing playing, with an option to pause.

Deadspin’s bosses, turn this ridiculous shit off, it’s not making you money and it’s pissing off all your readers…

We must do something.
This is something.
We must do this.

Weird. The only thing I’ve heard about this game in the past few months is that it exists, is called Modern Warfare, has really good graphics, and involves a lot of killing people.

Come to think of it, that’s really the gist of what I know about it now too. Their commercials pretty much just give exactly that…

It’s only a “shockingly bold move for that part of the world” if you don’t know anything about the gender-equal Kurds and their robust use of women fighters and women-led brigades. We have no idea whether she’s “quite an extraordinary woman” or if this is just a society like the real-world one they very obviously drew…

The whole “making the best choice” part should have been a flashing red siren that this was obviously not about the men’s team.

1) Nobody has any idea if that’s an off-the-shelf inhaler containing exactly the drugs he says is in there and not some other drug combination. You have to confiscate and test anything like that to preserve integrity, and why go to such a hassle of allowing that? Because...

2) This shit is 3 5-minute rounds. At that…

It’s definitely not an easy game. Took me a few restarts to get a hang of how to not get your ass kicked even on the first island. You really, really want to do *everything*, because you need all the XP you can get. Do all the side quests, all the battles, and do them in an order such that you’re actually equal level…

No, it’s literally about just not wanting to give money to Epic. Fortunately, as I have a PS4 and they’ve made it available for the PS4, I’ll just buy it there and have no problem with their release strategy. People just want a way to play a game that doesn’t involve giving Epic money. Surely that’s not hard to…

13-year-olds are obnoxious enough. Imagine one that’s rich enough to get to go to every single home NFL game for years.

If he wanted feedback on his idea, he would have just said what the idea was. Being vague like that isn’t “asking a question”, it’s being a drama queen and trying to draw attention to yourself and imply that your takes are just too hot and real to just be unleashed on the world when they might not be able to handle…

saying it could lead to claims of flirting and worse.

Come to think of it, I have noticed some overlap between people who smugly tell you why it’s not worth bothering to vote, and people who smugly tell you that NFL and NBA games are all fixed.

Very few people have.

Don’t be pedantic. If Silver wanted the guy fired, he would have been ended up fired, or at least suspended or had some punishment imposed. There is lots of soft power in situations like this. Morey didn’t get punished because Silver didn’t think a punishment was appropriate here.

The point being made by a lot of…

A lot of people in the 24-48 hours after the story first broke were confidently declaring that Morey was toast and would surely get fired shortly. It would have been really easy for Silver to buckle under to the explicit demands of the Chinese government. But it seems as soon as he didn’t, the internet outrage mob…

It’s not so much the concept itself is horrific, it’s that some specific narrow and corrupt interests went to considerable extent to try to push this last year over the strong objections of interests like...the players, the league, the national association, etc, and tried to steamroll everyone so they could make a few…

You have to think so, yeah. The DPRK isn’t actually that terrible at soccer, but they’re certainly not as good as South Korea, and even getting a draw is impressive. Presumably they figured the odds of losing were fairly high and they kind of have a long-running thing about going to great lengths to hide from their…

I...certainly hope actual World Cup qualifiers involving North Korea aren’t using North Korean refs. Assuming they flew in and out on the same plane as the FIFA officials.

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