I also like that he linked to a clip of Federer losing his cool, as opposed to McEnroe or someone known for their temper.  Getting angry isn’t just something that happens to some outliers in the sport.

“...and explain that I’ve seen it done in the context of ‘Finish your vegetables first’...”

I think on some level their efforts are doomed because there just isn’t enough data for them to find meaningful relationships before they’re historical observations. Sure, data revolutionized the NBA, because each game has dozens of trips up and down the court, and each team plays 82 of them - that’s a lot to work…

“...I stand by your right to say ‘I’m sorry, we can’t accommodate you at this time’ without going into any personal details as to why you are turning them away.” 

Yeah, any clever retaliation pretty much relies on management having your back.

I mean, if it was real, the movie was basically a snuff film.  That was enough to tip me off.

I wholeheartedly agree it’s not murder *forever*. But any optimistic post-apocalyptic story is going to need to gloss over the deaths of a few billion people, which is a degree of protagonist-centered-morality I can’t stomach personally.

Problem is there are *orders of magnitude* more people than their were in earlier eras - and most of the people in those eras lived in perpetual fear of starving. If modern systems for generating and distributing food fail, I think “war of all against all” isn’t far from what a million starving people would act like.

The jargon I’ve heard for this is “enthusiast created media” - when only hardcore players are making content (without actively checking themselves), all the content they produce will be really difficult.

Thing is, Deadspin hasn’t been saying “VAR has been poorly implemented”, they’ve been saying “VAR is evil and a blight on all of sports”.  There’s a nuanced argument to be made, sure, but the folks saying that the Hand of God goal is the peak of soccer excellence aren’t making it. 

I don’t know if teaching your dog to test the destructibility of new barriers in the house is a good move. Dogs learn to not break lots of things they could out of deference to humans, punishing them for this seems both cruel and counterproductive.

Yeah, saying you love stories that abruptly end because they’re “surprising” sounds like a bored author hastily writing himself a “get our of jail free” card.

Not just “items that allow you to access newer areas”, but usually character abilities (double jump, flight, mist form, etc.) that have applications beyond gating content. 

“First-Person Shooter” caught on because it accurately describes the defining features of the genre in three words - it was worth the extra three syllables over “Doom Clone”.

Also, I’d argue he is the kind of actor who has a long career - a reliable character actor who doesn’t have to worry about his looks fading. That this career got a lift by joining a weird pitch black anti-comedy when he was in his 60s, though... 

Rifftrax. I would never have have been able to make it through the movie without Rifftrax. I know a lot of people can’t stand them, but if you have any lingering fondness for MST3K, I heartily recommend their live show commentary as a means to survive this movie.

I mean, Cancer Mom was about the only role in The Room whose actor looked like a professional - she does her damndest to sell the horrible person she’s playing, and it works as well as possible.  

I was hoping to be all pedantic and say it was six, but no - his first film credit came in 1970, when he was 26.

I am delighted at how much trivia one needs to know for this joke to work.

Long term, your two options in EVE are to either 1. Be a microscopic cog in a giant machine, or 2. Do your own thing but remain small enough that you don’t have stuff one of those giant machines thinks is worth taking.