This inevitably happens in every competitive game - the players as a whole get better over time, and the road for a new player gets harder and harder.

We’ve made it worse, but natural evolution had them essentially running on their fingertips first:

I’m not surprised by the greed. I’m not surprised at the death toll. My biggest takeaway from this is “Dear God, horses are incredibly fragile.”

Don’t worry, when the sport is collapsing in twenty years Deadspin will give it a sentimental epilogue:

More to the point, he’s not asking for recognition.

On the BMO website, you can click the “Worldwide” tab on the right of their “yearly” page and you’ll get the same results as BI (and I assume Wikipedia).

Read in *a* Stallone’s voice.

So it turns out there’s a limit to how much a well-run organization can handle a player being a horrible human. Huh.

Bernie loses a vote, and suddenly there’s rumors that he was cheated because reasons? Color me shocked!

In less than a decade on the national stage, Warren has made more allies and gotten more legislation passed than Bernie has in his entire career.  We’re electing a president, not a god-emperor - an ability to marshal support is *vital* in actually getting things done.

He’d argue that his superior instincts correctly assessed the situation, and won the authorities over to his side.

Using this:

However clever a setup is, I just itch when they decide to introduce their own super-special containment class - it’s the SCP equivalent of Dragonball “It’s OVER 9000!!!” power level crap.

Right, that’s why I distinguish the indie popcorn champs (of which this was pretty much the last one) from the non-spectacle champs - both Ghost and Rain Man were major studio releases. Both have been prerequisites for a while, but the AAA requirement applied almost two decades before the action/animated one did.

See, while I like the odd Extinction Level Threat like 4971 or 231, the setting just gets more ridiculous with each one they add. I appreciate the ones that manage to be creepy but self-contained, like 1733 and 140.

The movie became a hit two years later, not two decades.  I think it’s still a reflection of the times.

I’d heard of it, but had no idea it was a (delayed) blockbuster hit. It’s weird to have a movie be so big and then leave virtually no cultural footprint - I’d bet Yep had heard of nearly every other movie in this column.

Over a decade later, I remember “Jurassic Park” being at the budget theater a year after it’s initial release.

I liked the original Law & Order because I got the feeling the cops and attorneys acted like people doing this for a living. They’d get righteous and crusadery maybe 20-30% of the time - an unrealistically high amount, I’m sure - but generally they were just dedicated rather than incensed.

I was born in 1980 - as long as I’ve been alive the biggest movies have always been AAA Hollywood releases. The idea that an indie film could (eventually) become the biggest hit in a given year is barely comprehensible to me.