You’ve actually described the method professional gamblers use: use analysis and expertise to make a wide variety of bets (or play a extremely large number of hands, etc.) without over extending themselves, all in perpetuity. Short term investors (or occasional/inexperienced gamblers making unwise decisions) prop the…

Same here. At least the annoyance of wasting food is a lesser evil than E. coli? At least, I’m enjoying not having diarrhea until I am dead. Of course, I’m saying that before I spend any time with my family 

I think you’re right, but this specific case comes down to NBC honcho Andy Lack. His most recent hits are killing the Weinstein expose at NBC before it was taken elsewhere, keeping Matt Lauer protected, and bringing on a low-rated racist while very publicly paying her more than his other, more popular employees.…

2019 is going to be rough, people

They’re RPGs, and a lot of the “fun” we experienced as kids was working out what the mechanics were and successfully using them. That really isn’t possible now, any mysteries can be Googled immediately and what’s the point of making someone Google when you could just tell them what to do and build the fun around…

I’ve been playing this with my fiance, and it’s actually kind of weird how they’ve simplified basically everything while removing the “super effective/not very effective” tags on the moves like they’ve had in recent editions. Still, Kanto is just as fun to explore with her as it was to explore when I was 11 (it’s made…

I loved it, and it was really finding it’s footing towards the end (some of the more talk-showy stuff was always clunky). Personally I think the bigger issue was that Netflix’s user interface is completely designed around binge-ing stuff and a weekly deep dive into the current news cycle runs completely counter to that

He’s a germaphobe, there is no way he’d have dinner with a bunch of soldiers in a mess hall even at a base on American soil. The weirdest part to me is that they’d intentionally choose to risk pissing off the troops instead of just saying that he’s just generally neurotic about food

Hmm, it’s been a while but if I’m remembering my own confirmation correctly it all depends on what gets yelled out when you put on the Sorting Hat

There is a not small chance it was a first or second cousin of mine bringing those dishes in. I would like to sincerely apologize on their behalf 

a Chicago building formerly called the John Hancock Center

The only people who can succeed in a system based around his abuse are the people who are capable of accepting his abuse and internalizing his logic and the rest are rejected or give him what he wants so he leaves them alone. That kind of a bullshit attitude will only take you as far as the White House though

Oh god, the flashbacks. The Irish generally don’t have the strongest culinary tradition (“just boil it” is about 50% of any Irish recipe book), but the Chicago Southside Irish have decided it’s the cultural tradition they most want to most embody. I love my family to death, but it’s definitely not for the food (who…

Damn, I guess Bojack is even more rich now! But will it make him happy?

They aren’t bad, but I would have kept orange over the red just because sooo many teams are red and/or blue. Or lean into the 90s nostalgia trend and bring back purple

Watchmen is the closest to a Harry Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games type movie that comics have ever had, where the story isn’t so much being adapted as much as translated to the screen for an audience already familiar with it. Quality matters less than production values, but ultimately it’s for the fans or people who…

This is probably inevitable. It used to be the best place to drop your cool new thing in front of the most eyeballs possible, the E3 issues of gaming magazines always got passed around. Now it’s just a way to announce your thing at the same time everyone else is trying to do the same thing 

This was beautiful

I think you’re correct, but I also think that “pencil-necked geek” would go over just as well in the 21st century

Eh, if this is the insufferable glad-handing of the political future I’m very ready for it over what we have now