Now that’s a really useful engine!

That actually makes a lot of sense now that you say that.

Looks like a fire.

Yes.

Is AV Club the new Gawker or something? Things seem to have gotten significantly more snarky (mind-boggling to think that was possible) and polemical since the buyout. I visit the site with much less frequency as a result.

What is the point of this article?

if you’re a washington fan, you don’t have to choose!

So don’t buy the fucking game! It’s not rocket science. If you want EA to actually do something, cancel your pre-orders and abstain from buying it.

Don’t buy the game.

So a teenage girl pretended to be a man in his 30's on the internet.

It looks like they’re also turning a blind eye to claims that Mariah Carey sexually harassed her bodyguard.

So, there’s two ways I see football surviving long term. Either they fundamentally change the way it is played and turn it into basically flag football, or they become blatantly intellectually honest and say “We are well aware of the hazards of playing football, and these young men are well aware and compensated…

I’m assuming there was more to this response but you were typing on your iPhone and it didn’t register the next paragraph.

...does that mean he’s not coming on then?

I have to admit, the fact the left is vilifying Garrison fucking Keillor is pretty amazing.

Thank you for saving me a lot of typing — my brain almost exploded when I saw @phunkshun's comment. Christ.

@phunkshun I am very sorry but I feel I have to correct you here. The example of a pound of cucumber VS a pound of chocolate is, in fact, valid. Our bodies are not nuclear reactors, we do not use E=mc^2 to determine the caloric value of something (if we did, they would be downright astronomical). Caloric values are…

Actually, I believe that you can take that one right to the first law of thermodynamics - energy is neither created nor destroyed, it merely changes forms. The myth is correct, the problem is everyone thinking that the calories which are actually obtained by your body from the food you consume and the amount of…

Your calorie "myth" is flat-out wrong, and doesn't even bother proving itself. All you point out is that "foods are different" and that's your argument against "calories are food energy, your body stores excess energy as fat"? Of course a cucumber is different than sugar — even calorically. A pound of milk chocolate…