Your entire original post comes to rest on Zenimax likely having screwed up merely because you heard one side of the story, but not theirs. At least my analysis, also speculative, is drawn from similar cases in which musical artists have been dismayed to learn the ramifications of these broad general agreements they…

Sounds to me like a classic case of everyone guessing about agreements and whether certain people were notified of what.

Could you send me a copy of this agreement?

The guy’s almost 80. He’s seen his property used in a commercial without having consulted with him. He has a moral objection to how it’s used that wouldn’t be my objection. His IP, his rules.

He’s not bitching about it. He’s saying he doesn’t want to do it anymore and then following through on that desire.

I think it’s because this person is the exact type who will repeat the mantra “context matters” until blue in the face, but somehow misses that a baseball game is its own context, conditioning the meaning of game-related signage. Like, a shitload of the woke, reactionary left (and I’m saying this as a leftist) deals…

And what would removing Trump do other than putting in a man who’s just as vicious but a lot smarter about shutting the hell up? Exactly.

Trump got millions less in votes than Clinton? Okay, that’s just a President.

Exactly zero percent of your analysis is true, though. So there’s that.

The Democrats have long held this really poor view, that somehow the only problems they have are ones which can be solved by savvy, modern marketing campaigns. They absolutely need to be about the issues—both in talking about them, and staking out better positions on them—but unfortunately, you can’t “solution” away…

He’s doing this for money but folks are acting like when he loses, he’ll be exposed as a chump.

Well that’s the alternate explanation. I find it hard to believe that Westbrook somehow withheld the ball from Durant during any of their seasons together, since the latter managed to average in the high 20s pretty consistently, but whatever you want to believe.

I think it boosts boxing (if Mayweather wins, which he will) by proving that boxers aren’t just rocking a tiny subset of the MMA combat toolbox. They are doing something specialized at a very, very high level, to the extent that even an aging boxing star can take down a young MMA fighter in his prime. I think there is…

If the points aren’t being scored any other way, and need to be scored in order to win, then yeah, the team’s best player might want to take control and put up more shots instead of resting on “efficiency” as a defense for his inaction. Or if this doesn’t happen, no one should be surprised when the team’s other star…

You’ll note that they needed to score more points. You know, in order to win that game. Can’t score if you’re not taking shots. And last time I checked, Durant wasn’t an oracle who only takes shots if they’re guaranteed to go in, so he might have taken more of them in a game 7 situation. Remember, we’re talking about…

The fact that Durant only took 10 shots in the first half of the game?

It’s worth mentioning, as well, that Jackson reportedly didn’t even want Porzingis. So that single feather in his cap as Knicks prez is only there on a technicality.

Because Dolan is utterly stupid. He’s just a really, really bad team owner. The only slice of happiness Jackson brings into this equation is that we get to watch James Dolan eat $24 million in salary to a fucking asshole as big as Phil Jackson. This is cathartic because Dolan is even worse than Jackson, somehow.

I don’t have any deep-seated objection to what Durant did, but that doesn’t change the fact that it has all the standard optics of a bitch move. And it looks that way because it is that way. Durant isn’t a dude who’s cultivated a community of haters. He’s been one of the least scrutinized superstars in the league,…

It was Durant who choked in game 7 vs GSW in 2016. Everything we know about Westbrook indicates that he plays hero ball when it’s virtually required by his teammates’ performance. Durant had taken only 10 shots in the first half of that game. Is it any surprise that Westbrook maybe thought to himself, “Guess I’m gonna…