I agree to a large extent, but isn’t there a distinction between “as good as MJ or LJ on paper” and “in the right context to win championships”? I’m not sure analytics needs to be able to explain why Jordan won a lot of championships, but Paul hasn’t even made a conference finals. There are all sorts of things…

Paul obviously isn’t a perfect player, but if you had paired him with Durant, I feel like his weaknesses may have been less exposed and his difference between regular season and playoff less pronounced.

There’s also the distinct possibility that building around a PG is just, aside from a few historical exceptions that prove the rule, not super effective at producing championships. It’s always going to be nice to have a superstar at that position, but even then, you’re still ideally going to build around a good…

No, it wasn’t. It’s just a TV show. Stop.

Why not wait and watch the show to see how it is?

How easy would it have been for them to, as Reign said, to lift up marginalized voices and be added as Exec Producers of Underground and bring that to HBO, a place that has no problem spending $5million plus per episode.

This kind of criticism is a bad look when the show hasn’t even been written yet, much less filmed and readied for release. Feel free to critique the very notion of a show featuring slavery being aired, but don’t act as though allegations of “tone deafness” are to be taken seriously when you couldn’t possibly have even…

Yeah I mean, it’s obvious that this is about burning bridges irreparably in order to force a trade. Kyrie has never struck me as the sort of guy for whom this is the default mode. But one can’t help but think that this short-term gambit is going to have a long-term impact on how future teammates see him. What other…

Yeah, I started the video hoping it would be obnoxious and mock-worthy, but finished thinking “Damn, I wish I could do that.” A feeling coupled with the realization that all the working out LeBron does seems to work, and that the dude has basically never been seriously injured in his entire career. How are Steph’s…

I love that you’re into these sort of investigative games. Even though I’m more of a simulation guy at heart, games like LA Noire and Heavy Rain scratch a major itch for me, and I really enjoy watching people play through (and make incisive comments about) them.

I mean, I think you could make the style work, but the most important part is that the underlying game be good. Start with the game, not with the style.

Even if pixel art platformers go out of style (again), Kyle may not abandon the retro world entirely. He has considered working on a project with deliberately PSone-style 3D visuals, right down to texture warping and other common quirks from Sony’s first foray into consoles.

First of all, the concept of censorship exists outside of government. A private media outlet can engage in censorship just as readily as any other institution. Secondly, nobody said this involved the government. I don’t get why you constantly post these “reminders,” though thankfully you avoided posting the stupid…

This is not a “freedom of speech” issue; violations of the First Amendment require government involvement (because the First Amendment only protects freedom of expression—absent certain well-established instances of criminal speech—from government interference or prosecution).

Then he’ll suffer for it. You think he isn’t aware of that possibility? Stop dressing up your own personal disappointment as concern for Angry Joe’s numbers.

Dismissing black peoples response as ‘pathetic’ and ‘reactionary’ lacks empathy and insight into a state that has actively sought to oppress and criminalize them.

What was depressing about Rio?

You are only here to defend the honor of this white woman for no other reason than she’s a white woman.

I don’t understand how assuming the worst of people’s motives, instead of dealing with things they said, is going to help any of the things you care about in life (including, but not limited to, what you mentioned in your previous comment). It’s also kind of sad that you feel the need, upon encountering a view you…

Were you here yesterday, posting this shit when the criminal justice system let Ray Tensing walk?