This is a lot closer to the right response than where you started in this thread, so that’s good.

“Here’s how this story applies to me and how I’m better. I live a wildly different sort of life, probably mostly in a cubicle, so I can’t understand this. The moral is, don’t die doing things.”

Signed,

I’m not sure how to balance my instinct to try and prevent this from happening in the future, namely by encouraging people to not do such dangerous things, with respecting everyone’s right to risk their lives as they see fit. Should we discourage these people from their hobbies when we can see the terrible outcome of…

Every time the guy’s name comes up in an article I see a comment section filled with basketblog hipsters acting like Carmelo wasn’t the one of the better wing/post hybrids in the league for around a decade.

This place is becoming such a bummer.

I never saw it as being terribly out of place when these articles popped on Deadspin either, but holy shit did the general commentariat there not agree. It really is a shame too, because there is obviously some desire for this type of material and it’s not like that demand is shrinking at all.

you sound like an asshole.

There was never any plan or scheme to make the West so much stronger, that’s just how it’s happened. Remember too that the recent trend of these “superteams” really started in the East with Boston and Miami.

Crazy how inevitable a result like this looked as soon as the second half started. Even after the send-off, Sweden played scared.

It’s actually not at all like those things you’re comparing it to.

They’re pro-wrestling fans around here. IT’S ART AND REAL VIOLENCE IS FOR MONSTERS.

The girls from your school actually went to wrestling meets?

Jeeeeesus

“Whether it’s counterfeit or a real drug, it’s still the same,”

This fight was real though

Must have been oregano you were buying from those professional criminals, judging by your stunning lack of chill.

Somebody needs a Valium

Are you a bitter hockey fan?

My first thought too. If that’s the case, I hope it comes out and he goes down.