I did that for a while. Traded, did combat, upgraded my ship, get better ships, etc. But I never felt like the game changed. The experience of being in a big ship vs being in a little ship, the experience of investing the time to make those improvements, didn’t feel like anything in the game really, aside from…

The point I’m more trying to make is, we get you like the game, that doesn’t make people who don’t idiots.

It’s not nonsense, it’s a difference of opinion. I happen to mostly agree with them. It’s possible to discover cool stuff in Elite Dangerous, but the time investment and effort/luck required isn’t worth it, to me, partly because the density of cool stuff to routine stuff feels pretty low. I can get about as much…

There’s a great excuse: I don’t particularly like the game.

There’s a great excuse: I don’t particularly like the game.

The role varies from team to team, but mostly the things coaches in other sports do. Advise on strategy, organize practice sessions, handle team morale and personality clashes, and in some cases, decide on team lineups.

...is there a competitive esport that has meaningful educational value?

Stick around till the end.

With all due respect Hamilton Nolan, your take on this is about 85 percent horseshit.

I wish I could get into Kendrick Lamar... but I just don’t get it. I listened to about half of Damn the other day and... *shrug*.

Previous marvel movies have managed, somehow to touch on:

I’m not trying to defend bestiality, but there’s a gigantic list of things we do to and with animals without their consent that would be illegal to do to humans, up to and including killing and eating them. Consent isn’t a great basis to hang law on, animals can’t really give consent in human terms for anything. And…

Maybe, but half of what makes Volcano Girls good is that it’s basically a sequel to/answer to Seether.

Don’t like it. It doesn’t cohere as a song to me. It’s just a collection of noises, like PJ Harvey had a B side she was dissatisfied with, put into a a shredder, and half the bits were randomly recovered from the shredder and taped together and Feist then murmured over that.

I agree with your overall point about stigmatizing female anatomy, but surely you aren’t seriously asserting that no one has a problem with using the word “penis” and there aren’t a billion euphemisms for penis we use in this society?

In our criminal justice system, everyone is entitled to a competent defense, even if they’re guilty. Defending a bad person does not make a lawyer a bad person, that’s just the nature of the job. Corporate lawyers who manipulate the law so that giant corporations can destroy the earth and screw over the little…

She’s not responsible for the content of the ad, but she’s certainly responsible for choosing to appear in the ad. Pepsi didn’t put a gun to her head, Pepsi didn’t use CG to put her into a commercial unknowingly, and she’s not struggling to get by and forced to take whatever gigs she can land.

I wouldn’t call it an outsized response. She’s a gigantically privileged person who freely chose to try to burnish her “brand” (and accepted money) in order to make an incredibly tone deaf and shallow commercial that itself trivializes and takes advantage of people who are out there getting hurt and in some cases…

Enh. Look, I’m against the NRA and support sensible gun control measures, but if you work around (x), inevitably someone will have a workplace accident related to (x), and that doesn’t really say all the much about the person or the (x) unless gross negligence can be proven. People who work in kitchens will get cuts…

You know that has nothing at all to do with the media response, which is what this article was about, right?

Jezzies don’t really assert this. They assert (correctly) that: