So an employer (the NFL) has made a change in labor policy (changing the rules about what players may or may not do), partially because of pressure from the President, who disagrees with a political statement made by the employees? Man it would be great if that was like super illegal.

They also have an issue with what they select for the card. You’ll get a rare match where a Torb is actually used well, and his endgame card is about how many armor packs he made, not that he had gold objective kills.

That’s what’s nuts. I’ve seen a PotG that was labeled “sharpshooter” before that was just one really really good shot. I’ve seen a Mercy Rez be PotG too, it can happen, it’s just not frequent.

They need to prohibit a play being PotG if you miss a bunch. Nothing is worse than sitting through a PotG of a McCree getting two headshot kills on 19 shots.

They were pretty bad this year, though that’s how the AHL goes. When your players get good they get called up. However the Columbus Blue Jackets organization seems to be in a really good place right now; the team is good, their window is just opening (they’re pretty young), and they have really solid scouting and…

I think that’s why they’ve been so good. There isn’t that same pressure. Rather than entering the playoffs looking at a cup they’ve been more focused on each individual game.

Cleveland is a hockey town. Their AHL team, the Monsters (affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets) had average attendance of 9,197 this season. The New York Islanders averaged 12,002. You could certainly put and NHL team in The Cleve and have them succeed. I wouldn’t be totally shocked if they were in the discussion in…

Hey, it’s also a tribute to capitalism because the Department of Defense actually pays sports leagues for many of the patriotic displays.

I’m still a big fan of Toby Ziegler, because he has the right attitude: “they’ll like us when we win.” I’m sick of democrats spending the time we do have in power telling all the people who elected them why the things they elected them to do are not possible. If the GOP had a supermajority in the senate like the…

In fact fear inherently cannot make people Democrats or liberals. A few weeks ago the Washington Post had an article about a study that showed that, when asked to imagine that they had been given the power of absolute invulnerability from harm, conservatives responses to policy questions on social issues were indisting…

I see people making the J.K. Rowling reference, but I think that’s not totally correct here. Just because something doesn’t happen on screen doesn’t mean it doesn’t inform the character. A good actor understands and inhabits a character, they don’t just read words off a page. So things that may seem like something…

I really want the Caps to win game 7. A team that has never won the cup finally shedding the “choker” label and an expansion team playing for a cup in their first season? That’s one hell of a series. I also think a Caps/VGN series would be tons of fun to watch.

I’ve watched some of his interviews/debates and read some of his stuff, I’m not dismissing the guy offhand, I’m saying I haven’t read his book and have not been given any evidence that it would be a worthwhile use of my exceedingly limited free time.

Jordan Peterson seems, from everything I’ve heard about him, to be a moronic nutjob. But when he gets brought up and I say something to that effect I get told that’s only because I haven’t read his *shockingly* long book, which I have no intention of doing because the guy seems like an idiot.

Also, as an attorney, he should know he *doesn’t* pay for their “welfare” because welfare was eliminated in 1996. It’s a minor point, but one of my pet peeves is dickbags who go around yelling about “welfare” two decades after they managed to screw over millions of poor people by eliminating that particular program…

All the Rockets need to maybe possibly win this thing is for the best three point shooter of all time to continue to shoot 15.4% from deep for the entirety of a seven game series.

The guy was apparently pretty notable, so when you have been in the public sphere (even if you later leave) you’re kind of fair game. Also the guys name was J.J. Bittenbinder, and you cannot invent a funnier name for a person than that.

It depends on the bear. With a black bear you make yourself big, with a mother Grizzly defending her cubs you play dead. With an offensively attacking bear (rather than defensive) you’ve gotta scrap like hell, protect your face, and hope for the best.

I’m even more worried that people tend to call for changes based on what they perceive the meta to be based on the pro game, when that is such a small portion of play, and requires fundamentally different things on occasion. That’s why Torb and Sym are so hard to get right. At lower levels, where players are not as…

It ended up killing the game for me. The combat felt amazing, the game looked great, but those seemingly minor technical issues combined to me slowly abandoning the game. It wasn’t the all at one “this game is crap” response that occurs sometimes, I just found myself always picking another game.