Fallout 4 had killer gameplay, the actual moving and shooting was amazing. Additionally the settlement building mechanics were pretty cool, and it had a really great aesthetic. But they took all the “RP” out of the “RPG” and ended up turning what could have been a really great game into a mediocre one.

The emoluments clause litigation is a civil case; it would result in monetary damages or injunctive relief, not criminal sanction. Personally I think that if someone conspired with a hostile foreign power to impact the outcome of an election they should get in some kind of trouble for it.

I think he might step down or decline to run again rather than have it be revealed that he’s not nearly as rich as he says he is (he claims $10 billion, Forbes and Bloomberg put it between like $2 and $4.5 billion, it could be even less). The smart business move would be to say “I promised to make America great again…

Nixon was invincible until he wasn’t; he went from untouchable to vulnerable almost literally overnight. No reason to believe that Trump would be any different.

We should care because it matters. The GOP might not give a shit if Trump conspired with Russia, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. At the end of the day knowing will allow us to confront what happened, and deal with it as we move forwards as a nation.

Ending mandatory representation will actually help the labor movement in the long run. After this happens the non-union members, having to negotiate on their own, will get screwed on benefits, wages, sick days, parental leave, their pension, etc. Yes the union will have weaker bargaining power in the short term, but…

What absolutely blows my mind is the fact that Rick Perry is almost certainly the most effective cabinet secretary Trump has. The best guy he’s got is a man with an Animal Science degree (Obama’s Energy Secretaries were both Nuclear Physicists) who (a) didn’t know what the Department of Energy did when he accepted the…

In addition to what Lars and MightyFightin’Duck said theres also an analytics angle to it that can sometimes be counterintuitive in the moment, but seem obvious in hindsight.

Sidney Crosby: Why He Was Worth It

This is just like... such a weird and bad way for SI to approach this take. Drew Brees is a guy who’s greatness is sometimes a bit under the radar because he had the misfortune of playing at the same time (broadly) as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and Aaron Rodgers. You could make a case that Brady, Manning, Rodgers, and…

Has there ever been a second round QB pick who, absent injuries or some tragic circumstance, literally never played a single snap? How do you scout a guy, think highly enough of him to take him in the second, and he’s not even worth a snap in garbage time?

If Mo isn’t first ballot then I don’t know who is. Sure you can argue about closers (and designated hitters), but the fact is that Mo was one of the most feared pitchers in the MLB for years, the best closer of all time, and had potentially the single greatest pitch of all time. Every single person on the field, in…

Obviously the anime and the games are different, but in the games the starting Pokemon are very rare and very powerful. I always got the impression that Team Rocket were obsessed with Ash because he’s walking around with 4 super rare Pokemon (Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur). Add to that the fact that his…

I’m a huge fan of the LOTR movies. I think that they did the absolute best you could do in term of adapting LOTR to the big screen, I’m just bringing it up as an example of a series where there is a lot of things that could be (and had to be) cut. I think it absolutely nailed the balance between pleasing hardcore fans…

I think you hit the nail on the head. Film is a different medium, film adaptations will be and should be different, but you still need to keep some semblance of what the original had or it’s not an adaptation. If you remove nothing the film will be a bloated mess. If you remove too much it’s not really Spiderman (or…

If they ever brought Vine back it’d meet the same fate as the first one and YouTube would be littered with “Vine 2s that (insert joke here)” videos that have 15 times as many views as any of those Vines actually got on Vine.

I agree, way easier to work out when your job/image depends on/requires it. First off you’re essentially getting paid, or in some cases actually getting paid, to work out. I gladly do stuff for my job that I would never do if I wasn’t getting paid.

The top 40 has always been corporate schmaltz. The music of the past seems better because most of the crap gets forgotten. 1969 was a legendary year for music; notable releases included Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Say it Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud, The Velvet Underground, Nashville…

Melo always seemed like a player who came into the league a bit too late. He’s a volume scorer who feasts on mid range shots, the exact thing I want to build my team around if it’s 2006. The game changed around Melo and he was unwilling or unable to adapt to it. As a result he doesn’t really fit anywhere, especially…

Obviously a true star back can have a massive impact on the game, but the vast majority of running backs are going to be as good or bad as their O-Line