How is this not a McKenna story?

Less Lovecraftian, more Neo-Brechtian Realist!

How hard would it actually be to load all these faces into the game? 1700 is a lot, but a well-designed game could simply restrict its memory use to the 106 roster players on a given game day. That should be within the capabilities of a modern gaming system.

I think NBA contraction is an ultimate outcome of this. Good players don’t want to play for teams that aren’t at least going to try to compete, and teams that don’t have the means or desire to compete are basically just going to be schedule fodder for the money franchises, which makes it harder for them to get good.…

NFL sponsors a national beer league for flag football. Every year, the winning team takes on the Pro Bowlers. It’s the only way. 

When you hear about artistic exploitation for 16 years... 16 years? That sounds like a choice.

1) Roman numerals are dumb, get over it.

Yes! The Wolverine as a film noir/procedural set in Tokyo would have been fabulous, something like Kurosawa’s Yojimbo meets Beat Takeshi’s Fireworks. 

I mean, there are essentially two valid, faithful Superman plots. One is, Superman has a dilemma where he can’t do two important things at the same time, which can be “save Lois” and “stop the villain”, or they can be “stop the villain” and “do something important as Clark Kent”, and has to choose one, or figure out…

I wouldn’t even call it catching lightning in a bottle: the charms of Ghostbusters are immediately evident and understandable, except that the standard Hollywood modus operandi is to do the exact opposite at every possible moment. The premise of the film is simple: a couple of jargony academic frauds turn out to be…

I specifically blame HP Lovecraft, and Brown University, not necessarily in that order.

“I’m a pro-capital Libertarian and believe that my economic enlightenment* makes me an expert on everything else, too.”

See, my thought process was, given his connection with the Raiders, he’d get them a pile of wet trash.

Can we just sit back and enjoy this? The Lakers are historically one of the most dominant teams and their obnoxious Hollywood fanbase funds them building dynasties regularly. For once, they’ve picked up a megastar in the off season and are still ass. Let’s just cherish the moment while it lasts, okay? In a few years…

It doesn’t help that he was robbed of a normal childhood because his dad wanted to sell records. 

Especially with milk (untried with vegan milk substitute)

If the past 10 years of mass media have taught us anything, it’s that sequels and reboots are immensely popular (even if controversial), so whoever owns the rights to this would rather sit on it until they decide to relaunch the series. 

This could be a great sports movie plot. The Bears have a kicker who sucks, and realize that they could get someone who makes the same percentage of kicks as their guy that costs them several million dollars if they picked up an amateur, so they have open tryouts and end up with one of: washed out 40 year old who…

It’s clear that Kingsbury made McCoy a certain informal offer, probably cash but possibly anything from deferred payments later, pre-endorsements, pro contacts, or who knows what that the kid does not think the head coach or whoever else will be willing or able to do.

To be honest, that’s not really surprising. With games like Starcraft the difference between players tends to come down to small advantages magnified many times - as Komincz pointed out, he relies on his opponents’ mistakes to create mismatches. A computer with a good decision tree (whether by design or through…