Not really, no. My recollection (from reading reviews) is that it has good elements, but it’s just kind of meh overall.

This, exactly. It’s perfectly find to have as lore “Drow splintered off from surface elves, fell under the thrall of Lloth, and in worshipping her have developed a culture that celebrates dominance and brutality as virtues.” As opposed to “Drow are like elves, but they have dark skin and are EVIL BY NATURE, except for…

I love the way Sen. Rivera frames this - it’s not that Engel’s awful. He’s generally been a reliable vote for liberal/progressive causes throughout his career. But his district has changed, and he hasn’t adapted to reflect/champion the issues that his district cares about most. So it’s time for some new blood that can…

Always reminds me of those stories of PTA treasurers and the like who get caught embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars. At first, you wonder how they thought they could get away with it, but they didn’t start out stealing large amounts. Hundred here, couple of hundred there, and then, over time, as they realize…

Officer Jenny, you’re really a square;

On another, the lawsuit says, Miller told Piscitelli he would “swipe left” on her after criticizing her for not smiling enough.

The Spleen of Orlac.

If you look at the replay, he maybe has a shot if he runs to his left, letting the two guys coming off the corner run past him to the right instead of trying to outrun them coming off one knee with them at full sprint. Still, that counts on the holder being able to beat #8 (who’s playing spy) to the corner, which…

If you want to unlock animations—including even the most basic dunk, otherwise you’re stuck doing lay-ups—you need VC.

They didn’t fuck over Bullock. Bullock’s medicals came back with significant issues that might keep him from playing this season, but rather than cut him loose, they’re renegotiating the contract based on his projected availability. Even Bullock’s agent is saying the Knicks (against character) are being stand-up in…

Thanks! I’m a data analyst by trade, and my specialty is poring through large, unwieldy data sets and finding meaningful trends, so this sort of thing is right up my alley.

All original, albeit updated from a post I wrote on a Mets team site (Amazin Avenue) a couple of weeks back. Did a similar look at Noah Syndergaard a month or so ago that showed similar slider issues this year, which sparked my curiosity about Diaz.

Granted. But even if Diaz couldn’t sustain his amazing 2018 performance, you’d expect him to still be a good-to-very-good reliever. He’s been genuinely awful, though, and it seems like the cause is the new ball messing with slider grips, rather than some sort of closer regression to the mean.

Did a bit of data analysis on Diaz a couple of weeks back, and it seems like the big issue is that, like a lot of guys who throw hard sliders this year, he’s lost the ability to consistently command his slider (seemingly due to the new ball), which is leading to hanging sliders (which get crushed) and guys sitting on…

Fun fact: Gagne, under the name Twoflower, was one of the OG anime fanfic people (particularly for Ranma 1/2 and Slayers) back in the 90s, so he’s been putting up excellent writing on the internet in various forms for literal decades. (Also generally a good dude overall. I’ve heard really good things about his visual…

Does Kotaku have policies/procedures for how to handle requests from government investigators (or lawyers in private lawsuits) who ask to be put in touch with your sources? Obviously you’re not going to just give them the names of people who requested anonymity, but would you pass along requests to see if they’d be…

Would probably be involuntary manslaughter under Kansas penal law - involuntary manslaughter is (among other things) “recklessly” causing the death of another, while voluntary manslaughter is mostly “crime of passion” killing. Sentence would be 50-55 months in prison for a Severity 5, 1 person crime (Kansas has a weird…

From what I’m reading, it’s “same city, same universe, previous games are canon, but new adventure set some time after the old games.”

This is a great example of the original intent of “the customer is always right.” If you think your model was great, and the customer basis violently rejects it... well, guess what? The customer is right, your model sucked.

It’s huge in Mexico, but for various reasons, Mexico doesn’t produce a ton of boxing talent in the higher weight classes, so the talent pool that Ruiz would have to compete with for a shot at the Olympics would be notably shallower than in the US.