If a stage actor calls in sick they aren’t usually expected to come up and bow, even if it’s the run’s last performance and the understudy only did the one. A Special Thanks credit is a perfectly acceptable balance between acknowledging someone’s work and recognizing the fact that they left the company before the…

That seems...reasonable? 

Good point.

If voting for X just to not let Y win was illegitimate, Trump would still be the president.

Fighting game enthusiasts do not drive Smash’s sells, keep it alive, or make the game what it is. Casual players who want to make Pikachu chase Link around with a giant hammer do all of that, and I can prove it to you with math. You seem to think that just because a crowd you hang around in seems lively that means…

Not all hate crimes are based in ethnicity. Even when they are, it’s not always distinguishable by a glance, such as in the case of the Irish and Rwandans. I’m not saying Squeenix shouldn’t put more color in their game, absolutely they should, but I’m seriously struggling to conceive of a dumber response than implying…

It’s not that Nintendo doesn’t want it to be a fighting game, they just don’t care either way if some people perceive it as one. Thus, they’ve decided that if that’s going to be the case then it might as well be done one hundred percent on their terms, which they can afford to do even with the blowback because the…

Why would Nintendo care about if Smash “survives” past selling half a billion copies? Smash isn’t a fighting game. It’s a party game a tiny percentage of people are really serious about, and more power to them, but you have completely the wrong idea about Nintendo’s priorities regarding the series.

Counterintuitively, admitted theft is harder to contort facts into a defense than cases of police brutality, because the latter can always be blamed on the victim having done something to provoke the response. 

That IS a better metaphor, because having to use a three-key cipher based on musical notes to find pieces at an exhibition is exactly the kind of performance art bullshit artists would do, and it would defeat the purpose if they handed you a normal pamphlet alongside the coded one. The artist has a specific experience…

It’s more like demanding an art museum allow you to switch out the paintings for others if you don’t like them.

Considering they got their start making Halo: Combat Evolved machinima, their group name referencing a British synonym for ‘bitch’ isn’t all that shocking for the time.

Surely that would only compel him to flip on her, no? Is it even still theft then?

Exactly, thank you. As a trained policeman, I can tell you it’s almost impossible to keep cool when a woman is standing several feet away holding up a phone. Last Thanksgiving I joined in for a family photo and there were multiple casualties, it’s almost as bad a trigger as seeing a Black person.

“Good enough to assist” nothing, no human can beat a halfway decent engine at it’s max level. It’s impossible. Can’t happen.

Well, it’s not a lot of money, right? I mean I would do just about anything for nearly thirty thousand dollars, but the stakes in the simultaneous chess and poker scandals  are way, way, way bigger. Obviously competitive fishing is not nearly the draw as chess or poker, it’s niche, but “getting greedy” makes more…

Once you’ve accepted life in prison the social contract deteriorates even further from what landed you there. Assuming you’re in a state where execution isn’t on the table for whatever you have in mind, well, what else can they do? Sentence you to another life in prison? Obviously, I’m not trying to say that fear of…

Weird seeing it argued here that it was totally cool and awesome for someone to be murdered in cold blood after they were already convicted. I mean, I’M fine with that, but it seems like the response would be very different if the races were flipped, especially given the probable collusion of the prison guards. 

It’s obviously, OBVIOUSLY not the case here and I am not saying that it is, but have there been any known cases of Tourette’s where one of the tics is a slur? Because that would really fucking suck.

It’s hard to quantify exactly how much of a power imbalance is too much unless it’s obvious. Is it as bad if he were only ten years older? What if he were only the star of a famous sitcom that ended in 2016 rather than the frontman of a band with several hits that hasn’t been the hot new thing since 2014? Her being a t…