A bunch of try-hard dorks make a bad game to piss off the world’s Helen Lovejoys and a bunch of try-hard dorks spend their money on it. Actual human beings with lives yawn.

Launching into a tirade about Photoshop is a pretty funny way of telling us you got a confusing boner.

FWIW, most Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communites are actively anti-Zionist — in addition to not joining the army, they don’t vote and don’t accept money from the Israeli government. Early anti-Zionist Haredi worried that Jewish nationalism would replace faith and religious observance, and they maintain that the modern…

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A friendly reminder that this is all in service of putting one of the premiere international sporting events in a dictatorial rentier state on a desert peninsula smaller than Connecticut with a population comparable to Greater Sacramento.

Qatar is the per-capita richest country in the world. The average Qatari makes about twice as much per year as the average American.

We’re also still SEVEN YEARS OUT from this World Cup even happening. And the Qatari government wants more “guest workers” to come in because they’re not meeting construction deadlines for a project that, again, is due SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW.

Boston itself might be 23rd as a city, but the Boston metro area is 10th largest in the country; also Red Sox and Yankees are teams that have massive fanbases outside their home cities.

Yankees and Red Sox means the overall market in this country will always be skewed slightly toward AL.

“Listen, thousands of Nepali slaves are dying to build Qatar’s World Cup venues. You want their deaths to have been in vain? We have to keep building — for the slaves.”

It’s also pretty much the lifeblood of Ratatouille, also by Bird. Lots of little digressions here and there about how laudable talented creative artists are, and that final voiceover monologue about the lowliness of critics in the face of great work...

James Harden passed the ball to Dwight Howard with an open lane and Dwight Howard suddenly thought he was playing Hot Potato. Somehow this is James Harden’s fault.

I know Dwight can’t dribble anymore, and Harden’s supposed to be The Man, but I can’t help but think the wrong Rocket is getting a lot of attention for…

You sound like someone who believes commercials.

It’s great. And the conceit/quirk of a hip-hop colonial musical isn’t a random imposition — it’s specific to Hamilton’s story and the central thesis of the story, that as a lower-class West Indies-born immigrant to the colonies, Hamilton represented a model of American success and living that finds echoes in…

Yep. Also the need to find creative solutions to the difficulty of getting a camera near the action allows for lots of image stylization (small, wide-angle lenses placed in the goal; long, telephoto images of action). The fact that there’s a lot of light and that players are illuminated both from the top and bottom…

Basketball man does good basketball thing, puts ball in hole fancy way.

Doc isn’t that great a coach, so he doesn’t know how to get a lot out of subprime talent. His 2008 Celtics had three, maybe four future HOF players at or near the peak of their powers, an elite defensive specialist in Tony Allen, Perk at the apex of his career. This Clippers team is simply not as talented — only (!)…

You totally sound like someone aware of how the film and television industry works.

Yeah, he was so blase about the project he was willing to walk if Showtime wouldn’t give him the season budget he needed to pull off what he and Mark Frost wanted to do. What a jerk.

I love this so much. The greatest of all possible responses.