I spent six months in a study abroad program in Russia.

Is this where we throw out baseless Meghan Linsey accusations?

But Detective Gordon isn’t a good cop. If the Chief of Police of New York called some hedge-fund manager with kung-fu skills and no legal authority to help him out every time he was in a pickle, he’d be a terrible Chief of Police.

You realize it’s possible to be strongly anti-Gamergate and also strongly against Gawker outing a private citizen for fun and profit, right? Especially since said private citizen works for a Gawker competitor, and said outing aids and abets the work of a felony blackmailer?

Hey Leitch, what are your thoughts on outing private citizens for sport and profit and acting as a party to blackmail? Not looking for some sort of defending-the-company statement along the lines of Natasha V-C, but a personal opinion.

Primitive bloodsport to entertain primitive minds.

This exactly. As much as I root for the NL, watching the Dodgers’ golden-boy pitchers lose the game was the highlight for me. Well, that and deGrom and Chapman’s innings.

Snooki looks like a cross between an Oompa Loompa and Snooki.

The entire Piper story this season was kinda ho-hum. The show needs to keep Piper around, because she’s nominally the protagonist and our POV character, but the heart of the show is with its supporting characters. Hell, Soso’s plot this season made her an even more interesting naive, new-to-prison audience surrogate…

Do you get this emotional when watching the beefy men hurt each other?

Oh, I’m just woefully underinformed, and if I only understood the technical and physical mastery it takes to PUNCH ‘EM REAL GOOD TIL THEY BLEED DURR I’d appreciate what my rational, modern mind sees as modern-day bloodsport for the feeble-minded and sociopathic.

comics are dumb

Sorry, all I need is one gif of some dumb adrenal case punching another one bloody to realize that the appeal of UFC appears to be “dur he got punched and good” for people who are a touch too “sophisticated” for wrestling stage shows.

This is a cool, interesting sport and not at all a grotesque display of inhumane savagery for guys who think they’re cool because they’re gearing up for a Tough Mudder.

...or he placed third, and only because Jabari Parker got injured too early in the season to qualify.

There will be a lot of whining about this for months, so let’s be clear: basketball is not baseball. It bears no pretense of being a gentleman’s sport with “unspoken rules” about player and team conduct off the field/court. He didn’t sign the contract, he didn’t even publicly announce his decision, and he clearly…

I dunno, this was trending on Kinja. Kotaku seems kinda dismal now that I’m here, though.

This one’s pretty good:

Perfect:

I guess I was just optimistic that being an adult, he didn’t actually think there was more than two or three minutes worth of discussion to be found in the topic of video games.