I have a weird affection for Castlevania 64. Yes, the controls are clunky and the camera is terrible a lot of the time, but it has a certain charm to it. The atmosphere works, and some of the boss fights are pretty memorable. The giant skeleton in the first level, the vampire encounter in the room with the mirror, the…

Also, that kind of dependence on fundraising means candidates end up spending the most time talking and hearing the concerns of the mega rich instead of their potential constituents.

Maybe people should run for lower offices before they consider running for major offices like governor or president. Or even have some political experience. Haven’t we learned from the Trump shitshow that you want someone who knows what s/he’s doing running things?

Another read could be, a person with experience beats a person without experience after a state saw on a national stage what happens when you put someone with no experience but lots of promises in power. That or a persons campaign lost which was focused on a city when running for a statewide role. Both of these could…

She was the only person in the entire god damn state with the gumption to challenge this numpty and if her campaign accomplished nothing else but highlighting the problem of the IDC upstate then it was a rousing success. 

But his partner in crime - the IDC - has been utterly gutted tonight. The IDC had always been a firewall for him by preventing progressive legislation from crossing his desk, sparing him from having to *actually* veto it. And now if the Dems manage to pick up a couple of seats in the general, he’ll no longer have…

while it’s pretty obvious that cuomo is the poster child for political corruption, i can’t vote for another celebrity with zero political experience that wants to go from stage zero to top billing. go be a city counselor for five minutes. this was a tough primary vote in our typically simple blue state. politics is a…

Cuomo was sitting pretty on a $30 million campaign war chest at the beginning of the year.

Yeah. I really think this is more about how it’s done than just whether or not it’s done. So long as it’s unobtrusive and what you’re getting is worth the money then lots of bonus content can be an exciting proposition.

‘Call me cynical, but I think we’d all benefit from hearing what exactly Braun means by “I made every effort you can imagine”—the guy certainly has fiscal concerns that might not overlap with instructing Bieber to take a break from working and get help ASAP, but I digress.’

Norm Macdonald recently gave a lengthy interview to the Hollywood Reporter in which he said that “there are very few people that have gone through” what Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr have gone through, “losing everything in a day.” If you thought, wow, that’s an insanely shitty, misinformed thing to say Norm, the…

That’s absolutely true, but they belong to an often shady “brotherhood” that frequently places generating revenue above the health and safety of the public, and maintains a culture that shields its worst members of any repercussions from their bad acts, regardless of the severity (up to and including murdering…

Yeah I don’t think it follows that code.

You are remembering correctly, but a lot of the commenters and writers here never were very reasonable about this.

Aziz Ansari doesn’t deserve the level of vitriol directed at Louis CK et al. CK masturbated to his subordinates then blackballed them with his influence. Aziz Ansari thought he was getting a groupie one night stand, she thought it was a date. Neither of them clarified their expectations for the night. He was an…

This seems like an unneccessary article

I say this in a way that is divorced from Aziz or the woman victimized:

It’s way worse than what CK did? Really? Aziz Ansari went on a date with a woman who pursued him. Now, I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but at least if you go on a date to someone’s apartment there is an expectation that physical touching and sexual activity might happen. At least it’s not outside the realm of…

I could care less about the careers of any of the people mentioned in this article, so please make that my starting point. With that being said, there is a TREMENDOUS waive of voices saying that “punishment” doesn’t work in the United States, and that we have to rehabilitate, counsel, and work with all the criminals…

If you hate being tried in the “court of public opinion” (while facing basically no other consequences) try to imagine not receiving a trial at all, and having a cop serve as judge, jury, and executioner. So much focus on the 1st and 2nd amendment, so little on the 6th.