I wish there was just a setting that would have slightly fewer enemies overall. Most of the damage I took was when I would be trying to stagger a shieldman and then some asshole with a spear would interrupt me. I get that it’s less silly than everyone waiting their turn, and I can use kunai or smokebombs to deal with…

Agreed. Quite bad. 

I think some people felt the same way about Red Dead Redemption 2: a slow, bleak experience. A story with only bare traces of optimism - even less if you finished RDR1. Humorless by the second half. A deliberate, work-heavy gameplay style, and a main character dying of tuberculosis.

I absolutely loved the game. Just…

Odyssey and Origins were both fun games, but never did suck me in as much as the classics in the series. Since Black Flag, the series has done away with

1. Strong and fun characters/villians/allies and storytelling in general. There are just fewer interesting or developed characters overall. I never lost a sense of…

I actually did finish Death Stranding, which feels like an accomplishment in the same sense that holding my breath underwater for more than 60 seconds is an accomplishment.

There was three-day period or so after I finished when I felt like I had experienced something incredible and, in a way, important. Then I just…

Hold up.

Is... is cooking a steak that’s still got red in the middle... is that a white people thing? Has my privilege let me assume that good steak was race-agnostic?

I assumed the only people that want their steak well done are... well, that’s how the Orange Asshole likes his, which tracks with my expectations.

I hope the Deadspin staff have been relatively quiet for the past day because the union is getting to work.

I won’t claim to have the heaviest emotional attachment here because, well, nothing gold can stay. But I kept reading, and enjoying, and once got Drew to pick my Song to Run Through a Brick Wall To or whatever…

“...grievously disrespectful exercises in unauthorized truth-telling.”

Ted Cruz’s biography should be titled “Annoyingly Clever Blobfish” 

Most of these people are obvious mentally askew in some way or another...

But I also think William Walker III raises a valid point. 

The problem with the Varsity is that you’re sending them there for burgers instead of chili dawgs. Get two chili slaw dawgs, onion rings and an FO on a hot summer afternoon, you will leave satisfied and greasy. 

If the content maw dies, what will you complain about for clicks?

My impression is that they’ve left it up to each writer’s discretion. I also recall someone mentioning offhand an internal discussion on the merits of accurately identifying the team while recognizing the name as a slur vs. censoring it entirely. Could be mis-remembering that, though.

The name is a slur and should be…

We voters seem to have an ongoing desire for a “policy guy” or technocrat to come in an smart everything up. Even with Trump, a lot of his fans want his “business smarts” to fix our government (yes, I know this is bullshit). While intelligence and good policy definitely matter, there’s no perfect or morally flawless…

As I replied elsewhere, I interpreted this as they explained the bureaucratic reason for denial, but not necessarily that being a non-citizen made her ineligible to vote. That is, she thought she only made a paperwork mistake, not that her actual status made her ineligible.

A combination of language barriers,…

I interpreted this as they explained the bureaucratic reason for denial, but not necessarily that being a non-citizen made her ineligible to vote.

Your comment should replace the actual blog post above, IMO.

There’s no debate that she did in fact break the law. The issues are 1) the wildly disproportionate punishment, and 2) the complete failures by the bureaucracy to explain why she was not eligible to vote, why taking a jury trial instead of a plea deal would…

That’s a fair rebuttal! 

Rovell is a turd, but a relatively benign one. You just try not to step on it, and you you go about your day. He doesn’t come across as maliciously stupid, like the Francesca and Ingraham types.

How often do you get accused of being “the real racist” by an right-wing idiot versus being called a regular ol’ racist? I want to guess it’s at LEAST 5:1 favoring the former.