Yeah I agree with all of this. I think a particular Lowry weirdness, though, is that a lot of the time it seems for all the world like he’s doing that—running into four defenders, missing a shot, and falling down—so that he can complain about it and unload some of his anxiety on the refs. He plays the strangest… Read more

Dunno, but in the GOT/ASOIAF universe the seasons don’t happen regularly in Westeros; it’s heavily implied that winter comes as a result of White Walker activity, even if it doesn’t rise to the level of them invading the realms of the living. Read more

NO WAY MAN I’M TOTALLY A HUNNERD PERCENT SERIOUS Read more

Her decision makes perfect sense! The Army of the Dead was a pushover, a haphazardly organized and fractious coalition of different armies that don’t even share a common language duffed it into hell and destroyed it forever in a single night, and she’d have been out of her mind to march her army north to participate… Read more

Tell that to Game of Thrones, which spent its first 7.2 seasons telling us that the characters who believed and acted as though “the stakes at play are the Iron Throne” were deluded fools who were missing the one true war that was staring them in the face—and then spent one episode completely flipping that and… Read more

...uh, what? Read more

“Son” has been a verb since long before I ever used it that way! Read more

I think it is extremely creepy and gross that you think Nebula bears more responsibility for that grown-ass (fictional) man’s self-control and behavior than he himself does. That’s super duper fucked up and bad! Read more

I think there’s a mile of difference between an emotionally impactful story development and an upsetting moviemaking choice. I wasn’t upset because Spider-Man was dying; I was upset over the gratuitous choice, by the filmmakers, to linger on the awful death of the only child character in a comic-book movie that, no… Read more

I am not gonna rank all 21 of these movies but my top six, in some order, are Thor: Ragnarok, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.  Read more

Certainly not. But also, the Nets giving the Sixers more of a challenge would make for a better series for everyone who isn’t a Sixers fan. Read more

I was saying to another reader that I think there’s a universe where the Nets went small earlier with RHJ as the 5, picked out the RHJ-Redick mismatch down low, and RHJ drew a couple of fouls on Redick not by having any actual post game to speak of but just by being a lot bigger and stronger than him. Unfortunately,… Read more

No this won’t work, because they kids will know you’re using it and will know that you suck. It has to be a secret that makes you look invincible or else they’ll try to overthrow you as Lord of the Family. Read more

I demoted this discussion so that the top of the comment section won’t be dominated by us bickering over whether you understood the point of the article or not. We do it all the time. Read more

the premise is roughly the same: that “old” things are inherently better Read more

As I argued (successfully!) in a previous Deadspin comment section, anyone who says architecturally important buildings are no longer being made is simply ignorant of modern architecture. Read more

Yeah, that’s a spectacular building. Read more

Bad take. The Pistons were missing their best player, Blake Griffin, on short notice, and never had much hope of actually winning the series. But their fans got to enjoy a surprisingly successful season with a meaningful playoff chase down the stretch; they got to watch months and months of competitive basketball.… Read more

This is such a good comment. Read more

Those Rockets were loaded. Hakeem just happened to be so insanely good that it seems crazy to say they weren’t a lone-star team; obviously they had nobody on his level, and neither did anybody else. But they were loaded! Read more