I could read CH doing that all day.

Great posts today.

In an ode to CH's shift to the alt-right over Sam Fels' take on Kiss Cam, I give you "difficulty options in video games are ableist":

How do you play a game about shooting every human being you see but still get triggered by the video game calling you a baby?

How do you play a game about shooting every human being you see but still get triggered by the video game calling you a baby?

How do you play a game about shooting every human being you see but still get triggered by the video game calling you a baby?

The first thing you do in the game is execute your pet dog.

This guy's narcissism is literally off the charts.

If you're a male and write for Gawker, it's pretty much a requirement that you emasculate yourself before walking into their offices.

Today LeBron James spoke briefly about the grim saga of Derrick Rose, whose desiccated body drifted back to Cleveland this morning. LeBron’s comment was unremarkable in Rose-related insight, which it seemed explicitly crafted to avoid. But it was amusing in its insight on the human condition. In the middle of a routine interview LeBron smuggles in a hilariously bleak take about the possibility of one person ever being able to understand another.
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These are slightly different platitudes intended to satiate different reporters in different contexts, and I am admittedly mashing them together here in a way that amuses me. But there’s also a through-line, here.

Maybe James has reasoned his way from “We have imperfect access to other minds” to “It is actually impossible to empathize with another human being.” That latter stance might be difficult to deal with as a friend, partner, teammate, coach, or anyone else who simply wants the smartest living basketball player to try and understand where he or she is coming from, even if such an understanding can never be absolute. LeBron James has walked right up to the edge of what is possible in both basketball and human empathy. Seeing the former, he rose up to win four MVPs and three titles; seeing the latter, he recoiled, murmuring “Every man is an island.”

It actually would be really fucking cool for LeBron to, post-retirement, drop out of the world for four years, go to college somewhere away from a major media market, and come back as an intellectual. (Imagine: LeBron Goes to Deep Springs.)

As superhuman as his physique is, there have always been guys with bodies like his who haven’t been able to do much in the NBA because you could shine a laser in one ear and see a dot on the wall through the other. That isn’t LeBron. His recall is incredible, and his ability to process multiple information streams simultaneously is at fighter ace levels.

It would be a waste of a brain like that for him to become just an NBA coach or, even worse, a TV talking head.

It actually would be really fucking cool for LeBron to, post-retirement, drop out of the world for four years, go to college somewhere away from a major media market, and come back as an intellectual. (Imagine: LeBron Goes to Deep Springs.)

As superhuman as his physique is, there have always been guys with bodies like his who haven’t been able to do much in the NBA because you could shine a laser in one ear and see a dot on the wall through the other. That isn’t LeBron. His recall is incredible, and his ability to process multiple information streams simultaneously is at fighter ace levels.

It would be a waste of a brain like that for him to become just an NBA coach or, even worse, a TV talking head.

Shut up, basketblogger:

LeBron James Has Realized The Limits Of Human Empathy

His recall is incredible, and his ability to process multiple information streams simultaneously is at fighter ace levels.

On what is that high praise based? It's nice if he can, but did he complete some sort of testing that showed he can "process multiple information streams simultaneously is at fighter ace levels?"

And what are the "multiple information streams" that exist on a basketball court? The shot and game clock?