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As usual, people are giving too much credit to the coaches. Jackson may not have been managing the offense perfectly, but those guys were all much younger when he was in charge. Guys on rookie contracts improve, more news at 11.

The disparity of the NBA isn't going away anytime soon because there isn't a single dynamic pushing these results. A lot of the issues at play would require the Player's union to approve measures which isn't going to happen. You can't slow down free agency and there will always be guys willing...

Yup. Maeve is following her programming. She's not even close to being awake.

Donators are people, too. CSR for an MMO deals with a lot of playerbase issues, not just about money. A good customer support team/person could save Pantheon a lot of dev time (which is much more expensive and distracting). Think of all the bug reports they're getting in pre-alpha (or perhaps...

Return it. The company is going out of business, if you're ever going to take advantage of a return policy this is the time. You aren't hurting the store employees, they're already losing their job.

DC is an all-time great. He's absolutely worthy. Jon Jones is the only man to ever beat him – he's 20-1-1*. Jon Jones is better, but when you don't fight/defend your title/get suspended then you lose your belt. It's like saying Max Halloway is a paper champ at 145 because Conor left to go box...

Yeah, 3 web designers is suspect. At least their marketing team lists one person as a consultant, because if they're paying people real dollars to work 40 hours a week on marketing that's a gross waste of payroll. Two community people is double what EQ had. Customer service paying two people...

Presumably it's some "apprentice dev" who paid for the privilege. They aren't paying someone a full time salary with benefits to do their website. The amount of people doing work on the game that command reasonable compensation isn't the same as the amount of people with their hands in the...

A fully engaged Cavs team would be fun to see go against Houston. No amount of energy or hustle would make the Warriors series fun. Maybe if Curry goes out with an injury and one of their other dudes gets a nagging injury it could be competitive for 6 games. Tonight's game is how I expected the...

Both these teams play better at home. Cavs are shooting well (after a terrible first two games, they had what a 45% eFG on UNCONTESTED SHOTS?), playing good defense, and hustling on both sides of the ball. Celtics are missing shots, making bad decisions, and getting out-hustled. Not a big...

We don't know because they don't tell us. Maybe their current angel investor said, "I'm willing to bankroll $200k/mo towards payroll, plus whatever incidentals along with a team that size, for as long as you need to get this done." Maybe their deal is for a time limit (until 2019), perhaps it's...

Of course it's 100% speculation. Everything is 100% speculation. No one cares about third rate fighters. A 165 division would create opportunities for first and second rate fighters to become world class. Mighty Mouse, maybe the most dominant fighter in UFC history, was a top 10 guy at 135 but...

Name that player! 37 minutes, shot 3 for 11, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 8 points. 36 minutes, shot 7 for 9, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 19 points. 33 minutes, shot 8 for 15, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 27 points. 27 minutes, shot 2 for 4, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 points. 36 minutes, shot 8 for 9, 7...

I think this is probably about as good as Houston can expect things to go. And yet it still feels like the Warriors have a 50% chance of winning.

If it included a matching Battle Pet, would you purchase it? (I may or may not be doing market research on behalf of Blizzard, Inc.)

You missed my point. In the NBA, the most talented team usually wins. While modern NBA history has sometimes featured two guys getting it done (Shaq & Kobe, Shaq & Wade, Jordan & Pippin), more often the way to get the most talent is to get 3 very good guys. It's a very reliable formula. In the...

My point was Lee isn't a big dude for 155 despite walking around near 200. The sport has plenty of dudes bigger than Lee who can neither compete at the highest level at 155 nor 170 so they wash out. You add divisions, you get additional competitive fights. It doesn't dilute talent, it magnifies...

Jordan did the Big 3 some twenty years earlier with Scotty and recruited HOF'er Dennis Rodman so they could stay on top. San Antonio had a Big 3 with The Big Fundamental, Manu, and Tony Parker. Kobe assembled a Big 3 with Bynum and Pau. Paul Pierce punked out and recruited KG and Ray Allen...

They're all busy playing pre-alpha because it's so much fun. After paying $10,000 they are too afraid to break their NDA and lose access to a game they love so much.

Dude this is a crowd-funded project. Why are you asking for transparency re: allocation of funds?

Do you think other studios will create an MMO in Unity after seeing your results? Will Pantheon feature servers that are completely separate from each other (e.g., EverQuest)? Will these servers have a population cap? Might we see login queues or servers closed to new characters?

This is a take your money first and give you your answers second type of organization. You could try scheming around this with a $20k pledge by narrowing down your ideas, presenting it to the team, getting shit on, and coming back with ideas they might accept, only for them to take your money a...

Yeah. A 165 (super lightweight) division would be great. Right now there are a lot of guys who aren't great at 155 but are too afraid to jump in at 170. Kevin Lee, who is not a small dude, walking around near 200, says he wants no part of the 170 division because those dudes are massive. Maybe...

He could be. The puzzle of Bernard's consciousness is we don't know whether it's the case. He's wrestling with it himself – how "free" is he? Has the veil of his programming been lifted, or is he only seeing one extra layer to his existence that he was never aware of prior whilst many more...

The way you put it makes me wonder how this took so long. Remote desktop on mobile isn't new.

Bernard doesn't need his own brain unless he's going to create more copies of himself. The data he's grabbing belongs to someone dead. Perhaps he's on a quest to revive his human self but I don't find it plausible. In this case it's a simulation not a replication, but yeah. There's no...

That's a similar schedule to what they're doing already. They could easily add a couple divisions on the men's side without diluting talent while creating more excitement.

Hard to imagine Houston can win 4 of the next 6 games after tonight. Put a fork in it.

This is all too straightforward. Ford planned all of this. The only plot question of this season so far: Are Ford and William on the same side?

Toronto is a fine team with an outside chance of making the NBA finals. They're a good second-tier "contender" with a near-zero chance of winning it all. The top tier of NBA teams who have a legitimate chance to make the finals is probably five or six teams and most of them can be predicted at...

You guys aren't seeing this right. This is a SUPERFIGHT! Flyweight vs Bantamweight. Hype!!!

Can we get a Pantheon promises tracker? Turn it into a game like presidential elections. I am curious what exactly they've promised. It's important to be transparent when taking crowd funding!

If you pay for the $10k tier ("donate $10,000" or "invest $10,000," or whatever soothes your conscience) you can have access to the 900+ page design document on summoner. However since it's locked behind an NDA, these details cannot be shared publicly.

So fall fights are between Khabib, Lee, Conor (?), and GSP (?). I think GSP would sit out before fighting Lee. I say Eddie wins bigly, but loser (Poirier) can rebound against Tony and keep his hopes alive. Not disappointed. 155 needs to sort itself out with as many fights as the dudes will...

Rereserving the name Rerearadune. 2040 release is gonna be awesome! Back on topic, how much work have they done on the third zone?

Tyen wants SOE to make a profit off of this. In this fictitious scenario they'd be using circa 2004 code to create their own servers in 2004 and overthrow WoW.

LOL at the idea of EQ1 being RPGMaker for MMO's being bigger than WoW. The number of people who have the technical skill and time to develop EQ code (especially the ancient stuff in the early days of the tech boom) is so small. Everyone can make their own private server! Free development tools...

Smed is the figurehead as the person who didn't allow EQ to compete with WoW. That's always going to be his reputation around EQ neckbeards. At the end of the day, he was in charge of the financials for the company. He bet that EQ1 was a dying game and chased after blockbuster hits without...

Tony is cooked. I don't think Tony works himself back up to #1 contender, there are too many sharks at 155 and if he isn't back to 100% he will lose to someone. He doesn't have the negotiating power to get a title shot without two wins against the top 5 post-surgery and he will not string them...