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I meant the former not the latter. If you asked 100 people what city has the best hot dog, you might get 100 answers. If you asked what city has the best gumbo, jambalaya, beignets, or po' boy all of them will say New Orleans. I couldn't imagine going to New Orleans and looking for Mexican food. I don't want anything in New Orleans except for food from New Orleans.

No, Houston is great, but you're going to have to tell me what is a uniquely Houston food. There is great barbecue all around the country. There is great Mexican all around the country. There is good Cajun/Creole food, which is because Houston and New Orleans are basically cousins. You can go to either city and eat your heart out, but Houston is too big with too many people from too many places to have the focus on their own shit like New Orleans does. My top food cities in the country New Orleans New York, for the exact opposite reason than New Orleans. If you want the best version of food from some place you'll never actually go New York has it. The best meal I had one year was a bacon omakase where they made like 14 courses of deliciousness with "bacon (included pork belly and other cured meats that were bacon-ish)." Dallas, sorry but it may be because of my time in Dallas involved a rental car and my time in Houston did not, but I choose Dallas over Houston by a slim margin. I liked the barbecue better in Dallas, and had perhaps the best burger of my life at some random bar. Los Angeles, it's kind of like New York, but the Mexican and Korean options are just plain better in L.A. I feel like New York also gets extra points because you can walk to some place great from wherever you are in the city. In L.A. you might have to drive for an hour to get someplace good. Chicago, it is the best combination of fine dining and greasy midwestern delights. Honorable Mention: Cleveland. Seriously, it's like a mini-Chicago but their "fine dining" is just some random dude with a beard trying shit with some shit they found at some farm 10 minutes outside of the city. It's like they all wake up in the morning go to the farmer's market and decide to make a corn dog with some corn that was picked 8 minutes before it went into the fryer. Just the weirdest possible dudes making the best version of food you haven't even thought about eating after you graduated from high-school.

You should be very happy that I can't post links, because there is a disparaging gif with your name on it. Once again though, New Orleans is the best food city because it's the most unique food city in the country. Almost all of the other great food cities are great food cities because of what they do with a variety of foods from other places. New Orleans is a great food city by doing nothing else but being New Orleans.

Umm...the fact that they gave her jiggle physics will be a interesting study to see whether the scatter plot of incels is more horny or racist.

Top 5 in cities that don't feel like they were built by our corporate overlords. New Orleans is one of the few American cities that you can't mistake for 25 other cities. New Orleans feels like New Orleans from the moment you get there until the moment you leave. If you were on a reality show where you got on a plane went to sleep and woke up in a different city and had to guess where you were. New Orleans would be the easiest city to guess. Everything from the sights, the smell, the sound, the taste, and feel of the city are unique to New Orleans, and it's awesome.

Wait, have you been banned from Indiana? If so, how do I sign up?

New Orleans is a top 5 American city, Indianapolis isn't in my top 100. Indiana as a whole is no better than a top 40 state.

I've been saying this for years. There is nothing in all of entertainment that you can use for as long as a videogame for less money. If you buy a AAA game, at the minimum you get about 20 hours of content for $70. You go watch a movie, it's about $20 for 3 hours. A book is the closest you'll get, but even then a book is generally the culmination of the work of one person and a couple editors. The overhead on a videogame is literally hundreds of people working hundreds of hours over the course of a couple of years. I don't like the idea of $80 video games, but it's still an incredible value especially when services like Game Pass and PlayStation Plus make AAA video game purchases a once or twice a year purchase instead of the once every month or two purchase. I literally can't keep up with my Game Pass queue, there are too many games to play and not nearly enough time to play them. I'll probably only buy NCAA, Ghosts of Yotei, and Borderlands 4 this year and even then I might wait for Borderlands 4 to go on sale. It really doesn't matter how much games cost, when there is literally always a sale going on in the digital game store on every console and every game gets discounted 25% within 3 months of release. It's a dumb thing for an executive to say, but terrible PR and the truth are often closely related.

This is getting closer to the actual issue. The loneliness epidemic isn't actually about loneliness, it's about lack of community. Without getting into whether or not there is a God, there is a reason why religion has always been so widespread. It is a shared experience among people who would normally be strangers. Its also why gangs exist in almost every community that is marginalized. People are social animals who need a feeling of belonging. The issue isn't loneliness, it's people realizing that some of the places lonely people find community is giving voice to all types of problematic ideas. We didn't get to the point where people are all of a sudden more accepting of fringe political ideas on accident. We will always have people seeking community, but with the downfall of churches, social clubs, recreational sports, etc., more and more of these people are sitting in their home and being adopted by the darkest corners of the internet. There is a guy on Instagram who talks about civil engineering and how building a country's infrastructure around cars is bad for almost every part of our society. It means everything is a little further away, you don't really know your neighbors, walking takes longer and is more dangerous, businesses don't get random walk-ins from pedestrians, and there are fewer shared spaces where people congregate. The loneliness epidemic in the United States is less about people being lonely and much more about our society disregarding the needs of the people within the society. We're all connected by things that don't actually build connection. We have all chosen sides on every issue without ever even considering the other side, because we probably don't even know those people. We're all dug into our particular bunkers listening to our particular brand of propaganda. It would probably be better if we all went outside and talked to real people, but every day that gets harder and harder to do.

I'm the kind of person who loves minutiae and I dive super deep into most of my interests. I have a really hard time with what you are describing here. I really have this issue when people want to talk about music, because we are probably not talking about the same things. I'm much more interested in talking about the random song being sampled in your favorite current song than your favorite song. Not that I don't listen to some current music, but I don't really have much to say about most of it. My wrestling consumption is almost exclusively old ass matches from some place far the fuck away. I watched Wrestlemania, but my thoughts were mostly about how I really wished it was more about the wrestling. I don't want to be the guy shitting on people's happiness, but I honestly don't find it interesting to talk to the average fan of anything. I'm not a better fan than anyone, but I'm a far different fan than most people. I agree with this, but I do feel like we have pretty much always viewed these people as fringe weirdos and ignored them, but now the fringe weirdos are now kind of in charge of a surprising amount of shit.

You can't argue with RG3 in public. He has taken the revolutionary stance of always taking the side of the white person no matter what happens and then playing the victim when any black person calls him on it. It's a strategy that has worked 100% of the time. He can't wait for the next black person to call him out, it's how the strategy works. It works if all you want to advance your career, it doesn't work if you want to show up to your family reunion.

I found DDP's burner account. He's always credited Savage for being the reason he ascended to the main event. Savage had a lot left to give when Vince put him on the bench. I'm sure he could have had some bangers with Bret, Owen, Michaels, Razor, and the rest of the "New Generation" if given a chance.

Yes, but the two groups are the weirdo equivalent to cousins. Both are potentially problematic, but like @Twiztor mentioned above at least one doesn't directly affect an actual person. I do feel like all of this is a side effect of the loneliness epidemic. We're a social species that kind of shuns a large percentage of the population for being slightly outside of the norm. I have a friend who stopped drinking and people treat you differently when they hear you don't drink. We have probably 100 different things like this, including all of the shit we named above. The crazy part is there is an other side to all of this when people who enjoy things on the fringes and find community and end up being a little less problematic about it. The question then is are these people weird because they don't have a community or do we just perceive people within a community as less weird?

This is a big one. When a niche is only really visible online, there is no telling how many people are lurking and reading about a subject in comparison to the people who never shut up about the subject online. The people who post are always the vocal minority. Your entire opinion on who these people are will always be skewed by the vocal weirdos. A joke that I assumed was pretty obvious. It's just that once you get away from the mainstream, the more likely you'll be surrounded by weirdos.

Read the last few posts regarding some dude trying to kiss Saraya, and then make it a niche of the niche of wrestling and you'll be as close to the answer as you'll get without actually doing the research. The further you get from the mainstream the weirder people get. If you are in the United States, people look at you like you're weird for liking wrestling. People think you're even more weird if you like any wrestling that isn't WWE. People think you are super weird if you like wrestling from another country. People might assume you're a pervert if you like women's wrestling. But, if you like women's wrestling, that isn't WWE, and isn't based in the United States, you might end up on a watchlist. Here's the thing, you might be normal and resent the implications, but the more you look around you see that you might be an outlier.

I really like it so far, but I didn't much time with either 2016 or Eternal, though I played the first few missions of both. I do like the fact that all of them feel familiar and totally different at the same time. In a world where pretty much every game franchise is just a re-skin of the previous game with a new feature here and there, it is amazing that they put out these three games that feel like the best possible version of a completely different game within the same genre. I kind of want to go back and play the previous two games, because I appreciate the craft. I need to go ahead and work my way through it so I can start Clair Obscure, you guys have talked me into it.

Is the Berman hate from the Deadspin article, where he called the woman, "Hey, Leather?" I'm asking because I always thought it was strange that people were offended by that when there was no indication that the woman was offended by it. I have a pretty wild conversation topic that I have brought up with women that would get a pretty terrible reaction if I were famous and someone overheard it, but I've never had a woman get offended when I bring it up. It's a completely ridiculous premise that is overtly sexual, and also begs for follow-up questions. The game is that she wants to prove me wrong, but that can only be done by consenting to a sexual experience. It turns into banter that is her asking questions that would prove my claim wrong, and me trying to say the exact thing that would counter her counter. I've had more men offended on behalf of women, but have never found women who have been offended by the conversation (I mean, I guess I get it, but I wasn't talking to them anyway.). Not only that, nearby women have overheard the conversation and decided to join in. It's not a conversation I'd have at work, at church, or a bunch of other places where it would be deemed inappropriate. But at a bar, it has at the very least worked at starting a silly conversation 100% of the time. A lot of these interactions involve the interplay between two people and building a rapport so that you can hopefully take things to the next level. I don't know if we should judge people outside of that rapport.

They did not turn a blind eye to steroids, they openly celebrated the entire process. The "Chicks dig the long ball" campaign was basically an acknowledgement of baseball's full embrace of dude's smashing long-standing records. The difference between those guys and Pete Rose is there was never a second of baseball history that thought gambling was OK. There was about a decade of baseball history that said, "Steroids, who cares? We don't even test fo that."

I honestly think the only group of people who think Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame are sports radio hosts, and they only believe it because of how many people will argue the other side.

Assuming that everyone in the original game was an adult when it dropped, doesn't that make everyone in the game over 50? If so, Wolf Hawkfield is on the best steroids of all time.

I don't know if I've ever discussed this here, but I'm fully in the Pete Rose should never be in the Hall of Fame club. Not just because he gambled, but because when given the opportunity to admit he gambled for a lighter sentence he'd rather lie about it for about 25 years like they didn't have him dead to rights. They absolutely did not want to ban Pete Rose form baseball, but he gave them no choice, and quite frankly that's enough for me to keep him out forever. Baseball did not ban Pete Rose, Pete Rose banned Pete Rose.

There needs to be more, "this dude seems legitimately dangerous," in modern wrestling. Jacob Fatu has a little bit of it, but he's the first person in a while who feels like he's willing to injure himself to hurt his opponent. I don't want this person to be working in a way that actually injures people, but the illusion of danger should always be an active part of wrestling.

Yeah, I've seen the word, but that shit might as well have been written in Cantonese, because I had no idea what it meant.

A.K.A. Corporate dirty macking.

I don't think there has been a wrestler since the close of ECW that replaced Sabu in a very specific place in wrestling. When Sabu was in the ring, you had no idea what was about to happen. One of my biggest pet peeves about modern wrestling is how formulaic it is. You know pretty much every spot you'll see in every match, they just switch up the order. With Sabu, you never felt that way, even when he was doing his signature spots. Everything he did seemed frantic, out of control, and dangerous. When he'd set up a chair in the middle of the ring and started running the ropes, you had an idea what was coming, but you were never sure whether or what the hell he was planning or whether or not he even had a plan. The amount of times where he'd run, step onto the chair, and jump to the top rope only for him to lose balance, jump down and start all over again only added to the mystique of Sabu. He was going to try the craziest shit he could think of and there was always seemed to be at least a 50% chance of disaster for himself, his opponent, or both. He treated his body like a rented sports car registered on somebody else's credit card. He drove fast, he drove recklessly, and sometimes he wrapped himself around a telephone pole, but he made you feel something every single time you watched him. Sabu matches raise your blood pressure, you couldn't sit there and watch without having a visceral reaction. He was one of a kind, and an absolute legend. R.I.P.