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I was playing a TF2 pub the other day and since the new (by new I mean a year and a half old) casual mode implementation, I've experienced joining a Badwater server, only for the match to immediately end and everyone voting to switch the map to 2fort pretty often. Obviously, I leave the server, because 2fort is a bad map, but it got me thinking, why exactly is 2fort a bad map? Why do people still play 2fort when it sucks wieners? What makes other disliked maps like cp_standin and tc_hydro so disliked? What makes very well liked maps like pl_upward and koth_viaduct so beloved? Why do I keep formatting my paragraphs this way? Well in this multi-part series we'll find out. This is a chart of all the maps in the casual map pool and their percentage of play out of all the casual games from March 2017, and is a good enough sample size for us to do some analysis on. I'd like to preface this by saying that I've tried mapping before, and it is really freaking hard. I have mas...

So the winter meetings in Florida have come and gone and the Dodgers, despite being in the midst of one of the most chaotic offseasons in recent memory have remained relatively quiet. They made plays at Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton, but neither worked out, even though the Stanton deal seemed like a perfect fit in theory. So where should the Dodgers go from here? As shown by their trade with the Braves yesterday, there's two possible directions they could go. They traded Adrian Gonzalez, Scott Kazmir, Brandon McCarthy, and Charlie Culberson, along with a few million dollars to Atlanta for Matt Kemp. This trade is a massive step in the right direction, as they net $28 million from the deal, putting them under the luxury tax maximum and freeing money for moves this offseason. Kemp is likely to be flipped or sent on assignment, but getting rid of Gonzalez, Kazmir, and McCarthy's huge contracts is a boon as these three players were injured or ineffective for most of the seaso...

SPOILERS AHEAD: TREAD LIGHTLY I'm gonna try to avoid spoilers wherever possible but to actually justify my rating there are going to be a few so if you haven't seen the movie yet you probably shouldn't even read this. I'm also not even close to a film critic so feel free to take everything I say with a grain of salt. So I just saw The Last Jedi. Let's talk about it. I consider myself a pretty massive Star Wars dweeb so I think that gives me grounds to take a perfectly acceptable product with some noticeable, but forgivable flaws and just nitpick the shit out of the entire thing and say I hated it, when in reality it was actually okay. I don't want to beat around the bush anymore so I'll get right to it and give the movie a 5.5 out of 10. There's a lot of things it does right but also a lot, like really a lot, of things it does wrong. We'll start with the good before the bad because I want to make one thing abundantly c...

It's been about two years since the new Star Wars movie came out and with Episode 8 right around the corner I figured now would be a good time to reflect on the movie and talk about what I expect from episode 8. So I'm just gonna go out and say it; I didn't really like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's not because I don't like Star Wars. I love Star Wars. I had this Star Wars trivia book in elementary school that I memorized front and back and I was like 3rd in the state at Quiz Up Star Wars trivia in Middle School. Now that you're convinced I'm a virgin which validates everything I'm about to write, let's get into the biggest, most glaring flaw of the movie. The plot was, for lack of a better term, extraordinarily derivative. I get the motivation behind it. I really do. Good old J.J. Abrams wanted to prove to the die hard Star Wars fans that he could make a proper Star Wars movie without the guiding, destructive hand of George Lucas. As fans like t...