As a proud Ohioan, I give you this...

Half serious answer: They know better.

What? You mean a nation's citizens don't actually WANT to pay for an already rich corporate sports conglomerate's desires for new stadiums, facilities, and equipment from their tax dollars? Jeeze, I hope nobody tells the NFL, NBA, or MLB. They'll be heartbroken

The Lviv, Ukraine bid seems dead in the water with the turmoil and war in the country.

Sochi raised the bar to $51 billion, but wasn't that mostly because $37 billion of that was just loaded up in dump trucks and distributed as political favor?

Qatar?

Dammit, my "dancing black guy on Maury's show" is on my home PC!!

Guys? GUYS! I took the liberty of getting in touch with Maury to determine whether Zenimax is indeed Oculus' daddy. The results are in. Zenimax:

Or they're just dicks.

I'm guessing there are anti-military organizations out there who can't see past the military affiliation to the good it does for military personnel.

Why would anyone even do such things?

From the book...

Yeah, by 1993 Sega had captured 65% of the western market. It was never as popular in Japan, even being outsold by the PC Engine (Japanese Turbo Grafx 16 if you weren't aware) at one point.

The Genesis was the power system for at least a year or so after the SNES launch date. Not long after that, Sega's US marketing department had to reach into the 1990's BAG-O-XTREME to market the Genesis in the US.

Oh even in lieu of that, after the SNES release I do believe it was a top seller..

It's anecdotal only, but I worked for one of the mall-based software stores the first Christmas SNES and Genesis went head-to-head. One of the weekends before Christmas, we had a line from one of the end of the store to the other with 40 people buying a Genesis and one buying a SNES. In our little corner of the world…

Hmm. The story about how Genesis ended up beating the SNES.

Well they never put up much of a fight. I love how we talk about boardrooms full of people and mega corporations these days, but what makes something truly compelling is the one visionary at the top. Companies like Sega and Sony never had a creative visionary to me. Nintendo was a first-party powerhouse and Miyamoto…

Kalinske could hardly believe what he was seeing. These people didn't just disagree with what he had said; his suggestions had actually provoked them to abandon rationality and reply with fury. Somehow he had struck a nerve. And while it is never a good idea to aim at the Achilles' heel of someone you're doing…

"Always and never," his translator answered.