The fact that this is a plausible way person A could bid doesn’t make their strategy correct.

If your success metric is “if I get it I win, and if I don’t get it I lose”, then bidding infinity dollars maximizes your utility. If your success metric is “If I get it for $X or less I win, if I get it for more than $X I lose, if someone else gets it but paid more then $X I win, and if someone else gets it but pays…

But he wouldn’t have to bid higher if he had bid what he was willing to pay to begin with. (Or he wouldn’t want to.)

Studio asks if the lead can be a man instead in 3... 2... 1...

Originally they were called Association Quiddich and Rugby Quiddich...

John Hodgman, America’s extant font of esoteric knowledge.

Kunoichi is definitely my favorite Japanese word.

Baten Kaitos did some things that I don’t think have been touched by anything except its own sequel:

ZombiU Spoilers to follow.

Mick Jagger was in Freejack, wasn’t he?

Brother and Niece did Organ Grinder and Monkey. Sadly I don’t have a photo.

What happens if you choose one of the options where you don’t go very far?

It’s sad that I remember that Jolie pranked him on the first day by telling him there was a swimming pool on the roof. The roof door locked behind him and he was trapped up there (with other new students?) when it started to rain. So hacking the sprinklers (and he did have an umbrella) was his payback for that.

*Press X to kick at the darkness*

Disagree slightly on Left Hand of Darkness, in that in the text, Genly meets a person he perceives as a jolly man, who had borne multiple children and sired none. (I think the description was meant to imply a Brian Blessed-type figure.)

My roommate at the time wanted to play D&D, but nobody else would DM, so he ran campaigns. Basically this meant he would play as the NPCs against the party. One time after we beat some low level Drow we found a ring that would let them warp back to the underdark. For some reason it was a one way portal ring; he had my…

As in the opposite of orthodox.

I pancaked my Miata at a track day a few years back. Shopped around for a replacement track day car for a while, before realizing I would be happier spending my time golfing.

I just hope it’s not too long.

Once again my old nemesis, the Trim Level Exclusive Paint Color, strikes.