That he had a terrible predecessor doesn’t make his own terribleness any less terrible.

Actually, it was about the zero sum game of economic and political isolation the USA and USSR were playing against each other, with national survival as the stakes.

FWIW, Batista was a bad dude but lets not even pretend to think Fidel was in any way a good man.

Well, when you put it that way his regime was practically bloodless. But then you are comparing it to Stalin and Mao Tse Kidtoucher who offed tens of millions each

The reason why people wanted Bautista out was because he stole from the government, but compared to Fidel, he was a saint.

This truly made my morning. What a fitting end to a truly reprehensible person. Do not RIP Fidel, Do not.

There is a strange obsession from some film directors to get “real” emotions from their actors on set.

There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like a professional and tell her what you’re looking for.

Yes, everyone talks about how worried they are, but who’s actually doing something to stop him?

It’s not just trade, though. China owns a sizable chunk of US debt. Do you think we’d hesitate one second in forgiving ourselves of that obligation if they fucked with us militarily? They’d be kissing something like $1.4 trillion bye-bye overnight, not to mention all those Chinese manufacturing jobs that our companies…

So, what do you guys think is actually going to happen as a result of Trump talking to Taiwan on the phone? Do you think China will attack Taiwan (whom we’re obligated to defend in such a case)? Do you think they’ll attack us? You realize that any drastic decision on China’s part would instantly free us of $1.4…

How exactly did NeXT engage in a toxic, vindictive bridge-burning moment steeped in seemingly personal, sentimental decision-making? I don’t recall that.

So the way you typically go about winding less profitable businesses down, as a company, is by setting fire to all of the brand power you’ve built up in them? Like, people keep saying “Konami doesn’t care!” as though that’s ever been at issue. Clearly they don’t. But that doesn’t mean the way they handled this…

So I doubt they are loosing any sleep over it.

That’s a bullshit question. Ask the developers (and perhaps they should also be asking themselves, if they feel that way) why they aren’t coming together to press for advances in pay, benefits, work/life balance, etc. It’s usually been my experience that people who respond to labor demands with statements like, “Why…

Well, if all the judges understand the gravity of their rulings, if everything is appropriately constrained by law, then we’ll have nothing to worry about, will we? My concern is that the structures in place really are pretty rickety, that judges who authorize actions that ordinarily test the boundaries of…

Yeah youre misunderstanding. They didnt tarnish the value.

Do you and a massive amount of Kojima fappers just not grasp that Konami doesn’t give a fuck...

Listen Im not saying they didnt have options, they just chose to back out of AAA gaming.

So you burn all of those bridges, which constitute a real investment of time and resources into your AAA brand? Hell, they could have spun off their video game ventures and simply sold them to the highest bidder for some solid dosh. Who’d buy it now? The name, at least, would certainly be worthless.