Lawyers working on contingency take between 40-60% of a settlement or a verdict, hedge fund managers take between 25-40% of profits, movie theaters take 40% of film revenues, and the list goes on.

Considering that without Twitch and their platform, this dude wouldn’t be making nearly as much from doing nothing…

My mistake. I could’ve sword he represented the 2nd. Thanks for the callout.

Gaetz’s district (and the district his father represented in the Florida State Senate) encompasses Panama City and Panama City Beach, so it’s almost guaranteed that he has a home in the area (and it’s probably large considering his father is worth about $25m).

Common mistake (Floridian here).

Depending on whether Nestor is living with Gaetz in DC, the trip could either be a short flight down to Florida’s panhandle, or a short drive, considering that Gaetz’s district encompasses Panama City and Panama City Beach (considering Gaetz’s father also represented that district in…

Toyota did the opposite of Honda when it came to the LFA. Whereas Honda kept updating and changing the NSX over the years when the V10 would prove to be uneconomical, when they couldn’t get the power they wanted naturally aspirated, and when hybrid technology advanced to the point where they could get good power and…

Nowhere in any statement did I mention anything about the quality of games (which is subjective anyways). I’m not sure where or why you’re reading this in. Nevertheless, it’s wrongheaded to compare Microsoft and Amazon when it comes to gaming, on a number of levels.

Microsoft has a history of game development that…

My point has always been clearly stated that in terms of pure financials, Microsoft has an implicit upper-hand when it comes to their potential concerning game development, console development, and ancilliary products relating to their gaming division. This is, mathematically, inarguable, because if you were to have…

This is true, but to show the sheer scale difference, Microsoft was sitting on around $130bn as of the end of 2020. Hell, in net profits, they clear more than Nintendo’s entire cash on hand in a single quarter.

That being said, I don’t think Nintendo has anything to worry about. It’s Sony that was much more of my focus.

The point I was getting at, but worded poorly, is that the financial and legal support that Sony and Nintendo would get in Japan makes it absurdly difficult for them to lose their global spot, in spite of the efforts that Microsoft could take. They’re much larger and much more financially and politically ingrained…

Sony was also sitting on having the best selling console of all-time, the PS2, still selling, so the PS3 having a bad launch wasn’t as bad for them as it seems. The original Xbox was done by that point and most people expected the PS3 to be an easy winner versus the 360. Plus, people forget that the first iteration of…

Very true, and while I do believe they’ll continue to have space with the way things are currently going (especially Nintendo), I can imagine a situation where Sony goes the way of a Sega, specifically if Microsoft decides to go full price war, run greater deficits on console sales, and continues to purchase…

Microsoft could purchase Sony and Nintendo with solely their available cash on hand.

The only reason that Nintendo and Sony have a space in the gaming market is due to Japan being fiercely loyal to the companies and their products, and Microsoft not outright price-warring them into submission.

Put it this way. Nintendo…

One of the main fights we’re seeing right now is, fundamentally, a fight of people who do and say shameful things and should rightfully be shamed for that against the very notion of shame itself. And considering how important shame was to the development of civil society in general (I’d presume we’d much rather shame…

Panama, you’re great, but how could you forget about the greatest of all time.

The incomparable Michael Jackson (my favorite artist of all time), easily had three stalker songs which gotta be in the top 10, if not top 5.

1. Billie Jean.
2. Dirty Diana
3. Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell (MJ sung the hook)

Shit, the 3000gt VR4 (my uncle had one in red) was a technological beast compared to almost any car on the road at the time (let alone at that price).

AWD, twin-turbo, four-wheel steering, active aerodynamics (front and rear), adaptive suspension, and the convertible was a retractable hardtop which hadn’t been seen on…

You hit the nail on the head.

At those price ranges, the people who are seriously in the market have enough disposable income to where moving up the $200-$250k isn’t much of a financial concern, rather one of desire. So, when looking at the available cars, the NSX, outside of name nostalgia, doesn’t really strike the…

The NSX is one of my top-5 favorite vehicles of all time, but many of its problems can be traced to one thing: bad timing.

Japan was coming out of the 80s flush with cash and the expectations that their economic growth would continue in the 90s. This resulted in cars like the RX-7 FD, the 3000gt VR4, the 300ZX TT, the…

Exclusive rights made sense when developers were dealing with significantly different hardware specifications between consoles, as well as the various nuances involved on the business and financial side of things. Now that the PS5 and Series X are essentially pre-built PCs without Windows, the only thing that makes…

Honestly, it all comes down to money and desire, here’s why.

Microsoft has enough cash on hand to purchase Sony and Nintendo outright. Of course, this would never happen for a variety of reasons (antitrust and the Japanese outright refusing to sell), but what it means is that they also have a enough money to purchase…

You’re right, especially considering how many cases are available that fulfill a minimalist aesthetic while still providing good cooling and case management, not to mention a general interior design trend of having mood lighting via LEDs around entertainment systems in the living room, bedrooms, and dens.

Gone are the…