HIPAA, which I think you’re referring to, only applies to covered entities in the healthcare and insurance industries of the US. The Court for Arbitration in Sports is based in Switzerland, World Athletics is based in Sweden, and WADA is based in Canada. McNeal, unfortunately, would have no standing to sue any of the…

You’re not the only one.

It was clear in watching the movie that Cliff threw the first round to play on Bruce’s arrogance. That’s why Cliff, when he gets up, tells Bruce “Do that again”. Bruce, being arrogant, gets convinced that Cliff can’t stop his move so does the same exact move, which results in Cliff throwing him…

It really is a rather odd hill to die on, especially since, at the end of the day, Bruce Lee might have been a badass martial artist, but he was still a little guy, and if he got into a scrap with a significantly bigger and stronger fighter who knew what he was doing, Bruce could’ve gotten his ass kicked. In fact, the…

The rule is absurdly stupid, and I don’t think anyone worth that salt is disagreeing with the rule, but on the whole, I agree with you.

We can’t deny that she did what she felt comfortable doing as a coping mechanism following a traumatic event. That being said, considering the underlying context with her being an…

A professor on my local college campus (USF here in Tampa), has a red VR4 convertible. Considering they only made around 1600 of them, was a pretty cool sight to see.

My uncle had a coupe VR4 back when they were new, and my god was that car sexy and fast. Red too

I randomly saw one of these (in silver) back in 2010 parked at my local Outback Steakhouse here in Tampa. Knew it was a Qvale, knew it was rare, but didn’t know exactly how rare (284 cars made total). Pretty sure I snapped a picture, but that has since been consigned to old phone history.

That same year, saw a red 3000…

As someone who used to play a lot fo EVE, I understand you.

While you can conceivably do a lot of things in EVE with very little human-player interaction, doing that reveals a relatively mundane and repetitive game. It’s only with the human-player interaction that you get to a lot of the juicy bits (and where you read…

R* is a business. Any amount of additional earnings is desired.

GTA6 could conceivably cost $1bn (development + marketing), and it would still be a beneficial investment because it functions as additional revenue and profit. Why? Because there will still be people playing GTA5 and GTA Online regardless.

GTA5 earned $1bn…

I have a weird relationship with GTA, which is probably tied for my favorite game IP ever with Final Fantasy and Pokemon.

GTA 3 was fun, but I was 10 years old so the gameplay loop, simple that it proved to be, was still exciting. Vice City, to this day, is my favorite videogame of all time. I can remember almost every…

I’m assuming it means that she apologized to the women in NXIVM whom she groomed and cajoled into being branded and raped, not necessarily the cult itself.

Yup.

Not to mention the fact that the previous administration had absolutely no legitimate plan (and building that fucking wall with money pilfered from the military budget) to deal with the migrant issue.

Also, isn’t it telling that the poorly-run and mismanaged state of Texas can’t find funding for their own National…

Plenty of IPs get created, get invested into, and fail. Simply creating an IP, or creating anything doesn’t guarantee success, even with investment and financial support from someone like Kotick (or even larger entities).

No one, least of all me, is arguing that the system is perfect. But you’re ignoring legal and…

I distinctly remember saying back in April (or perhaps May), that the sole result of this run-up in the stock was that C-Suite executives, board members, and institutional investors were going to make out like bandits even though many of them had been around since before the stock became a meme, when the company was…

Gamestop as a company doesn’t make sense.

The retail space is dominated by companies with greater footprint. The online space is dominated by companies with better offering and prices. What Gamestop has is an incredibly onerous trade-in system, and the light benefit of offering physical copies of used games.…

Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and via Blizzard, Diablo, WoW, Starcraft, Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch (the latter two created after the merger).

Sony doesn’t have 5 IPs created under the same CEO (or leader of the gaming division) with sales comparable to Kotick, neither does Microsoft. Nintendo does, but…

Both Senators are Dems, but neither one won their election by a significant margin. Kelly only won by roughly 80k votes, and Sinema by only 60k or so.

Also, they both were running against McSally, who barely won election in 2014 in what was a reliably Democrat district (in terms of Representatives; it had gone Red…

Schumer didn’t invoke the nuclear option, Harry Reid did. The only reason it seems like a net loss for us is twofold.

1. We (the Dems) did incredibly bad in the 2014 midterms, causing us to lose the Senate, which essentially stalled any legislative output that President Obama and Congress had planned for his final two…

The fundamental issue of any federalized system in which elected representatives are tasked with both representing their district/state, but also legislating for the entire federal apparatus, is that you end up with a competition between being re-elected and passing legislating that might be broadly popular…

Exactly.

People forget that the next presidential election is always a referendum on the party in power. We control all three chambers. Democrats in AZ (and many independents), are going to look at how little we were able to accomplish due to not abolishing the filibuster and place the blame not on the GOP (who told us…

There’s a good chance she could be a one-term Senator if the GOP nominates someone not-named Trump for President.

Sinema is alienating a lot of Democrats, and even though AZ is leaning more Democrat, it isn’t like the latest elected Senator, Mark Kelly, defeated his opponent in a resounding manner last year. The next…