Some people thrive on that (obviously Keenan Thompson found his sweet spot),

I’m a wrestling fan, so the one comparable incident I can compare it to is Chris Benoit and his family. The WWE had an entire Raw episode dedicated to Chris and his career when it was still unknown exactly what transpired. A day later, it was revealed that it was a murder-suicide committed by Chris, so the WWE had a…

(racial discrimination for Woods and Jordan).

Also, I agree with the chip on his shoulder concept, because that might be leading him to continue to just override other areas of his life in pursuit of more winning or records. What is that, the blind spot effect? So maybe psychosis is too strong, but if you are lead by that it is clearly affecting other parts of…

I think the most interesting thing about Brady, when compared to all of the obviously monomaniacal athletes who have reached the pinnacle of their respective sports, is that he doesn’t appear to have any sort of vices that are understandable as a way to blow off steam and relax.

Michael Jordan was a gambling addict.…

People keep saying it’s an $850M franchise... I’m not sure how they arrive at that figure. If we’re saying 2M total sales, at $50 a sale, that’s $100M total in gross sales. Again... not a lot for 2 games before taking out all the overhead.

The truth that people forget is that Nvidia boned themselves when they dropped the 1080ti for only $699. It performed nearly as good as the Titan XP (a $1199 card), obliterated the Vega 64 (which was an admittedly less expensive card designed to compete with the regular 1080, but as AMD’s highest-end card at launch),…

Not at all.

To be that calm implies that the cheater is certain that 1. He/she won’t be caught and 2. He/she will be successful.

Chess (and many other games/sports/etc.) have too many variables to have anywhere close to that latter certainty, and if you were engaged in a game/sport where that latter certainty is…

Interestingly enough, CMGi didn’t go bankrupt. While their stock collapsed, and they pulled out out of the naming deal, they never actually went bankrupt, and in fact got a huge cash infusion in 2000 when Yahoo! bought GeoCities.

They’re still around on NASDAQ, although they changed their name in 2018 to Steel…

Yeah, I really don’t know why this is such a complicated process when you consider how quickly foreign nations (even relatively liberal ones) will permanently ban entry of Americans who were convicted of minor drug-related offenses (specifically weed)...in America. She committed multiple felonies of a nature that can…

Cardi’s mom is Trinidadian and apparently of African and Spanish descent.

I wonder how the one-drop rule intersects with the ability to say the N-word

I’m only 31, but the last romcom I can conclusively remember seeing in theaters was Hitch, back in 2005, when Will Smith was still on top of the acting world.

Romcoms simply don’t work as theatrical releases anymore, specifically romcoms that are structured around the interactions of only two people. As an ensemble…

I just don’t think romcoms work as theater-released movies anymore. They’ve been overly proliferated through so many other mediums in the last few decades that you can essentially get your romcom fill without leaving your house and dropping $15-$20 on a movie ticket.

Also, having the fundamental theme of the movie…

In all fairness, J4 in the context of that board is a junk hand, regardless of whether it was winning versus Adelstein’s.

It’s off-suit, so only a backdoor flush draw for a weak J. Only a backdoor draw to a straight that likely loses to a bunch of potential hands that Adelstein would play, or at best splits the pot,…

Even that line of thought is super thin though, she does check her cards again before calling, and even if she had 10s and 3s it would be a tough call. Depending on how she looked at her cards there’s a very small chance she thought she had AJ, but that wouldn’t have made sense with how she played it either.

To be fair, they’re in a casino and cameras are everywhere.

Sure there’s the physical power dynamics of Adelstein being a man and Lew being a woman, but of all of the places where someone could be threatened and be reasonably assured of protection and video evidence that could corroborate the claim of harassment in a…

In short you don’t call not because of 100% convinced he is bluffing, but because a garbage hand isn’t worth putting more money out for it. I just think she doesn’t know the game well enough to understand that was a dumb move which happened to work out. I think its really that simple.

Depends on how she was cheating.

Assuming that the goal of any cheater in poker is to extract the most value, there were only so many options that Lew had that could both keep Adelstein in the hand, and get more money out of him.

If she’s too aggressive on the flop or the turn, even with his myriad of possible winning…

That depends on the type of construction, and more specifically, when the home was built.

Newer construction of raised houses include concrete, cement, and/or metal reinforcement specifically for hurricanes. In fact, in certain parts of Florida, you can’t even get hurricane insurance if you don’t have a house built to…

The problem with hurricanes that hit Florida (I’m a Tampa native) is that far too many people think that it won’t hit them, and even if it does, they’ll be alright. They also think that the worst place to be is under the eye of the hurricane, when in reality that’s one of the safer areas, relative to just outside the…