The issue is that Microsoft built that infrastructure, so it’s okay that they’re being held back because they happened to read the technological tea leaves years ago, while Sony was focused on consoles, digital cameras, and televisions?

I don’t see how this decision incentivizes Sony to make PS+ any better than it is,…

If I’m not mistaken, doesn’t PS+ have both third-party titles and platform exclusives?

Further, Xbox doesn’t actually have platform exclusives anymore. Every Xbox game starting with the Series X/S generation can also be played/purchased on PC. The fact that MS dominates in the desktop OS market (and Sony has no…

The issue is that you’re essentially punishing Microsoft for openly entering a market that, 10 years ago, simply didn’t exist in any meaningful way, while giving Sony a potential leg up for no other reason than a perceived possibility of consumers somehow being hurt (or Sony being stubborn and wanting people to buy…

True, but James Gunn arguably made out better because of the attempted cancellation.

DC and WB picked him up to do The Suicide Squad after Disney fired him. Disney later rehires him to do GOTG 3, and because DC and WB are a bit of a shitshow (but they trust Gunn because he’s pretty good at this shit), they make him…

The uproar over James Gunn comes to mind.

I am sure Mattson’s Company has its own board that has to sign off, and spending the incremental $5 per share (and who knows how much that means in real $$ or euros but it has to be a lot)

You’re right, my mistake.

You’re conflating being popular to voters in Arizona with being popular amongst her colleagues in Congress. They’re not the same.

Ted Cruz, to whit, is absolutely abhorred by most of his colleagues, yet his Senatorial future is essentially guaranteed because he’s a Republican senator in Texas. Cruz, like Sinema, is a…

I don’t think she’ll go the route of VC/consulting, but I definitely could see her going the route of outright lobbying.

Let’s not forget that her merely being a former Representative and Senator has a lot of cachet, and he’s a lawyer, so the access she’d have with former colleagues is still very lucrative for a firm…

It’s dicey, but they could presumably issue a Congressional subpoena for testimony. However, since the testimony would undoubtedly have to consist of internal judiciary matters and deliberations (that is, their thought processes during specific cases before the court relative to gifts they’ve received from entities…

If you are mailed a product you did not order, you get to legally keep it, doesn’t matter if it was a mistake and it matters even less if it has a street date on it

Unordered merchandise and misdelivered merchandise are not the same thing.

Unordered merchandise are goods that are addressed to you and delivered to you that you didn’t order, usually for the purposes of scamming the recipient my later demanding payment.

Misdelivered merchandise are goods that are addressed to someone…

If you get something you did not order you can legally keep that item even though the company made a mistake. It’s not your job to fix their mistakes.

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To the first point, Kendall and Roman proved that they were absolutely the right guys for the job. Because they really wanted to tank the deal, they fully convinced Matsson they were willing to walk away from the table, so he had to keep raising the numbers. Had the Old Guard sent Karl in there, he would have…

By displaying genuine emotion, he made Mattson realize that Roman and Kendall could actually walk away from the deal entirely. Mattson knows that he’s not great at dealing with emotional situations so Roman’s outburst represents a significant risk to him. And it works as a tactic because it’s not a tactic; Roman is…

After all of these machinations, Mattson just hands them umpteen billion dollars based on Shiv’s “nudge” comment... Really?? It’s certainly not un-entertaining, and definitely great acting, but it felt a bit unearned in a writing sense, based on the history of this show.

Except she said more money would give him the win, and he took her advice on the two women from Waystar to keep. He ultimately delivered on those things. Further she wasn’t actually drinking and she did not actually snort any coke. She was on fire and in control.

I got the same sense.

Him telling Shiv a story that would not only tank the deal, but potentially result in him having to leave his own company, has to be a long-term play. Coke, LSD, and high altitude be damned, he’s too smart to be that honest without it being a move.

I also thought that he knew that she was pregnant,…

Hey. I’m just now seeing this, so let me take your responses point by point and hopefully be a bit clearer in mine.