The Neymar third-party ownership deal is a much different situation. It's very common in Brazil for clubs to sell ownership stock in a player to outside investors (Kia Joorabchian got his start this way) as a method to raise money for the club; it's basically an advance on the transfer fee. When a player's sold, all…

Minus the likelihood of ever actually winning a tournament. There's not a ton of talent there, and they'd get picked apart if they got out of the group stage. A solid defense and well-structured team will get you to a certain point, but eventually you need to do more, and do it consistently.

If I remember correctly, the Mall of America does this. It'd be interesting to see how you'd do it with an entire city, but it's not a bad plan.

To be fair to Switzerland, they did actually manage to beat Spain at the last World Cup. They're not a fun team or particularly inventive team, but they're the textbook definition of an "organized" team that is very difficult to score on.

I've always wondered about that. I can't get through the first two or three episodes, and I was SURE I was missing something...but it was just not interesting or engaging to me at all.

I agree with you on the size of space, but I also think it's possible (and, again, more likely) that aliens know about earth because they brought us here in the first place and monitor our progress. It's WAY more likely (I'd imagine, at least) that that's the case than the general idea that we were accidentally…

That was the Bess you could do, huh?

I'm in Season 3 of the show right now, and I can't tell how much I like or don't like it (I'm trusting it to get better some), but the cinematography is really pretty. That's been one of my favorite parts, how the show plays with imagery and color.

Even with the doping he wasn't strong enough to be her man.

Are you saying flamers aren't welcome in Moscow?

No Fringe?

As long as you're totally in control of the situation, that makes sense...but once he called out his first hit, that seems like it's more than enough to move in.

If the first hit was a sting, why not just arrest him then? These are the hits the Feds know about, but in theory couldn't there have been others that weren't sting operations?

Act like you've been there befo- Oh, wait.

Can you even get FIFA on PC?

The never did use Gene for anything.

No, that's not brutal at all! Brutal would be Peter deciding, "You know what, dad? Fuck you. Fuck you and your dimension hopping, I'm out" and going back to the alternate universe. Instead of that, though, they did this, and made maybe one of the best finales I've ever seen.

No, that's not brutal at all! Brutal would be Peter deciding, "You know what, dad? Fuck you. Fuck you and your dimension hopping, I'm out" and going back to the alternate universe. Instead of that, though, they did this, and made maybe one of the best finales I've ever seen.

There's always the Alton Brown Box Fan/Furnace Filter Beef Jerky...

Lichdom vaguely reminds me of Arx Fatalis.