True. But when Nintendo wants to strip the license out of something, they waste no time and do it more efficiently than anyone else in the business.

The game in question is fundamentally Intelligent Systems’ and Nintendo’s, and is actually called Panel de Pon in its original incarnation - which features no outside branding, and thus establishes a strong precedent that IS and Nintendo own the game mechanics outright, free and clear from any licenses that they have…

Holy shit, this is practically a scene from Borat.

Well, guess what - it’s not my job to serve as the door mat for your lack of integrity and your parents’ lack of capability to provide you with anything remotely resembling an upbringing.

Okay. :) Can you tell us all right now that you’ve never pirated a videogame? Not how all of this works, in my experience. I don’t meet a lot of people out promoting studies about how piracy “doesn’t really hurt the industry” who are assiduously buying games. But hey, it’s always possible - so tell us, truthfully and…

No, you come off as angry and unbalanced because you pretend you have “real high-level experience in these things.”

Yeah I skimmed it and learned nothing.

Oh, please. Do you think that the people who ordered/authored this hack give a fucking goddamn about warrants?

Yes, I’m sure impoverished Brazilian and Indonesian slash-and-burn peasant farmers will all totally stop because we say so. Not going to happen until the world really replaces some of our bullshit culture wars - particularly this massively false “War on Terror” - with a real, honest-to-goodness worldwide war on…

Sacha Baron Cohen stereotypes Kazakhstani immigrants for a laugh: my fellow Jews everywhere applaud and laugh heartily.

I am from Los Angeles originally. Remember, this is a town that didn’t have an NFL team for more than two decades and hardly missed it.

Regarding Ball...

If it’s true that he overworked and failed to properly rest his stars, it’s best that this is happening now. Burning up pitching arms might get you to the World Series once, but it’s also a pretty good way to make sure it doesn’t happen again for a long time after that.

That’s a fantastic story, though. That look on his face is a great feeling - just about exactly the opposite of the feeling I got from 1,000 unfortunate glimpses of graying, deeply insincere NFL owners this week. That’s why we watch sports.

See, that’s funny - because “conspiracy theorist”, in its modern usage, is a phrase made up by COINTEL in the 1960's. It was in their planning papers. Go read about it. The intended use was to “debunk” people who (very rightly) believed the FBI was spying on and trying to bring down the Black Panthers. You may…

Okay. Go fuck yourself. :) I’m done being polite.

The type of eye does not matter.

Did you read any of the articles I provided?

Whatever his legacy is to be, this part of it should be remembered.

He was never going to do anything else. He has prioritized money over human life for his entire career.