It’s not about that. It’s about validation. The economy was the one quantitative thing that he could point to and say, “See? Proof that I did good!” In his own mind he’s got less and, by extension, is less if he loses that. You think he’s unstable now? Mark me words, it’s only a matter of time until he completely…

Wow, no one can provide specific information on how an unprecedented event is going to unfold?  Did you try asking for their respective managers? 

Quite. Considering that the Federal and State governments now pretty much use the same definition of essential employee (“an employee that performs work involving the safety of human life or the protection of property”), I find it hard to see how they thought that fighting daily civil fines was economically feasible. 

Things are so bad that he aged a full 6 days this week.

FF7:R feels like an interpretation of how someone who was young when it came out remembers the original game. Through rose colored glasses shrouded in the fog of days gone by, they recall crazy sword fights and a man with gun for an arm yelling out obscenities while blasting his way out of trouble and a flower girl…

It’s not so cut and dry. The Women’s World Cup falls into the FIFA “other events” category on their revenue sheets. Other Events brings in less than $200 million every four years. The Men’s World Cup alone generates about $600 billion. The US Women today earn as much money in ticket sales because they last longer in…

“an insatiable desire to share the things I read in the encyclopedia”
That would get me to watch the talent segment.

(It really wouldn’t. I watched a pageant once and I feel I’ve now seen all of them.)

No, the real reason that I hated FFXIII was because they were still adding whole game mechanics eight hours into the game. I played X, I’m good with corridors and I played XII where I really didn’t care about the characters’ backstories.  But XIII felt less like a game and more like a never ending tutorial level.

I’ve never been particularly a fan of her music, but I recall a moment that I thought showed off her character beautifully on, of all things, her reality show. A young lady was singing the national anthem and it was, to put it mildly, not going well. While everyone was cringing or making snide comments, Mrs. Simpson…

Look at the people that have “won” in Iowa over the past decade or so: Huckabee (edging out Mitt Romney and where McCain finished fourth), Clinton (handidly), Rick Santorum (once again edging out Mitt Romney), Ted Cruz, Is it possible, maybe - just maybe, that no one should care what Iowans think.

“That didn’t stop South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg from declaring victory last night for no other reason than he is an arrogant white man drunk on privilege”
...in Iowa.

He’d be arrogant in Maryland. A nerdy white mayor in the Heartland, campaigning alone while his competitors are stuck in the Capitol, that’s…

If it makes anyone feel better, the “budgets” on House Hunters are completely made up. The house they “buy” at the end of the episode is their own.

Miami Vice killed off Don Johnson’s partner, Jimmy Smits, in their first episode.

This movie could have easily hit on all the same points and NOT have been a horrible retcon.

Only it wasn’t. It placated them at every turn. Case in point:
“Rose, are you coming with us?”
“No, Leia says I can’t be in this movie.”

“...and then behind Sony’s back, partnered with Philips to make it instead.”

This is an urban myth. Nintendo notified Sony that without a new contract it was terminating the deal. They also publicly announced the Philips deal prior to the supposed “surprise announcement” at E3.

They had someone document all the parts inside the machine and the BIOS has been released. 

It wasn’t so much turning down the prototype as it was turning down the deal.  The initial deal that Nintendo signed meant that in exchange for developing the hardware, Sony would be able to market CD-ROMs for it without having to pay the licensing costs.  The catch was that because Sony also was in the CD printing…