Great rules. Especially the last one - few things are more aggravating for players than seeing the fight being won...but then that last kobold goes on a crazy dodging streak which has no impact on anything but wastes time while everybody just sort of waits for him to finally roll a low number and just die already.

One thing I’ve always noticed when females come to Magic tourneys:

He’s a point guard, he could do some ball handling and play defense. Maybe getting some reps would help with his confidence?

At what point, does such a person feel sated, or content with what they have? It must be very transient when that feeling does come, only to leave, and that gnawing urge/ache whatever it is, to return.

As long as you aren’t stupid with your money, you will do quite well.

if you are smart about it.

You missed the point. It’s not that you can’t retire comfortably with $10 million. You absolutely can.

After taxes and depending on which lottery you won you might realize that you’re not filthy rich right away.

Correct, though it’s worth remembering that true cost of most drinks is way below what the bar actually pays for it*, so it ends up being surprisingly easy to justify if it helps build loyalty among your regulars.

Fun fact about their recent first round draft picks:

Bryan Colangelo says Markelle Fultz’s current range is “within the paint” .

Now if this was ESPN or Fox Sports, they would have simply doubled down on their mistake by making it a headline topic on some Embrace Debate shows. Doesn’t matter if it’s fake news or not, you can still squeeze a solid 24-48 hours of content out of this - discuss the initial report, blast Brady for being ‘selfish’,…

It also gives individual fighters a straight-forward, direct-line incentive to really buy into the storylines and go heavy on self-promotion - the more I can differentiate myself by ___, the more promotional dollars I’m going to be able to bank.

I’d feel a lot more concerned about him abusing the clients’ dime it if those clients weren’t almost certainly even bigger assholes.

Then the play was reviewed. When slowed down and zoomed in to degrees impossible to see with the human eye in real time, it looked like Clement didn’t quite have the ball completely in his control while he tapped his toes in bounds.

Interestingly, WoW kind of solved that issue by making it so players from many servers (not just yours) appear in old content.

That’s a fantastic what-if. I seriously thought about this for 10 minutes and I’m still not sure I have the right answer - always the mark of a good hypothetical.

It is, yeah. But the metrics say that to have a record that awful, your team needs to not just be awful, but also very unlucky with turnovers, close games, etc.

How does the salary cap math on that work?

True, but for whatever it’s worth - advanced statistics, points for versus points against, record in close games, etc have universally had them as more along the lines of ‘run-of-the-mill trash’ rather than ‘historically awful’.