I hear you about those business dinners. That always irritates me too - half of the reason we’re here was to discuss the department budget or whatever; you really couldn’t have started that discussion like, 20 minutes ago when people were visibly slowing down eating? And politics often makes it not really feasible to…

On the plus side, at least Rio was able to leverage the Olympics to create tons of great long-lasting jobs, build valuable high-quality civic improvements, improve the quality of life for the residents, and grow the tax base by enticing foreign investment.

You’re right that “he didn’t call” is a trope as old as television, really even further than that...but it was typically treated with universal disdain and typically used to highlight a particularly awful character. Maybe it’s just perception, but it definitely feels like it’s way more mainstream acceptable to ghost no…

Agreed 100%.

It’s sort of weird that none of them seem willing to admit that it’s reasonable to think the Lakers offer sucked.

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These days, I think the only things that you’re locked into are your faction and your class.

For me personally, I’ve always found the ones that hold up in terms of joy tend to be the ones which are most simple (Mario, Zelda, etc). Platforming is platforming is platforming, and a well done platformer from 1996 still holds up as a solid game in 2019.

Is there ever a time where nobody’s in that part of the office? I would be seriously tempted to use the TV’s menu to delete FOX News and FS1 from the TV’s channel list so when he tries to change to them, it scrolls right by.

I had the same confusion as you and had to re-read it a couple times - the unclear part here is the use of the word “passes”.

I just sort of slowly dropped it a few years ago when I realized I didn’t actually care about 99.99% of the stuff that people were posting. And not even in a political/social “No, I don’t want to hear your rant about political topic” sense, but the day to day stuff that FB is supposedly great for.

Live in Atlanta, can confirm the same thing here. Basically every place with a bar has a TV - even many upscale restaurants.

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You’re right that it was partly gambling on the future success of the league, but FWIW it was an albatross of a deal even shortly after signing. It’s not like the deal was fine for decades and then suddenly became ridiculous in the past few years; it was laughable even before that.

This could end up being the worst contract in pro sport history.

I hear the excuse that if someone hits you, it keeps them off your bumper... um what?

It’s always possible it’s a ploy to force ESPN’s hand on severance negotiations - so he’s lawyering up not because he thinks the contract is loose enough to win in a prolonged court battle, but to serve as a notice that he plans on fighting a battle.

Bats invading the San Antonio Spurs’ home arena is such a common occurrence that “the Spurs’ mascot caught a bat in a fishing net while wearing a Batman costume”

I’ve always thought the appropriate response to a release chart like that is to simply ignore the whole freakin’ chart and buy the Complete Gameplay Edition off a Steam sale or equivalent six months later.

The typical Knicks strategy would be to wildly overpay a dude who’s was once really good, but in reality is past his prime and clearly on the downslope - maybe not completely washed-up, but not remotely worth the money in his current state. Someone who’s got enough name recognition to sound vaguely credible to very cas…