There is a lot of proof that things are not what they seem in this country, my friend.

No, it is not.

Just as a note about actual wealth, Bezos doesn’t “have” $150b. He has a lot of Amazon stock that would tank to pieces if he ever tried to unload it all at once.

I was about to say...it’s not really an eSports gaming house until there are old pizza boxes and dirty clothes lying heaped all over that glass and chrome.

I find myself hoping Grant Danasty makes an appearance.

Indeed. I enjoy that the Dracula of this show and season indeed seems to be taking cues from both the Castlevania franchise and actual Transylvanian historical tradition.

Trump recently stated that “nuclear warming” is the potential problem, not “global warming”.

The Forest Service indeed offers the same deal, but you get ten times the bang for the buck - they have had a Plant-A-Tree program since ‘83, and estimate that you can expect that they will plant ten seedlings per $10 donation on average.

I think we can both agree that Brady is substantially better than Nick Foles.

Expect Facebook to continue to stonewall. It does *not* want the details of its very, very real collusion with the quasi-private surveillance state - Palantir, Umbra Data, et cetera - made public. We’re talking millions of Fourth Amendment violations.

The development costs on WoW over its lifetime are probably edging up to a billion dollars or more at this point.

As a further note, you cannot usually play any Alpha cards due to the fact that they contain corners that are slightly rounder than those that came later, and they are considered “marked” for that reason, as the difference can be told by sight/feel from the back of the card. They are considered to be for collectors…

Way more valuable than a 1989 Ken Griffey rookie. The best analogy I can find in terms of price is a high-end 1986 Michael Jordan rookie.

It’s not a “perception of rarity” with these older cards - the Power Nine were from early editions with a *very* limited print run, they are quite genuinely rare and actually entirely prohibited from reprint due to a longstanding legal agreement between Wizards and its customers - it’s called the “Reserved List”, and…

“High five figures” is a little off - the highest Lotus price sold to date is still $27,302, for a 9.5 Alpha Black Lotus.

One of the more dangerous things about the modern conservative establishment is the military-industrial pipeline that funnels sociopaths right into a free college education and high-paying jobs at taxpayer expense.

Look bro - I’m tired of screaming at you. It ain’t doing either of us any good. I code, that’s my work, and I’m very good at it. I code independently on a contract basis right now so that I have the free time to pursue my dreams of founding a game company - which takes a lot of time. I don’t want to “make it”. I’ve…

I was making $30k a year coding when I was 20 - boss put a raise to $60k a year on the table if I stayed with the company, this was back in 2000, about the equivalent of $80k-$100k today, on the table.

WHAT MAKES YOU FUCKING THINK THAT WHAT I WANT OUT OF LIFE IS TO LIVE IN A LITTLE SPECIAL GATED COMMUNITY????  I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU - YOU DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT. I WOULD WANT TO THROW UP EVERY DAY LIVING IN A COMMUNITY LIKE THAT - I GOT A FRIEND HERE WHO JUST JOINED SOME FUCKING UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS…

You genuinely want me to go dig out my Stanford acceptance letter? Okay, I’ll go find the time today.