Haha, yeah man.  Half an hour of that after a particularly difficult level and I’d be ready to go huddle in a corner.

Completely immobile. With a Harlem Globetrotter taking shots for him.

It blew my mind open, but I only finished half of it. It was punishing controlwise and the ultrarealistic death depictions coming so frequently got hard on my psyche.

As for Martin...his life is destroyed already. I am not defending him, but I am also disinclined to pile on. He’s about to go to a very high-profile trial over a gun threat in the most politically charged atmosphere regarding guns in decades. I hope he makes it out of this without ending up in a straitjacket - or…

I’ma calm down here, because I think that’s important for everyone even discussing this shit. Still, fuck Richie. I’ve worked with dudes like him. They make every day a Hell and a nightmare by saying shit that shouldn’t have been okay to be forced to hear on a worksite in 1950, even if it all too often was.

What do you want us to say?

The NFL could have, and should have, stepped in *loooooong* before shit got this bad. The locker-room text reveals coming out of the whole situation are fucking hideous.

By inventing a TIME MACHINE and not Southern-white-trash-racist-bullying Martin for a fucking year and a half in the first place?

Incognito racist-bullied a shy young black kid until he ruined his life and career and turned him a violent monster. He does *not* want to deal with the mess he made.

Look up the diathesis-stress model of mental illness. 

Magic struggled after a period of initial success but is now a $250m per year primary-sales market (with possibly more than that in secondary sales).

Magic has been a “passing fad” for 25 years now. CCG’s are here to stay.

Now, I’m not sure if college really provides a good ROI.

$13k a year is lower than I was expecting! Still - if factory wages have risen 2x and homes 10x, that still a Hell of a PPP (purchasing power parity) bite.

You must understand:

America is built on freedom!

You may note that the experience I just described may have colored my perceptions a bit.

For what it is worth - I have talked to an actual family member of one of the Federal Reserve families.

Main Street has known this for quite some time.

You know, real purchasing power for millenials in terms of homebuying has genuinely declined from what it was, say, before 1980 for all but the very highest brackets of American income.