Dixie Normus

It’s more about arm length in proportion to height rather than purely height. Also, sheer muscle mass is arguably the most important factor when you’re talking about lifting the amount of weight these guys take on. Yes, tall could have biomechanical challenges (shorter does as well), but it’s also just a bigger frame for more mass. There’s a reason most of the top guys fall somewhere between tall (I.e. someone like Hall at 6’2”) to giants like Shaw and Bjornsson.

This isn’t a fell for it thing. It’s basic economics. Those companies are not valuable because of their gaming departments (Sony does rely on gaming more, but still a minority of its business) so I don’t know why you think that is a gotcha.

Yes, consoles have historically been loss leaders. However, you have to make money on the games to use that model. Game prices have only gone up $10/game while the cost to make games has increased just as astronomically as making a console.

I like video games. All the better if they’re cheap. But, at the same time, it’s not realistic to expect it both ways indefinitely. These companies don’t get to go to their board of directors and pitch entire divisions that operate at a loss because just because we like games. They have to make financial decisions and that’s just reality.

There’s a difference between reconstruction and augmentation.

Someone with breast cancer or whatever else may have to get a mastectomy and insurance should absolutely pay to return it to as normal functioning as possible through reconstruction or whatever. If I had dick cancer that was surgically removed, I’d sure as shite expect my insurance to pay whatever it takes to keep it working and functional.

At this point, you have to assume we’re done until proven otherwise because the goalposts have been moved on almost a daily basis.

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Millennials LOVE nostalgia like no other generation

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Probably because we grew up in one of the golden ages of our country so our nostalgia is a little better than others.

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Imagine if WW2 had been paused for 8 months or 1 month, how many lives would have been saved?

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WW2 is probably not the comparison to use here because that would have been 8 more months of concentration camps and countless wholly innocent, rather than combatant, lives lost.

It’s time to start bombing the shite out of them again. The constant playing chicken isn’t going to go anywhere and is just giving Iran more time to dig its heels in for more protracted war.

How did you interpret unfreezing their own assets as us giving them money?

Pretty telling that we’re running through the IRGC like a hot knife through butter but leaving the nation army guys relatively in-tact. I think there’s some holdout of hope that the national army will assist in a coup of the regime elements. We’ll see how long that lasts.

I don't really understand what gamers expect with consoles. They want top of the line parts, but prices that are literally the exact same as what they were in 20 years ago. You don’t get both. The PS3 20gig (not 60) released for 500. Just inflation puts that price over $800 today. I don’t see how it’s realistic to keep that price point off of basic economics.