Tell me you don't understand Rudy without telling me you don't understand Rudy.
My understanding of Rudy's position is that the tail should be allowed to wag the dog: rather than the secondary market existing to allow players to obtain the cards they need to build a deck given the limitations of Wizards' limited print run, blind packed distribution, Wizards should attempt to maximise secondary market profits to maximise their sales to fourth-party resellers at the expense of their sales to players. The reason I believe this is because of his explicit dislike of the "game pieces" faction (that Wizards should respond to undersupply of in-demand cards by reprinting them, increasing the player base, reducing the effects of external economics on competitive integrity and directly increasing their own sales to the players) and also the fact that he fell for MetaZoo, a game which sold itself on collector-focused gimmicks like a Reserve List but without the fundamentals to make it worth collecting.
Ah, there it is. Tell me you're a filthy commie without telling me you're a filthy commie.
The market is not the purpose of the market. Thinking people should treat shares like the partial ownership of a company and not just an up-market form of betting on greyhounds doesn't make me a communist.
In principle, banning kids from social media is a good thing. You still have to worry about the teachers, but not giving every freak on the planet access to try to groom your kids should be common sense.
The real problem is the expectation that adults will be compelled to prove they're not children by exposing their identities, which will be a tool to suppress and punish dissent.
Elon would probably be a mixed bag, but Rudy would be terrible.
Rudy's problem is that he only views Magic as a speculative market and is dismissive of the ecosystem that prevents the floor from falling out of that market. He's the guy who would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, because he doesn't understand that his investment is dependent on the continued health of the game, and the continued health of the game is dependent on not going all in on the degenerate gamblers.
With Elon, I don't know how it would go. There's not much of a victory in saving the company if it means cutting the things that make it worth saving.
Shareholder responsibilities require that you put the best interests of the shareholder first, but that's not supposed to mean you have to stick your head into every mousetrap you find along the way. If companies are being sued for not making shortsighted, self-destructive decisions that is a corruption of the intent behind the rule.
The dwarf and woman look fine. Nothing special, but fine. The soldier guy is incredibly uninteresting for some kind of merfolk, and the halfling is rather ugly. None of them are so exceptional that having them as companions would be a selling point.
Most live action adaptations at least have the justification of lowering the floor on the budget (a saving which may or may not be eaten up by the need for higher quality special effects) but The Lion King wasn't even live action - it was all all CGI.
Count me among those who think this is stupid. If the DOJ was going to do anything, the advertising branch is the only rational target. While there are improvements that could be made to the browser market - namely, gutting half the Mozilla Foundation - the current situation with Google propping up almost the entire browser market as a loss leader has been pretty good for everyone.
They were able to do that because Reddit is a San Francisco company run by the kind of degenerates who would give admin privileges to a lunatic who was thrown out of the Greens Party for hiring a child rapist under an alias. The counter-strategy is for conservatives to build the same kind of infrastructure (primarily communications and finance) and ruthlessly protect the levers of power from leftist infiltration.
Assuming it's not an out-and-out scam, it's using the same logic as any proof-of-work cryptocurrency. In theory no attacker is going to make the necessary investment to subvert the awards knowing that doing so will destroy the credibility of the awards and make their investment worthless, but for some people destroying this upstart would be its own reward and be worth some amount of money.
Only the first one is a legitimate criticism. If you ask Google AI about a word invented to describe the Holocaust and expect it to not mention the Holocaust, you're an idiot. The problem with the second one is claiming the colonisation of North America was a genocide.
Instead of Batman being a rich billionaire who watched his parents get murdered, he's the lower-middle-class orphan who relies more on gadgets than martial arts.
That's retarded. Even if you weren't slapping Batman's name on this not-Batman character, why wouldn't your lower-middle-class orphan rely on martial arts over gadgets?
That's the symptom, not the problem. The problem is that the degenerate left has successfully seized gatekeeping positions. They are simultaneously dependent on and resentful of the old works because they are blasphemous against their ideology, but their ideology can only create ugliness to replace it.
Gambling game everyone got addicted to because gambling good and FOTM power for people who don't actually play many video games.
It's a combo-focused roguelike, not a gambling game. It's based on poker mechanics, but the appeal comes from building Rube Goldberg machines that do ridiculous amounts of damage.
The United Kingdom bans the advertising of prescription medicines to the general public. I feel like this ad violates the spirit of that rule.