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Fun story about Ketamine: Ive' never "done" it but I did have it as part of a post-op IV to manage pain. For me, when administered as an IV in dosages carefully measured by medical professionals...it made me sick. As. Fuck. As in the most nauseated I've ever been. As in begging to be taken off of it before a replacement for the post-op pain had been decided because I felt so shitty and like I constantly wanted to throw up. And eventually, essentially was doing so regularly.

With most recreational drugs, even if they don't sound like my thing, I get why someone might be into them. After one bad experience with ketamine used as intended, I can't imagine using it in any way.

I’ve loved every bit of this series, but appear to be in the minority that didn’t like the back half of this episode that felt like it devolved into “Let’s act like every outrageous YouTuber minus the casual racism.”

There's actually a bit of historic precedent around the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan investing in entertainment, and there's a hockey connection I bet Jeff Bakalar might remember a bit about.

After the death of notorious Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard, a complex venture to buy the team was set up by a man named Steve Stavro that involved multiple holding companies and split ownership of those companies. The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan was part of this structure and from 1994 until 2012, the OTPP controlled somewhere between 49% and 78% of the Leafs and what would eventually become Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the parent company of the Leafs, Raptors, Argonauts, and other Toronto sports interests.

During that time the team was sometimes good, sometimes bad, but fans felt comfortable pointing to the ownership of the OTPP and their treatment of the team as an investment vehicle as a reason for the down times. Source: I'm a hardcore Leafs fan and saw this on message boards and may have done some of it myself.

I believe the original ownership deal purchased the Leafs for around $175 million; the OTPP eventually sold their stake to Canadian telcoms Bell Canada and Rogers, which would be like the Yankees being sold to a group comprised of Verizon and AT&T. The sale price? $1.32 billion. A lot of the above is simplified, but the bottom line (ha) is the OTPP bought low, made money annually on Toronto hockey fever, and sold REALLY HIGH.

Hopefully this is a little window into why the OTPP would buy a stake in Ubisoft; they likely see it as something that can make money for them annually and eventually be sold at a profit to fund the...wait for it...pension payments to those 300k+ retired teachers mentioned on the podcast.

Vinny: "But there are people who have ears and there are just straight up anthropomorphic animals?"

I'd say most people have ears.

In addition to being bad at this game, I'm struggling to understand the reactors and spheres ad upgrades. Once you get a spere, don't you have to install it to a mech's reactor to have power for other upgrades? Or am I missing something?

I adore this series even if it's making me scared of the bloodlust that's been hidden in Abby, Alex, and Vinny.

Metal Gear name or not, the first 30 minutes of this make the game look and seem just tediously unfun, even for somoene like me who enjoys managing systems and how they interact. After that, I seriously considered turning the QL off, because I was highly skeptical anything they could show would bring my interest in the game back from the dead. I kept going because I do enjoy hearing Brad and Jeff talk about games.

Spoilers: The rest of it seemed miserably unfun too.

@sully907: I missed the “or” in your comment and thought, “I want to party with this person.”

@rorie: Thanks, I've done so and will post here when I hear back with an answer. I know at least one other person was in a similar situation.

Hi @rorie - I live in an apartment building with a concierge who signs for all resident packages. In a situation like this, should I have it delivered to my apartment number with the name "[Building Name] Concierge in care of my name" or something similar?