Ngl it’s exhausting hearing athletes break down how their millions “aren’t really millions” after taxes and fees. 40M after taxes is still 40M.
The real issue isn’t the system, it’s lifestyle creep. Nobody told you to live like a king, buy 5 cars, or move with a 10‑person entourage. Modest is allowed.
Being a gamer since the 90s and seeing how companies execute 10 year plans; here's how i speculate this will go:
Step 1: Over Price games.
Step 2: Make Digital games artificially cheaper. (We are here)
Step 3: Get majority users to buy digital.
Step 4: Abandon physical next generation since majority audience has been conditioned to purchase digitally. Expect cope comments like
"Who needed physical anyway? Digital has been the cheaper option for awhile now"
Step 5: Over Price Digital games.
Step 6: Check Mate. You no longer have a free market to trade or buy or sell preowned games. And now the market value of video games is 100% in the hands on the corporations.
Younger people wont even question it. It'll be a culture ingrained in their childhoods.
The only marriages that survive decades are the ones where both people outgrow their illusions, not each other.
A few hard truths most couples avoid:
At some point, love becomes logistics. If you can handle bills, stress, ageing parents, health scares and bad days without turning into enemies, you’ve already won half the battle.
Rituals matter. Not the Instagram kind…the tiny, boring, consistent ones. Eating together. Checking in. Saying the difficult thing before it becomes poison.
Respect ages better than passion. Desire fluctuates…dignity doesn’t. If your partner can trust your tone even in conflict, the marriage will breathe.
Don’t chase perfection…chase awareness. Most marriages break not because people change, but because they stop noticing each other’s changes.
And finally learn to fight clean. The goal is to solve the problem, not win the argument.
Long marriages are not fairy tales.
They’re two people choosing maturity over impulse again and again even on the days they don’t feel like it.
Drake Maye was under pressure on all three touchdown passes in the first half today against the Saints. All three were deep passes (20+ air yards) thrown to the left side of the field.
🔹 Maye vs. Pressure (1H): 7/8, 144 yards, 3 TD
#NEvsNO | #NEPats