MrFoof

Based on what I recall, I believe there was one on the southeastern end of Green Street, a bit between Central and Kendall Square, barely northwest of MIT's primary campus area on the corner Massachusetts Ave and Vassar Street. That location has apparently closed in recent years.

* In 2017, there were ~1,108,400 US high school football players.

* In 2017, there were ~67,800 US college football players.

* In 2017, 255 players were drafted into the NFL.

So from high school to playing in the NFL, odds of 0.023%, or about 1:4346.

Even then, the average tenure of a professional NFL player is 39 months.

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Football is one of the easier sports to go pro in as well.

I was told that abbreviations weren't allowed. That was the denial reason.

Resubmitted it, not denied yet. We'll see if it shows up in another 3-5 weeks or if I get a denial letter followed by an another application refund 4-6 weeks after that.

“You know what they call the Hunger Games in France? Battle Royale with Cheese.”

Too many things going on, typed it in backwards!

Hunger Games with Cheese.

I saw Battle Royale as a subbed bootleg around 20 years ago. Fantastic B-movie, and I understand some of the young actors got some notable roles as they got older (Takeshi Kitano was there because he was Takeshi Kitano), but it’s still a B-movie. Good time though, even today.

As an aside on Takeshi, for those who want to go down a rabbit hole, dig into “Takeshi’s Challenge” on the Nintendo Famicom. That game is a trip.

Realm of the Mad God will make your game seem “comfy speed” by comparison. You’ve not yet seen fast. ;)

In my very first game I got to Rank 6 with 24K points. However, there's some cases where the client and server get out of sync (despite only supposed 10-20ms latency) where the server eventually syncs you with some wild rubber banding. I died because during this rubber banding where I was shoved across the map, I likely was picked off by the leader with 118K points.

Take care of the latency issues and you have the core of something. Something similar-but-different is "Realm of the Mad God" which originally was a Ludum Dare entry using the Oryx spritesheet. So add in some interesting NPCs, and deal with the latency issues and you have the core of something that actually is monetizable.

Boston itself is about 700,000 people, but if you extend things to a 20 mile radius from Boston (say from DTX), in that area there is a transient student population of 400,000 people that are only there to attend higher education and ultimately call elsewhere home. Within 20 miles of Boston are several dozen (nearly 60?) universities, making education one of its six or seven tent-pole industries.

That doesn't matter, and exactly why corporate brought it up. Again, opportunity cost.

I asked my nearest 7-Eleven manager (I never go to convenience stores, so I just went in to the closest one) about how many customers he gets a month, and he said about 8,000. How many SKUs? About 2500. So for 40% of his SKUs, of the 8000 customers that walk in, 1 of 8000 is willing to buy a specific one of those 1000 items (at that elevated price) from that store. That's 1000 SKUs that could be at least partially replaced with something with far better sell-through. Shelf space isn't free. Backroom space isn't free. That's dedicated square footage, he's paying a lease on every single month, forever, for stuff that doesn't move.

The guy isn't running a convenience store out of the goodness of his heart. There's a supermarket 3 blocks away selling the same items for far less money, so it's not like he's selling something you can't get just a 3-minute further walk (or 1-minute drive) away.

I asked him about slow selling items. "Oh, you saw the video too?!" He was fully onboard with corporate support to not just get much better sell-through (and ergo, revenue), but having a reason for more people to come into the store, especially on a regular basis, and not simply getting things because, "they happen to already be here."

This location in particular WASN'T with a service station out front (inner city location). So for the manager, a way to get more regular customers, that are coming in to buy things they want -- possibly if they can't get it as easily (or at all) nearby -- is a HUGE potential win for him. That might help him get hundreds more customers every month, which might buy other things as well.

What kills me is they're possibly just realizing this in 2024. What on earth has the corporate analytics team been doing all this time to not make that sort of opportunity cost screamingly obvious? Even if the margin is good, you're moving no volume.

I realize that it's probably cleaning products and other shelf stable items, but that just blew my mind.