If love to have witnessed the Nintendo employee tasked with going through emails from reviewers. How do you respond to a message from a gaming journalist asking why your product tastes so bad? Ummm, sir... you’re doing it wrong.

At one point I thought that rule was nifty, but discussing it with other people, and comparing it to perfectly healthy relationships I’ve seen, it doesn’t really hold up. When both parties are at least past the mid/late-twenties, I think it’s pretty safe to not really consider age much of a factor.

That’s pretty amusing. Yeah, when I played, there were tons of people sitting in safe places hitting each other a specific number of times with their preferred attack, then sitting to rest up, then repeat. With extra stuff thrown in they got more sophisticated. And resource harvesting was more of the same, where you’d…

Interesting. Maybe I’ll look into it. 100 hours is probably comparable to how long it took originally to reach a competent skill level. If I recall, it was mostly the attributes and resistances that caused the discrepancy. People who set up macros to work them 24/7 for months got to a point where they could take…

Man, I miss the very early days of Darkfall. Haven’t thought about it in a long time. The Beta and then the first year were some of the best experiences I’ve had in gaming.

Something nobody else here seems to have pointed out.

Not a game, but the movie Platoon is often considered anti war, while being a movie following soldiers as main characters. Shows a more real and unglamorous depiction of events.

As I was trying to say, it was more about the tone of the letter than the content. The letter sounded rather hostile to the idea of boycotting the event, when really, they could have left it stating that, as you say, they can’t provide any legal defense if the dancers refuse to work the event.

You’re conflating things. He said they could be fired, just that they couldn’t be sued. So yes, to answer your question, all those people would be well within their rights to refuse to work those events for whatever reasons. They would all likely be fired, but that is the extent of the consequences, and that sounds…

I was thinking along the same lines as you. However, this isn’t exactly the same as performing while an objectionable person is in the crowd. This entire event is in the honor of a person who bragged about sexual assault and got voted in as POTUS anyway. A group of employees organizing to protest this by refusing to…

I’ve spent time thinking about something quite like this. Never spent enough time to see if it would be possible to work it out fully without hitting some kind of contradictions or broken incentives. The gist of my thinking was to make the government work like a stock system, where everyone owns shares that represent…

Money directly translates into influence over other people. At normal people levels, it’s hard to see that influence, but every time you buy a sandwich or get your car fixed, you are contributing a small amount of influence that adds up with everyone else’s to drive the entire industry behind sandwich sellers and car…

That would be median salary, not medium. And it tends to be scewed by people living in SV making far more than people in most of the US, let alone internationally. Software people just don’t make as much outside the US, and within the US, SV makes about twice what is normal for the same experience level elsewhere…

Would that do any good? We have a massive military machine geared toward asymmetric warfare with a heavily conservative control structure. If some kind of liberal/conservative civil war happened, I would expect the vast majority of military assets to be under conservative control and would quickly eliminate any…

Contrary to popular belief, there are jobs outside of the cities. I’m a computer scientist living 15 min from my job in a house I rent for $950/mo. There might not be enough jobs to support a mass exodus of every city-dweller, but there are enough that the odd person who values their financial independence above the…

Control... retroactively decide that was exactly the number of donuts you intended to eat... close enough.

It’s just a gendered noun, like cow/bull. It doesn’t matter who is doing the referring, just who is being referred to. A fiancee is always female, and a fiance is always male. To remember it, I just consider that the woman gets an extra E because she’s the better half. :P

It’s OK, they’ll just edit that out in post.

Ok, but it’s just taking the like, forever, to find a CG professional who can turn a book into a gun convincingly.

Yeah, my last gig we had no means to actually monitor what people were doing, short of logging into their machine and checking browsing history and the like after the fact. And yet, every single person in the building was certain that we were watching them all day, seeing their every move. Like I have a screen…