Uhh, no, you LOWER interest rates and increase spending to fight off recessions. Cutting off money inherently makes recessions worse.

Yeah, no one cares about easy importing of data into excel, until you have to do data analytics.  Then *everyone* suddenly cares.

This is why I advocate for a law that states that any company based in America has to pay it’s workers the equivalent of the US Minimum Wage + Benefits, regardless of where they actually work.

Honestly, Square hasn’t been good at the whole “RPG” thing for a good while now.  I really only care about Enix’s side of the house, which so far has escaped unscathed (outside of no proper Ogre Battle...)

Contradiction:

...how did things even reach that point?

Which Trump negotiated. Biden simply followed the agreed upon deadline.

The issue right now is it looks like Belarus is about to enter, and Russia is committing it’s reserves. Meanwhile, Kyiv is surrounded and will likely get taken proper in the coming days.

That would be Rushia.  And the sad part is Hololive’s response is “better” then it was in the past.

Ubi doesn’t really have a ton of IPs, and the ones they have are overexposed. Frankly, I view 2k as more valuable from an IP perspective.

Eh, it was *OK* on PC for the most part. Had issues for sure, but outside of one quest where you got stuck if you did thing a certain way (which to be fair, pretty much every open world RPG will have one of those at launch) I never ran into anything remotely game breaking. My main complaint is the game itself felt…

Yes please; Rudra no Hihou has one of the best soundtracks of any Square JRPG and is one of my absolute favorites.

To be fair, he knew he was out the door anyways.

Yep, we had one of those recently: “Why are us job shoppers treated like total shit?”.

Eh, I’ve been through a number of spinoffs, acquisitions; it’s the low-level management that goes first, followed shortly by any “duplicate” positions (IT, HR, etc.) that are handled mainly at corporate. The rank and file usually are OK unless there is significant overlap in jobs, in which case the acquired unit…

I thought it was Ubi or 2k that was next to be eaten, but I guess given their stock decline it makes sense for Blizz to be eaten now.

*optimized* assembly.  I’ve seen plenty of bad hardcoded x86 assembly in my time.

Yeah, this is Riot just trying to downsize in a PR friendly way.  Three months from now, the layoffs begin.

Exactly this.

Yeah, and in a lost of industries you’ve seen the older workforce say “screw it” and retire earlier then planned. And for companies like this, loosing that workforce can be crippling if you don’t have a knowledge-retention program of some sort.