Let’s look at the political realities.

$15/hr sounds good, but again, it’s phased in over a period of time, so we won’t hit $15/hr until 2025. This is something that isn’t being conveyed clearly, because there’s a whole host of people who are thoroughly convinced that on Monday, they’ll be making $7.25/hr, the bill…

Here’s the rub.

The cost to a corporation for employing someone isn’t simply their wage, but additional things like insurance, training, PTO, other extraneous benefits. So, unless the tax is sufficiently high that it offsets those additional costs + their $15 minimum wage, most corporations would simply pay the tax.

A…

The $15 minimum wage hike was never going to pass.

In addition to Manchin voting against it, there’s a strong chance Sinema would say no, and not a single Republican would vote for it without gutting other parts of the bill. Even Hawley (the bastard), who was vocal about wanting the $15 hike, wouldn’t have accepted it…

I think the best examples of this are in FFX international and FFXII Zodiac Job System.

In FFX (USA), everyone started on a specific path of the sphere grid (save for Khimari), and by following those paths, you had a well-balanced team that could easily make it through the story, buttressed by a battle system that…

Ehh. Honestly, if you’ve grown up playing JRPGs, this isn’t really anything out of the ordinary, especially if you’re looking at some of the higher-end challenges outside of the story.

Granted, while this was more prominent in FFs prior to 7 (FFIV comes to mind), there’s a whole host of battles which necessitated a…

As a former TOR player starting with Beta, the issue with TOR is that it was so story-focused from levels 1-50, once you hit endgame, there really wasn’t much to do. PvP was always a blast, but when it came to PVE, most of the most interesting story bits (such as Darth Revan still being alive and killing Darth Malgus)…

I wouldn’t be surprised if for some (if not most) couples, having a career that your spouse doesn’t particular find interesting provides a nice refuge, especially if your partner/spouse is the type that wants to do a lot of things during your free time together.

Personality wise, lord knows I’d find it annoying if my…

As a gay man myself, I’d counter with the argument that the continued closeting (be it self-done or externally forced) convinces not only people in the closet, but straight people, that there’s something to be shameful of (thus necessitating the closet). It’s a vicious cycle that perpetuates itself, especially when…

Hell, I wouldn’t mind either the Gambit system from XII, or a slightly modified (read: faster-paced) system from X-2 at this point. Both of those broke away from the strictly turn based system in X (with X-2, you had the option for an active or wait mode, and the Gambit system in XII was effectively real-time except…

You’re more than welcome.

His identity (and employment) got revealed the week that GME peaked (I was paying particular attention because my birthday was on the 22nd and my FB feed lit up, and the majority were people who knew fuck all about the stock market, and my major at university was economics), so it’s been…

Therein lies the rub.

He is a licensed broker. He was employed by MassMutual up until Jan 28, 2021 (the day he resigned), days after GME stock skyrocketed. Even though he’s not currently employed, he’s still a licensed broker with a Series 6, 7 and presumably a Series 63 license, which means he has a whole lot more…

It’s a rather interesting use of logic though?

If they were to recuse, in their mind, it might imply a susceptibility to improper bias simply because of a familial (or tangential familial) relationship with the case.

However, if they refuse to recuse themselves, in their mind, it shows their incorruptibility in the face…

Look at all of the remasters/remakes (both official and unofficial) that have been canned because the people involved didn’t have legal clearance. Nintendo has practically made this an art, but just like people who run illegal card games (and other gambling), it’s done for one of three reasons: 1. The Art 2. They want…

That, along with many other studies, show that we as humans are more risk/loss averse than we are gain focused. I remember another one.

Those in the study were put into two groups. Group 1 would find $10 on the ground and could keep all of it. Group 2 would find $20 on the ground, but had to give $10 to one of the…

It was never about the little guy, something I tried to tell my friends who aren’t at all well versed in the market.

Easy proof? The guy who started the initial thread literally works in the financial services industry as a wealth manager, and had around $750k of his own money invested in Gamestop and recently…

I honestly don’t see how they could’ve started working on them before that.

The GPUs in the consoles are essentially RX 6800s, which us PC gamers (if you can find one at MSRP) didn’t even have a chance to get until this Fall. Even if you assume the dev kits had RDNA2 before consumer PC gamers did, AMD was still working…

Of course they’ve had the dev kits for longer, but even if you assume that the dev kits dated from 2017 or 2018, the CPUs and GPUs being used in the PS5 and Series X weren’t being mass-produced until early-2019. Hell, AMD didn’t even have a GPU of the caliber in the next-gen consoles until the Fall of this year (the…

While #2 would’ve been the smartest decision in hindsight, I don’t think it would’ve been the smartest decision at the time.

If they canceled those versions back in 2018, when we still didn’t have a release date for either the PS5 or Series X, let alone knew the specs they’d be carrying, CDPR would essentially be…

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I do think a bit of slack can be given in one particular area: hardware gains.

I’m a PC gamer, but like most, I got my start on consoles. I didn’t build my first PC until 2009, and it was pretty much top of the line, but within financial reason (for around $2k I got a Core i7 920,…

I know it’s must be a maintenance nightmare, but the 8-series is a stunningly beautiful car and still, looks-wise, outpaces so many vehicles on the road today.

Whenever I see one on the raid (rare) or parked (somewhat less rare), I salivate knowing how good I’d look it one, and thought of all the other things I could…