My employer did this when they ordered a return to office work and saw employee turnover skyrocket. They gave all employees of our agency a 5% cost-of-living adjustment, which was really cool because it meant my salary went up by less than $2000 a year while our chief of staff’s salary went up over $20,000, basically…

Like most technological innovations for the entirety of human existence, the folks trying to cash it in for everything they can are fucking it up. There are some potentially neat applications for blockchain buried underneath a thousand layers of grift and pyramid scheme.

this argument would make more sense if Democrats were actually doing useful things with the legislatures they control unequivocally (like at a state level in California where they possess a super majority in both chambers, every statewide office, and the governor’s mansion)

Alas, in between tweeting about the urgency…

Climate change doesn’t care about class but class cares about climate change and the rich fuckers who killed us will be fine. They’re all buying property in New Zealand and such where they’ll get to enjoy a 100% renewable haven while the oceans and fires and floods swallow everyone else.

Sounds like normal fare for a Santa Clarita resident. A lot of parents used to baby sit their kids by during the summer by buying them an annual pass to Magic Mountain and dumping them there until the park closed. There are a number of businesses including a couple corporate HQs within 5 minutes walk of the park.

Not unless you run a guild (company) that controls territory. If you control a town, your guild can generate passive income by setting tax rates on crafting, trading, and property. I’m not sure how well this has worked out so far - usually guilds set their rates as low as possible to try to entice people to come to…

This has been a really in your face issue since the first week. Day 1 and 2, prices were somewhat inflated as only a handful of people per server were stocking the market with higher tier stuff.

By the end of the first week, items that were previously averaging 200-300 gold per unit were selling for around 3 gold,…

There’s a card you can get fairly early I think, which makes you immune to friendly fire and deal no friendly fire while crouching, it feels mandatory for playing Quickplay at any difficulty with FF enabled.

No, it’s just that people who want to sell them want you to think there’s a large market of people who want to buy them.

Value was the incorrect choice of word on my part. What I meant to suggest was that a turnip can be eaten and a Pokemon card can be used to play a game. They have a function beyond being used as vehicle of monetary value.

I think calling them appreciable assets is generous. Pokemon cards, stocks, and tulip bulbs all have value or confer partial possession of a thing of value. An NFT is like if I rip of a piece of paper and hand you a scrap for $10,000 while insisting it is very valuable, but then at least you would have something…

Basically you bought a receipt that points to a URL someone else owns where the image in question is hosted. Yes, it can be defeated by uh, right clicking and saving the image.

AND DON’T BE A BUDDY FUCKER!

Scenario: You’ve just ignored the big red warning label AND the ping from the team’s Karlee that the door you’re sprinting towards is rigged with an alarm. You smash that door wide open and a horde of walkers begins to pour through.

GET OUT OF THE DOORWAY! The sheer amount of friendly fire…

Yeah, think of it like a roguelike, sort of. If you rejoin the host and pick up that specific run later, you’ll have your cards and loadouts from when you left off.

If you join a run in progress or start a run at a later checkpoint, it seems to give you some extra cards to account for the fact that you haven’t been…

right, I did not say anything to the contrary. Nickelodeon has plenty of money. An indie developer with one marginally successful title under their belt doesn’t have a ton of money. I have no idea how much money the publisher has, but it’s apparent they were not interested in fronting royalty or licensing fees for the…

Legally, a former employer called as a prospective reference cannot disclose any information about your employment except to confirm that you worked there and when.

This is why some states are trying to implement legislation to end qualified immunity and create statewide databases of cops found to have committed civil…

The EEOC “requiring” ABK to engage in activity that obfuscates the investigation of CA labor department is a favor to ABK, not a penalty.

The devs have pretty strongly implied there are financial barriers associated with Nick itself that prevented the inclusion of voice acting. They’re a small indy team and it seems like Nick was not willing to front the cost of bringing in new VA work. I’ve seen folks ask why they don’t just use audio pre-recorded from…

What? It’s a developer with a long history of involvement in the competitive Smash world. The fight mechanics exhibit a strong understanding of the appeal of competitive Smash and while many character mechanics are derivative, the actual movesets are love letters to the IPs they reflect (No This Is Patrick as a down…

Like most folks, I thought it was cool and novel and new when Bungie sold a disc with 9 new maps for Halo 2. It was a little alarming a few years later when Bethesda sold horse armor for $2.99.

And now look where we are.