I’m pretty sure that there are people outside of that who would *pay* EA money to get into NCAA. I’m pretty sure the initial offer of $500 is just to sweep through everybody who is more excited about being in a video game than “maximizing their NIL income” .  Then they’re going to start offering more money because…

I mean, it would cost $6.8m to pay every college football player $500. A lot of these people would take “a free copy of the game” and no money because being in a video game is cool. There are lots of players who have so far never been offered *any* NIL money, so I wouldn’t fault them for taking this.

I mean, there are an incredible number of college football players (significantly more than there are in professional leagues.) There are 130 programs in the FBS (the highest level of college football) and each of them gets 85 scholarships and a roster size of up to 105.

I mean, I always liked the black bean crunchwrap more than the the normal one. So all you’d need to do to make that vegan is “have vegan nacho cheese sauce” and “have vegan sour cream” since the rest of the stuff is tortillas and vegetables.

Yeah, the fact that Diablo IV has no “offline option at all” means I’m probably never going to play hardcore.  It was bad enough in D2 losing hardcore characters from lag (which is how you lost them) but losing your character because b.net hiccuped in the way that b.net often does, or because my ISP is doing…

Isn’t the reason that people pay for the NY Times Crossword is because it’s commonly believe to be *better* than like the LA Times or USA Today one?

I believe that Grimace cannot have a birthday, because Grimace was never born, because Grimace existed before the universe as an Outer God like Yog-Sothoth.

It really does feel a lot of what makes a classic “pepperoni pizza” work is the counterpoint of the acidity and subtle sweetness of the tomato sauce.

EA already knew people would spend piles of cash on completely digital items without having to invoke the blockchain, since “Madden Ultimate Team” and the FIFA analogue makes them a lot of money!

Cold Brew is just an inherently better approach for “coffee plus almost any non-coffee flavor”.

I mean the *big* difference is that Valve stores “what hats each people have” in a database, a traditional data structure that is much more efficient than a merkel tree. This works because Valve is a trusted authority for “who has which hat”. The problem that blockchains what to solve is “A and B want to exchange…

The basic value proposition involved here is that almost anything I can spend $8 on adds more value to my life than “more reach on twitter”- 3 cans of the good cat food, one sandwich, some streaming service that actually produces content, 900 different patreons, a bag of coffee, paper plates, cheap headphones, etc.

There are times in my life playing Diablo where I absolutely would have paid like $20 for a Jah and a Ber, but there are no points in my life in playing Diablo where I would pay even $1 for cosmetic items.

HR is involved in specific incidents. The DEI VP is responsible for structural solutions for how to minimize “times HR needs to get involved.”  They’re related, but have different roles.

I wonder if the reactionary set is ever going to understand is that a DEI executive is a normal thing to have at companies, because if your middle managers act like online edgelords you get sued a lot and then you have less money.

Could I enter the egg roll eating contest and just eat a responsible number of eggrolls?

I’m sort of unclear on what a “Live Services” game or a “Battle Pass” are, but I still need to finish* Diablo II.

I just figure anybody who hasn’t worked really hard on something that didn’t turn out that great just hasn’t ever worked really hard on very many things.

My read on the ending was that Fishburne and McShane genuinely believed that John Wick was dead, but they didn’t actually bury anything (since the ground was undisturbed and there wasn’t fresh sod near his marker). They left open the possibility that someone else (like the Ruska Roma) whisked him away and nursed him…

It genuinely feels like if it doesn’t make economic sense to keep less popular stuff on a “one price for all you can consume” streaming services, then it should at least make sense to stash them on one of the many “it’s free, but you have to watch ads” services like FreeVee, Tubi, PlutoTV, etc.