I disagree. We don’t know for how long these divisions had been underperforming, and it does not make sense to say that companies should be unable to let people go if they had been performing under expectations. It is not a company’s role to endlessly prop up divisions which they see as a drag on their overall…

Well, yes, the department did hold the company back, in a way; had they not underperformed, the company, as a whole, would have made more money. It’s not a binary thing. It’s not an albatross, no, but at the same time, this is just a thing companies do: cut underperforming areas. It’s not an unreasonable position to…

Right; who knows how many more would have been laid off otherwise? The fact that he got a large bonus has little to do with the layoffs; operational and capital finance don’t have that much overlap, and the way this compensation was [very likely] structured would have made for a poor replacement for wages.

I mean, a better understanding of the nuance of compensation structures would help these discussions, yes. People thinking they’re guaranteed payouts give them a poor understanding of how interchangeable or desirable they would be for people in other levels of the company. I do not phrase it that way to say “woe is…

Makes sense to me. He had a contract that was written up 4 years ago, and as per the terms of the contract, managed to exceed the metrics in place. I wouldn’t be surprised if this 200M was more like the accumulation of bonus options accrued over the last several years, plus a ratchet from the completion of the…

I mention this in another comment here, but, yeah, the more I think about the series, the more I think they could have reworked the elements to just be so much better. Not bringing in whatever the fan theories pointed to, just some rearranging, writing changes, and most of all, editing. Ah well.

Honestly, I found her to be pretty superfluous. I’d’ve preferred all three of the side characters to have been consolidated into [a better written version of] Monica. I don’t see why she, as part of SWORD, would’ve needed the help of an FBI agent (one typically based in California?) to help uncover an anomaly in New…

I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed. To start, the fact that Mythra is *so* much faster pretty much makes Pyra useless, so that means you’re basically using one character with 3 special moves and a sword. The normals are all pretty ho-hum; no reflects, so special properties, and then the specials are about as rote…

Man oh man was this finale dumb. Just so many things going wrong here.

The fact that the *tone* matched the vague construct of the series - never mind the fact that the shows referenced were at odds with the style of show being conveyed in this episode in particular - tone is only part of a show. Other parts include “how is information conveyed”, and here, it was hackneyed and on the…

It was fine, but closer to a C for me.

Seriously. No Orchid? Pai Chan? Noel Vermillion? So many names looked over for this Mortal Kombat movie I just can’t take it.

Ehhhhhhhh.....

I’m a woman who exists online, and never, ever, ever, ever uses a mic because of these sort of issues. However, I say “eh” because I guarantee whatever POS got her [in a vacuum] well-targeted breakdown and response came away from it gleeful that they had gotten her to that point. Is she right? Of course.…

What a weird review. It’s like you’re approaching this with a foregone conclusion - Wanda good, all else bad - and then cramming things in and around that idea to make it work.

Apparently the argument is “people said bad things about pastimes we now know to be innocuous; therefore, we should ignore whatever bad things are said about current pastimes because those warnings will also be proven false”, which entirely ignores the question of *why* such warnings are or are not issued and how our…

I feel like saying “screens are not more addictive than paper” is objectively incorrect but am willing to look at research saying otherwise.

The backlash has been just as extreme as the article itself.

Gotta say, consider me underwhelmed. Sure, that it’s all one big world is promising, and thank god they brought back the normal 3D camera, but it doesn’t look like that much content unless there’s either a ton of islands in that sea they’ve got there, or there’s more seas to explore. I’m sure whatever boss fight at…

Hmm. This poses an interesting question. If power generation from wind becomes massively more mainstream, what are the economic impacts of needing to shut roads down like this far more often? Sure, it looks like it only takes an hour or so to navigate a town, but as I understand - and correct me if I’m wrong on this -…

This is also incorrect.