When I got laid off from a state school in WA a few years ago, they had to pay out my unused sick leave. Which was useful. On the other hand, it was the only “severance” I got...

Places like Walmart and Target also have pharmacies, and as far as I know those have to stay open even during shelter-in-place orders.

Oh, hey, look, it’s even the building I work in!

Absolutely! I just don’t need to build a fort out of it. :)

Yeah, people panic-rushing Costco, etc. was just silly. I went grocery shopping this weekend myself since my fridge was getting distressingly empty, but I went to a small neighborhood store that was mercifully calm, and I didn’t do anything like try to buy four pallets of toilet paper. ;)

I’m bowing out of my plans. No matter what the con does, I cannot trust the other attendees to be anything other than selfish about showing up even if they’re already sick. Garden-variety con crud is bad enough, but this year it’s really asking for trouble. (Hands up if you’re surprised that someone in ECCC’s Twitter…

Thanks for highlighting original stuff here. I’ll have to check these out.

I looked in on a K-pop related discussion group the other day and it was really something how many posts were about concert and event cancellations. It’s happening everywhere.

American and Canadian English went with “aluminum.”

Yep. I’m desperately tired of writers setting up choices and consequences in games like, “Oh, you tried to be a good person? Well, here’s all the terrible drawbacks you had no way to see coming, because I am being SUBVERSIVE, as that is the only true way to be a GOOD WRITER. Now WALLOW IN GUILT AND MISERY, peon.” I…

Went there, caught that, didn’t even get a commemorative t-shirt.

Speaking as someone who caught H1N1 the year there was an outbreak of it at PAX, and who spent ten days after the convention absolutely flattened, barely able to get out of bed:

Friendly reminder to game developers everywhere who’ve spent years upon years entrenched in gaming, both on the back end and as expert-by-now players:

Final Fantasy X-2

If it means the text is big enough to read, bring it on.

The entire Critical Role cast is in Pillars 2, and you can also download a Vox Machina voice pack for your custom characters, which is why Gilmore, among others, can be in your game. Matt voicing two of the main PCs at the same time is especially a trip, though. Sometimes he gets to talking with himself. Meanwhile,…

I’ve never worked in game dev, but I’m still in tech, so I can sympathize. I used to work on one company’s phone app that had a major nationwide rollout of mobile ordering while I was there, and the day we launched that feature, it completely fell over and failed to work thanks to what turned out to be a minor…

What I keep finding myself wondering is why we collectively feel the need to keep pouring such investment — or justifying/excusing ourselves for our ongoing investment — into people who are THIS fundamentally flawed, and whose works need an awful lot of selective editing and writing way around things not for the…

Not only will the handshake haunt me forever, so will that laugh.

psst: it’s LucasArts, like in the book title you quoted before going right back to a lower-case A.