Something I wish people would get straight: “fired” and “laid off” are not synonymous. You want to learn real quick what the distinctions are, try filing for unemployment in both cases.

You can also mix and match character customization options to your heart’s content. Facial hair options, for example, are there regardless of which body type you choose.

Well, this made me cry. Thanks for sharing, and I’m sending my best thoughts to all of you.

the well-known potential health consequences of vibrational exposure for long-periods

Personally, I just want to see how he reacts if Merle Dandridge starts singing at him.

I know a grand total of one guy at Nintendo who got converted from a contracting job. Eventually. They spent years breaking the no-more-permatemping rules to keep him there on an ongoing basis without paying him benefits.

Speaking as a woman who’s spent years at the other big company in Redmond you’ve heard of: we don’t get to blame Japan for the behavior of American tech bros.

Honestly, the only thing I’m snagging up on is the whole “talking to a cuff” bit, which is just a weird phrase. It also fails on the grounds that if you feel so inclined, you can talk to any old inanimate object you want, at any time! You don’t need to get whisked away into a portal fantasy for that! (You might get…

Cars did the same, and it honestly didn’t come off too badly, although the point was more “recognizable personality making a brief appearance” than it was to have them carry a scene. I saw the first one in a theater with my parents, who were avid fans, and I will always remember Mom picking out every damn cameo right…

Okay, that’s genuinely cute as hell.

Yep. They’re obviously mean to complement each other. I don’t feel the need to buy the remaster, after technically I’ve already bought it twice (the remaster was bundled with my PS4), but it’s not targeted to me in the first place.

Does he have an anime Popemobile?

I also remember how long it took them to include female turians in the game, and one of the quotes I heard about why they struggled to design them amounted to, “What would you do, stick boobs on her? Stick lipstick on her?”

Fun fact about Samara that will really break your brain in retrospect: she’s voiced by actress Maggie Baird, who, as it happens, has two children. One’s named Billie. One’s named Finneas.

Right, and the thing is, video games tend to require a very particular and ultimately very weird method of learning: repeatedly throw yourself at the same wall without any change in the circumstances until you stop failing at it. I mean, if I want to learn how to play a symphony, I can take it in chunks, practice…

It’s working pretty well for me in Safari, so I started browsing the videos there. It’s a great way to find the highlights!

I’d like to check this out, but it’s not playing well with Chrome, fyi. This is all that’s viewable on the Select Marathon screen.

Agreed.

Yeah, Guybrush is the one I’m struggling with, and when he’s the lead character, that’s a problem. The header image here is giving me zero expressiveness, so it puts even more focus on the the hair and the five-o’-clock shadow, and as soon as I thought, “The hair looks like a bird sitting on his head,” it was all…

Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me at all.