I feel like every single article (correctly) imploring people to tip 20% should spend an equal or greater amount of time advocating for waitstaff to just be paid at least minimum wage like everyone fucking else. Like, yes, while reality is how it is, we must tip servers at restaurants. I always do. But it’s not…

Ask yourself this. If Valve were doing the same would people have the same reaction?

This is not to say that Valve has committed some great injustice by being so successful. Rather, the point is that there’s no such thing as fair competition at the scale Valve and Epic are operating on. The great equalizer (or un-equalizer, as it were) is, as ever, money.

I didn’t argue that they are responsible for the interviewee’s performance. I said that, if, at the end of an interview, you can’t tell whether the person “gave a fuck” or not, that’s a deficiency in your interview method. Like this isn’t even about whether you’re going to hire them or not. If you can’t tell whether…

At an interview you should bring your best self. It’s not the interviewers place to bring out your best. If we have to fight to see how you will be a good fit, then your probably not actually a good fit.

If I interview you and you don’t send just a basic thank you note (I’m talking two minutes of your time) I am not entirely convinced you gave a fuck.

Yeah, that was my one sticking point. I assume that if I haven’t been given the interviewer’s contact info, it’s for a reason (e.g. they were only a contact for that one interview, and I’m not intended to have any deeper a relationship to them than that in the hiring process).

Nah dude. If I’m your dream candidate and you would have hired me but for lack of a thank you note, I don’t want to work for you or your company.

A child’s vaccination records are usually processed when they apply for admission into kindergarten. That’d be an easy check, right there—no vaccination, no public school.

The unvaccinated should absolutely be kept out of schools, where our children are legally obligated to attend, and therefore have no choice but to be exposed to potential viral infections under the current regime. But I’m not sure why people are trying to make it so the unvaccinated literally can’t go anywhere in…

People will usually track the modern indie game movement back to Braid or something like that, but my first indie obsession was Uplink. I heard about the game from a friend, and just from the description decided to order a copy. Like you noted, it had to be shipped directly from Introversion to where I lived in the…

Ocasio-Cortez noted it was hurtful to see “how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.”

I don’t mind good mechanics being aped elsewhere, because it just means more games get good things!

That said, I find the absolute cognitive dissonance his supporters have to be operating under to say, “Yeah, Trump definitely has moral ground to be criticizing Biden (who deserves criticism, to be sure, and shouldn’t run—but he doesn’t need to be eating shit from Trump, of all people)“ with a straight face to be…

Ehhhh, it seems like this is a case of the game kind of succeeding at its goal, though in your case, in a very pointed, “close to home” kind of way. Maybe you need to investigate why you’re taking this particular story so personally. Could it be because you’re worried that, where you’re at right now in your career,…

You are constantly driven to negative engagement with an entire staff of writers for whom you harbor mostly contempt. Whether we treat “negative engagement” as synonymous with acts stemming from anger—I do—seems like pointless trivia to me. The fact remains that you hang out around here mostly to criticize folks…

Donald J. Trump, a man credibly accused of rape by his ex-wife, who was recorded both uttering the infamous “grab ‘em by the pussy,” comments and telling Howard Stern to refer to his (Trump’s) daughter, Ivanka, as “a piece of ass,” tweeted this.

The entire point of this site is to piss people like you off. It succeeds at that task. Engaging with you would only dull the effect.

I love how everyone just sort of up and forgot why Jussie’s lies are harmful because they’d rather dunk on Chicago police (a good thing in the abstract, of course) than make sure vulnerable groups aren’t subject to boy-who-cried-wolf-ism in the future. Jussie Smollett is not Robin Hood here. He’s a piece of shit who…

Gonna be a battle of the stans, and it’s gonna be absurd.