I definitely wouldn’t go so far as saying that kitchen and bathrooms are “almost always worth way more than the expense in the home’s market value”. On average, bathroom and kitchen remodels don’t recover the investment, though for your particular house and market that may not be the case. https://www.zillow.com/seller…

I’d argue that the games before Tennis For Two aren’t video games. They’re computer games, but with no animation they don’t really count as “video”.

All while paying their employees pretty decently, at least compared to most of their direct competitors.

Unless something weird is going on, you’d expect different cashiers to encounter a roughly equal number of heavy or odd-shaped items, so that’s not really a problem.

The pay is lousy everywhere (though it’s more tolerable in areas with lower cost of living), but the amount of crunch and the amount of respect given to trans/non-binary people varies massively between studios.

Yeah, and it’s an average for all QA industries, not just games. Very few people are making 50k doing QA for games.

If you use a lot of fresh herbs in your cookings--and I realize not everyone does--it really doesn’t seem like it’d take that long to break even. Fresh basil is expensive.

If you use a lot of fresh herbs in your cookings--and I realize not everyone does--it really doesn’t seem like it’d…

Nah. It’s “We’re headed towards some tougher times, but we can still choose just how tough”. The best case scenario at this point is still pretty ugly, and will involve millions of deaths, but that, or even the intermediate case scenario, are a long way from the end of the world or even human civilization.

That comparison is deeply unfair to Dreamworks.

I’m having a hard time imagining a situation where the two minute delay caused by having them leave a message then immediately calling them back would cause any serious problems.

Both. They were raped, and then their partner attempted to gaslight them into believing they were not.

Yeah, there are always innumerable new junior level employees eager to join the industry. But junior level employees are basically useless without a good ratio of mid to senior level employees. People fresh out of CS programs or art school have some valuable skills, but they have no idea how to actually make a AAA…

That you have a fleet matters. Whether your choices resulted in a large fleet or a small fleet doesn’t.

Yeah, on my first playthrough, especially of the first game, I made a few harshly pragmatic choices on the assumption that always going for the idealistic option would have negative unintended consequences. We now all know that, with only a few exceptions, the Paragon option is just better, and there’s no reason not…

Apart from the aesthetics, gaming chairs are just desk chairs. Some are good desk chairs, some are lousy. I like my SecretLab chair more than any other I’ve bought in that price range.

It’s good to be careful about buying single use items, but if you really are making, say, slice hard boiled eggs three times a week, a dedicated item starts to make sense. Different cooking habits call for different tools.

Mesh strainers are a bit of a hassle to clean, while this looks small enough to just throw in the dishwasher. You’d need to eat a lot of canned beans to justify it, but I’m sure some people do.

Or he’ll move into a publisher-level management position where he makes more money and is separated from most of the stress of actually making games.

Or, probably better, both. It’d be nice to see the final outcomes of your decisions not reduced to a simple binary right or wrong.

I wish they could just learn to say “Depictions of war are innately political, but we’re not interested in advancing any particular ideological message”.