Dawn of War is great, but Company of Heroes takes the same formula and does it better.

So the Battlestar Galactica board game rather than Mafia is the more direct antecedent. The point is that it’s a well established genre that started with Mafia that Among Us made only a few modest innovations to.

So I’m not commenting on the often-horrendous wider effects of the economic downturns we’ve seen, but strictly in terms of the stock market if you’d started investing a steady amount in the stock market every month starting in 2010 you’d be doing pretty damn well right now.

Heck, even if you’d put all your money in…

This may not be the case for you, but for a lot of people it’s psychologically easier to not spend money if it’s in a seperate account that you have to manually transfer the money from.

One option would be something like Engine No. 1's VOTE ETF, which uses their shareholder rights to elect people with ethical goals to the board of directors of the companies they hold. They recently managed to get two climate change activists on Exxon-Mobil’s board of directors.

You could hand pick stocks you deem…

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.