There’s a whole lot of space between GTA and SR4 to tone down the craziness and still very much maintain a goofy vibe.

Honestly it is a pretty big jump, and in the right direction. It’s just such an utterly horrible starting point that it can be a big step up and also still be terrible.

The black woman with the minigun is the player character.

The depiction of the main female characters isn’t sexist, but there’s a whole lot of casual sexism towards minor characters. Which, to be fair, is largely the product of the game following characters who are terrible people in a whole host of ways, but it still spoils the fun for some players because it hits closer to…

I don’t know if two minutes of carefully edited footage showing content that got twice as much polish as the rest of the game really tells you all that much more than a pre-rendered trailer dow.

There was a tiny bit of gameplay shown (end of the interview):

There’s co-op. Two player untethered, same as the previous games.

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.