I’d bet that most of that forty million was in the first couple months, and ongoing revenue is much, much less.

That’s legitimately pretty exciting. I’ve largely stopped playing VR games since we’ve gotten a dog for fear of accidentally punting him.

It’s been a while since I played the AoE II campaigns, but my memory is that in most of the early missions you generally get an army provided, and only in the later missions do you build your economy from scratch.

I know plenty of people who’ve gotten back together with an ex. I don’t think I know anyone who got back together with an ex and didn’t think better of it within a few weeks.

There’s nothing wrong with “over abundance”. “Abundance” means having plenty of something. “Over abundance” means having too much of something.

Yeah, most people don’t know what RSVP stands for. Not saying “please” is going to sound impolite, and insisting that saying please is grammatically incorrect makes you sound pedantic and impolite.

Also, using redundancy for emphasis is a common feature of language, if generally something to avoid in formal writing.

Gamers™ mad about a game starring an immigrant from the Mediterranean in Norse lands featuring an immigrant from slightly further south in the Mediterranean.

Yes. It’s a game system, not a module.

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…