This article is also dumb because home-made masks don’t do anything for aerosolized particles anyways. Your N95 filtered is still going to stop the same water droplet stuff that home made masks will.

I like it a lot, but concur that it would be good if I could choose the cover my characters move to. I’m a lot more annoyed about the constant crashes and way too slow research, TBH.

Penny Arcade’s problem is that they got so big and enmeshed in the industry that they cannot be nearly as critical of it as they were in the past, for fear of burning bridges with event sponsors, advertisers, and so on. I still think they make some good comics - but they are never going to have the edge they used to.…

I just got all the feels. That was a pretty neat game, maybe a bit ahead of its time.

You just set me off on a nostalgia trip trying to hunt down some of those great old World Builder games. Alas, most of them are shareware-locked.

You’re not wrong. People would have called that a boondoggle for a really unlikely event.

I see where you’re coming from, but I think anyone with a brain knows that just wearing a mask doesn’t eliminate all your risk. The problem is that the CDC hasn’t been leveling with people on the real science involved here, and the science (meta-studies) seems pretty clear that wearing N95 or even surgical masks is a…

I dunno, I never noticed that distinction being made when people were talking about masks when this all started escalating.

Ignore them and wear it anyways.

It doesn’t make sense because the “it’s only to protect others from you” is a complete fucking lie that’s been disproven in actual studies of what happened during the SARS epidemic. N95 masks absolutely reduce your chance of infection (70% was the number I saw), probably far more so than all this bullshit dancing…

No way on earth I’d spend the money on a new car with this amount of uncertainty going on. If one of our current vehicles goes, it’d be used.

I’m not going to deny that’s a lot of employers, especially small businesses, but there’s a few that do it right. I am thankful to work for one of them. Great pay, unlimited PTO (that you can use appropriately!), WFH as required/desired, great benefits, tons of trust to get things done, and amazing work environment.…

How does this square with WARN act requirements? The employees are supposed to get 60 days notice, and as far as I can tell, this employer should be covered by it.

Preach, brother/sister. The thing that infuriates me about the expansion is the return of Division 1-esque bullet sponge dudes. I don’t mind a challenging enemy or two, but the bullet sponge dudes are getting way overused.

If you’re under 60, you are pretty likely to survive it. As a 37yro, I am not particularly worried given the current numbers. My folks probably need to be a lot more careful.

You are shockingly intelligent to be hanging out in the comments section here. Also, while I do not work for a consulting firm, I do happen to have an MBA, and you are _not wrong_.

I could be in an Alaska King and still have no stretching room because my wife seems to always be about six inches away no matter how damn big the bed is.

For real? That BLOWS. I would have expected them to port over the Japanese version.

You will have no trouble whatsoever. You’re actually at more of a disadvantage if you don’t know about Japanese idol culture at all.

I really enjoyed it, too, to the point that I hacked my Wii, ripped the disc, and then patched it with the extra Japanese content from the interwebs. Definitely on my to-buy list for the Switch.