That’s a very charitable way of describing what happened. The reality is that Valve didn’t “scrap everything”, it was more like “the game was way way behind schedule and the leak showed it”.

You are correct. Macro is a bit of a black art which tends to be a bit too focused on the last big event (both Keynes and Galbraith suffered from this, in particular). Unfortunately, people think micro is, too, and they’re gravely mistaken...

If you knowingly run around and spread covid, this is a serious problem. I’d like to believe most people aren’t advocating that.

Yeah, if this happened three years ago, I’d probably be OK with shaming him, too. Vomiting blood, yikes. That’s not a minor illness.

6. I can plug my Deck into a dock and use it as a gaming PC for all the games where the Deck controls aren’t quite good enough.

I definitely waffle on this a bit myself. I’ve stayed in everything from 5-stars to semi-trashy motels, and I think there are diminishing returns on both ends. The 5-star had some nice amenities (and didn’t charge for WiFi!), and it FELT more professional and personal, but at the end of the day, it was still a room…

I’m not really sure I agree. Many recruiters - especially the ones in big shops - are more like realtors and just want to sell as fast as possible. $10k to you is $1k to them (making up numbers here), and getting you in the door a few weeks faster is absolutely worth it.

Yeah, I agree that this is mostly a problem with the games. PC games were never intended for 7" screens at 720p. They’re going to need some changes.

Did that with AOL, and spent the next 3 months finding a new job. This isn’t a terrible market to do that in, though.

People died of the flu and any other number of diseases even before the ‘rona times . Perfectly healthy athletes will die of heart attacks. Demanding that the world come to a stop because of a statistical outlier seems unwise.

My gut feeling is that 1) she was infected/sick before PAX and 2) there is some medical history that we haven’t heard. The article’s assertion that she must have been infected at PAX is essentially unprovable. You’re right that this could be a case of very bad luck - those happen - but by and large the…

Mine is, too. Very excited! :)

Thanks. Know what I’m doing when I get home. :)

Dance moves should not be eligible for copyright, full stop.

Pancake mix itself is the real scam. I discovered that I could quickly make my own from common household ingredients and it tasted as good, or better. Never bought another box after that. :)

If Atelier bothers you, absolutely do not pick up Ar Tonelico. :P

Yes, I get that the author’s core grievance is that these guys are perpetuating orientalism with certain aspects of the show. My response is that they made a good faith effort not to do so, and writing massive articles about what appear to be small mistakes is insane.

No, I understood it just fine, but it’s still essentially aggrievement porn that is being manufactured wholesale for clicks in this particular case. The author acknowledges this, and then moves on. Critical Role made an apparent genuine good faith effort to try to avoid what the author is complaining about, and that…

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

“does this program make money” as opposed to “is this service providing a social good?”