Boeing is only offering flights to whistleblowers.

I do feel like the insurance industry is pushing this narrative to justify withdrawing from all but the most profitable markets.

Perhaps a move back towards operating as a mutual insurance company will aid tremendously. Removing the profit motive allows funds to be more efficiently used for the core business ‘raison d’etre’ instead of wasting it paying out stockholder dividends. I’m still angry MetLife demutalized. Service and quality has gone…

Their entire profile is full of unhinged anger

This statement feels completely, absolutely off base. Virtually every major console game released these days has a “performance” mode that targets 60fps by reducing the graphical fidelity. 30fps is the default target for most games because developers want their games to look prettier, not because their games are CPU-li…

Because it’s just as much cost-cutting, but where there used to be jokes, post-Marvel the prevailing humor is just characters lifelessly talking with modern-day affectations in genre settings.

I think it’s interesting to contemplate whether Garland’s British-ness is an important consideration, here. Britain has been remarkably resistant to fully committing to any ideology or government type. They clipped the monarchy’s nuts, but not completely, and didn’t get rid of it. They clipped the House of Lords’…

Isn’t part of his point that, while the setting is current, America isn’t all that exceptional when it comes to this sort of thing? That civil wars occur, for the same sorts of reasons, all over the world because humanity shares an inherent tribalism that’s always looking for an excuse to rear its ugly head?

That’s everybody though, you and me, everyone has a form of unconscious bias. Is it a bad thing? In some rare circumstances it can help keep you safe, but we know the old saying of making assumptions. As a person of color I get it. I had an older white man come up to me at our local cars and coffee and say “I’ve seen…

Odd. I would think a “vote” by a user would be worth more than a non-user.

Hypocrisy is the highest virtue to Conservatives.

Academic discussions about historical figures are OK and should be encouraged, after all how else are we going to learn and move forward, in my view the problem here isn’t about whether or not there is anything to learn about the nazi dude and his regime, but rather that this not only does it have no academic value,…

“Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners.”

You can divide FF into two categories: “High fantasy” and “Cyber fantasy”

My kingdom for the first patch or mod that removes Chadley completely.

>The series is built on choice but not a single choice you have made affects the ending

I mean, we actually already know who did this, because Patrick Weekes (one of the other writers) posted about it on the Penny Arcade forums not long after it happened. And everything he said tallied well with what we knew from Bioware’s own laudatory mini-documentary novel, The Final Hours of Mass Effect 3 (written by…

https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-series-former-lead-writer-reveals-original-ending-ideas/

Right, I forgot about walking away (I haven’t played the game since it came out).