Crusader Kings 3 and EU4. I’ve logged a good 2500 hours combined between CK2, CK3 and EU4. All fo them are highly replayable, and the periodic expansions keep the game fresh. CK3 is relatively new, but I would be surprised if I don’t hit at least 1000 hours on it minimum, probably much more.

Yep. I’m japanese American and spent 2 years living in Tokyo before moving back to the states last February.

... you realize I’m talking population right? I thought that would be fairly obviously the basis for comparison here when we’re talking infection rates.

I agree generally, but it does help to put into perspective that Japan had 1200 or so cases today, in a country about 1/3 the size of the US. They had 94 deaths, nationwide.

That’s predicated on ahving a head of the department who is willing to listen to people who ARE experts in the field that work for them... but that doesn’t necessarily seem to be the case here.

We’d have been so lucky to get a successful tech bro CEO as President. Instead, we got a rich boy born on 3rd base, who ran nothing but disastrously run businesses, con schemes, and played a successful businessman on TV.

The italicized portion is really key... and seems often not to be the case.  Then again, you don’t go to an attorney unless you’re already in crisis, so I mostly see the most dysfunctional companies, so I prbably have a skewed perspective.

I’m a big Jason fan, been part of the commentariat at Kotaku for years.  Check my comments, I’m pretty clearly not a G/O plant.  I make comments about being happy about Jason and other ex-Giz reporters all the time.

I’m an attorney who does a lot of work with tech companies and the slew of legal clashes that emerge when things go wrong. I’m privately amazed at how frequently these companies (many of them M&A acquisitions or subsidiaries created as new business ventures) are run by people who have no idea about anything they’re…

This is the one that jumped out at me.

In my day, a challenge meant fisticuffs.

A friend of mine had a full power 9 set of alphas back in the early 00's. Sold it for like $7-8k (can’t remember exactly how much, but it felt like a lot to a college kid), which he used as seed money for an online business that failed within a year.

In my parents case it was a basic opposition to use of television in any context. I got 1 hour of television a week total, so my parents certainly did not approve of using the TV in any other regular context including gaming.

Interesting, I’ll check it out!

Just realized, in the West, Eiyudensetsu is known as “Legend of Heroes” which is a literal translation.  Eiyuden (英雄伝) would roughly translate as “Saga of Heroes” although “Legend of Heroes” would also be a pretty legitimate translation. 

Oh i was confusing series. 英雄伝 (Eiyuden) and 英雄伝説 (Eiyudensetsu) sound very similar in Japanese.

I played Eiyuden Chronicles and loved it. However, one of the coolest things about Suikoden I-III in particular was getting to see references to what happened to your old characters and stories, and the way in which the story built on itself.

Sukoden VI confirmed!!!!

My parents were extremely anti-video game to the point where I didn’t own any game system growing up, with the sole exception of the original Gameboy I managed to beg my way into—but I was only permitted to play it during travel for vacations or holiday travel (so like 2-3 tmes a year for a few hours).

If you invested all your money into 1, 2 or even 20 companies, you’re basically playing blackjack. If you buy an index fund that invests evenly in about 500 companies+ you’re investing.