Technically neither. Apart from maybe some C-Suite execs, it’s not a part of their employment contracts and there’s no state/federal mandate for severance pay. If it’s not in the employment agreement, it’s at the discretion of the employer.

You’re right about who’s paying for it. 100% it’s Meta and not Zuck. Lotta…

That happens with normal CEO’s where they’re dismissed by a board of directors following a loss of confidence/big layoffs/etc. Zuck, on the other hand, controls Meta. His class B shares give him veto power over other share holders with like 60% of the votes. He also can’t trade or sell those shares. It’s his boat…

Dude gets paid 25M a year. He could get paid $0 and it’d cover 1% of the cost of keeping those people employed for a year. He could sell stock and raise money to keep them employed for a year instead of 6 months. That just kicks the can down the road. Can’t do that forever.

How do you make it right AFTER you fire…

Except that Reality Labs teams didn’t get hit especially hard? That’s what Zuckerbergs betting the company on. They allegedly started with recruiting and business teams + looking at low performers. Horizon Worlds looking wonky doesn’t get you to losing 11k headcount. 

Take no salary? He’s worth 35b. A$25m salary itself is just symbolic. It’s probably no more than 1% of what it cost annually to pay those 11k employees. imo the actual contrition is the apology letter and the rather generous severance. He could take no salary, but it’d only be symbolic

I feel like you didn’t actually read the letter. I don’t want to be the one to defend Meta, but at least the severance they’re offering is actually pretty generous. Short of stepping down from the company, what exactly does ‘taking responsibility’ in an acceptable way look like for you?

Depends. One of the biggest hurdles to modern LAN parties is that most contemporary competitive multiplayer games are both Always Online and don’t feature local, offline multiplayer at all. More than just playing games in the same room, half the point of a LAN party was to be able to play with zero latency. Now, since…

From personal experience, it’s not 1 to 1. SBMM should be the standard in competitive multiplayer games. Playing against folks of ones skill level should always be sweaty, for players of every ability. Someone wants to pub stomp? Play against bots. Players who smurf in SBMM are cowardly, flawed individuals.

But not…

If skill based matchmaking actually works correctly, TimtheTatman shouldn’t have any issue. He doesn’t want to play the ‘meta’ with only top-tier guns? If he loses enough games, the system should start matching him versus players where his unorthodox, experimental strategies will still work 1/2 the time.

But that’s…

The reason that RX570 was so cheap was they were rebranding tuned-up RX470's with added RAM so miners wouldn’t run into vram bottlenecks. If you’re coming off essentially 6 year old hardware, most newer cards are gonna be a huge step up, even at the same price. With inflation, your $200 card became a $250 purchase…

The second state? I thought Washington state passed the “Move Ahead Washington” bill earlier this year banning the sale of new gas cars by 2030. Maybe the source is mistaken?

Furthermore, as soon as the Treasury Sec issues their guidance, the rules for Critical Mineral battery % go into effect at 40%. At the same time, the rules regarding “the percentage of the value of the components contained in [the] battery that were manufactured or assembled in North America” also go into effect, then…

I don’t know that this is correct. The bill language says the “per dollar limitation” applies to vehicles put into service after the Secretary of the Treasure issues their guidance, which will come on December 31st 2022 *at the latest*. It could certainly happen before that.

Really disheartening considering how robust and manageable the F2P experience is in Hearthstone, a game I’ve enjoyed almost entirely for free. What I’ve spend has felt worth my money and has directly added to my enjoyment of the game. Diablo Immortal feels imminently predatory

Google’s only acceptable product launch is apparently ‘overnight success’ or ‘instant industry leader’. Have they had a failure they didn’t cut & run from? Something that didn’t immediately gain social traction, but that they believed in so much that they committed resources to fix properly?

I recall Microsoft and the…

Hard mode is a must, but I’ve also really enjoyed this twist: don’t guess the same starting word twice. Finding the *perfect opener* is fine, but it means the first guess doesn’t require any additional input and the games start to feel very similar. I keep a list of all the words I’ve used as starting guesses and I…

I’m already going out of my way to *avoid* that crap specifically. The greater world has terrible opinions about video games XD

When I play games that are taking too long for my schedule or are harder to finish than I was anticipating, I don’t feel compelled to make the game easier. I just go play something else.

Folks can play and enjoy games however they like and lots of games are broadly accessible with varying difficulty modes or cheat…

Jeez, pricing on PAX tickets has been rocketing up pretty steadily over the years. Just 8 years ago, PAX Prime 2013 sold single day passes for $30 and 4-day passes for $95. 2019 pricing was a flat $50 a day, or $200 for all 4 days.

By comparison, Dragon Con 4-day pass pricing in 2013 was $130 and had only jumped to…

FFXII isn’t perfect, but it has some of the best world building they’ve ever put to disk. Friends sent me in with low-ish expectations and I was blown away.