paul didn’t turn his back on her. he took the narrow path and forsaw that chani would come to accept it.
chani is the one who turned her back on paul, which is unfortunate because she didn’t in the book

I just talked to an executive at a very smart tech company that decided not to lay off their entire talent staff during the tech recession, but instead to re-train them to do other critical tasks.  This way, they get people who know the company doing important stuff, and the talent staff will be in place to snatch the…

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

In other, completely unrelated news:

100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…

Totally agree. it’s the same side of those trying to maximize monetization of live service games.
Screw the meta, just play to enjoy the game!

My spawn played this a fair amount this weekend after we picked it up Wednesday or Thursday. He was able to get in to most missions, but would wind up with periods of time where he would get an “unable to access game lobby” (or something to that effect) error message that was a bit frustrating.

yeah, turns out live service isn’t the problem, it’s game quality that matters

YES YES YES! God I am soooo ready to return to Elden Ring.

I still remember Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’? fondly.

I started the series with 2 after my cousin relentlessly badgered me into buying it. Gameplay was fun enough. Story was Space Fallout written by a teenage edgelord. Ugh.

Has the stardew valley/animal crossing style game fad died out? Last few 3rd party directs were filled with them.

Is there no other place to watch this than on a twitter toaster?

Ah, found it.

I’ve bought the game twice- once on PC and again on PS5 to enable easier couch co-op with my fiancé. The love and effort they put into this game is amazing. They’ve also made roughly a billion dollars in sales.

You realize the Morbius Re-release is one of the greatest cases of a large corporation getting punked in the history of PR.

Watched Dune last night and really enjoyed it. As always, Villeneuve’s visuals were stunning. The storytelling was good, with my only complaint being that I wish they had been explicit about why House Atreides was being destroyed. But even that is a minor complaint because the information is there if you pay attention.

Because they are a tech company that is full of overconfident bros that thing experts are lame and the other companies are actual car companies test their products and have decades of experience and expertise????

“test-ing...? What is this word???”

How did Tesla start selling these without testing this? Every vehicle I know of spends time in an accelerated corrosion environment before being sold to customers.