I think the whole conversation would be more honest if Ubisoft said it wasn’t making a *partisan* statement. It’s hard not to be political, but not every political discussion or stance is automatically an advocacy for a specific party affiliation. 

It lets them engage in whataboutism, but the CCP‘ s current actions with regard to the Uighurs are a step above. A recent report commissioned by the UN found evidence of genocide along with multiple violations of the Geneva Code.

Being that this was an alpha test, and they’re really looking for folks to help find bugs with the build as-is... maybe modding/cracking the game right now is a poor call.

And you have to murder your boss to get a promotion?

Fast X Furious 

It hasn’t always been this way, but then again, values have shifted over time. What conservatives actually stand for has shifted too.

I’d like the half-plus-seven rule to become an actual rule.

It’s not about snark. I just don’t think people have much ground to stand on if Nintendo decides to actually enforce copyright.

The crazy thing here is that the school gives free parking to EVs. Those should require permits just like everyone else. They’ll still have better parking spot access, but they won’t get to skip out on the permit.

Or, y’know, people could just make their own original creations.

The Bob’s Burgers episode really needs a shout-out here.

A prestige-budgeted series or miniseries based on the manga, rather than the film, would potentially work.

An R doesn’t guarantee lower revenue, but the trend is quite strong when it comes to PG-13. It’s hard to pass up the statistically significant predicted increase in theater dollars.

The original was meant to be played multiple times. The first time you play, your focus is directed almost entirely to escaping. It’s later that you realize you could save all of your friends, and the Oddworld folks seemed for that to be a player’s second run through.

Part of this appears to be Discord wanting to list themselves under a different age bracket in the App Store. They were fairly recently bumped up to 17+, and I wonder if they saw a dip in revenue or new user enrollment from iOS that correlated with that change.

Only impacts the app. Browser is unaffected. 

It’s definitely a scheme, but not a pyramid scheme.

While they made the final call, it appears from the article that they hired an outside firm and followed their recommendation.

If that person used their winnings to buy a 10% share of the team, then he or she probably would be brought in to take part in the leadership, at least to some extent.

I think King’s general dislike of Kubrick’s adaptation may be as much at play there as anything.