This behavior made more sense after I learned she had an alcoholic father. It’s pretty textbook that she ended up like this and I do feel some empathy.

I live in Minnesota these days, and I’m “meh” on her. I don’t know if it’s because she throws off a severe Minnesota Nice vibe, but I’ve always been like, “Yep, decent positions, good committee memberships, and the Republican opponent is horrible. I’m voting Klobuchar.”  It’s not like she’s my most favorite Senator…

If you’d managed to read to the end of my comment you’ll notice I’m not cool with anyone who stays home.

I give a shit because I don’t want to climb out of this dumpster fire into like...a small trash can fire?... But really, I totally understand your feelings that the worst America has to offer has already spoken and why should we have to hold ourselves to such a high standard.

Nah. We are better than that. 

I went from being mostly ok with her as a Senator, if she wasn’t my favorite, to hoping someone primaries her in 2024. What an utter shitshow. I’ll be stunned if she’s still in it past Iowa.

She declined to provide a copy of the current policy as written.

“The policy, outlined in an employee handbook, called for those who left anyway to pay back money earned during the weeks they were on leave.”

auto-builder is gone because builders no longer “queue” up constructions over multiple turns.  They have a limited count of instant builds and then they are gone.  Its also why they take way fewer turns to make now.

Yeah, the Panama Canal in my game was built by the AI, and is decidedly less impressive:

Like with most 4x / Grand strategy games you kind of have to keep playing them to get understand them. Reading up on them is hard to understand unless you know the mechanics involved with the game. The best thing I would say is to watch some beginner vids about it and lower the difficulty.

oh man i didn’t even see the 90's in the title for some reason. my bad. Just saw the headline at work and got excited about KOTOR. haha,. 

Europe has stricter labor laws when it comes to laying off employees. But it’s a trade off, employees get more security but companies only hire when they absolutely have to. That part hits young people really hard.

This is one of the best articles I’ve ever read on this site. The juxtaposition between Kotick’s words to the board of investors and what happened to many staff members yesterday, is powerful poignant shit.

In this case I think the CEO should have a more detailed explanation as to why these layoffs have to happen.

I worked at Blizzard during the 2012 redundancies. It was a vastly different situation though, Blizzard was massively over-staffed in regards to the Customer Support side (GM’s and such) we were literally sitting waiting for tickets to come in. Mike Morhaime didn’t want to get rid of anybody, he’d rather be…

People with car insurance also get into crashes, but that’s kind of why you wanted the insurance in the first place. Unions are the same.

Super depressing but once again Jason, fantastic article with lots of great information presented in an easy to read article.

Last year, Gizmodo Media Group editorial had layoffs. But because we’re unionized, we were able to get a seat at the table to ensure that we were all kept informed, and we convinced our parent company Univision to instead offer buyouts, allowing those who wanted to leave the company to leave by choice (with 4 months…

Kotor wasn’t released until 2003....