Pacing! Dark Souls signaled to publishers that a slower paced, more deliberate action-RPG-adventure game could be commercially viable, instead of the speedier PS2&3 God of War and Devil May Cry combofests that dominated the genre prior to Souls.

Sure, sometimes. But in this case many restaurants attempted it a few years ago, and the vast majority went back to tipping systems.

The immediate overuse of the word stan should have charted here.

I’m a millenial who like movies where people in capes punch things, shoot lazers from their eyes, and fight clowns.

What’s lost here is that its not really that Scorsese is railing against Marvel. Someone asked him a question, and he answered it honestly. He’s not setting out to shit on the thing you like, he’s sharing his opinion. An opinion that is not informed by the same nostalgia and childhood attachments as most Marvel fans.

I agree. I really liked The Last Jedi, but fuck if I care if someone on the cast has other thoughts and expresses them. They have way more skin in the game than I do, and a lot more variables to consider.

I’m on the opposite end. I like Star Wars fine as a franchise, but TLJ is the only Star Wars movie that felt to me like it was trying to make a point.

So what you’re saying is that ~85% of the American population is fine with tipping :)

It’s just too much hassle now, primarily caused by tipping.

Yep, I’ve heard that from other folks too. But how do you know that their little booger eating cousins didn’t swing by and dip their fingers in the brownie batter?

Lol yeah keep the crybabies with non good college degrees away

But one of the benefits is that’s very painless for owners to employ servers, which means restaurants are always looking for more, so its easy for an otherwise unskilled person to become one. Filter the money we give to servers through restaurant owners, and I just don’t see how that remains the case.

Giving $50 to a human being who needs it is a better use of your money than buying a $250 glass of scotch.  If you can comfortably afford to do the latter, than there is no reason not to do the former.  It’s as simple as that.

Because if you can afford a $250 glass of scotch, you can also afford to make your bartender or servers life a little better.

Tipping the kitchen out is rare.  Tipping out bussers, hosts, bartenders, barbacks, and dishwashers is fairly common, but not universal.

It’s not stupid, and the root of tipping is not societal pressure. It’s simply a re-organization of how wages are paid. Servers, bartenders, and bar backs don’t get paid a living wage by their employers. That cost is passed that directly to you via a tip, rather than to you indirectly through a price increase on your…

I don’t know, but I am getting really tired of seeing articles by and for adults about 17 year old Billie Eilish’s thoughts on life, relationships, style, and her lack of knowledge about things that happened in the 1990s.

Invisibly dry skin is definitely on the long list of white privileges.

I learned this when a black friend refused to eat my burritos at the office potluck because he had never seen my kitchen and didn’t trust it.

My personal favorite Cecelia piece was this on the women of Atari: https://kotaku.com/sex-pong-and-pioneers-what-atari-was-really-like-ac-1822930057