Yes and no. I suspect that it’s true that businesses get the most money/benefit out of weakened and cheaper labor. But rich people are individuals, and some will still be incredibly cheap if/when they can get away with it. Some rich people will buy tacky and meaningless nothings, but not all (especially those with…

Based on how the hut tub streaming changed in volume instead of just stopping completely, I’d guess that she has no qualms with OnlyFans as a platform but is now able to decide for herself when she is active there. 

It’s also an officially licensed Microsoft product, so you won’t be receiving a back-alley knockoff

Marvel Snap, Please Let My Opponents See Me Talk Smack After Matches

He was born rich.

On the flipside, it’s highly likely that most of the severance items are either mandated by labor laws or were part of the employee’s contracts when they joined. The extra parts are nice, but the costs are likely absorbed by Meta’s operational budget and not by Zuck himself.

Even the severance package, while great, was probably mostly mandatory by CA state law and their employee contracts.

Yeah, of the groups/races presented I think the only one that might be outright angry about it (as a group) are Cerberus, but only if they see it as non-human tech that’s been “inflicted” upon them. That said, given how some people have commented here about the Synthesis ending, I’d imagine that there would be a…

Technically yeah, it’s a renegade move, but it’s not the Renegade alignment choice.

I also picked the synthesis choice, because it looked like the least horrific option from a collection of horrific options. All intelligent life gets to continue living, basically as-is, but with a price that all biological and synthetic life are now synth-organic hybrids. That sounded like a better option than drastic…

That sounds familiar, so I’m guessing I read the article way back when but forgot a lot of the details. Overall it sounds like a huge missed opportunity caused by shortsighted management decisions. Considering what we did get despite all of the setbacks (a decent game in the ME1 mold), I can only imagine how great the…

I’m not sure where I stand on this discussion, but I do want to callout one point:

I hadn’t heard the 6 months aspect, but if that’s true then the final game was very impressive given that timeframe.

There’s now overwhelming evidence that the canonical ending from Mass Effect 3 is the one where the player destroys synthetic life and the mass relays.

How does that relate to squeeze’s point?  

It can be challenging to assign distinctive ethnicities to either antagonist or protagonist without triggering audience preconceptions, inviting unwarranted speculation, and ultimately stoking flames of controversy

This year it sold sold its American studios behind Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, told investors it was open to partial buyouts of its other studios, and flooded the market with a ton of JRPG sequels, remakes, and remasters, while barely giving any of them time to breathe or, apparently, a marketing budget. And now: Symbioge…

Like others, I was going to ask about vaccines, but it occurred to me that being vaccinated doesn’t mean you won’t get Covid, just that your immune system will know how to fight it. So you can get Covid while vaccinated, but it would potentially fall into scenario 3 or 5. 

Wow, that’s pretty much a Milkshake Duck situation. Yikes.

For context, if you were unaware, the ‘Brandon’ comes from the “F*** JOE BIDEN”/”LET’S GO BRANDON” chant from a ~1 year ago. Some conservatives think that saying “let’s go Brandon” is some sort of “trigger for the libs” or a secret handshake for likeminded weirdos, despite neither being true. And over time that’s…