Not joking. It absolutely was about ethics, at first. The initial kickoff was the boyfriend accusing the girl (Zoë Quinn?) of sleeping with someone else for a better review. That’s ethics in a nutshell. I don’t think that anyone really cared about the game, or who was involved, but rather that the state of the industry was such that you could accuse a well known game reviewer of being unethical, and it was more believable than not.

The fact is, reviewers had already sold their souls and a AAA game get anything less than a 90%. Had reviewers had better ethics, probably no one would have believed the boyfriend, and the entire story would have been a nothing-burger.

Of course it went off the rails after that, the fact that the boyfriend was lying didn’t help, but for a brief moment it looked like there might actually be game news/review industry reform. It was a glorious 24 or so hours.

We tried this already - getting ethics in game journalism.

It didn’t work so well.

One could argue that they were the ass hole first by releasing an unfinished game. Just playing devils advocate here though.

Especially December. Between, say, Nov 15th and Jan 15th, things slow way down in corporate, unless you’re in an industry where things are backwards.

By progressive and youth, you mean millennials, right? Who are as old as… 40.

You know what else lasts 10 years? Quality cotton t-shirts.

Pre George W. Bush, it was perfectly legal to discharge student debt in bankruptcy. That made loans harder to get, and consequently, kept college prices from these insane increases.

If I never got the email, does that mean I wasn’t effected?

That’s because macs don’t have games. They’ve had 3 iterations of ARM processors and I still can’t download steam natively. If I could, most of my steam library wouldn’t run natively.

You can buy bamboo utensils individually wrapped in wax and brown paper. For most one time use items we already have a non-plastic alternative, it’s just less convenient.

Why just baby food? Why aren’t there lead limits in all food?

I don’t, but I’ve had about 5 years to replace all of my perfectly good cables with crappy bluetooth audio/dongles.

Religion says not to alter or mutilate your body. That’s why very religious people might skip getting earrings or tattoos too.

Edit: A vaccine is, by definition, artificially altering your immune system response.

Microsoft may not be the best company, but it’s moves like this that make me trust them more than just about any other company.

Stations are often broken, or the billing doesn’t work, or they are in inconvenient areas.

ICE vehicles suffer from the same problems, we’re just accustomed to them and understand how to work around the issues.

The only problem is that MS already owned 49% of openAi.

There’s the matter of consent, and it might legally be along the same lines of giving someone a roofie so they don’t remember in the morning.

Like how diminished is one’s sense of touch that one could believe it could be fooled by fancy rumble packs?

Have you ever used a macbook trackpad? The click is just a fancy rumble pack. We can use electricity to make glass opaque. If the only thing stopping a person from living in a VR pod is haptic feedback, it’ll be solved in a fortnight.

Sounds like “forced” to me.

My work gave everyone who got it two days off to recover. It’s more like a 20% chance of a 24-48 hour debuff, but you can’t seriously tell me that you haven’t heard of anyone having side effects.