If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

You can’t do it at home because your neighbors will murder you if you are loud enough.

Doing that in a car just makes it everyone else’s problem, though. You’d think living in a city would have desensitized me by now, but I still get woken up some nights by people playing music in their cars loud enough to shake my window screens as they drive by.

If you need that just to stay awake, I don’t think you should be driving to be perfectly honest.

How does that fix anything? You keep some parts of the world as human breeding mills and send them to the places where quality of work/life balance is so bad that they can’t have kids there either?

From an end user perspective there’s not that much to think about, thankfully.

Basically, it’s like having two websites that mirror each other’s content. You can sign up for Forum A and be able to read and write posts that users on Forum B can also see. People’s names are tagged with the name of the forum they are registered at, but otherwise everything you do and see happens on your own site of choice and there’s no difference where it comes from.

If Forum A doesn’t like Forum C, but Forum B doesn’t mind, Forum A can choose to disconnect from Forum C and hide their users and posts, while Forum B can still see both. It only gets tricky when someone from Forum B makes a post that people from both Forums A and C are in, but all of the posts from C users are invisible to A users.

Maybe it’s a default feature for all non-English languages to account for potential writing system differences? May not make as much a difference for other languages using the Latin alphabet, but maybe for East Asian scripts or Arabic or Hindi etc., they don’t want to assume the default layout is as readable as it is for English?

Just a shot-in-the-dark guess.

The extended editions do have intermissions built in, at least.

That’s optimistic.

I am expecting at least 1 Trump loyalist in the jury who will refuse to agree to any guilty verdict, resulting in a hung jury and a mistrial.

According to Wikipedia, AKQA is a design and innovation agency that helps corporations improve their branding and experiences.

According to Google, AKQA is an abbreviation that means Always Keep Quinoa Accessible?

I will just agree to disagree on that front. Playing casually, I clocked over 100 hours on the 2nd game, which is more time than it took me to complete the original full game on PS1. I enjoyed basically every minute of time played (save for one particular mini-game that I didn’t care for), so I’d say I got a good value out of it for the cost. It is also hard to say that it is a cash grab when it provides a much fuller experience than most AAA games these days seem to have.

Basically, I don’t hate it any more than I hate the fact that The Lord of the Rings is three separate movies; it’s not like The Hobbit.

According to the article at least, that is essentially what they did. But their model was based on earlier years when there was higher projected growth, so the budgets were set too high as a result.

Personally, as long as the final installment in the FF7 Remake trilogy is made with the same budget as the first two and ends on a satisfying note, I’ll be happy. A good ending gives the trilogy as a whole have more lifetime sales than it would if part 3 makes the first two less good in retrospect, i.e. the Mass Effect 3 effect.

Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, it was a controlled demolition, yadda yadda.

Maybe a bit lower, but I’d hesitate to say “far lower”. Rail would reduce the demand for very short (hour or less) flights, and that’s why countries like France have banned such flights entirely. But even in countries with very developed rail, the cost of rail travel often ends up more than the cost of flying for medium to long distances. That was my experience in China, which has plenty of rail options, but everyone loves to use Japan as the example to follow for “ideal rail”, so I’ll look at Japan to compare.

According to Japan Rail, a 1-way bullet train ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto is about ¥8,000, plus either a roughly ¥5,000 (reserved) or ¥6,000 (non-reserved) surcharge, so you’re looking at ¥26,000 round trip, taking about 3 hours each way. Or, going to Japan Airlines, you can fly round trip from Tokyo to Kyoto and back for about ¥13,000, taking 1.5 hours each way. I was able to find cheaper flights listed on Google Flights as well.

Despite supposedly having a very robust, very comfortable rail experience in Japan, flying is half the time and half the price. I don’t know if that’s a result of government subsidies supporting air travel over rail travel or what, but to me it seems hard to compete.

The only difference is that you can apparently just waltz up to a train station in Tokyo and buy a ticket day-of, no security to get through and no checked baggage to worry about, but I can’t imagine such spur-of-the-moment travel over such distances is the norm.

Possibly RFK Jr. too.

Un-Googled Chromium?

Edit: Guess even FOSS has its limits

White people in former colonial power that committed genocide being racist? Color me shocked!

If you set it to match social security age, the old fucks who want to stay in power will just up the social security age.

Stadia is probably the last product I’d want to be compared to, but hopefully this helps push gaming on Linux more than Stadia was able to.

It would have still been an issue because the root of the problem is that there are a lot of regions where PSN is not supported and you can’t make an account even if you wanted to. The game was being sold on Steam in those regions, and so in practice it would have been like saying:

Please note that in a future update we will take away your ability to play with no recourse unless Valve is willing to refund your purchase. Take it up with them.

The difference is that Helldivers 2 was already a released game; people had paid for a product which was going to be taken away from them. After all the controversy, Sony decided not to follow through with that plan and let people keep what they already had.

This is still scummy, but with Ghost of Tsushima, no one has received anything yet. People put in an order, the order was canceled, and money refunded, so in practical terms there is no loss…other than not being able to buy the game.

It may be possible to set your account to a different region and purchase anyways, but in my opinion, piracy is absolutely justified in this case when the vendor literally refuses to make a product available to you. If there’s no legal option for obtaining it, then there’s no harm in pirating it.

This isn’t a skilled industry, hence why they have children working there. The equipment/facilities is the real value. Unless the government wants to take control or find new management, the jobs are dependent on whoever owns the machines.

Or, just maybe, we close the meat packing plant anyways because everyone should eat less meat.