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I applaud this, it just makes me sad thinking other industries don't have similar leverage to get fair compensation for their labor. The studios were happy to wait our the writers because they had the funds to do so and the writers largely didn't. They can't play chicken with sag-aftra though, and they know that so they're smearing them trying to point to other parts of the industry this'll harm as if this whole thing wasn't started by their (the studio's) greed....but yeah what's an amazon warehouse worker to lean on, or uber/lyft drivers when faced with obvious corporate greed? le sigh
100% this final point. It’s not spez, it’s the motivation of all companies geared towards investors and markets. They don’t even care what they actually end up producing, as long as it gives the appearance of profitability and growth. Spez is a largely replaceable part in this equation.
It’s always so interesting to see how different cultures have to tackle seemingly similar problems that in fact have huge variances in their…application I guess is a good word here. The idea of an entire society encouraging forgiveness towards a bully is definitely a very Japanese, and in some ways a generally eastern philosophical, cultural motif. Something individuals there would have to account for in their solutions, but not necessarily in America where that forgiveness is very much not a give.
Well I'll be damned. Super interested to see how they implement this since they operate across all states. So not only dealing with the fact that there's still a federal ban on marijuana (my wife's a licensed vet and is going through her DEA licensing for distribution of controlled again and found out under no circumstances is she allowed to be prescribed medical marijuana), but also the fact that some states haven't even passed their own decriminalization.
Will it just be "you might get arrested, but you won't be banned from playing football?" And if they do random tests, and someone tests positive and is in a state where it is criminal, do they have to reveal the identity of the positive result to the state?
Seriously this, I mean there won't really be places that can comply with this. Yeah Texas has some of the highest rates of heat related deaths, they also have some of the hotest hots in the country. Taking the requirement away is just malicious on Abbott's part, but it likely won't change anything. My wife worked as a vet for the USDA in Waco for 2-3 years and those cutting floors at the meat processing plants frequently got to 120f during the high summer months. They have a couple of box fans, and water literally everywhere and that's it. This is an article hitting on a problem, but from the wrong direction.
Probably not? the migrant paths are a lot more limited now than they used to be i think.
Top down, and I’ve never thought about why but one reason is I have a larger chest and broad shoulders so if it doesn’t fit there I don’t bother when trying them on for the first time and I guess just stick with it all time.
That's actually not something I thought about, because I never change default controls, but that is kind of a big deal that's something that should have been trivial for them to add in. It really should be automatic these days.
I wasn't too disappointed with the PS5 performance. The eikon battle was the first I really noticed any issues, but combat was smooth and looked great. The transition to gameplay from cutscene where a character starts to run was pretty jarring in a buggy silly way, but for the most part not much in the way of jankiness. I might also have extremely lowered expectations considering what we've been getting from big blockbuster games lately that this just feels good in comparison 😂
I thought the same thing actually. maybe others in the game become more engaging, but yeah it was one handing that eikon fight heh. The voice acting really is soooo good. it just feels more natural, and....yeah less cringe. whoever did the localization should get some sort of award or promotion (obviously it was a team not an individual), because it feels like they made a huge effort on this one.
I don't know if it's more than my concern for third party apps, but at least as much concern. It's honestly coming from the same place though. A desire for control and more profits, one in their mind inevitably leads to the other. Everything spaz has done and said clearly indicates he believes reddit's position and ubiquity is too strong to fight in any reasonable manner. Most of their userbase doesn't know what's going on, quite a few who do don't care, and I personally have friends who do know, and do care, but never stopped using reddit.
Anybody try the new FFXVI demo yet?
Experience the opening hours of this action RPG epic and carry your progress over to the full game! Find out everything you need to know about the FINAL FANTASY XVI demo.
I just realized it was up this morning, and I'm genuinely blown away. I was definitely feeling a little disappointed through most of the trailers (and also the Creative Business Unit III nonsense heh). They were feeling super generic, and a little hackneyed.
30-40 minutes in and holy crap. The english voice acting is amazing (though my friends pointed out, is it really a final fantasy game if the VA isn't super cringe?), and they seemed to have put a LOT more effort in the mocap for lip syncing the english voice overs as well. It looks amazing, but that's to be expected. And honestly I hadn't been following the development much so I didn't know this beforehand, but my immediate thought was how much like early Game of Thrones the cast of characters and setting was starting to feel like.
Anybody else have a chance to take a look, or care heh?
Literally this. Even in older games journalism there was a difference between additional content and true expansions. We used to call developers out for labelling something as an expansion that didn't have enough additional content. This is pretty close to what full expansions used to cost ($20-25 is what I remember for something like Shadows of Amn), and the amount of additional content fits.
I think a lot of people are used to the incremental and constant content release for live services games that are generally free. More is not always better, though...and free is not always free lol.
Genuinely will depend on the audience he has in front of him. Absolute coward.
Pride Month Reads
I have a habit of reading far too many books at once, and have developed "themed" reading months for myself to help keep my focus (for instance I usually read one Stephen King novel a year, and only in October).
This year I found myself really wanting to dedicate my month of reading to the LGBTQIA+ community. Both educational and informative reads, and books written by LGBTQIA+ authors. I've been all over the place in my exploration of the Fediverse so I wrote a quick lil article over here on a WriteFreely instance.
I also imported my goodreads reading lists here on bookwyrm. Right now I'm about two thirds of the way through Fever by Jonathon Bazzi. I'll probably dive into The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo next. It's a retelling of The Great Gatsby from a queer/female point of view. I peaked in at the first few chapters and am already in love.
What other pride books would you recommend? I'm going to try and do this every June so I'd like to build out an impossibly long backlog of books to read if at all possible.
I cannot recommend setting up a pi-hole or something similar more before getting started on anything else.
My friend set up a whole bunch of really nice smart features in his apartment, and separately set up a pi-hole as he was beginning to build out his NAS/plex server to be remotely accessible. One of the many things he found out was that his lightbulbs were pinging back and forth 100s of times an hour with a server in China that his pi-hole was able to start filtering/blocking. I don't know if he ever set up any packet sniffing to see what exactly was being communicated with all those pings, but you can never be too safe with this stuff.