I don’t think that’s a bad thing, though. It’s not like I’d be bothered if someone with a GPU 5 years older than mine is able to play the same game on PC.

This is what consoles just should be. No longer locking games to specific generations, letting newer hardware run older titles better, and letting developers continue developing for lower hardware targets to include more people.

They don’t look like a Richard to me.

The issue though is that Chinese companies have the ability to tap into the massive domestic market in China in addition to international markets, while non-Chinese companies are locked out of the Chinese market unless their Chinese competitors get a cut. So the Chinese developers who get that additional profit from domestic Chinese players end up with a lot more financial weight to throw around than non-Chinese developers, who easily end up getting bought out or pushed out.

Traditional devs need to be ready to compete

I think that is the problem, though. The Chinese market is inherently anti-competitive.

She comes back to me, gets my info. Did he hurt me? No. Did he break my glasses? No. Wanted me to describe him, I told her dude was just scared is all.

That testimony is probably why you weren’t called. That would probably hurt their case against him if presented as evidence.

The main problem with type I (and a few others) is that it’s not recessed. If it comes loose a bit, you still have the problem of exposed live pins.

in an apparent attempt to prepare them for the workplace.

Doctors literally issue sick notes for employers, too.

On the one hand, I am in favor of eliminating the dependence on doctor’s notes because it’s just a waste of everyone’s time (if someone says they’re sick, just believe them and leave it at that). But to say that being sick is not an excuse for being absent is so many levels of mind-bogglingly dumb, I don’t even know where to begin.

Related note: a lot of salvaged brick is stolen. Old rust belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc. have so many abandoned brick buildings. People set fire to the building to collapse the wooden supports, and when the mortar holding the bricks together is heated by the fire, the pressure of the hose from responding firefighters helps flake it off and clean the brick. Then people show up a few days later, grab all of the undamaged bricks from the rubble, and sell it to unscrupulous distributors who flip it for a premium on new developments looking for that expensive aged brick look.

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The worst part is that I am getting paid a salary I could have only dreamed about years ago, and yet I still can’t afford anything with how drastically everything went up in price.

Wages in general have gone up a little bit, but it’s crazy to me that I’m earning more than 5x as much as I used to 15 years ago and feel like my buying power has not noticeably improved at all. I’m still stuck living in crappy apartments because that is all I can afford.

I think it should have just stopped with season 1. Season 2 is fine but you can tell when Terry Pratchett’s influence effectively vanished from the project.

That and Neil Gaiman now…yikes…