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I've NEVER seen this before and I haven't laughed this damned hard in nearly a decade!

Let's face it - the most despicable character in the entire series is Toranaga, and it's probably not even close!

Yeah the stock still shot up after hours because there's apparently enough credulous people willing to people whatever timelines Elon throws out on these things

What an appropriately melancholy, morally complex conclusion to such a magnificent series

This is probably the only non-corrupt reason for it and I am somewhat sympathetic to it. If people regularly joined a company inexperienced, were trained, and then quickly left for another company, the outcome would be that companies would stop hiring inexperienced workers, which would be an absolutely awful defect-defect equilibrium for society. However, I don't think this is all that regular. If you're good to your employee, they will probably want to stay with you because consistency is convenient. If you treat your employee badly (bad compensation, bad management), then you really only have yourself to blame.

Shohei Ohtani should be arrested For murdering that baseball

I do agree with sexualization deliberately being less overt. I do not agree that they're deliberately making the characters less attractive in any meaningful capacity. I mean, you just named a lot of attractive female characters! But the argument from a certain community that I'm referring to is much stronger than even that. These people are saying western developers are deliberately making their female characters *ugly* because the standard that they demand is oversexualized women like Eve. Hence why I think Stellar Blade is a victim of people associating their distaste for this community with the game. I think the game is perfectly fine (at least from what I've played and seen so far!) and it shouldn't be knocked just because a distasteful community likes it.

Nah. We got a Farm System. Dodgers have a checkbook.

I do feel that some western devs have been deliberately making female characters less attractive to thwart the so-called “male gaze” and to prevent the characters from being objectified and sexualized, but attractiveness and sexualization are not one and the same. I almost exclusively like to play as female characters in games these days, and I admit that part of the reason why is because I personally find them to be more aesthetically appealing than male characters. And I’m talking about realistic looking athletic badass female characters, not overly sexualized ones. I prefer playing as acrobatic, agile, fast and quick female characters as opposed to big bulky muscly slow tank male characters. I also tend to prefer their attitudes, personalities and voice actors to their male counterparts as well. Some examples of female characters that I like from the past decade include: Aloy (Horizon series), Aveline de Grandpre (Assassin’s Creed Liberation), Evie Frye (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate), Kassandra (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey), Dani Rojas (Far Cry 6), Katharine (King’s Bounty II), Amicia de Rune (A Plague Tale series), Lara Croft (Tomb Raider survival trilogy) and Chloe Frazer (Uncharted: The Lost Legacy). They’re all realistic looking, naturally attractive (not super models) and not sexualized in any way. With that said, I don’t have a problem with occasional sexy anime style female characters like Bayonetta, 2B and Eve because I like anime. Stellar Blade is an over the top AA Asian developed fantasy horror sci-fi action adventure game that’s not meant to be realistic in any way, so I don’t feel that the characters in it are out of place for what it is.

Fried was great tonight. Gonna suck when he heads to LA next season.

I’m glad you’re gone. The Braves are back winning and have started another streak lol

Last nights game is the perfect summary of LeBum. His team blows a 20 point lead after leading almost the entire game. He misses a wide open three. Then in the after game press conference cries about a missed call, the nba replay booth, and then walks out abruptly.

Some more articles explaining the decision: U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs WWW.NPR.ORG The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban employment agreements that typically prevent workers from leaving their companies for competitors, or starting competing businesses of their own. FTC votes to ban noncompete clauses that bar employees from working for competitors WWW.CNBC.COM The FTC claims that noncompete agreements limit wage growth and increase prices for consumers.

I platinumed all the infamous games. I would bet the banter would not age well at all. If you mainlined the story it might be passable but those games were filled with early era open world BS that would get old quick.

So glad to get my pooch back today. I think she missed me.

Sure, sure, the Braves go back to winning after my game. Still had an awesome time.

Tillman was so fucking good in season 1, I hope he gets a fat check for Mission Impossible.

This interview in the NYT is short and well worth a read. I hadn’t realized that the quote at the beginning of the first film was spoken by a Sardaukar priest.

Julio is getting hot.

This released today. Downloading it now on Game Pass. Looks to be swimming in 7s. @Keyser_Soze do the open critic dump

Surprise Apple Event Hints at First New iPads in Years WWW.CNET.COM Apple's event invite provides strong indications that new iPads are coming soon.

It only would’ve looked dumb if she was the only one. But what if Middle Earth was a place where everyone wears bikinis? Then she would look normal!

Well, after using the instant level 10 bonus the deluxe version came with I was able to actually win a match in one of the special matches in the mycareer mode. Still can’t beat a tournament match (playing on very easy!) so gonna have to get a lot better! Definitely a high skill ceiling here. Also while 24 isn’t a lot of pro players what I do appreciate is there are actually tons of courses. The gameplay itself feels great ngl, just going to have to get better at it and remember it’s not VT.

Investors looking for any reason to stop the bleeding. When Tesla gave a target to start model 2 production in second half next year, only for Musk to jump in with “if not late this year”, I’m surprised no one laughed. And he is still taking about that robot taxi pipe dream. Good luck to anyone who puts money in this stock.

The Infamous games are fine / good. If you like “classic” open world gaming with some real polar opposite morality choices (I think the first one has something where your option is either give food to hungry people or blast it with lightning, for an example of what you’re asked to consider) they’re fun. I remember the traversal being pretty entertaining too, but this was a pre-Spider-Man world, so I can’t say how much I’d expect that bit specifically to have aged, especially if you’ve played Spidey recently. I guess the Spidey comparison is pretty apt in that it’s very much a comic book inspired, open world, action series. I don’t think any Infamous game does anything as well as any of the 3 Spideys do… if that kinda comparison would hold back your enjoyment, maybe worth passing? If not, there’s definitely fun bits and It’s not that they’re bad games at all, just that Spidey really raised the bar for this genre specifically.