It think it has to be 2007 just because there are games that didn’t crack the top 10 that year that would be goty in other years. It’s also a huge year for multiple platforms, pratically every major franchise had a good release that year.

Direct action against Taiwan is unlikely. There’s no scenario where an invasion happens and the chip manufacturing stays intact. What is likely is China invades elsewhere with increased influence over Taiwan as a goal.

No it’s like praising a dealer that will buy back some drugs as well as sell them.

The casino is honest about what they do compared to say Genshin Impact.

Valve has one for the few lootbox systems that you can actually get value back out of outside the game. While they deserve all the same criticism of every lootbox game, they probably also deserve some praise for that.

Ads are extremely effective in aggregate though it’s difficult to impossible to assign value to any individual ad. Targeted ads are popular because they are more directly attributable to purchases, but it’s also likely that other ads led you towards that decision as well.

2012 was Madonna, and the years before that were pretty much all Boomer era.

Jerry keeping Trump out of the NFL may have been his last good decision.

It’s a combination of not speaking English and not being Boomer era talent.

Go full LBJ and just whip it out mid speech in full view. I doubt cspan would be quick to censor.

GoG doesn’t have a lot of new games for one. It’s still copyright violation to distribute the game to others as well. It’s generally easier to just buy the game from GoG than find a link to download the game. You could get the files from a friend and that could work for a few games, but paying gets more convenient if your library is bigger than your hard drive.

American magic.

There’s levels to it. True quality isn’t worth it, absolute garbage costs a lot though. Some level that mostly works is the sweet spot.

The illegal orders thing is a catch 22. It’s taught to everyone, but it’s also taught there aren’t illegal orders.

Fable 1 was the best one in the series.

https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/queen-bee-women-pay-a-price-for-not-promoting-other-women/

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2020/01/21/why-women-dont-always-support-other-women/

There were several generations of women that killed abusive husbands in ways that looked like accidents.

Studies have also shown women in power tend to block more women from being promoted to positions of power.

Essential means they have to work, not that they get paid. Once the shutdown is over they get back pay like everyone else.

It’s a reasonable question. I don’t know how many ICE agents are ok without getting the paycheck.