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.

Indie games are overrated, it’s still mostly crap. I don’t blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It’s still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I’m not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it’s worth it.

While true, the military has been reorganized under this president. Removing anyone that wasn’t a white man and renaming anything that wasn’t a white man, that was the first steps of removing potential dissent. It doesn’t need to be a huge number of sycophants, but a few of them could make things very bad for us.

Yep there’s a few ways this could go and none are really great. Either the military bends the knee and any who opposed are forced out. Or there’s a full on military coup. Or best case it’s purely about ego that trump needs to yell at a room full of generals.

It is to a very high standard. There’s been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it’s basically 0 at .000001%

Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don’t just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.

Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It’s notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven’t heard about other stores because it’s not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.

Passing a driving test in the US is usually one of the first accomplishments of becoming an adult, which makes it notable, but not necessarily big.

This seems way too hostile to valve for what this really was.

The swing back is usually worse though. By doing something unprecedented, you give the opposition permission to go farther than you did.

That’s likely what is preventing any new subscription based mmo. Why bother with a reliable and fair price when lootbox bullshit makes you 10x the money.

Only if you live in a super specific climate that you could grow enough variety of plants or drastically change the definition of homesteading.