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Since 14 is an MMO you’ve really only missed two main-series games

You can play most of it solo, aside from some of the major boss fights, and it’s both a “greatest hits” nostalgia trip and a damned good FF in its own right once you get into the Heavensward expansion and beyond.

That’s because the US government outsources a lot of software development to consulting firms who bill hourly for developer time while paying the developers a fixed salary. Even though these developers have to do at least 40 billable hours a week, they don’t get time and a half for overtime.

Mozilla wants data that can be used to impersonate me? They can fucking well pay me for it.

Here are a few names you can blame in addition to the USWDS:

• Deloitte
• Accenture
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• PwC

The four corporations other Accenture constitute the US’ “Big 4 accounting firms”, and they get a shitload of money from local, state, and the Federal government to develop software for them at taxpayer expense – and none of this publicly-funded code is FOSS.

it’s cool. I’m posting from Armstrong City.

Loony, huh? What part of the moon are you posting from?

I’m not convinced you are, but since I work with computers for a living I’m on in position to talk. I still haven’t figured out whether mental illness is a prerequisite for a career in software development or an occupational hazard. If I wasn’t autistic before I learned to code, then learning to code really fucked me up.

Science is no way to make a living. Likewise academics in general. If scholars can’t make a decent living, who in their right mind woud choose a life of scholarship?

I’d love to see Republicans up in arms over preferred names and pronouns try giving Alice Cooper shit for calling himself Alice Cooper instead of Vincent Furnier.

Marketers gonna market. If “simulation” is a hot-selling category, then games are going to be sold as “simulations” if they bear even a slight resemblance to an actual simulation. This the same industry in which the customers con themselves into thinking that Final Fantasy is still a role-playing game.

Why do it? For the same reason Mt. Everest is littered with human corpses, shit, and garbage. For the same reason there’s an American flag and a plaque immortalizing Richard fucking Nixon on the goddamned moon.

Because it’s there.

The IDF under the Likud regime is doing a bang-up job of sowing dragons’ teeth and setting the stage for future wars.

Why is it like this? Because this is what the rich want, and the rest of us don’t have the nerve to guillotine them for it.

When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.

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Upside of being a GenX latchkey kid, even if I was born in the tail end of that generation. My parents didn’t really give a shit what movies I rented as long as they weren’t pornos. Not that they looked too close. I got away with renting Caligula by passing it off as a sequel to Masterpiece Theater’s I, Claudius.

Streaming platforms have a continued existence problem. The internet is for text.

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We already have vampires in the US. Peter Thiel is one of them.