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Resetera is pretty fine if you stick to just the gaming specific stuff
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https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077375011600678912/video/1
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I really liked Xcom 2, what should I know getting into this?
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The businesses you care about are still businesses, as it turns out.
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What do your white parents think?
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https://kotaku.com/with-activisions-influence-growing-blizzard-is-cutting-1831263741

Blizzard has spent the year taking big measures to cut costs as it prepares for a lean 2019. Those measures, as conveyed by people who work or have worked for the iconic studio, include employee buyouts in which workers are offered money to leave, a broadening of the finance department, and the limitation of budgets for any team at the company that isnt directly making video games.

Much of Blizzards cost-cutting has gone unreported until recently, but its been a consistent theme throughout 2018 at the Irvine, California-based studio behind mega-hits like Overwatch and World of Warcraft. One Blizzard program, for example, is called Career Crossroads. It offers healthy severance packages to people who voluntarily take buyouts and choose to leave the company. At first, Career Crossroads was designed for veteran customer service representatives who had been at Blizzard for more than five years, but this year, it opened up to QA and IT, according to one person familiar with the program. Blizzard has also lowered the number of years required to take a buyout, opening up Career Crossroads to even more employees, likely in hopes of increasing those numbers.

Over the course of the last year, Blizzard has been trying very actively to find creative ways to cut costs that wont draw negative press attention, said a former employee.

Last month, a Kotaku investigation revealed that Blizzards staff have been told to reduce expenses while at the same time produce more games. There are likely several reasons for this shift in priorities, including a lack of consistent output, a weak year for Activision-Blizzard overall, and Activisions increasing influence on Blizzard, which has traditionally been an autonomous company but has been overseen by Activisions CEO, Bobby Kotick, since the two companies merged in 2008. That influence has grown this year in many ways both blatant and subtle.

For Novembers report, we talked to 11 current and former Blizzard employees. Since then, weve heard from even more current and former Blizzard staff about the companys cost-cutting measures and how theyve materialized. The Career Crossroads program is one example. Another, according to three Blizzard staff who all left recently, is a power shift that has seen the finance department cultivate influence that it had never had in the past.

Finance in general in Blizzard has been one of these invisible functions thats there, but doesnt have a say, said one veteran employee who left recently and asked not to be named because they were not authorized to talk to press. Now theyre suddenly in meetings.

Said a second, who also asked not to be named: A lot of decisions now are being driven by business folks, marketing and finance folks. Theres a real struggle now between developers and the business people Strategic decisions are being driven by the finance group.
Yadda Yadda Yadda
Blizzard has gone years without releasing a brand new game, while Activision hasnt let a fall go by without a new Call of Duty since 2004.

Now, Morhaime is gone, and Activision appears to have more influence on Blizzard than it ever has. Will Blizzards games-as-a-service, release-it-when-its-ready approach to development survive these new changes?

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Who cares about some jokes online?
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Alphamon posted...

I take it most people don't know what a neocon actually is.

If you think John Bolton is one....yeah, you don't know what a neocon is and its just a buzzword for you

I'm curious why you think he isn't.
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Intro2Logic posted...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Hitman 2
Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Funny how none of these games were in the Top 10 Steam stats all year. Meanwhile, PUBG, Warframe, DotA, CS: GO and Path of Exile are always there.

What are you suggesting?
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-announces-2018-steam-award-nominees/1100-6463988/?ftag=GSS-05-10aaa0b

Game of the Year:
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Monster Hunter: World
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Hitman 2
Assassin's Creed Odyssey

VR Game of the Year:
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
VRChat
Beat Saber
Fallout 4 VR
SUPERHOT VR

Labor of Love:
Dota 2
Grand Theft Auto V
No Man's Sky
Path of Exile
Stardew Valley

Best Environment:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Subnautica
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Far Cry 5
Dark Souls III

Better with Friends:
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Payday 2
Dead by Daylight
Overcooked! 2

Best Alternate History:
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Hearts of Iron IV
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Fallout 4

Most Fun with a Machine:
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Rocket League
NieR: Automata
Factorio
Space Engineers

Best Developer:
CD PROJEKT RED
Ubisoft
Bethesda
Rockstar Games
Digital Extremes Ltd.
Square Enix
Capcom
Paradox Interactive
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Klei
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Some people are so committed to centrism they think Newton's third law applies to political beliefs.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuqyhslXcAEKZoA.jpg

Type of guy who says "simply epic, my good sir." A beautiful mind.
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There are a lot of people really desperate to find some left wing equivalent to Trump, and willing to make a lot of stretches to get there.
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Leave feigning outrage over years-old Tweets to the SJWs. They're better at it.
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Look at this shit

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Gonna start ascribing personality traits to birthdays.
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Why are you posing this as a hypothetical? Like it hasn't happened yet?
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People being unable to afford burials is evidence of a failed economic system.

Anyways
https://wgntv.com/2018/05/04/illinois-coroner-to-poor-pay-1000-or-county-keeps-remains/
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700049951/More-families-unable-to-afford-funerals-burials.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3516334/Cost-funeral-140-year-Families-left-unable-afford-basic-ceremonies-average-price-rises-3-700-MPs-call-watchdog.html
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What policies of Beto's do you guys like?
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Tijuana is dangerous, not all of Mexico. Due to US consumption of drugs and our lax firearms policy.

Why do you think it is that the violence is concentrated in Tijuana, if not its proximity to the border making it a hotspot for organized crime?
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Tijuana murder count is over 1600. San Diego is like 50. Yes, our drug demand drives most of that, but to ignore the danger to the SD community of just a free for all reeks of someone who doesnt really care and just likes the idea of everything being open

"Mexicans are inherently dangerous and pose a threat to the safety to the wellbeing of Americans" is how I read this. Did you mean it another way?
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https://twitter.com/ChrisCJackson/status/1071960155288408066
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https://twitter.com/SpencerAlthouse/status/1071564490720862214
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Economic statistics are better than during the recession. Wild.
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Ambience posted...

Two chambers have saved us from a lot of shit legislation that passes one but can't pass the other.

And everything is fine and people generally love the state of things today
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To make a comparison, pretend you knew nothing about US politics, and this topic was a video of Bernie Sanders standing in front of an official-looking background and describing the GOP healthcare bill with the title "US government looking to kill tens of thousands of its own people."

That's basically what this topic is. It relies on people not recognizing the speaker and taking them at their word as to the impacts of legislation they oppose.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Lemme know which far right politicians and lawmakers are standing in front of the UN and proposing Orwellian nightmares

No one here is standing in front of the UN and proposing Orwellian nightmares. Theway TC presented this video, you could be excused for believing these speakers are doing so on behalf of the UN or some delegation. But instead it's a right winger talking about a proposal in incredibly biased fashion.

TC should have made that clearer, but then, so should the video.
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Credit to Trump for proving all the crudest anti-war signs from 2004 exactly right in their analysis.
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The U.S. claims to be the best country in the world, not just "better than Mexico and Honduras."
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Debate doesn't matter.
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https://twitter.com/WrathOfMoe/status/1059648368304181249
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I think there are a lot of people who will be voting Republican because of identity politics. But that says more about them than the Democrats.
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For the people who oppose this: what are your thoughts on pirating old games?
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In the era of Donald Trump, the people who feel some compulsion to treat both sides as having equal merit are just being politically correct.
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After the Confederate Democrats were defeated in the Civil War, Republicans passed the 14th amendment basically without them.

So unfortunately they're to blame for the anchor baby problem we have today.
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https://twitter.com/VeraMBergen/status/1057738108521857024
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This was never the thing motivating GOP voters, a fact the party leaders have come around to realizing and acknowledging.
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I'm perfectly capable of shitting on my own
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Tuesday, with Friday early access
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Is squatting in an unused apartment building theft?
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Unbreakable posted...

myzz7 posted...

Unbreakable posted...

Idiots elected Trump because he claimed to be different than other politicians

holy shit.... a politician said one thing and then didn't do it after elected?! what madness is this....

That's literally what Trump's supporters liked about him. "he tells it like it is, unlike all the others"

Right. I would've voted for Ted Cruz if I wanted a lyin politician
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If I wanted a president who would cower to the Saudis, i would have voted for Hillary. I didn't vote for Trump so he could do bullshit like this
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They should have been called The People
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Gotta play the hits
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That isn't all though. I talked to a mutual friend of ours and she told me some things really candidly. Our friend said that after seeing Jordan Peterson in person my girlfriend was really weirded out. Because I cried a little bit there and there were other men crying too. (I didn't think this was fair, there is no shame in crying.) Also that she felt like following Dr. Peterson's advice made me kind of less fun and more boring than how I was when we met at 17. Basically that she thought I became a little too "obsessed" with him. She also said that my girlfriend thought some of the things Dr. Peterson said about relationships were chauvinistic and unrealistic. And then she (not my girlfriend but our friend) said she researched Dr. Peterson and that he hated women and kind of scolded me. I told her that was just SJW/Cultural Marxist propaganda, that Dr. Peterson wasn't really like that and she just didn't understand him. She said I was "talking down" to her and that is why my girlfriend left me. (I don't think she left me she never said she didn't want to see me any more btw.)

Anyway what do I do? How do I fix this and get our friend and my girlfriend to be okay with Dr. Peterson?
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Let me give you a bit of a back story. I found out about Jordan Peterson about a year ago and since then I became a huge fan. I was never a big reader, but I got all of his books. (They are the only books on my bookshelf and also a book about John F. Kennedy my aunt gave me but I never read. So I don't have many books and its a small shelf.)

I am 19 years old now. I met my girlfriend when we were 17 in high school. When I was 18 I moved out and began to go to the local university. My girlfriend is the same age as I am and she started classes there too. When I moved out is around the time I started reading Dr. Peterson's work and I took the battle against chaos to heart. Mostly because I was a very messy person before. So I kept my new room very clean (I have a roommate who helps) and I was finally able to decorate it the way that I wanted since I moved out. Mostly I kept it simple and tasteful but I also have a big poster of Dr. Peterson in my room.

When I began to see how important Dr. Peterson had become in my life I started trying to get my girlfriend interested. But she did not seem very interested. I thought he could help her a lot, because when we met and she lived at home she was a very messy and chaotic person also. We both were then. Since she moved out also and got a roommate it has gotten even worse for her. I would say her room is about fifty percent messier than it was. She is slouching a lot. She is also very disorganized with her classes and note taking (somehow she is still getting all As, I got all As too my first semester but I also got two Cs). I can't even read or understand the notes she takes for her class. I tried to tell her to be more organized and less chaotic with it, that it would help her more, but I think it got annoying for her to hear it.

Anyway when we would hang out I would try to get her to listen to Dr. Peterson's lectures but it always seemed like a chore or like she didn't really want to. I found it really frustrating because he was so inspiring for me. Eventually I stopped putting them on because I would hear and see her sigh in an exaggerated way when I would put YouTube on with his lectures.

Not long ago it was coming up on the day that we met (our anniversary) and we had a nice dinner at a seafood place we both really like. A few days later I got us tickets to see Dr. Peterson speak. I had hoped that it would be better than the videos. She seemed excited to go and we had a nice night together.

The next day we didn't talk, which is normal these days with school and stuff. I sent her a text message the day after and she didn't respond which I thought was weird. Then I did it the day after and still no response. She didn't write back to me for four days! Until I sent her a long message just asking for an explanation for why she ghosted me or at least let me know she is okay.

A few days later she finally sent me a long email. She said that she wanted some space and that she needed to think. That things were changing and that they weren't the same as they were. She actually blamed Dr. Peterson for changing me! Which is true but I thought I changed for the better. She said I was being really strict with the cleanliness now and that I was saying too much about her being messy. That I wasn't fun any more. And also she said that she wanted to see other people and that she wasn't sure I was the person she wanted to be with forever in a relationship. This was very disappointing to see her go against monogamous relationships.
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We really need to fix the thing where sanction means both "allow" and "punish"
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Philoktetes posted...

but that fact that the people it's making fun of are so angry about it prove it's a good meme

Everyone is calling this shit insanely stupid, which is how you know it's good!
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