Don’t worry; it’s bankrolled by Stake, an infamous online casino

Also makes it easy as someone who doesn’t speak much (really any) Japanese to know what I’ll be getting if they don’t have an English menu, or I’m unfamiliar with the dish

Japan has the peak method of restaurant dish advertising for restaurants: Sanpuru

Wasn’t this almost a thing? Didn’t Mike Myers record almost all his lines with an Aussie accent before the last minute change? Or am I misremembering?

That’s federal government wide. As I heard it, the cap is that only 40% of the entire federal workforce can receive a 5 in any category on performance evals. Luckily for me, my worksite just got a 14.5% special rate table approved 6ish months ago, so the 0% raise will still hurt, but not as bad as it will for everyone else.

I mean, the real answer to your problem is not to engage; not to feed the trolls. They get more reactions because they don’t care about what’s being said, just that they can bait you into replying. In this case, the best comeback is silence.

Yeah exactly FromSoft is turning out bangers, and somehow Activision is involved? Maybe just to the extent that they aren’t involved so can’t fuck anything up?

The games you mentioned ring in my head as mid-2000s highlights, with nothing more than blatant money grabs published in the last decade. Not very indicative of a healthy studio imo. They may have once been capable of turning out good games, but that was roughly in the era 343 was turning out good games too good Halo games were being released as well

Activision in charge of Halo? That’s a deathblow if ever I heard one.

As long as this is opt-in (i.e. disabled by default), then sure. Otherwise, I’ll just have to find a new browser.

Sounds like a huge win to me!

I mean, while she absolutely does not look great, this is also the expected condition for a ship that’s been at sea for 200+ days without even a port call. Saltwater is hell on metal, and paint can only do so much for so long.