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Just let him work 90 hours at the average pay of his lower employees.

After L&T 90 hours work week debate, Crunch Fitness CEO says ‘no work-life balance’, employees must sacrifice | Company Business News search.app/vsfRk2xGHdub...
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January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Her Interactive is running out of money it seems. They raised the prices of Nancy Drew games and then put them on sale. No wonder they aren't on GOG, it would show their scummy practice.
December 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Unsure how I feel about this change. I liked getting new zones, but I also would like the old zones to get some additions.
December 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
The GTA filter makes the people around him look less like boot lickers.
December 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
That CEO should probably be thinking about recent events if I were him...

www.wsmv.com/2024/12/16/m...
Manufacturing plant to furlough 80% of its TN workforce
Twenty-five percent of the workforce was permanently laid off as of Dec. 15.
www.wsmv.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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461 employees at ZeniMax Online Studios have unionized
461 employees at ZeniMax Online Studios have unionized
Another union has formed within Microsoft in a bid to 'create protections against layoffs and workplace exploitation.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:52 PM
-- “In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,” Shapiro said during a news conference Monday night following Mangione’s court appearance. --

We don't? So we follow rules within the country, just not outside of it...
December 10, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Wonder why these people are getting scared.... they should have nothing to fear since they haven't done anything wrong to exploit or murder the common people, right?

www.cnbc.com/2024/12/06/u...
UnitedHealthcare CEO killing spurs Centene to hold virtual meeting and insurers to pull exec photos
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on his way to an investor meeting by a masked gunman on a New York City street.
www.cnbc.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Corrupt officials.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Man who uses drones to help hunters recover deer carcasses to appeal conviction
A Pennsylvania man who uses drones to try to locate wounded deer shot by hunters so they can retrieve their carcasses has been convicted of violating state hunting laws
abcnews.go.com
February 24, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Republicans are so worried about gay marriages and cold beer, while taxing hybrid car owners an extra fee because they don't pay enough of the gas tax.

thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
Tennessee governor signs bill allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill Wednesday allowing public officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. State lawmakers approved Tennessee House Bill 878 last week. The legislation s…
thehill.com
February 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
No, Rust did not switch engines. Mentioned that the next game will most likely not be in Unity, though this is subject to change.

www.jackcentral.org/opinion/the-...
The fall of Unity software
OPINION: Unity Software’s decision to replace an annual fee with a fee that will cost popular developers has caused the once-beloved software company to lose many of its users and
www.jackcentral.org
February 21, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Keep the 2nd strong.

www.wbez.org/stories/illi...
After Illinois banned assault weapons, rural gun owners registered very few of them
A new law allowed gun owners to keep assault weapons if they disclosed them. Illinois county registration rates ranged from 0.5% to 1.8%.
www.wbez.org
February 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Just a year older and I feel the same way. Not enough time to play online games, so I mostly stick to ESO and BF2042 as my online games. The rest are singleplayer/singleplayer-coop games. Those are also the only types of games I'm interested in building too

www.thegamer.com/rust-too-old...
Rust Made Me Realise I'm Getting Too Old For Survival Games
I don't have the time to protect my base anymore.
www.thegamer.com
February 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
How elitist of him...

fortune.com/2024/02/09/m...
Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’
Minneapolis’s empty downtown has struggled due to the continuation of remote work.
fortune.com
February 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Wasn't sure if it should be 5,000 or 10,000 so left it at 10,000.

www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecia...
www.nexusmods.com
February 8, 2024 at 2:18 AM
What happens when gamers are replaced by AI and we all work mindless factory jobs?

80.lv/articles/ai-...
AI Learns to Play Games by Studying YouTube Videos
Google DeepMind's researchers revealed a new paper that discusses a surprising method of training artificial intelligence to play games.
80.lv
February 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM
When capitalists control the laws.

gizmodo.com/how-nintendo...
Nintendo Turned Gary Bowser Into a Real-Life Villain
The Canadian programmer will spend the rest of his life paying Nintendo over $14 million after the company made an example out of him for modding its consoles.
gizmodo.com
February 3, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Plenty of reasons to be negative.

www.businessinsider.com/poll-data-yo...
Less than half of young American adults view the US military positively, new poll finds amid recruit...
Americans ages 18 to 29 have expressed more negative views of the military than positive. It's a potential problem amid recruitment struggles.
www.businessinsider.com
February 3, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Palworld looks cool.
February 2, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Make less than 40k, pay 5k in taxes, get nothing in return... but the millionaries and billionaires pay their way out of taxes and use loopholes not accessible to the working class.
January 31, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Originally created the RPG Editor Extension (Unity asset) with Skyrim's Creation Kit in mind. Started working on it a few months ago and already implemented several new features:

Inventory
Crafting
Race Editor
Item/Weapon/Armor Creation
Basic Melee Combat Controller
January 28, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Shame that a lot of management and executives get to stay, while the working people get cut and their comrades are forced to work harder under more crunches

kotaku.com/game-industr...
25 Days Into 2024 And 5,900+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced
Microsoft recently announced 1,900 layoffs across Xbox, Activision, Blizzard, and ZeniMax
kotaku.com
January 25, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Tennessee needs at least $8.00 minimum wage. #TN
January 4, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Watch as the CEO makes more money than ever this year.

nypost.com/2024/01/02/b...
Big Macs could cost $15 thanks to minimum wage hikes: analyst
The executive vice president of National Taxpayers Union warned that increases in minimum wage could have an adverse impact on consumers.
nypost.com
January 2, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Some actual good news!

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ub...
Uber-wealthy couple makes unprecedented move with $300 million land: ‘To protect nature from being...
"Landscape without wildlife is just scenery."
www.yahoo.com
January 2, 2024 at 6:44 PM