Not really laws, at least in the US. So long as they don’t claim it’s made of things it isn’t, they can say “well the packaging clearly states it’s not real, actual leather”.

Robert Pickton, is that you?

My dad actually got involved in something like this. He got rejected from a job after a background check company confused HIM (a 59-year-old white guy) with another guy (a black 32-year-old man) who happened to share the same name, in the same city, and provided the contracting company with information that stated my father was wanted for felony larceny. I think we wound up getting something like $700 from a small class-action against the background check provider, and it got settled out of court because someone blew it up with the local news.

I was about to say, this sounds like a classic tax dodge. Start developing a ton of games, drop 8 of them come next year to make the charts look nicer for the shareholders, maybe release 1 game 3 years down the line.

Legion, the answer to your question? It’s yes.

I mean, yes, but at the same time, the grocery stores can exert pressure on the food suppliers by saying “we aren’t going to buy food that isn’t sourced sustainably and responsibly,” the same way Spotify can exert pressure on labels with unfair contracts by saying “we want to make sure everyone gets paid fairly for their music getting paid”

And in other news, the Leopards Eating Faces Party continues to eat faces, confusing Leopards Eating Faces voters…

Generally speaking, plane crashes are like train crashes. Either most everyone survives, or most everyone dies pretty quickly, with very little in between.

Aw man, I love Golf Story. Such a fun little game, and way more accessible than a lot of other golf games.

Destiny? Assuming I’m in the Last City, things MIGHT be OK. If I’m not, assuming the season is the current timeline, there’s a short amount of time before the Shadow Legion captures me, some hangers-on from House Dusk kill me, the Red Legion (what’s left of it) kills me, or the Witness ends reality as we know it.

I mean, I get it from one angle - Gollum is one of the longest lived characters in LOTR. The issue is that even being 500 years old, he doesn’t really witness or interact with it all that much. Someone like Galadriel or Aragorn or Gandalf would be far more interesting.

The issue is that they went to great lengths to cover up how many animals died in their testing, had no plans for long-term care after the testing that anyone can find or produce, and generally acted flagrantly against most every guideline of ethical animal testing in the civilized world.

They were supposed to have a whole series IIRC, but the contract got cancelled because the initial offering didn’t sell very well. It didn’t help that the marketing didn’t really know how they wanted to talk about the game.

Musk has since come out and all but stated Hyperloop was specifically funded and hyped ONLY to kill mass transit initiatives in the area. It was a total vaporware project, they never intended to solve anything.

I thought they were busy going after people for decade-old ROM hacks.

Shit, if I missed my rent by a day, my old landlord would have an eviction notice on my door by 6AM the next morning.

He was also CEO of EA when a private equity firm (that he founded and sat on the board of) bought Bioware and then sold it to EA.

Yeah, I’d accept this if it were a DS game. Not on major consoles in 2023.

And it came together with new rapid prototyping technologies for vaccines, and far better computer modeling than anything anyone has ever had before. Like, there were a bunch of technologies that just happened to be coming into maturity at almost the same time, and between those technologies and the combined powers of most of the major vaccine labs on the face of the planet, and the near-infinite money to tie all of that in a nice package, a vaccine was developed in 10 months

It’s really a story of humanity actually pulling their shit together and deciding to throw all their chips in a pile, as it were.

Yeah, it helps when you have a mind-boggling amount of computers across the world crunching your data.