https://store.steampowered.com/app/467810/Splody/

It is a Bomberman rip-off, but very fun. The Steam page claims they can support any number of players, but recommends limiting it to 4-20.

It is a grand jury. That is the practice round for a trial. The prosecutor goes over the evidence and explains what argument they are going to make in court without the defendent or their lawyer present to argue against it. The role of a grand jury is to pump the prosecutor up and say “You got this. I would totally believe you if I was on a real jury.”

The fact that in this case, the grand jury said “That is stupid. You have no argument. Just let the guy walk,” means that either the prosecutor is an incompetent idiot who did not understand what evidence he was presenting or the jury thought that no crime had been committed.

Obviously you should not exclude her. The more people, the better the efficiency.

In (US criminal) law, you need to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt”. If no reasonable person would have a doubt that the killing is political then legally it is proven. The point of the jury is to be a representative sample of reasonable people.

That is why they should not quit on the spot. Start applying for job postings and quit once they have a new offer in hand.

I thought that the US banned flavored vapes. If your home country has not, encourage politicians to ban vapes altogether.

Edit: In retrospect, I should let the vape addicts be.

MySpace (and a lot of early social media) was about keeping up with what was going on in your friends lives, not screaming into the void and being drowned out by brands and influencers (like I am doing now).

And someone needs to hire the lifeguard and manage that budget. That is why that house has to have an HOA.

A magnet school is just a school that will take students from anywhere in the district instead of only students that live nearby. Some require tests to attend, but others do not.

But yes, there are public schools for gifted students that admit purely based on academic merit and exam scores. In theory, a rich student would not be able to buy their way in. In practice, having a tutor who can coach a child on exam specifics is a very large advantage.

There is a community pool so there needs to be someone managing the shared community assets.

You can still have reliable migration without the user the ability to open a save on more than one system. For example:

1. Tell the Nintendo servers that you want to migrate a game.
2. Copy the game save into the migration app save then delete the game save.
3. Migration app sends the game save to the destination system.
4. The destination system checks that the save is fully downloaded and free of corruption. It tells the Nintendo servers that it is ready to finish the migration.
5. Both the source and destination systems watch the Nintendo servers for the next step. Once it gives them permission to complete the migration, the source system can permanently delete the game save while the destination system copies the game save from migration app storage into game storage.
6. If the destination system fails, the Nintendo server can abort the migration and give the source system permission to put the save files back. When the destination system recovers, it will be told by the Nintendo servers that the migration was aborted and to delete any save data it got.

If global banks can transfer millions of dollars from account to account without money being created or destroyed, Nintendo can make sure that only one system is allowed to open up a game save.

I found the relevant Nintendo press release: https://www.pokemon.com/us/news/pokemon-firered-version-and-pokemon-leafgreen-version-link-with-pokemon-home-this-october

I am curious what they mean by Fire Red and Leaf Green getting Pokemon Home integration. I don’t own either game (yet) but I was under the impression that both games could already send Pokemon to Home, but that it was a one way journey. Once a Pokemon was sent to Home, there was no way to get it back to Fire or Leaf.

The news post says that

Once a Pokémon from Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version is brought to another game in the Pokémon series, they will be unable to return to Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version. Pokémon from other games in the Pokémon series will be unable to visit Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version.

So does that imply that I will now be able to move Pokemon from Leaf to Home and back to Leaf? Will I be able to use Home online trades to get Fire/Leaf Pokemon and them bring them into my game?

If that is true, it would resolve my biggest gripe with the Switch version and put the game at the top of my shopping list.

20 year old Pokemon Scarlet save? That game is only a couple years old.

Do you mean that the save file included mons that the player had been moving from game to game for 20 years?

Not that that is an excuse. Nintendo should have expected some amount of migrations to fail and either have the migration retry and/or restore the save on the original system.

The AI running the account has trouble identifying dogs

I assume that Microsoft is trying to appeal to two different groups of shareholders. The first sees Microsoft buying up studios and assumes that the studios will be able to put out better games cheaper (by firing support staff like HR). The second group sees Microsoft cutting low performing workers and assumes that Microsoft will be able to get more profits by cutting lots of cost without losing much income. If they time it right, they can get the second group to start buying just as the first group starts selling.

I don’t see any mistake in Devolver putting out an IPO.

I assume that when the founders started the company, they were not ultra rich and had to take investor money in order to get their first couple games to market. They likely hired people at below market rates in exchange for equity.

Once the company became self sustaining and profitable, those people started asking about how they could turn the promises of equity into actual money. The easiest way was to IPO. Hopefully, the founders sold a bunch of stock when the company was at $250 per share.

Now the stock is at $7.50 per share and the founders can buy back all the stock they sold and all the stock they gave away in leu of payments. If they did it right, they now have complete control of the company and a pile of cash, all at the expense of the investors who bought in at the public offering.

The issue is that the law changed and the couple missed the news. I agree that ignorance of the law is not a legal excuse, but you try to give people some leniency…

I am all for it, though I worry that employers will start treating 10 days as both a minimum and a maximum (for regular employees). I expect that the most American workers gets 10 days or less, so this law is going to be good for them and the CEOs who get 52 weeks off per year are going to keep getting that, but there are high-skilled workers who take 3-4 weeks off per year. Their employer is going to standardize on 2 weeks of per year for everyone from the janitor up to the vice president. If the employee tries looking for a job, many companies will have already switched to the 10 day standard and the rest will either follow suit, calling it “matching industry norms”, or they will use the extra vacation days as golden handcuffs.

I hope not, but I am a pessimist.

This is GTA 6. The game could just be Hello World and it would still be the best selling game ever. They could have started taking preorders earlier and it could have also been the best selling game of last year.

People know how popular the last game was, assume that this one is going to be even more, and feel like they need to be first to play it or they will be left behind. They feel like they need to preorder the game so that it doesn’t sell out, despite the fact that it is a digital download.

I love using my phone speaker. I do not always have headphones in my ears. I know some people can walk around all day with an earbud in their head, but I am not one of them. When I am messing around on my phone and decide I need to watch a video that includes audio, I can just turn up my speaker and listen. At home only, mind you. I would have to be totally devoid of empathy to blast loud audio in public.