A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.

Everyone loves a library!

But if you start doing that, where will it end‽ You must be a bad person for doing this. No true Lemmy user would do it. Most people don’t do this, it must be wrong. Has anyone asked what the admins think?

Would that be your classic ‘meant to lose’ fight, usually against the big bad, which is technically winnable but the vast majority of players will lose and progress the story as planned? The example that comes to mind is Ghost of Tsushima, but it crops up in plenty of games.

Problem is, if they could feel shame they wouldn’t be asshole grifters.

Now Dennis, I’ve heard that speed has something to do with it.

Both things could be true.

Unfortunately, the ‘firing’ is usually a golden handshake and jumping straight into heading another company to run that into the ground too. After multiple rounds of layoffs of course.

Absolutely, and I think jumping on people for making honest mistakes doesn’t help anyone, as with most things it’s the intention that’s key. In this particular case though, I don’t think there was too much ambiguity, and she/her seems to me like the safer bet.

My understanding, and I’m by no means an expert, is that they/them would be used for an unknown gender, or for someone that has chosen those as their preferred pronouns. But in this case, the article and discussion is about a woman, so I think she/her would be the preferred choice.

I dunno, still seems like misgendering someone, just with a different reason for doing so.

The article uses she/her pronouns, which seems a reasonable choice. Any particular reason you’ve gone with they/them?

If I had to hazard a guess, I reckon they’ll have done more than one story on this.

As Yahtzee has suggested, people aren’t nostalgic for old games, but for how they felt playing old games. Much harder to capture that, and beautiful pixel art alone isn’t enough.

Same, but it does mean ‘around’ or ‘approximately’, so would still work in this context.

Circa?

“Anonymously” at an “auction” was the intended implication, I believe. Where in actuality someone is just paid a lot of money in a manner that is harder to trace, and has an air of plausible deniability.

Go fash, lose cash.

These two were my first thought! I’ll add that both cover a range of topics, Jenny does do a lot of videos around Star Wars, but also covers obscure films, and theme parks, wherenl HBomber runs the gamut from flat earth to vaccines to video games to plagiarism. Both are incredibly well researched and, in my opinion, offer very fair takes on the subject matter.

Upvote and another shout out for OSW. They initially went through old school WWF, have now covered older and newer stuff from TNA and AEW, as well as film reviews and some video game deep dives. They do have quite a few running jokes at this point, but not so much that it would alienate new viewers.

What are you talking about Shelbyville, why would we want to marry our cousins?