EnderMB

For those of us that miss the lore and story/atmosphere of this games, absolutely.

Don't get me wrong, Starfield has made me truly worried about the next installment, and I truly believe that milking Skyrim has ultimately left Bethesda in a position where open world gaming just leapfrogged them. The likes of TOTK and Elden Ring have absolutely shattered what they can show to deliver in a supposedly improved generation.

All I can hope is that Bethesda really look at the feedback they received, and take the time to make the necessary changes to their engine. That alone might be enough to at least give a retro feel to the games. I'll still eagerly await them, but my hopes for them being GOTY are long gone.

That's all well and good, but it doesn't answer the primary point. An unelected politician was able to drive change without even being elected as an MP because he had public and media support. Tell me why that isn't possible in the United States, even if it means as a fringe candidate in a primary party?

I've fought this battle so many times.

My most recent battle was being told to implement Scrum and agile practices. When the subject of standup NOT being a status update came up, and I forcibly told people to keep their updates brief, it was changed to a "Sync Meeting" that lasted over an hour. Apparently, despite delivering stuff faster, being able to track velocity and ensure we're not overextending ourselves each "sprint", and actually knowing what we're delivering through actionable tasks - we're not doing agile any more...

Well...except the next installations of Fallout and Elder Scrolls. Let's be honest, that's what Microsoft were really buying, and neither are anywhere near a release.

Why?

Other countries with FPTP have fringe candidates that almost definitely won't win elections, but influence politics considerably.

Arguably, Nigel Farage is the most influential politician in the last decade of the UK for his role in pushing Brexit, all while being in no less than three different political parties. He only recently won election as a MP on his seventh attempt, but media backing and taking disenfranchised votes from idiots basically allowed him to dictate internal policy for both main parties.

That doesn't change the fact that they are entirely different countries with their own unique cultures, customs, and rules.

It has absolutely nothing to do with my point regarding diner culture, and speaks of ignorance on Europe.

That'll probably be what happens if Trump loses. Musk didn't spend "his" money so it's no loss, and many from the Middle East have wanted control of Twitter ever since the Arab Spring.

It might have been a few years ago, but having Amazon on my CV has offered almost nothing. If anything, I get fewer legitimate interview offers than I did before.

Europe is a huge continent, with many countries with entirely different rules/laws/customs, so it's near impossible to say that it's better or worse.

At least the MySpace guy was able to run a fun site, cash out before social media became crazy, and spend the rest of his life having fun with that money.

Trump will lose, and Musk will be holding on to a useless site that serves nothing. He'll probably sell for a fraction of what he paid (not that it was his money in the first place), but by that point it'll be too late. Twitter will be long dead.

Is there a way to rank tech companies on how shitty they are? I'd love some kind of directory of companies and all the cunty things they have done in the last few years - like uncov but for established companies.

That's a shame, and sadly it's all too uncommon. Given Amazon's history with layoffs, and the countless stories of people that moved from NYC to Seattle, only to be laid off days/weeks later, there's no way I'd move for Amazon.

The funny thing is that many people in our Seattle team constantly complain about not being able to park at the office - and that's without everyone at the office and more to come.