SuperBiasedMan

Doug digs Dig Dug, Doug don't dig Doug Dig.

Sounds cool! I have an awful memory, could you repost or post in the Plug Your Shit thread when you have it on iTunes?

You might have already listened but Revolutions by Mike Duncan is great. I felt it did a good job of keeping me up to speed with what was going on and since its a series about revolutions it doesn't become a long epic podcast, there's basically chunks about different countries and their different revolutions. It's easier to consume a 20+ episode run about just the English revolution than it is to consume over a hundred episodes on all of roman history.

Only now does it occur to me that I've been saying it the American way the whole time.

One issue here is clyde is talking from a very authoritarian approach that most people here don't seem to align with. ie. The government should determine what is best for people and spend the money for them accordingly. You may believe in an authoritarian government, and I do in certain ways but not in terms of budgeting and spending like this. To an extent a system will always fail individuals because a system cannot account for the full range of situations. Some people just eat less food than others, why would they all need the same amount of food stamps? Obviously the government can't fully assess how much food individuals need, but this illustrates a failing of assuming you can decide things for other people like this. You have the idea that people will spend on luxury, but it's neither based on anything other than your general feeling nor is it actually going to be true of every individual a mincome would affect. (I also think you overestimate how much a mincome is, I would imagine it would just about cover cost of living, it would hardly overshoot it by much at all)

Mincome can still retain the capitalist ideas though because it's not about everyone having the same thing, it's about everyone being guaranteed to have the same baseline. You can earn above that if your work is valued economically. You just might earn less than before due to increased taxes.

(just from here: http://www.stellariswiki.com/Stellaris) But I think I heard on Giant Bomb Presents that it's now just some time this year.

Sorry. (congrats on your Oscar win btw)

Oh I thought that was where we were meant to send our suggestions for the game.

Just play a Nuzlocke challenge.

folks this is the wrong thread for meta jokes

That is too fancy for us folk here. I also have late peppers to post. I stuffed and ate them on Tuesday but have been slow to get the photos off my phone. They were real good. The peppers and the stuffing were great. The stuffing was basically quinoa, onion and tomato. Based on this recipe. Though to be honest it would've been perfectly nice as roasted peppers with the stuffing separate. I may have done it wrong, or maybe the stuffedness here is less worthwhile. Definitely a fun one though, probably going to try another recipe when I can get some vegan pesto. It was the recipe I was originally planning to use until I realised I lacked any kind of hand mixer to make my pesto. Now to ponder what pizza to make...

Dexter? It had a real good intro. And I like Bojack's too. Bojack is a good show. I wasn't into it at the start but I enjoyed it more when I wasn't thinking of it as a comedy, just a show that has some jokes.

ugh I hate soiler culture

The zero hours contracts are flexible and worker friendly in theory but in reality employers hold more power and can dictate when they want people to work rather than the other way around. I've had friends technically employed but getting no work for weeks because their employer wanted to be able to call on them if they needed to. As with most things, the issue is not that it can't work but that there isn't sufficient regulation to make it work fairly.

Great write up on the relationship by Holly Green.

In this case it's more of an issue that these kinds of workers are already overworked and underpaid, so removing an avenue to make fairer prices is an unethical business practice that ought to not be supported.

Correct me if I'm wrong but independent contractors (which most of these companies use) are not subject to minimum wage laws because they're paid on a per work basis rather than by time.

That was really interesting but he seemed to totally just see Henry's wife as a lingering obligation that was not part of his primary story at all. What a weird read on the game.

This seems pretty on par for startups in the 'sharing economy' from what I've heard.

I think the sentence is totally unspecific but the actual discussion of the Witness is about how it's a very difficult puzzle game where the entire experience is a racing learning process. It sounds like the pleasure largely comes from the satisfaction of a job well done, rather than any other reward, and that the Witness doesn't have a smooth gamified difficulty curve that eases you into it. To me this does sound like the Witness is comparable to just learning any other skill. (difficult, not a smooth experience, and rewards are mostly about accomplishing the thing itself). By contrast I'd challenge your examples. TF2 and Mario are very fun games without having to learn difficult intricacies. I've played over a thousand hours of TF2 and don't know how to rocket jump, but I still enjoy it a lot. TF2 is just a smoother difficulty curve that rewards me all along the way, it's not demanding much out of me.

Justice.

Obvious question maybe, but what's the traffic on those routes like?

About Ned's alarmed backpack. I had assumed that it was not at all intentional. It seemed like he hid his backpack somewhere out of the way, and had it alarmed so that if someone tried to take it he'd hear (the fact that he left the key hanging on the side seems a poor choice on his part). The alarm was trackable probably because Ned was repurposing other devices to make his equipment, so he didn't know about the tracker that would lead Henry right to it. That makes total sense! I think I was partly just misled by the weird connection I made to the Last of Us.