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Probably spent it all on cable TV ads, where their audience ain't at.

Or just blow and hookers.

I posted a pretty well-reasoned review on the subject. I don't think Skill Up is being deceptive or anything. There are good things in the game, but there's also soooo many bad decisions made in the process.

"Oh, and corporations. Corporations are human, after all!"

That's not an ad. That's just some cosplayer showing off her muff.

Nerd blackface.

Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

It's a MASSIVE oversaturation of everything in the gaming industry. Plenty of people play games, but there are far too much product for the consumer to buy. Or, there's far too little of good products that generate any sort of money to the development teams. 99% of all game projects either die on the vine or don't make any money at launch.

The same logic goes for music, art, Hollywood, writing, books, pretty much any sort of creative role.

If you're still getting an education, don't go into the gaming industry. Don't be a musician. Don't be an artist. Don't be a writer. Don't be a Twitch streamer or YouTuber.

If you do it as a hobby, and it happens to work out, so be it. Or, if you're just doing it because you enjoy it in your spare time, that's fine, too. But, if it's your goal as the primary means to make money, don't be disappointed when it doesn't work out. You can't reliably work in oversaturated industries.

If you're trying to be a programmer and don't find a job in the gaming industry, go find some other development job that is in a more mundane industry. There's plenty of companies that better respect their employees than the fucking gaming industry.

But, but, they supported that one bill...

buy a strap on

Hot Topic is edgy, but not that edgy.

There are far too many local to mid-size banks that have a shocking lack of security. Logins without HTTPS, banks using ancient transfer protocols, web sites that can recover your full password in plaintext.

My old mortgage company had a bug where if you hit the Login button twice, it would redirect to a GET request with my password on the query string. Good thing I was re-financing away to some other company that actually gave a shit.

Even with all of the security standards out there, like PCI, NIST 800-53, SOX, FedRAMP, etc., there is not enough enforcement to punish these fucking lazy assholes from leaking data like this. Even in the larger sectors, it's just a constant pattern of buying out more shitty banks with different platforms and policies, until you have this mess of mismatched everything that can't be unified into sane standards.

Mergers.

Comcast Gets A Wrist Slap ~~For Using Dumb And Misleading ’10G’ Marketing To Confuse Customers~~