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Imagine trying to tell such a company’s recent acquisition that you REALLY need to make sure you don’t give them any financial surprises.

Yep. This is me. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/for...

Former Bungie chief legal officer says the game industry must unionize

Don McGowan, the former Bungie CLO who pursued Destiny 2 cheaters and players that threatened his coworkers, wants developers to fight for their rights.

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Sony Travel is proof that Sony is not and will never be a technology company.

And Xbox before that.

I had scrolled up to the start of the thread, but: I appreciate your worry for the pearls I might clutch.

I don’t know who it is because I never paid attention even when I worked there, but there are canonically trans characters in Destiny.

Any hot sauce that references a toilet or an anus is never worth even trying. Food as dare isn’t my speed.

I have been repeatedly lambasted for my belief that there is an “American” cuisine dominated by hot foods that are just white-hot heat that obliterates any flavor. But you really don’t find that anywhere else.

It’s been a strange path to today, that’s for sure.

I don’t think I said this was a *good* policy or that he made good choices. He was convinced people were deliberately arranging trips to get company-paid vacations.

In the growth phase you need a Swiss Army knife. In your established phase you need a person who knows their lane and likes it there.

Yeah. This guy was one of my proof points that companies get different types of employee at different stages of their life cycle, and they need to get rid of them at certain points. Example: I’m your ideal Chief Legal Officer for your growth phase but not your established phase.

This underlies one of my wine pairing rules: drink wine from the place the food is from. They grew up together.

Because he was convinced that making the trip longer was “stealing from the company”.

Ever since Pepsi lost its entire exec team in a plane crash this has been the received wisdom. I wrote this particular policy for Pokémon. It ran headlong into the travel policy from the guy who ran Ops for a while who set a rule that company-booked flights had to make the trip the shortest duration

The French particularly don’t like heat. As in: I’ve had people apologize for the spice in food that just had black pepper. I think it’s also why their wines are so structured: because they know the food won’t overpower them.

That’s it. It also explains how it is that I was the only exec in the office the day we found out the guys with guns were on their way to Worlds in 2015.

I’ve had people look me in the face and tell me that a non-disparagement agreement prohibits someone from saying facts if those facts present the company negatively. Live your life such that telling the truth about you isn’t able to be considered disparagement, is how I see it.

Especially if you’re in the front of the bus. When I was at Pokémon we had rules about how many of us could be on any plane so for our exec trips to Tokyo I would often go through Seoul and fly Korean, so I had my share of airplane bibimbap.

As I’m known to reply: why am I in a codependent relationship with some random Democratic Party supporting website?

At least Foley thinks it is. No wonder they can’t get clients in the Valley.

When what it actually is, is proof of the economic theories people like the owners of the New York Times claim to support. Of course labor costs went up when millions of working class people died in a 3-year period: they’re dead and so can’t create downward pressure on wages!

Or Smoove B. @bencollins.bsky.social: bring back Smoove B!

Runner up: “I Am Fun” by Hillary Clinton.

Exactly. One of the things about contracts is that they’re only as binding as the other side is willing to make them by using the coercive power of the state or as you make them yourself by restricting your own actions.

I don’t think it’s a criminal offense but it’s definitely a thing for which a lawyer risks losing their license.

Exactly. Companies put all sorts of illegal stuff in contracts. I remember one tech firm telling me they put non-competes in California employment agreements because “the employee might feel obligated” to comply; I remember my response being that their lawyers must not like their law licenses.

Correct. It depends on the case and the issue. The famous “lawyers who would work for free” are usually focused on situations where there’s a potential class action and a quantifiable amount of damages of which they can take a percentage.

Right? The document may say that but no judge outside the Fifth Circuit would ever enforce it. Definitely not in the Ninth.

Thread. The only thing she skips is: if you’re stupid enough to have put money into Tesla you’re getting what you deserve.

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Re: Tesla - when it comes to the comp package, the thing about the institutional shareholder vote is, I think it's very difficult for them to vote differently than they did before.

13 hours ago

Just like Drake. Fraser and Drake are both even from Toronto (I believe Keanu is from Winnipeg).

What makes you think it’s legal in the USA?

They’re both Canadian. Maybe that’s it.

A friend of mine was his roommate in boarding school in the 1980s. Says he’s a very nice guy.

My wife had to explain to me that Mumford and Sons weren’t a parody of those exact same types of band.

Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc @alexandraerin.com

Mumford & Sons implies the existence of Dadchevy & Daughters

19 hours ago

He has made a good living cosplaying as Left so why change?

She trained at the British Museum.

I’m listening.

I also joke about it. Please don’t think I’m upset. I’m super not.

They need to get the medication so Chenoweth’s kid can survive cancer treatment.

CUT LOOSE!!

The movie you’re looking for is My Spy.

Bautista is the puppies guy. Shelter dogs only, like real-life Bautista.

Unless by "it" you mean the real estate. I blame the seller of the real estate. I read your comment as being about the previous shareholders selling to private equity; I never blame the seller for cashing out.

I have been advised that I also forgot John Cena, but the thing is, in a movie you need to be able to see the cast.

John Cena You Cant See Me GIF

Alt: John Cena you can't see me GIF

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We want to cast *against* type here.

Hemsworth.

This montage is now canon.

You’re hired.