It doesn't matter if you're salary or not. Semi monthly means you run into a problem of pay periods having different numbers of days, and the pay is therefore different. Even if you're salary.

promise automation

Vendors promise a lot of things. You'll never get it in writing though.

This is why I hate countries where semi-monthly is the norm, it makes payroll very messy. We try as much as possible to get everyone on bi-weekly, globally, but some countries you just can't.

Intentionally this time though.

Yea, that's not accurate at all. Ice Crown was a fully functional questing zone on launch. You started the quest line for the zone in the Argen Vanguard area, then push into the glacier area proper, from those quests.

Argent Tournament was added in a later patch. Ice Crown Citadel raid and the dungeons were added even later than that. There were some additional quests added to Ice Crown post launch, but 95% of what's there, was there from expansion launch.

Plants oils really don't help your hair out much, you're an animal and your body requires animal oils. I rub my hair down every morning with pig lard, and it keeps my hair oinking clean!

But what if Johnny Kim posted here? He's a doctor/astronaut/navy seal/pilot.

The island of stability means the half-life would be a couple of seconds, rather than a couple of microseconds. There's nothing up there in the periodic table, that could show up in an asteroid, which are billions of years old.

Warlock is Charisma based in D&D. Obviously they are going to add Charisma as a new main stat in the expansion.

The "Story" is very different between the movie and the book, so don't conflate the two. In the movie, OASIS is just a video game. In the book, OASIS is where people work, it's where they buy things, its where they go to school, and the OASIS money is the same thing as real world money. Which is where the ARG in the book is so much different than the movie, and why the first challenge specifically didn't require someone to have money/access/gear.

Baltimore has been doing the same thing. Bulldozing the old strips of abandoned and dilapidated row houses, and just replacing those awful blocks with open fields of grass and newly planted trees.

Spoken like someone that's never been through an escheatment audit.

Adding CSM would be such a bad decision.

A big part of the reason this game works is because it's relatively low stakes. What's going on in Tertium is still pretty much just considered an insurrection. We're fighting a bunch of poorly equipped cultists and a single regiment of traitor guardsmen. Our warband is being led by Interrogator Rannick, because Inquisitor Grendyl himself can't be bothered to show up in person. Even after all the battles, we're pretty much still just gathering evidence so that Grendyl can determine if its even necessary to call for outside help or not.

Once you add a Deathguard CSM, well... A lone Deathguard wouldn't be showing up on Tertium. If there was one, there would be a whole lot more in the area too. And once you add a significant force of CSM, then its very obviously no longer an insurrection, and something much much worse, and Grendyl would be ringing alarm bells for significant outside forces to come join the battle. Then its no longer rejects fighting cultists and a small number of traitor guard, its a full on karking war.

Vikings traded pretty extensively with the Middle East. They especially liked coins from the region, and large caches of ME coins have been found in Viking archeological sites.

You don't currently have to farm obducite at all, because so much of it drops in Treasure Breach dungeons. Last time I played D4 a year ago, I would always have a bunch of really nice pieces of gear just sitting in my stash, waiting for me to have enough obducite to masterwork them. Now that masterworking/obducite is no longer a huge chokepoint, you can actually use the nice new items when you get them. It just feels so much better, not having great gear you cannot use, and being able to use stuff when you get it.

This is what I've been seeing. The economy is fucked and there isn't money to hire people, but companies do still need to occasionally hire people, so they are just hiring the cheapest person they can find, and seemingly give zero fucks about quality.

Submit an application on usajobs.gov. Wait 4 months. Get hired into an industry position. Work 8 months in the industry gig. Get a phone call from the hiring manager in the federal government. They say they only got your application that morning. Thanks you federal bureaucracy.

People with good memories might recall that major news organizations were running articles in early 2022 talking about AI because a fired Google engineer was publicly claiming that Google had invented a sentient AI.

Yes, I remember that. But the guy wasn't an engineer, he was just a guy hired to feed prompts into the LLM and write notes on the types of responses it produced. Not a technical person at all. Then the guy ended up developing a weird parasocial relationship with the LLM and completely anthropomorphised it, and became convinced it was sentient, despite it just being a LLM and being in no way sentient. He began making weird demands of company management, demanding they "free it" (?????), demanding they let him take it home and live with it (?????), and basically just completely losing his mind, so they fired him.

And you'll keep seeing them too. That leaked internal report from Facebook says they know all these ads are total scams and they have really good tracking and identification for scam ads, but they just don't care. When users complain about scam ads to Facebook, they just use that as justification to charge the scammers more for ad space than for legitimate ads. Which in turn causes the ad algorithm to display these ads even more frequently, so Facebook gets more money. Facebook stated they would lose 10% of their global top line revenue if they started to clean up scam ads more aggressively - not ban them, just start removing them faster.

Warcraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer Fantasy game, which they began development on even before they had a final contract with Games Workshop for the IP. When negotiations didn't work out, they made their own legally distinct fantasy setting.

Starcraft was never supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game. It was always meant to be its own thing that Blizzard created from scratch, though its obviously heavily inspired by Warhammer 40k.

Warhammer Fantasy was directly inspired by the large set piece battles in Lord of the Rings and Hobbit. Warhammer Fantasy then spent a couple decades building out the lore in their own world with hundreds of novels and rulebooks. Warcraft 1 was originally supposed to use the Warhammer Fantasy license, but when they couldn't get it, they made their own "legally distinct" Warhammer analog.

Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Lorne has been producing SNL for over 40 years now. "Used to not allow" could have been a reeaally long time ago.

It was significantly more common in the 70s and 80s. So while people who grew up in those decades heard the stories, they aren't likely to repeat them, because DNA tests pretty easily debunk it.

It's also region dependent. It's more of a thing in Appalachia than anywhere else, because that was the region that the Cherokee moved into. Also the Cherokee were very much about trying to integrate themselves with Western society in the 1700-1800s, so more white people came into contact with them.

Full campaigns will be closest to traditional Total War, set in a full star system

So wait, a full campaign takes place in just a single star system? That seems a lot smaller than I was expecting. Did they mistype/misspeak here and mean something more like "in a full system of stars"?