And if the franchise has policies against gendering toys?

Maybe the customer identified as male and wanted the toy for themselves?

Good news: It’s not the size of a pop-tart.

Bad News: Cherry cobbler.

No, sorry. I’ve shared enough on Lemmy about my job that naming the place would reveal my identity easily to anyone looking.

The old Mechwarrior games were more like simulators than modern mech games, so were pretty complicated to get into.

And they were very demanding performance-wise.

Anywhere.

There’s scraping data, which should be considered stealing, and then there’s asking people to steal company data as part of an interview process.

This is actual industrial espionage. If true, it could be a big deal.

Yeah, but they also own the $50 frames.

It’s harder for people who go to the optometrist and get their glasses.

The Luxoticca-owned insurance company makes them use the Luxoticca-owned optometrist that sells Luxoticca-owned frames with Luxoticca-owned lenses.

Moat people don’t even know you can ask the optometrist for your prescription so you can go buy frames and lenses from Zenni or Coastal.

They had a bunch of great titles.

Age of Empires, Freelancer, Mechwarrior, and more.

Some of the studios were bought through acquisitions, but they received the backing and support they needed to make great titles in a way that was good for the games, the devs, Microsoft, and the gamers.

Lemming

I’d take a bloated corpse over the bloated turd we have today.

The shitty thing is it’s hard not to give the fuckers money.

Luxoticca owns most eyewear brands, optometrist offices, eyewear retailers, and even a ton of optical insurance providers. They control the frames, lenses, and more.

Oakley used to be independent, but they actually stopped lenscrafters from providing lenses for them and bullied their suppliers until Oakley’s stock dropped enough to buy them out. They’re the reason frames that should cost $15 cost $900.

They’re one of the clearest examples of a monopoly in the world, but we just fucking let it continue.

My city charges between $500 and $2,000 (depending on tree size) per caliper inch of illegally removed trees.

A single tree can cost double this fine.

The thing is - most civil stuff (that’s not mediated or settled) also goes through the real courts.

They’re

There’s a misunderstanding people have about criminal and civil law. With the exception of certain felonies, most people would much rather face the criminal process than the civil. Criminal convictions can make you pay a fine. Civil judgements can take your house, deny you access to your children, or worse.

When the government goes after you civily, it’s even worse. I work in municipal development, and when fighting developers, we begin with criminal courts, and civil courts are the escalation.

That all being said, it should still go through a judicial process, but Congress does allow certain executive agencies to administer certain penalties and judgments without going through the judicial process. And mostbof the time it’s not a big deal. If someone doesn’t pay their taxes, a late fee shouldn’t have to become a judicial process.

But it’s bullshit that immigration courts are administrative. When someone’s freedom can be taken away the judge/jury should not have the same boss as the prosecutor. It’s vile.

Microsoft’s gaming division was pretty respected in the industry for a long time. Lots of people give them (deserved) flack over Kinect for the Cbox One, but what really drove them over the cliff was buying all these studios to make Gamepass more attractive. It was actually a good deal for everyone when it was mostly games that were older, but when they started doing day-1 releases of first party games and buying studios to add to the number of games getting that day-1 release it turned sour.

A bunch of games that early adopters would previously have paid 60 bucks for were suddenly included in theit $7/month subscription, so tons of people who would have been buying 10 games a year were suddenly spending less than a hundred bucks on new Xbox games because enough new stuff was coming to Gamepass they could stay busy, so all these AAA releases that cost $100 to make were losing money.

So they raised the process of gamepass to try and keep up, but didn’t. Then they bought Activision and lost their lunch when Call of Duty sales plummeted because millions of people with Gamepass who had been buying it annually didn’t.

So they increased the price of gamepass so high everyone canceled, removing the only reason many of them were still using Xbox over Playstation, and at the same time the consoles skyrocketed in price.

Now they aren’t including Call of Duty from Gamepass for the first year and taking the price partway down, which was a good start to righting the ship but too late.

Chasing the Netflix model doesn’t work if you do it dumb. Netflix didn’t buy all the other studios to make their original programs. They did make some internal studios, but they mainly partnered with existing studios to make specific programs. Instead of buying Bethesda, they could have partnered with them on specific games, which would have been better for the games, the studio, Microsoft, and Xbox customers. But buying Bethesda was a simpler brute-force solution they employed dozens of times.They became an even dumber Embracer Group. Embracer at least they had a (dumb) plan to sell off the assets. Microsoft bought a bunch of studios with no plan for how to make it profitable.

They’re warrants, but they’re not judicial warrants.

Police are allowed to arrest someone actively committing a crime in public at any time. An warrant can allow specific individuals to be arrested/detained without having probable cause. But a judicial warrant is required to search, detain, arrest, etc in a manner that would otherwise violate civil liberties (e.g. entering private property to enforce the warrant).

An immigration court judge ha as “judge” in their title, but since immigration courts are part of the executive branch their warrants are administrative and not judicial. So they can allow someone on public property to be arrested, but they aren’t supposed to enter homes or businesses without permission from the property owner.

A lot of the habeus cases that the admin has been losing have been based on the improper execution of administrative warrants.

The reason immigration courts with administrative warrants exist is because being in the country illegally isn’t actually a crime, but a civil infraction. The reason for that (other than the obvious idea that existing in a place isn’t a crime) is because if it were a crime they couldn’t be deported. Criminal law seeks punishment and restitution for crimes. That essentially means you can imprison, fine, or execute someone for a crime.

Civil law seeks relief.

We’ll look at 2 lesser examples. Speeding versus building a fence over your property line into the sidewalk. For speeding, there’s no relief to be found. They can’t undo the speeding. So they generally get a fine through criminal court. But for the sidewalk example, simply giving a fine doesn’t fix the problem. Relief would be removing the fence and repairing any damage to the sidewalk, so the city would take the person who built the fence to civil court to get an order for its removal. But a judge won’t give a warrant to arrest a person for having a fence encroaching on public property.

In the case of immigration, relief would be having the person leave the country voluntarily or through a deportation order, and since warrants usually granted for civil cases, the immigration courts are part of the executive branch.

Fuck Komen, but awareness does matter. When you aren’t close to a cure, working towards the cure is important, but prevention and early detection are the most effective tools to fight cancer, and those require awareness.