If you want some fun, upload a file into a Teams directory and then grab and look at the link to the file. It still has a reference to skype variables, as in literally the word skype.
I'm having lots of "fun" right now playing with Microsoft's Teams APIs for embedding their calls into a webpage. My company chose to go w/ them for our telehealth services.
It was a really good joke though. Hell, I had a boss force me to use it when it was brand new and literally lost 3 weeks of documentation on a major project b/c of issues with content syncing while he was trying to make updates on a flight.
Even if Newson was recalled I didn't expect Elder to win. He's too dogmatic and uncompromising in his presentation of his ideals. He's 100% right, but he comes across as an angry dad which pretty much guarantees the California crowd would reject him.
I think the initial worry that Democrats would flood states and change the voting climate was legitimate. Shit, leftists were gloating about turning Texas blue last year.
Recent data seems to indicate it's mostly conservatives who've left Cali instead, but that doesn't mean the locusts won't come in the future.
I mean, it depends on the type of immigrant. I was born an American citizen but my early childhood was in a third-word country. I got to experience a healthy portion of the immigrant experience. I've also worked in software development, managing large and small teams around the world and would happily bring in many of those people. Shoot, from a purely strategic view, the practice of brain drain from around the world helps to keep the US strong and weaken other countries.
What you should be fighting against is large-scale immigration of unskilled workers. The main purpose of importing that labor force is to keep the prices for unskilled or low-skilled labor low. In recent decades Democrats have also adopted a secondary purpose of building dependency-classes for a permanent voter base, but that aspect can be combatted.
Generally speaking, that works best at a younger age for males. I used to be a huge smart-ass and didn't know how to judge the line between hurtful and funny. A friend fixed that for me by literally smacking me upside the back of the head whenever I went too far.
I work in healthcare and asked my CMO about our response today, especially since last year the mostly black nurses at one of our primary locations refused to get vaccines. Basically we're going to wait and see, since we can't really survive nurses quitting en masse but we also can't survive having Medicare payments withheld.
This is where the real battle will be fought, since if you aren't taking federal dollars or dependent on subsidies you can tell the Feds to fuck off. Biden's lever to pull is through denial of money and abuse of power through IRS investigations and similar tactics. The real hope here is that multiple Democrats are being told their districts will flip to Republicans in 2022 by various unions if this mandate is actually enforced.
So Paizo releases two related but distinct products. The core rules for their game systems and then the lore & adventures set in their Golarion setting.
I think Paizo did a decent job with Pathfinder 1st Edition, considering the starting point and their design considerations. With PF2e they've managed to iterate on and experiment with the D&D formula pretty well and it's become my current preferred system.
They've taken some of the good elements 4e had as a purely tactical combat system, updated them and made a system that is fun to run. They've also included a fair amount of character and class customization for a relatively new system. I also appreciate that they've put effort into systems for the non-combat aspects of the hobby, though I think their crafting system is failure and have homebrewed my own alternative. Another core strength of the PF2e system is that such homebrew is actually very easy to implement, as the overall patterns and math for the systems balance are easy to understand.
Now for the second part of their product line, the Golarion setting. The setting is a grab bag of everything imaginable, and while there are obvious woke elements as far back as when the campaign was written for 3.5. A few examples, there's a character in one of the early adventure paths (I think it was Curse of the Crimson Throne) that has a backstory panel calling out she's a lesbian. It had no bearing on the story when my GM ran the campaign, I didn't even learn about it until later.
If you fast forward to modern-day they just release a lore book set in their Africa continent with a goddess that's a pro-BLM statement (literally celebrates burning), and the new adventure path starts you off in Hogwarts set in magical Wakanda. I exaggerate that slightly, but the influences are there. On the other hand, the introduced a new race (called Ancestries b/c of woke language policing) called the Anandi. Based on Anasi legends, these are literally just giant jumping spiders who are really super friendly and don't get why everybody was so terrified of them so they've learned to shapeshift into humanoid forms and communicate telepathically. They just want to be your giant 8-legged buddies.
As a GM, I'm free to ignore all the woke shit. The world they created is literally a kitchen sink approach to world building, EVERYTHING a nerd could want is in there and even includes pulp-style content from the early days of the company that modern leftists would never allow.
To the company's credit as well, all the base rules are 100% free and available online. They maintain a commitment to the Open Game License and are generally friendly to 3rd party content companies. This is a stark contrast with how Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro treat the core D&D property. If you prefer to run games in your own homebrew settings like I do, then the base rule books are quite worth a buy and you can look things over before you decide if you want to give the company your money. I bought the basic 3 books b/c I use their product enough to throw them some money and ignore the lore content as, frankly, my friends and I have created a far more interesting setting for our games.
Well this finally prompted me to ditch the Pathfinder2e forum. The retards over there can keep circle jerking about the latest in woke signaling, I'll keep playing the game but like hell is Paizo getting any money from me in the future.
WC3 at least tried something different, and their core mechanics spawned Dota and eventually an entirely new genre. WoW, as dated as it is now, was quite solid at launch and through its first two expansions as well. You'll note that Blizzard was acquired in the same year Wrath came out and how things gradually went downhill from then.
It's actually pretty important to pay attention to the staff members of games companies, as the critical creative and technical minds behind good games are likely to continue to make good games at different companies. When they leave a company though, it's a coinflip as to the quality of what that company releases later.
It's actually the main thing universities were supposed to teach historically. They haven't done a very good job of it in recent decades unfortunately, though I was lucky to have a program at my Uni focused on classical education.
I actually advocate for shutting off the tap of subsidized food to foreign nations, especially to primitive cultures who don't also adopt modern birth control.
If you want to do something for the people there, help teach them methods of sustainable farming and in dryer climates, help with sustainable water management. Otherwise we just make problems worse for those countries in a couple decades time.