RIP Defect 😭

Factorio has seen tons of bugs in its development. It just so happens that the developers are some of the most effective bug squashers in the world of software development.

Agree on both points

Kerbal “mod spaghetti” program

The knuckles/rogue levels were a cool concept but the execution was flawed. I enjoyed them for the most part.

Was gonna say, I didn’t see any of the three chao boxes on that level, though they didn’t go out of their way to get them since that wasn’t the point of the demo.

But the Chao garden is the reason I occasionally revisit this game.

There’s a nice whiskey in my cabinet I haven’t had occasion to pop open for a while…

Yeah, not my job to educate you dude.

Wow. Pretty problematic.

Europa Universalis 4, and it’s not really a close margin. 1445 hr mark is when you’ve finally completed the tutorial and can start the real game.

Can they disable their steam forums if they don’t want to moderate them?

I really like that there was a whole thing about building a super-weapon where players had to complete quests or whatever to contribute to its development. Then enough players compete the quest and the weapon was completed, and it turned out to be an orbital bombardment that killed enemies and players indiscriminately.

A lot of players were pissed but it’s so aggressively in-character I can’t imagine how they didn’t see it coming.

Fresh college grads hate this advice but it’s really key to managing a long term career.

“Panama isn’t about a city, it’s the stage name of a stripper from Albuquerque!”

• David Lee Roth

I think people really overestimate how much everybody knows about the US.

I’d say there’s a large population that only know NYC, LA, and Chicago.

Site the more correct wording would be “neither the customer nor the company are taxed on the donation”. Assuming the customer itemizes their taxes, which a you’ve pointed out is rare.

I’m trying to speak at the level of people who post stuff like the OP. Some of the details don’t shake out correctly but I’m not trying to get in the weeds of US tax code here if the main point holds up.

What you were told isn’t true. Both you and the company are able to write it off.

Most Americans aren’t donating enough for it to affect their taxes, though.

Ah, this again.

The mega corporation did not receive any tax benefit from collecting donations. They are able to write off the amount of donations from their income, so that they aren’t paying tax on the money they collected specifically to be donated.

1. Company collects $1 donation from customer
2. Company has $1 extra income
3. Company donates $1 to charity
4. Company writes that dollar off of their income.
5. Company reports the exact same profit/loss as if they had not collected donations.

You could also like…sit down at the subway and eat your sandwich.

A sub is a pretty difficult driving meal though, if you have any care for the cleanliness of your car. Lots of ingredients threatening to spill out of the bread at any moment.

Don’t underestimate Colorado. Though it’s largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it’s the long-term Texans.