That’s pretty much every arts industry though. The theater and film industries also have a bad habit of chewing up new workers, under the guise of “working on a passion project”. And it doesn’t matter how many people they chew through; There will always be a new graduating class full of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed graduates to abuse.
Hell, look at the video game industry. The entire industry is designed around underpaying creatives, forcing them to work unreasonable 60-80 hour weeks because of unreasonable launch dates set by marketing departments, and then abandoning the workers as soon as the game is complete. All because the creatives are passionate about what they’re creating, and capitalism has learned that it can abuse that passion. Hell, early Japanese video games even refused to put the employees in the game credits, because the publishing companies didn’t think the people who designed the games were important enough to mention.
Creative workers will tolerate a lot just so they can say they worked on a project.
Unfortunately, company scrip is legal as long as they’re still paying at least minimum wage in USD. Like they can pay you $7.25 per hour (federal minimum wage, assuming your state doesn’t have a higher minimum wage) plus $92.25 per hour in company scrip. And they could claim that your wage is $100 per hour, because of the company scrip. It’s scummy, but technically legal.
Because at the time, minimum wage was actually intended to cover the cost of living (housing, utilities, food, and a single car) for a family of three. So as long as they were at least paying the minimum wage to cover your basic essentials, the scrip was legal. Nowadays, minimum wage has deflated to the point that it doesn’t even support one person. So the spirit of the FLSA’s company scrip section hasn’t been honored, as minimum wage has deflated.
Ohio is a single party consent state, so as long as at least one person in a conversation consents to being recorded, it is legal to record the conversation. And you can count as that single party. So as long as you participate in the conversation, you can record it without telling any other participants.
Just quietly set your phone to record a voice memo, and keep it nearby.
Also worth noting that even just keeping a notebook with the date, time, and conversation details will be sufficient. That is admissible as evidence, and in a he-said-she-said scenario (which this would turn into, with you saying the employer denied your raise because of this and the employer saying it was for something different), the side with the notes will win 99% of the time.
Like go buy a cheap pocket notebook, and fill it in with as many details as you remember. Dates, times, specific instances of the company/management saying they’ll use the app to determine promotions, which specific manager said it, etc… Then just update the notebook every time it comes up again.
Yeah, Horizon’s big issue is that it only rewarded exploration with materials. The only reason to actually explore was to gather more crafting materials. Which is fine in a game like Minecraft or Terraria, where the game is heavily focused on crafting… Materials unlock new things to craft. But HZD isn’t heavily focused on crafting; You simply need to find increasingly obscure parts to be able to make stronger end-game weapons, which largely do the exact same thing as your current weapons, but slightly better. And once you have the better weapon, there’s no reason to continue gathering those materials. Which means there’s no reason to continue exploring.
There were only a few quests which could actually be discovered through exploration… And even those were just short fetch quests, kill quests, or were close enough to the main story’s locations that you reasonably would have stumbled across them during normal gameplay anyways.
The issue with HZD is that virtually all of your exploration-related unlockables happen via the main story. It means you can unlock every single new shiny exploration aid without actually exploring.
Yeah, that’s largely due to hardware manufacturers’ and ISPs’ marketing teams wanting to show bigger numbers. “1 Gbps” sounds a lot cooler than “0.125 GBps”. But file sizes are almost always measured in bytes, not bits. And the difference between Gb and GB is subtle, at best. So a layman will easily assume that 1Gbps will transfer a 1GB file in 1 second.
And don’t even get me started on the difference between GB and fucking GiB…
Yeah, Chao Garden 2 Battle had some really amazing minigames. One of the best was the ability to play as Sonic or Shadow, and experience an entire plotline. Lots of players missed it almost entirely, because they were just too wrapped up in the main Chao Garden game to bother with the Light/Dark story stuff.
In a scenario where things are so bad that the US has halted all financial electronic transactions than your electronic dollars don’t mean anything no matter where you are, amd your paper dollars mean almost nothing either.
This is honestly the biggest takeaway. If the US actually stops cooperating with foreign banks, the dollar will instantly become worthless; The dollar only holds international worth because other countries want to have and hold dollars. If those other countries are unable to do so, there is no incentive for them to accept dollars as valid currency.
This may be easier to do on your home network’s router. For instance, mine allows me to set it up as a VPN host, and also to connect to a VPN provider. It has the option to pass all of the connected clients through the connected VPN. So for instance, if I connect my phone to my home VPN, and my home router is connected to Mullvad, my phone’s traffic also gets passed through Mullvad.
I suppose that depends on how you define it, because they’re definitely tangentially related. I started my career in theater, running lights and audio for live events. Now I sell audio equipment, which I got familiar with by working in theater. I still occasionally run shows too, (when I have the time), because it’s what I enjoy doing. But the sales side of things is where the money is, so that’s where I landed in the course of my career. The vast majority of my clients are theaters, and if someone asked I’d confidently say that I work in theater.