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What a crazy article. I had no idea this was even a thing, I just thought it was a faction you could join in Dark Souls.

Oh dang, an entire island? That's awesome, thanks for the info!

Stardew Valley has a movie theater now? I haven't played in years, didn't realize new content had even been added outside of the multiplayer stuff. Might need to start up another playthrough.

I don't understand how this is legal in the US. How is this not a criminal case vs a civil one??

I don't get it. Did the old filter used to censor images containing the word parenthood or something?

The company should be doing more to support these employees, that's the point. Right now, Meta doesn't give a fuck if their employees are getting severely traumatized trying to keep content off their platforms. They don't pay them much, don't offer resources for mental health, etc. A maybe bad analogy would be like a construction company having no heavy machinery safety policies and when those employees get hurt and can't work anymore, just firing them with no worker's comp.

For comparison, hospitals or law enforcement provide therapy and/or other mental health resources for their employees, since those jobs put their employees in potentially traumatic positions with some frequency (e.g. a doctor/nurse witnessing death a lot).

Grim Dawn is fantastic! I can't wait for the new expansion coming in a few months. I also heard they're making a sequal after they finish their town building game which is coming out of EA soon.

Diablo's story is now entirely detached from its gameplay, the protag can see the villains cutscenes due to a plot device, no more clever writing to explain events after, you get rewards not from an NPC but from the menu from completing world events, and somehow there are localised areas of 100s of enemies just waiting for you to start a fight in a random spot on an open field, theres a GPS showing you the way to the next objective

Diablo 2's story is also detached, it's nothing new lol. I'd say Diablo 3 actually had the most protag focused story besides Diablo 1. In D4, all of the cutscenes at least involve main characters you regularly interact with.

Regardless, no one plays those games for the story. They've always been purely about gear grinding and demon/monster butchering. D4 is probably the most polished in the series, except for maybe D3, which was a very streamlined experience, for better or worse. I like all of the Diablo games, but I still think D2 and D3 are the most fun I've had playing with friends. Fun is always the most important aspect, and D4 was making strong strides to improving that aspect when I last played over the summer. Not sure if that's still the case in the new expansion, but I figure I'll try it out when the xpac is on a deep discount.

In my other comment, I mentioned a Radio Lab episode that discussed it. The main problem is like you say, they take people off the street and offer little to no training. Additionally, they don't offer any mental health resources for their employees. Their pay is also pretty awful. The turnover is extremely high for these and many other reasons.

I hope they win their lawsuit. I listened to a Radio lab episode a few years ago about FB moderators. The shit they have to see day in and day out sound absolutely horrible. Pics and videos of extreme violence and child pornography sounds like it'd give any normal person some major trauma.

Is this just some really bad sarcastic edgy humor?

Discord has individual volume adjustor per person in chat. With my friends turning me up and me turning my mic volume setting in Windows all the way up, I'm able to talk quietly enough in the next room without bothering my wife if she's sleeping. We also have a white noise sound machine we run at nigh in our bedroom, so I'm sure that helps. White noise is probably your best bet if you're in a smaller living area.