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Yeah, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. After hearing the dev's justification I can see what they were going for, but it's really poorly handled in-game IMO.

They way it plays out in the story feels neither darkly comic nor a poignant commentary on parents going though a divorce; instead it just comes across as unnecessarily cruel, and the player has no choice but to go along with it.

The issue isn't the use of conflict as a dramatic device per se; it is essentially forcing the player(s) to perform a seemingly unnecessary and unpleasant action against their will.

The fact that both main characters in the game appear to immediately decide that violently murdering their child's favorite toy is the only course of action and that no alternative is offered is really jarring. Giving the player some agency in choosing an alternative way to to go about it would have solved the problem completely.

Thanks for the explanation, although I don't find it a particularly acceptable one. The sequence wasn't funny enough to justify the dramatic shift in tone in an otherwise family-friendly game, IMO. Also, making the protagonists unlikable in a game where you're supposed to find them sympathetic is a very weird design decision.

Yeah, that part was a distinct bum note in an otherwise enjoyable game. Why the developers thought it was good idea, I'll never know.

That wasn't the conclusion of the study at all; It only sought to establish if there is indeed a correlation between between diversity and a company's EBIT margin (essentially, a cost management index) in three seminal McKinsey studies. It did not aim to discuss the effectiveness of diversity in corporate hiring in a broader sense:

While our results do speak to the lack of robustness of McKinsey’s (2015, 2018, 2020) studies vis-à-vis large public US firms, they do not speak to the connections between racial/ethnic diversity in employees and/or Boards and either firm financial performance or non-financial firm goals, nor to intra-firm activities. Nor do they speak to any social or moral contributions that racial/ethnic diversity in US executives provide.

We conclude that in light of the prominence of the connections between firm financial performance and the racial/ethnic composition of their employees, not just in the US but around the world, there is great value in future research that would seek to empirically test for the presence, sign, magnitude, and direction of any causal relations that exist. Such longitudinal and causality-oriented study may also help bring into sharper focus the identities and sizes of the costs and benefits, as well as the risks and returns, that are associated with higher or lower racial/ethnic diversity, not only in firms’ executives, but in their Boards of Directors and rank-and-file employees.

According to research, the space between letters is more important for people with reading disabilities than rotational distinction.

Typefaces may affect web accessibility, but if you want to provide a better experience for readers, Comic Sans isn’t the only option. The best practice is to use a widely available font with no extra decorations or flourishes.

In addition to Comic Sans, the British Dyslexia Association recommends Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Century Gothic, Trebuchet, Calibri, and Open Sans.

https://www.boia.org/blog/does-comic-sans-benefit-people-with-dyslexia

As are many other sans serif typefaces.

I'm not defending Biden, but the view that Trump would be any less prepared to keep sending Israel weapons is utterly baseless. He wouldn't even pretend to care about the Palestinians, for one thing.

It's acceptable in the following contexts:

• In a comic
• In content designed for children

That's pretty much it.

Furiosa has a few major challenges up against it, really:

• Its running time is longer than the average Blockbuster
• it's R rated and violent
• Mad Max is a fairly niche IP to begin with
• It's a backstory for a secondary (albeit important) character from Fury Road
• People are feeling the pinch financially right now

Having Tom Hardy playing Max as the main character might have bumped the opening weekend Box Office a bit, but not hugely IMO.

And the award for the dumbest take of the thread goes to ∆

I'd argue it's the opposite. To most of the people who attacked the encampment, Palestinians are just some faceless brown Arab people half a world away, whereas the protesters are the SJW/Marxist/Anti-Americans who are ruining America.

The former, they are more or less indifferent to; the latter, they really hate.