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Japan and USA share the same Region for Blu-Ray, so it should work just fine, unless you bought it on DVD.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
(And I can add subtitles via VLC Player.)
Watch with my luck the US release gets announced any day now.
Also, just saw SxF Code White. It was cute, but extremely 'this is totally outside canon so don't worry about anything that happened', though totally worth seeing in a theater, especially with a crowd.
The real takeaway for me was that this wasn't some one and done Fathom thing. It's got a wide release! At every theater, with multiple showings, dub or sub!
It really is a brave new world.
At least one of the Demon Slayer and/or Jujutsu Kaisen films was the number one film of its release weekend, and ever since they've been getting longer release windows, too
Code White is like fifth or sixth this weekend for the US box office behind a few other films, but if it had come out basically any weekend before Dune this year it'd have done pretty darn well (notably, the last Demon Slayer release was one of the biggest in the USA for February)
I'm morbidly curious if it drew any unfamiliar audiences, like parents with kids going 'okay that looks fine'.
You have to be amused when the parody of the gag outlives the gag.
Current marriage candidates are in frames on the wall, associates are taped to the wall.
Also hope Water User gets an arc and promoted to tsundere marriage candidate at some point.
Yeah, I'm surprised people Even know who Foghorn Leghorn is.
My thoughts:
Bug User is best bros with Gero, but not in love with him.
Music user is set off to the side, so I don't think he counts like all the rest of the people on the wall.
I'm digging this series though.
Today's reminder that being able to appoint people to those kinds of bodies is important.
I also enjoy the shade in their announcement about the practice, where they suggest employers who rely on noncompetes to lock in employees maybe consider making their working conditions suck less as an alternative.
It affects a wider range of jobs than most people would suspect. It's not just white-collar or specialist trades stuff; there are corner stores and fast-food places that throw noncompetes at cashiers and servers just to lock them in place.
One example where it'll be a big deal - ttrpgs space. Wizards uses non competes to keep their writers only doing wizards stuff, not any other projects on the side (much to the LANCER fandoms consternation, among other things).
Get dunked on you shitty corps
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Turns out the current Foghorn VA saw these and thought "Hell yeah let's go". You're gonna have to follow the links, I think.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
They also said this threshold will be updated every 3 years (obviously depending on who is in charge we will see)
We see some kids make a little stone golem like the one Frieren made for the Party of Heroes.
Being told someone that you care about didn't exist hurts, even for our elf.
That's...a lot of shadow warriors.
Fern X Stark X Blanket = Adorable.
Specific stuff:
Noncompetes are also incredibly abused by the swamp of shitty IT contract headhunters in order to keep employees from being directly hired onto the client company, without the client company paying out the ass to buy out their contract. Unsurprisingly very few clients consider any sort of human labor to be worth that kind of investment.
However, the US Chamber of Commerce intends to sue the FTC to block the ban. How well do you think this will fare against the current make up of the Supreme Court? I am not optimistic.
Yeah...not exactly minor titles here.
So years ago i worked in a contract role for a big tech firm, let's call them Microhard. No that's too obvious we'll go with Macrosoft. Anyway these were the kind of permanent contractor roles that go through one of a dozen IT services agencies nobody has ever heard of that basically only exist to fill MS contacts. So I'm an employee of the agency, 100% of my work on-site at MS, my role at MS will only ever be a contact role, there is no conversion to direct employee.
At the time the set-up was so stupid that we didn't even have token bosses at our agency. We reported directly to a real MS employee who was our only boss. Also your team of coworkers probably came from three or four different agencies, they just kind of filled the spots first come first serve.
Some agencies offered better deals than others (MS just paid them a flat rate based on the position so it was entirely down to how much the agency wanted to skim off the top), and MS even had procedures in place to have you slide from one agency to the next while staying in the same role. Of course you mainly couldn't because, you guessed it, noncompetes.
At one point my agency merged with or was bought out by some other agency, and the way they structured their deal meant we were going to be officially employed by the new company (instead of keeping the old entity around as a zombie). New company means new paperwork and I happily signed everything but the non compete. Didn't negotiate, just... never signed it. The single overworked HR person they had* emailed me a couple of times asking for it and i just never responded, eventually i stopped hearing about it.
After a few months i hear through the contractor gossip network about how one of the slightly better agencies is looking to poach people so i get on with them, tell my MS boss, they do whatever it is they do and i start getting slightly bigger paychecks.
That rolls for a few weeks when i suddenly get pulled into a meeting at my new agency offices, old agency has lodged a bunch of complaints with MS saying we were in violation of noncompetes, MS will not touch us** until the dispute is resolved.
Ah, but there's an ace up my sleeve, i don't actually have a non-compete! I can even prove the absence of the contract since i have these nagging emails. The new agency looks hopeful and says they'll try and straighten it out.
Word comes back: MS doesn't care what new agency says, they need old agency to withdraw their complaint. Old agency won't talk to new agency.
I set up a meeting with the slimy fuck at the old agency. He plays dumb, tells me changing agencies like that is against MS policies and that was his dispute. No, i can't see any of the communications he made with MS. No he's not going to withdraw it for any reason. He will let me have my job back though! How kind.
And MS won't talk to me directly, so, stalemate. I talk to a lawyer about it and get told I'm pretty much fucked. I could sue the old agency for interference, if it's true that they lied about my having a non-compete we might be able to get somewhere, but we don't know that for sure. And also we don't know what MS's policies actually are, they could have some role somewhere saying agency jumping isn't allowed (even if they weren't enforcing it) which would make everything moot. And the best I'd get in recompense is like, 2 weeks of pay, which is way less than any lawyer will be.
Eventually i get told through the grapevine that i need to do something or else they're going to hire someone else into my spot.
So i wind up back at the old agency. I work there for another 6 months doing the absolute bare minimum until i finally get a new job as a real employee outside of all the MS fuckery.
Fun fact, by the time I left, the agency i worked for was so cheap that they had 100% outsourced all their HR, and the way that it worked meant my legal employer was actually the HR services company. Three layers of companies employing me.
TL;DR: I was effectively bound by a non-compete contract I didn't even sign, since it was just the industry standard.
*and why would you spend any more than the bare minimum on non-contact employees, that's where the money is!
**MS wasn't even wrong here, one of the fucked up things with noncompetes is both MS and the new agency could theoretically also be sued for interference with the contact, even if they are not party to it
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