Many years ago a Tumblr friend taught me about a recipe developed from the lunch habits of upstate NY salt miners. New potatoes are cooked in a brine dense enough to have a measurably higher boiling temperature than water, which results in a tender, creamy potato with a thin salt crust. Usually served with melted butter but I have some leftover green salsa crema I'm gonna dip them in.

i have been watching F1 since france last year (25 grands prix in total) and have seen a non red bull driver win one single time... bit sick of this. sainz was incredible though.

• Someone who knows the internal politics of the union itself can probably tell you how this is likely to go as far as members actually authorizing a strike.
• The union is seeking to strike against a group of major video game studios that are signatories to SAG's video game contract. This doesn't include every game studio but includes several major ones: Activision, Epic, Insomniac, Take 2. Notably it includes Disney and WB, which are companies that are currently struck under the film and television strike (yes, strikes happen separately under different bargaining agreements in different fields).
• It's unclear to me if the list given by SAG-AFTRA's press release is comprehensive or if there are other studios they don't mention that fall under this specific agreement, but lots and lots of studios work with non-union talent or are otherwise not covered by this agreement.
• As far as I can tell the issues the union is putting forward are not residuals per se but general questions of pay and, of course, 'AI'. The main demands seem to be protections against the reuse of work to train models, increases in base pay, and better working conditions for voice performers (ie, not having them record line after line for hours until their voices break). Reasonable, normal stuff!
• Residuals are a very complicated can of worms to open in the games industry. The infrastructure to pay them just doesn't exist; sales figures are not really public, and generally nobody is keeping track of revenue from back catalog games and thinking about how they're supposed to be paid to to talent. If a union actually won residuals in an agreement with video game studios it would be a major change in the industry, and could lead to this being on the table for other unionized groups, but that's very far away from a reality right now.
• If a strike does happen, the way it might impact productions is a lot more complicated and varied from product to product than it is in film. Video game production cycles are much longer, and different productions will be caught in different places in production. I think in video games there's a lot more ability to work around a potential strike and have it not delay a launch date. This is going to be a significant test of SAG-AFTRA's actual bargaining power against the games industry, because I think studio management will have a lot more reason to think they can hold out; actors being on strike wouldn't put an entire production on hold in the way that it has done on film and television.

thanks so much!! in general, the game is full of a LOT of cameos of people who worked on the game-- most big crowd shots have a ton of dinosonas based on our team! additionally the social media feed is actually crowdsourced from my coworkers on the project and then arranged/edited according to the flow of the story; i had specific requests for localization needs and readability, but for the most part a lot of the posts in game are left as is. (a good portion are based on my own tweets lol) some brave individuals also agreed to let us put their dinosonas on the feed and are named after their real life counterparts!

and anyone who wasn't named after a coworker was usually named after someone i went to school with lmao

i uh did have to explain stuff to the loc team but that was usually my own fault