Bethesda will be overhauled, as part of today's Xbox changes, to focus on key franchises going forward: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein
[via Bloomberg]
Once you have become a social outcast, it is very difficult to come back, almost no one will give you the time to learn the social skills you need to break out.
Psychology says some people avoid socializing not because they hate people, but because they can read them too well. They walk into a room and immediately sense the fake laughs, the hidden agendas, the performances. Their nervous system doesn't misread the signal, it just refuses to ignore it. Small talk feels like a tax they didn't agree to pay. Forced smiles cost them energy that takes hours to recover. They're not broken. They're calibrated differently. They don't avoid people. They avoid emotional labor that leads nowhere. When they do connect, it's deep, intentional, real. No masks. No games. Fewer friends doesn't mean loneliness. It means higher standards. That's not antisocial behavior. That's emotional intelligence.
DeKalb County is raising its minimum hourly wage to $19, boosting pay for hundreds of employees who were earning less.
The county is also giving additional raises to many workers already making slightly above the old minimum to keep pay levels fair.