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I agree. A friend of mine worked for a young company that did the same thing - combined sick/vacation days and with the number too low...

Some places, however, have laws that make it hard to pull that sort of thing. I just don't feel qualified to talk about it outside of...

Yeah, it requires a particular sort of tunnel vision at best.

And it's wrong that you're put in that position.

Add on how expensive it is to go to the doctor.

Yup. But at least in the U.S., both are stupidly common.

I pulled this section out, because I think you're broadly right here (in that there's a rejection of adventure path style or sometimes...

Eh. I could name several of relatively recent vintage that are overtly simulationist that don't think they're "retro" and in some...

You're missing the point. People aren't going to stop thinking that way just because a game tells them to. Some approaches to engaging...

Neither does mentioning to them that's what you think they're doing. So I still stand by my opinion ignoring or reporting are your...

If, instead, its about who I suspect, its just one of their quirks and one might as well just ignore them and move on if it bothers you.

There's always two problems with this, one more severe than the other. The less severe: When you're exhausted or injured, even when you...

The the scare quotes show a bit of the problem with this statement. As phrased this could be essentially a tautology. This assumes...

Which is why I mentioned I'm unlikely to make how you'd like the discussion occur. When you bother to mention that, if its not an...

As I note above, I don't think the arrow points only in one direction there. In some cases it was design choices to reduce load that...