Dudewitbow
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- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 days ago:
mixture of housing supply shortage, empty homes, fucked investments, a bit of zoning laws, and nimbyism, and airbnb
housing supply shortage
younger generations want to live in cities because thats where both employment and “fun” is reletively speaking. the demand is very high for limited space.
empty homes
in some areas, there are homes that are completely empty, some due to negligence, inheritance and some just to artificially decrease supply. to put an example, San Jose, CA legitimately has more empty homes than it does homeless.
fucked investments/nimbyism
some people see housing as an investment instead of putting it into stocks. the investments keeps proces high because its seen as profit rather than a basic necessity to live. people who own houses will use all their power to prevent more houses to be built because more home lowers procing because of more supply.
zoning laws
some places, they restrict building to strictly residential or strictly commercial building. as WFH becomes more mainstream more land needs to be made as residential land. or remove the zoning alltogether
airbnb
airbnb gets you more money in popular areas. it takes away a potenial home for a local worker in favor for maximum investments, which is bad for the city, because it circumvents hotel taxes, and takes away potential income tax from someone who would have lived and worked in the area.
- Comment on Grr Windows 3 days ago:
i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.
- Comment on AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th 1 week ago:
theyre hard to find because AMD sunset production of them. (despite the fact the 5700x3d and 5800x3d is functionality the same chip)
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 weeks ago:
statistically no, but its possible to get a random group of poppyseeds that are extra potent. its why for example, South Korea bans it (as they dont even want the chance for them to get collected)
- Comment on Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249 2 weeks ago:
as long as analogue didnt use the devices actual hardware design and code, its completely legal. theyre not selling you games, theyre selling you a piece of hardware capable of playing said games with their own hardware design.
i dont want to say emulation in a soft sense because its not software emulation, its hardware to hardware emulatoion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
i mean hes not a very bright guy. he was complaining about if they made metal gear solid delta(3 remake) political when metal gear as a series is one of the most political series ever.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 4 weeks ago:
basically the major points of change was launch, then cyberpunk edgerunners clothing dlc patch (1.0 but bigs fixed). 2.0 rewrote some of the games mechanics that dropped before the expansion. and then the expansion was released (which added new endings)
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 4 weeks ago:
AOE2DE is the 72 most played game on steam currently in reference to RTS, its much higher than several other games.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 5 weeks ago:
its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.
and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.
- Comment on Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision 1 month ago:
battlefields a bit different. battlefield basically nowadays is that the game always launch in a terrible state, and fixes itself a year down the line. battlefield players will play the game regardless and maintains ~6000 user playerbase active
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 1 month ago:
the advtage the steam system has is first the bought game/gifted game situation, as well as the more important factor, the recent opinion score, as at amy given momemt a game can get good because of a major change (e. g payday 2 reverting all the pay 2 win content the original publisher mandated) or gone to shit because of greed or a bad patch.
the problem users have is finding a curator that has a similar taste in games that they do. If I was a fan of JRPGs, im not going to care about the opinion on some person who doesnt really play jrpgs. at the same time, if you like some niche genre, to the general public, that niche is always less popular, so itll get worse ratings thanit should compared to people who enjoy said niche.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 1 month ago:
Aldi Nord controlled stores in the US are Trader Joes, Aldi Sud stores in the US are just Aldi
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 1 month ago:
to me, Mortal Kombat goes under the “Soo bad its good” category.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 month ago:
the problem is the covid supply chain ended a while ago and console sales havent drastically picked up since then. the PS5 has been orderable direct from sony for quite a long while now, and shortly after in stores. physical game sales (something console users champion, has gone way down (according to sony, only 30% of their users buy physical now)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 month ago:
im not saying consoles have 0 appeal and wont have buyers, its just that their market is in real time, decreasing while on pc has increased, especially post covid. with the advent of streaming, more and more people are shifting over to PC because of it. im not saying consoles are dead as in 0 sales, but the market is forever going to decrease for it, as more people get into pc, and those countries that cant afford to already got into mobile gaming (mobile gaming accounts for more than 50% of the profits of game sales)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 month ago:
the difference is at least you can see it in more real time numbers. Xbox is clearly a dying brand, which leaves Sonys home console sales for now (~60M) and the switch as a handheld device. Devs are already starting to port everything on PC, and 1st party game development rate has gone down a lot. 3rd party devs are also starting to abandon console exclusively/timed exclusively over time (capcom making the next monster hunter simul release on pc instead of a year and a half cadence, square enix backtracking on making final fantasy a timed exclusive due to not enough sales)
Japan is completely flipping its old image of PC being the device for porn addicts of years past and starting to heavily buy into pc too, which is why Valve went to attend Tokyo gameshow to pitch the steamdeck for japanese handheld players(which remain the majority of console purchases in japan)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 month ago:
were basically at the point on the timeline where PC and Mobile basically kills consoles.
- Comment on My new m.2 ssd 2 months ago:
possily running into b vs m key situation. if you have a laptop that was made during the transition period of sata based m.2 to pci-e based ones, knowing which key you needed is important.
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 2 months ago:
dependent by employer
- Comment on U.S. Announces New Rules Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials, Allowing Authorities to Seek Civil Penalties Against Violators, Deter AI-Generated Fake Reviews 2 months ago:
would they not have to have evidence that a review is fake? especially if you bought a product (e. g on amazon) its very easy to verify you have likely bought a product and have it in question to review.
- Comment on So sick! 2 months ago:
most channels dont have/cant afford/gave a shit about having a product designer on board
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
steam if multiplayer, since i have the client open all the time so it can update. I liek to have GOG handle single player experiences if possible and offered. though its really for me pricing, and generally speaking, 3rd party stores give me the better deal for steam keys. (not like g2a or anything, but like humble and shit)
- Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app 2 months ago:
nintendo and DeNA crates a joint venture team last year, so i highly doubt theyre pulling out of mobile, theyre just relying less on it.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app 2 months ago:
i mean iirc capcom already had done something similar beforehand with megaman x dive
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC] 2 months ago:
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
people want to pay their 60$ for a roster update
- Comment on Danger 2 months ago:
isnt the LOTO procedure to ask the person listed on the tag whats wrong with it before actually trying to use it. Boss ego crazy to completely just ignore the tag without understanding why it was on there in the first place.
- Comment on Anon wants to play a game 2 months ago:
bleach, ammonia based cleaner, mixing container.
uh oh, accidental chloramine gas bomb
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 2 months ago:
the flash game era benefited from an era where building a PC wasn’t completely streamlined yet, and game distribution on desktop also wasn’t streamlined (early steam was reviled and most users did not like it). Steam launched in 2003, and 2005 it went to allow 3rd parties. 2005 is also coincidentally when youtube was released, which marked the start of users moving off of well established sites like newgrounds to it over time, which flash ultimately died when mobile became more mainstream and neither google nor apple wanted to support flash. down the line.