Ragnarok314159
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- Comment on Expedition 33 Dev Confirms $50 Price Is Correct, '30+ Hours of Main Game' 2 months ago:
I am the same. Game could take 60 hours to complete, and 50 of them are dogshit. Then it’s not a fun game. It’s all about the overall quality of the entire experience.
I would gladly pay $100 for Subnautica 2 if they could pull off another amazing adventure. Would do the same for another Larian studio game.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 2 months ago:
I know two senior programmers at Amazon who found new jobs rather than RTO. Within 24 hours after they left they got emails from recruitment identifying them as “boomerang candidates”, offered them a decent raise, and offered full time remote work.
This is nothing more than getting people to quit and hiring back key personnel lost in the process.
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 2 months ago:
Gacha games are like magicians. You know they are total bullshit and there is no “magic”, yet some people still look at it and think there is something else going on.
Total waste of money, I don’t understand how people get sucked into those things.
- Comment on Climate change 2 months ago:
Water is now flowing up. Truly chaotic times.
- Comment on All employees of Annapurna Interactive (Stray, Outer Wilds) resign en masse after requesting to stay independent and owner said No. 3 months ago:
It’s the publishing company, not the game devs or writers. They are not the creative ones, just some MBA stooges.
- Comment on All employees of Annapurna Interactive (Stray, Outer Wilds) resign en masse after requesting to stay independent and owner said No. 3 months ago:
That is what everyone is missing these are the publisher MBA people. They bring no value, it’s not like they are game devs and story writers.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
“Hmm, share on Facebook? Don’t mind if I do!”
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 3 months ago:
I was at the Ozzfest where Black Sabbath did a reunion tour. Think the tickets were $25.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 3 months ago:
Mixing now requires phenomenally less equipment. We went from massive mixing boards to a collection of individual dials and now we are on very powerful digital modeling systems with a laptop interface.
Sure, these need to be dialed in at every venue, but most of the settings are staying close to the same to recreate a studio type sound with autotune turned slightly down and letting the chord change strum be left in.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 3 months ago:
I remember buying tickets for all day event concerts in the 90’s that were absolutely amazing for between $20 and $50. Went to every Ozzfest from 94-99 and the most I spent on a ticket was $35.
Now those lineups would cost $500+, and for what? Some added light shows? There is less equipment needed now than ever before. Audio modeling is incredible. What once required a massive pedal board and post processing done in a huge computer can be accomplished by a Helix stomp and a competent audio engineer with a laptop and a few other systems. FRFR speakers are cheaper than ever and sound better as well. The “this has gotten more expensive” line is a crock of shit.
Tickets should have scaled with inflation. This is just the next iteration of record company greed. We knew it was happening with physical music sales but now with Spotify and Apple Music they can’t gouge at that level. Line must go up, so it’s happening with concerts.
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 3 months ago:
Have no fear, my parents are dead!
Wait a minute, are you that zombie that keeps hanging out in my driveway
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 3 months ago:
I have had a few head hunters chat with me, first question I ask is “will you put 100% WFH in writing?”
Check out our compensation package! Nah.
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 3 months ago:
Just load 16 tons
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 3 months ago:
Eaten by a Subnautica Reaper?
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
Showing my age here, but what’s the difference between hiding behind cover in Gears of War vs what we did in LAN parties for UT or Wolfenstein 3D?
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
Being able to instantly use moves that required the player to charge was bullshit.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
Also communicates her family is well off enough she didn’t need to get paid.
Which really shows how bullshit anything she says really is. It’s likely her family connections got her where she is rather than her own hard work.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
That is a solid plan to advance your career.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 5 months ago:
It’s fine, and I honestly hate Walmart for what they have done to the landscape. I also understand the immediate reaction to hating them very well.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 5 months ago:
Right, except in my little nook that has already happened. I can either by trash at Dollar General, drive to Walmart where things are meh, or get Amazon.
People seem to forget not everyone commenting here live in a major city.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 5 months ago:
They probably do, but it’s a lesser of two evils where I live. People can shit on me and downvote away, but there is no choice where I live except driving an hour.
- Comment on Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day 5 months ago:
I started shopping at Walmart because of this, completely gave up on Amazon.
Realized what I was missing out on after buying some new strings for my guitar. Sat and talked to the people working for probably 30 minutes, then they told me to just bring it in and they will put the strings on really quick since they have better tools.
Ended up being cheaper than Amazon and got us out of the house.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 months ago:
They do, because 99% of the time “that person right there!” is someone trying to take a picture of the president.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 months ago:
I always thought the USSS was the GOP.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
They kind of do. (I am so sorry, not trying to be that guy).
Look at HIV. The original strain is horribly deadly, but the strains that have evolved within the last decade are much more tame. It’s because the virus that kills its host doesn’t get to spread - Zombie outbreaks excluded here.
The flu is the same way. New strains always emerge, but they are usually not fatal to most even without a vaccine.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
This is what the mega rich don’t seem to realize. They already have 99.9% of the wealth, but if they had 99.1% of it no one would give a shit how much money a few trust fund babies had.
We would all be able to take care of ourselves and our families. Instead they want all the wealth and are willing to kill most of the global population along with the earth to get it.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
Some people would, but who cares? Oh no! You mean people are sitting in a home watching TV and being with each other? How incredibly horrible.
I bet people would also be disgusting cretins and go see new places as well! Imagine the vile critters walking through the woods seeing nature without burning vacation days making the rich even richer!
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
You mean just draw a picture? Maybe create a little cartoon? Or a painting with little trees?
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
So we will have a handle of people living like The Jetsons, and everyone else like the Flintstones down below.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 5 months ago:
Then we had 1986: Commando