HailSeitan
@HailSeitan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 days ago:
No, a company cannot be sued for failing to maximize shareholder value. The business judgment rule protects any company that want a to raise wages, refrain from layoffs, donate to charity, offer sick leave, etc. What they can’t do is not pursue profit at all. Now, will shareholders vote them out if they do those things? Maybe, but that’s a totally different mechanism than a lawsuit.
- Comment on Where do I go for unbiased news in the world without it having an ulterior motive or kissing ass to the establishment of said country? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 3 weeks ago:
The sober (sicker) quitters phenomenon that messed up this data for so long is fascinating!
- Comment on Enzymes be like 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mesmalie - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
- Comment on Day 697 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Survivor isn’t nearly as good, Fallen Order was genuinely special
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
The comparison to Epic (with a massively lower sales volume) is a bad one, because Valve’s sales volume is so much higher. Once you have a store up and running, the marginal cost of additional units sold in software is extremely low, so most sales are close to 30% of pure profit for Valve.
The entire Apple App Store costs $100 million a year to run, with revenue recently hitting $1.4 trillion, an infrastructure to revenue ratio of a fraction of a percent. That makes their 30% vig even more unconscionable than Valve’s obscene rake.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
Stop defending billionaires, the infrastructure costs are a small fraction of the fees they charge
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
How is competition that benefits consumers in the form of lower prices “malicious”?
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 4 months ago:
regressive af
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 4 months ago:
Money laundering and gambling mostly
- Comment on NYC nursing walkout ends as last striking nurses approve new contract 5 months ago:
Provisions included staffing improvements, raises topping 12% over three years and safeguards on the use of artificial intelligence
Nice.
- Comment on So Deep 5 months ago:
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 5 months ago:
Anyone who thinks a currency-issuing country like the US would be better off by taking $3 trillion OUT OF CIRCULATION, thereby making the American public $3 trillion POORER clearly shows that they understand NOTHING about how economies work.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Because desperate voice actors famously have so much leverage in contract negotiations, right? Why do you think Hollywood actors and writers unions went on strike in 2023?
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 8 months ago:
Why should we care about this particular horse/kart race?
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 8 months ago:
- The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developerswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing 9 months ago:
TIL the feds think Fortnite doesn’t have text chat
- Comment on As Big Tech Oligarchs Wage War on Workers, Sanders Warns AI Could Kill Nearly 100 Million US Jobs 9 months ago:
Don’t worry, that’s what race, gender, religion, and citizenship status are for!
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 9 months ago:
Well he cheated on his wife with something
- Submitted 9 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 9 months ago:
Right. But just because the wealthy can easy afford concert tickets doesn’t mean Ticketmaster isn’t also price gouging.
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 9 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Ukrainian refugee, 23, who fled war for safer life in US knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina 10 months ago:
Anecdotes are not data
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 10 months ago:
Matt Stoller had a nice writeup recently in his monopoly newsletter BIG about how we got into the current mess. TL;DR: basically financialization (prioritizing stock price over innovation, like at Boeing) and a lack of antitrust enforcement as a previously competitive market got monopolized (see chart below)
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 10 months ago:
Never root for a monopoly over at least some semblance of competition
- Comment on Death Stranding 2's stunning new statue somehow makes Sam look even more realisitic than he does in the game 11 months ago:
Now the real question is: Will it also let me bypass UK age-gating on the web?
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 1 year ago:
Good on Rossman for insisting in the interview that the focus on this individual is a distraction from the systemic issue.
- Comment on It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™ 1 year ago:
Revenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream
