VitoRobles
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- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 hour ago:
There’s been two decades worth of lawsuits because PayPal has a history of withholding revenue and blocking stores from small e-commerce stores.
I’m talking about e-commerce sites selling a board game, making $40k in sales through paypal, and PayPal refuses to give them money.
PayPal’s stance has been, “Fuck you sue us.”
I’m not saying this because I think Peter Thiel, who was one of the creators of Paypal, is a fucking evil villain.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 hour ago:
Loss of income is really difficult to sue for. Especially if you’re an indie company in another country, trying to sue an international company. You either sue locally, or open up a office in their nation.
And your case has to be rock solid.
Like tech companies still lose cases around loss of income, even when it’s obvious to the average person that the major company is going out of their way to stamp out competition.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 hour ago:
On a road trip, I drove by a farm that sells "Sweet Cron’.
Thinking it was a mistake, I saw more signs bragging about the Sweet Cron they had. So definitely on purpose.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 hour ago:
English is my only language and yeah.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 4 days ago:
This is my takeaway from listening to NPR Planet Money.
Economists are never sure about anything, because that’s not how the world works. They only give rough estimations based on the current data, and say words like “maybe” or “high possibility”.
They’re not sith lords.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 days ago:
Working at big major companies, email/harassment campaigns work.
Some psychopath got the news journalists on my company because we didn’t have a giant American flag in our campus. We were getting hundreds of emails from randos, were getting review bombed online, and they were even sending letters to the CEO.
We called it flag gate internally. And after a month, there’s that stupid flag.
- Comment on ultra high iq 4 days ago:
Yeah, no one “flashes a Mensa card” unless they are a jerk.
One time I made fun of people who do cross fit and someone at the table said “I do CrossFit.” Then I said, “It’s almost as annoying as people who flex over their AMEX card.” And another guy pulled out his AMEX card.
I regret not bringing up a Mensa Card.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 week ago:
I’m curious too!
Literally thought this was a meme about the travel influencers and those people who attend every concert without ever holding down a job.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 1 week ago:
Love to see this grow.
- Comment on Choose wisely 2 weeks ago:
Like most kids, I was enamored by the 90s Disney animations. So while Pixar was dominating, I got a bachelor’s in 2D animation.
Graduated to no jobs. Animation work is shipped overseas. And the little animation jobs there are were concentrated in a few parts of the US.
Not once have I ever made any income from my background.
Been working on marketing for a decade adding more garbage to this world.
- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense, especially in this economy
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 3 weeks ago:
When I was a kid, there was a phase where everyone was obsessed with red flannel. Went on for like 3 months.
Imagine a pro dominantly black/Latino school in the hood where we’re all dressing up like Al Borland from Home Improvement.
- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 3 weeks ago:
Your welcome! Enjoy your styrofoam cup coffee from a deli that smells of Malboro cigarettes. The sugar has weird moving black things and milk has been left out for 3 days.
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
I remember HS history was incredibly neutered. It was still America is Heroes. There were small cracks, like Japanese internment camps. Or the Trail of Tears. But they had a single paragraph or two. I remember reading about the Vietnam war and how people “feel” about it.
Only during college did I read about real history. Things like our meddling in the Philippines. Our meddling in South America. Our meddling in Southeast Asia after WW2.
The worse is that the text books are owned by conservatives, so expect even more neutering/white washing.
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
As I kid, I distinctly remember protesting (two separate decades) to stop the middle east invasion. I remember even when it was announced, it was deeply unpopular.
And here we are again.
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 4 weeks ago:
The hobby one was the one that hit me the most.
I love a specific hobby. I don’t like to engage much of the community because my opinions go against the hive kind. I also don’t have interest/energy to debate. I also am not that interested in engaging daily. Weekly, sure. Monthly, absolutely. But day after day? I have a life to live.
But Every time I introduce people to it, I have to dial down my excitement. I invest a lot into my hobby and I’m really good at it.
Who controls the Reddit narrative of my hobby? Not people like me.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that is already a Harry Potter character.
- Comment on Genius 4 weeks ago:
This has Nathan Fielder energy and it’s great
- Comment on Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations 4 weeks ago:
The photos of trash all over the street, melting in the hot summer? That’s how you do it.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but before, we could eat BBQ and blow off fireworks and pretend like America is going to fix itself.
Literally nobody I know is doing a cook out.
We have some scheduled on July 12th.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 4 weeks ago:
Like the McRib and chlamydia, were back baby!
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Zop.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Johnathan Blow comes to mind.
Peter Molyneux is still top tier delusional, and has a lot of incredible popcorn material.
I don’t know the drama completely, but the Star Citizen folks. Don’t have any names to rattle off.
- Comment on Dave the Diver director addresses controversial “Best Indie Game” nomination from 2023. “There’s nothing indie about us, we didn’t apply for it” 4 weeks ago:
I hate that you were down voted but you are absolutely correct.
There’s no agreed definition of indie.
Back when I worked marketing and would attend GDC conferences, there were awards for “Indies” that had 30 people teams financed by major companies, competing against 1-2 people teams who took a loan against their house.
It’s stupid and frustrating.
And now, with Dave the Diver, it’s just highlighting the truth - Its always been a vibe, a aesthetic. You just have to make it look indie, and call it that.
Whatever definition you hold personally doesn’t matter.
- Comment on We are not the same 4 weeks ago:
(Techbros rubbing their hands hoping to find that new thing to ruin)
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 month ago:
I remember buying a Sony mp3 CD player with 5-second skip delay for $80.
Everyone was still using regular CD players with their 80 minutes of audio, carefully holding their precious device.
While I was living like a god, playing over twenty hours of music, dropping my player over and over, without losing a beat.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
I’m full of micro plastics.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
We are all Japan on this day.
Konnichiwa bitches.
