Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 days ago:
Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
- Comment on unfathomable 2 days ago:
One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That’s also one of the reasons a lot of places don’t allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 days ago:
There is quite a lot of game and there is a solid modding scene as well. It is worth the money.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
However in their earnings call they reported smth like 1 billion in revenue, and, while I wasn’t clear on whether it’s everything or just GTA6, that would still mean people placed anywhere between 5-14 million preorders.
Well from what I see on their website they put out their Q1 2027 earnings report which reports 1.534 billion earnings for the quarter. Q1 ended on June 30th so it only includes 5 days of GTA VI preorders. It’s also lower that their earnings in Q1 2026 which wouldn’t be the case if they had a really big boost of preorders.
For Q2 2027, which ends on September 30th 2026 and would include most of the GTA 6 preorder period, they predict revenue of 1.62-1.67 billion. Q2 2026 was 1.774 billion.
You’re telling me that for one of the most expected game releases in the last decade they are expecting to make only 100 million in pre-orders. That’s like 1 million 100$ pre-orders, now way they would sell that few.
So yea I think the CEO may be talking out of his ass.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
The source being Take Two’s CEO. I’d take this with a large grain of salt.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Trains underground? What you mean like subways? There are actual reasons why you would want to do that, like making public transport infrastructure in dense urban locations where you can’t just demolish buildings to make space for your train tracks.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
The effects of sitting on your arse can be mitigated with 30 to 40 minutes of daily vigorous exercise. There are a bunch of studies showing this. It’s not remotely the same thing.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
Why is learning a trade only considered a last resort?
Because a lot of trades are pretty bad for your health. They require getting in potentially unsafe environments, dealing with substances or byproducts that can lead to cancers or other occupational diseases. They also require a lot more physical work. So of course people would prefer a cushy office job to trawling through crawlspaces lined with asbestos to plug in a light. Not to mention that a lot of trade jobs are not that great paid when starting out, the good pay comes with years of experience and until you get there you have to suffer through all the above. Sure some office jobs don’t pay well starting out either but you just sit on your ass in a air conditioned office instead of nailing 2x4s in the hot sun for 8 hours.
People always ask this question but they never consider that there are actual valid considerations that make trade jobs unattractive compared to other jobs.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 4 weeks ago:
There is a guy on YouTube doing it and making videos about the process. He turned his shed into a clean room lol.
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 1 month ago:
Don’t they remove the strips and add blank ones? Or was that a different trophy.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 1 month ago:
Some beancounter at Sony realized that they could increase margins by a tiny amount if they removed physical disks. I bet they haven’t factored in the reputation loss from doing so and in the end it will come out that the margin gain will be overshadowed by the loss of sales.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 1 month ago:
Bro discovered thinking.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They’re not completely wrong, a lot of gamers will buy anything that has a large company’s name on it then complain they were sold shit.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was honestly surprised Sony paid that much for them when I saw the sale news.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 1 month ago:
Sure but you can get a cheap second hand PC or a laptop or a console to play that 5 dollars game and it’s a one time purchase.
Shit you don’t even have to pay 5 dollars, there are plenty of games that are free. I’ve been playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead for hundreds of hours and haven’t paid a cent since it’s a free game, it’s updated daily and it can run on basically any PC since it’s an ASCII game. This is like complaining that it’s too expensive to get into woodworking because you have to buy a hammer.
And if you want to play the latest title with your friends, it’s going to be 1-2k on the hardware before you can even launch the game.
Get friends that don’t ask you to spend 1000 dollars to hang out with them.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 month ago:
Probably because they get fat bonuses from console manufacturers to release there first. Then they can release on PC later for full price and people will still buy it.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 month ago:
Because at some point expertise is worth less than leadership. One person with expertise is still just one person, they can’t usually achieve anywhere close to the same results as a team of people with good leadership. Leadership is a multiplier of expertise.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 2 months ago:
Something doesn’t have to be an evolutionary advantage to persist in a population. If long hair doesn’t impact fitness then it won’t get selected against.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 2 months ago:
He was smart but emotionally he was a kid. He was prodigiously intelligent for his age but emotionally he was developing at the normal pace for a kid. He was an 11 old kid surrounded by 18 year olds and older. The university faculty even pushed back against him being admitted so young but his father pushed for it until they admitted him.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 2 months ago:
He was a socialist and was arrested during a May day protest. He was tried and convicted of sedition. The media attention and the fact that America was in the middle of the Red Scare made sure that he didn’t get a fair trial. His parents made a deal to have him serve the sentence suspended and also be confined to a sanatorium for a year. This really changed his world view and he became very distrustful of media attention and central authority. Before these events he wasn’t really bothered by the attention and he liked having public intellectual discourse.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 months ago:
US fuel is heavily subsidized compared to the rest of the world.
- Comment on Throwback 2 months ago:
Why’d you give the fish nipples and a belly button?
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 2 months ago:
When you go inside you shake the water out of the umbrella so it doesn’t drip inside your house. Yeah, that’s it, no reference or anything.
- Comment on d wha 2 months ago:
Should ask him which day doesn’t end in “y” next time.
- Comment on 😅😅😅 3 months ago:
Damn Malcom in the Middle sure went bald fast.
- Comment on Is Temu leaking the end of the US? 3 months ago:
I would buy one or two of the national parks. Those places are really cool.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It becomes harder and harder to tell reality from memes. We are fucked.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 months ago:
They ruined her lawn.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Do vegans even eat that much soy?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Can you photosynthesize? These are reserved for photosynthesizers.