sonofearth
@sonofearth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 14 hours ago:
They are shit
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 6 days ago:
c/fuck_ai and c/fuckcars collab
- Comment on A case of sour grapes - Obsession Art Director now demands more money after the film grosses more than the expected amount 1 week ago:
You just proved my point. If a painter’s meticulous brushstrokes are so unique that they literally drive recurring revenue and make guests keep choosing that hotel, then that painter isn’t just a labourer anymore but a core value creator.
If their specific, artistic choices are generating perpetual, ongoing profit for the owner every year, then logically, they deserve a piece of that ongoing profit.
Similarly if the producer gets to make passive, recurring income off the crew’s recorded artistry forever, the crew deserves a piece of that recurring success. To argue otherwise is to say, Thank you for creating the magic that makes me rich. now go home while I collect the cheques.
- Comment on A case of sour grapes - Obsession Art Director now demands more money after the film grosses more than the expected amount 1 week ago:
That is a false equivalence.
A movie is not a hotel and the film crew is not following a fixed blueprint.
If a construction crew lays bricks perfectly, the hotel’s value stays the same (unless the architect actually makes a design that helps the property’s value to go up in which case they demand profit sharing and equity). But a film crew is creating a unique project. If the camera operator captures a breathtaking shot, the value of the movie skyrockets. if they mess up, it’s worthless. The crew’s creative labor is what actually generates the outsized profit.
Plus, we already give profit sharing to directors and writers because we acknowledge their labor creates the value. Arguing that the rest of the crew (who sacrifice their health and sleep to execute that vision) don’t deserve a slice isn’t logical.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 1 week ago:
I think it is for the better. Digital gift cards are more convenient. Plus less paper and plastic use is a net positive for the environment as most people throw physical gift cards (that are redeemed digitally) in the trash anyways. Although it is good to acknowledge that people who will lose out on the attachment in physical sense, like wrapping it up for a friend and seeing the excitement on their faces or a kid or a teenager going getting a physical one with their pocket money cash. But this is mostly in the west though as in the East the concept of physical gift cards is long gone now and even kids spend money digitally through parental access payment methods.
- Comment on A case of sour grapes - Obsession Art Director now demands more money after the film grosses more than the expected amount 1 week ago:
Actually, if an architect and a construction team invented a revolutionary, hyper efficient, beautiful new way to build hotels that caused revenues to skyrocket gazillion %, they would demand royalties or equity. Furthermore, we already have a model for this: profit sharing, bonuses exist for above the line talent because we acknowledge their labour creates the outsized value. There’s no logical reason that shouldn’t extend to the rest of the crew who sacrifice their time and health to make it happen.
- Comment on A case of sour grapes - Obsession Art Director now demands more money after the film grosses more than the expected amount 1 week ago:
I hate how people frame as “Hey look the producers took the risk, so they should get the returns.” They just took a financial risk. It’s literally the easiest risk to take. Ask gamblers. While the crew takes all kinds of risk with the gear, dialogue choices, costume choices, set choices, sacrificing sleep and food for a day here and there, using the hours that they could have spent gambling in the stock market to come with a proper story, planning, practicing and executing it. So yeah these guys definitely deserve a bonus from the success as THEY MADE THE SUCCESS HAPPEN.
- Comment on Conservative values 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good advertisement to be gay lol.
- Comment on Where are we heading? 3 weeks ago:
I mean just because Indian art was much more polished back then doesn’t mean the civilisation was thriving. The caste system was real
- Comment on Gold 5 weeks ago:
So they agree the universe has abundant resources and the ultra wealthy on earth are just resource hoarders who don’t want to share those resources which directly causes poverty.
- Comment on Times have changes sadly 1 month ago:
Robots aren’t slaves.(?)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The elites don’t even want people to look like mammals let alone humans.
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 1 month ago:
It is argued that the powers they posses are mythological but the figures actually existed as kings and princes of that era. But there is no conclusive evidence of it as Indians in general were not great at recording their history and whatever they did record (which was still a lot) was kept in Nalanda which was burnt by invaders.
- Comment on Am I?😰 2 months ago:
“You are a good question” vibes
- Comment on John - it's a trap! 2 months ago:
shareholders still call the shots
- Comment on It's already running 2 months ago:
Sudo gives you slavery right /s
- Comment on It's already running 2 months ago:
Immutable Distros exist buddy
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 2 months ago:
America themselves supplied the nuclear tech to Pakistan because at the time India was USSR’s strong ally and considered it a threat. Now ig Pakistan comes in top 10 countries with the most nukes so I don’t think US will try to mess with it now.
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 2 months ago:
Human trafficking is the least of the worries in that country lol. The country is a military dictatorship that fuels and funds terrorist attacks in Kashmir. The Prime Minister is just their puppet. After independence and partition, they thought they had a huge threat from India so they invested hugely in their military and still ended up losing all the wars against India. Now they are so much in debt that they have to bootlick America to get the IMF to give them money. Which again they use it to fund terrorist activities in Kashmir.
The entire south Asia region (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) is pretty unsafe for women. Sexual Assualt, Kidnappings and Human Trafficking are a huge problem even for the natives.
- Comment on Call me Barbie the way I lust after Ken Thompson. 2 months ago:
They bred and we got fedora.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
DLSS 8: Your eyes have AI
(Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)
Yep
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
How does it sit right that a machine is making stuff that is fundamentally supposed to be human creativity and imagination. This is just going make every game look the same with more annoying imperfections that humans won’t make.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
DLSS 6: You don’t even need to design your game. AI will generate it in real time.🤡
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 3 months ago:
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
- Comment on Western Imperialism 3 months ago:
Lol western countries are the ones who supported putting extreme islamists in power in the first place, creating a hotspot for terrorists and making life worse for the normal folks living in those regions.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 months ago:
Oh we do have a lot of Microsuckers in this world who will choose this over the Steam Machine because “It is well integrated into the system” bullshit.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 3 months ago:
If it’s unsustainable for you, release the server and game source code for someone else to host it and patch it. Why waste developers’ time and effort into making of this game?!
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 months ago:
As in
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 months ago:
Distros are for noobs. Real men just use the kernel.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 4 months ago:
From the comments I realised that you westerners don’t seem to have a concept of MRP (Maximum Retail Price) where you can’t sell the product for more than a specific price anywhere in the country set by the manufacturer per batch. It is inclusive of all sales taxes. Your prices seem to vary according to the demand lol. So if anyone charges above that it is usually added in the bill as Card processing fees and very few businesses do that because people get furious over here in India.
