maynarkh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google employees questioned leadership about cost cuts, layoffs and “morale” issues following the company’s better-than-expected first-quarter earnings report.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pichai then joked that leadership should hold a “Finance 101” Ted Talk for employees.

  Idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I went too deep into sarcasm in there. I wasn’t advocating for violence, just laws protecting society and people that are strong enough to deter corps from breaking them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experiments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it follows that eventually evolution would produce fauna that would take apart a nuclear submarine in seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck clowns are buying up our culture. It’s hard to not participate in it. I don’t play these kinds of games, but I’ve nothing on people who do. We should beat up the fuck clowns until they serve society again.

  And just to be clear, I am advocating violence in the form of stringent regulations binding corporations towards socially beneficial paths. I advocate for violent anti-trust measures to the point even the execs don’t know who is still working for them and who has been broken off to another company to compete freely. And I want worker protections that cause mind-bending fear in wage thieves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experiments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so cool to think we are living in an era of modern superfish, which would absolutely destroy any other fish that ever lived, since fish were upgraded over millions of years to where they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is who can you give money to for entertainment if not to the same 3 corps who have bought everything, and how else can you protest them doing stuff that’s outrageous even by their standards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The point I’m making is that let’s say Gaben did not have the headstart or the loyal player base. What is Steam or Valve? Its customer base or market share? Those are for sale, they can be bought with “free” services, exclusive deals with publishers, or other fuckery. Its team and employees? How would you pay them without revenue if someone else is price dumping the market?

  Yes, Gaben could keep the logo with the bald guy with the valve on his head, but that’s pretty much it. Everything else he has to fight for, invest in, keep alive. And the opponent, Wall Street, has literally unlimited money.

  What I’m saying is that it’s not as simple as “just don’t sell out”. And I’m speaking from experience, not as the sellout guy, but as the employee where the company was sold out from over me a few times already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a weird thing to be upset over, and a weird side to take so passionately that you do.

  I don’t even play Helldivers, nor do I plan to after this, it’s just on the one side there’s random upset people, on the other side there is the corp that got infamous for distributing straight up malware in a weird effort to enforce DRM. Why would people go back to being happy with a company that tried to fuck them over, and then walked its position back to the status quo with no commitments of not trying this again later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t lower your guard just because the fight is over. It’s not like Sony has morals or any trustworthiness to keep to this even in the midterm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays with his sister⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know you should really see a doctor if Rimworld is to moralistically constraining for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that you can say no to selling it, but for that to work you need to:

  • Actually own a deciding majority of the thing
  • Have a good enough product to resist your business partners (eg. game developers) being paid with investor money to switch over to you, sapping value from your product.

  The point is that if Steam wasn’t so much over the competition, Epic could have taken market share over with the exclusive deal shenanigans, or publishers could have started up their own marketplaces. The biggest reason for that is that Steam was early to the party and could get to a good product before others tried to enter the market.

  If Steam didn’t have that, people would have switched over to Epic and publisher stores, and we’d be bitching over Steam not having any good games on it because of backroom deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic is trying to IPO and has all kinds of investors. It tried to undermine Valve by buying out its partners by just spraying money at them for exclusives - you know, “disrupt” the industry. Steam prevails because they are real good at what they do, and they had a head start, but it takes a Gaben to not sell out, a good team and a lot of luck to manage that. Steam is playing against a tilted field is what I’m saying, and is one of the few players who successfully are managing it. They are the exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rollin' coal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t go public with your company, some other company will go public, and buy your company or your customers from under you with the money they got from Wall Street. There are some companies that can try and resist, but the field tilts against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it’s perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

  No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shows off Linux in class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skywind 2024: The Road So Far⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that a lot of people are saying “oh this has been taking forever”, but from what I’m seeing these guys are producing an AAA-sized title with an engine they don’t own, with an IP they don’t own, all on volunteer time.

  This is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all a little crazy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying it’s not good enough for a sentient personality, but it might be good enough for an average politician?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean the orgs, not the employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is vengeful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That said, there are drugs which fuck your life up even in the very short term, and dealing them absolutely be criminalized. Using them should be a medical problem, but dealing? Straight to jail.

  Just to be clear, I’m not talking about pot here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t really got into HD2, too online for my tastes, but I can see its appeal. I think there is a broader phenomenon of a divorce between where big studios are heading and where “traditional” players want to be.

  They’ll see a live service game doing well and think that people want more live service games, not fun games.

  Couldn’t have said it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point being most games do all of this except the fun part, so the bar is pretty low, and companies are all buying shovels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recognize the mother of Wifi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it still extensively used for RC stuff like drones and model aeroplanes / cars though? Asking as an amateur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am the kind of person that always installs tons of mods to everything.

  With ME though, especially on the first playthrough - just go in vanilla. Maybe the remastered thing for ME1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'You're asking the accused ['Israel'] to investigate itself?'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That particular denial cascaded into a string of events that wiped out nearly a generation of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does middle name on plane ticket gave to match passport?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my relatives has a last name that has characters not in ASCII, she could fly to the US and back without issue despite her last name not matching on the passport, ticket and visa.

  These desks are manned by humans, so you will most likely be fine, but you might catch an idiot as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or fed false information, or used to uncover the broader network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Greed Ruined Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You playing for free illustrates my point perfectly. You are there to provide entertainment for whales who actually pay for the game. The deal is that you get some entertainment of your own so that you stay around. But the game is not made for you, and that becomes apparent every time the owner puts the screws on to extract some more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Greed Ruined Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vote with your wallet means people with more money get more votes than you do. MTX does not target people at large, they are fishing for the small amount of whales for whom money is no object. It ruins gaming for the rest of us.

  There is a reason industries get regulated. Swill milk killed a ton of babies, and sold like hot cakes.