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- Comment on Full Cities: Skylines 2 Economy 2.0 Patch Notes Revealed as Huge Update Goes Live 3 days ago:
I am hopeful for this. Playing it on day one, I reported a garbage management bug on the official forum: only to be told it was “by design”, and yet still game-breaking.
The performance woes got all the press, but the game was fundamentally broken. It was nearly impossible to lose. Too many services for a small city? Here’s free “government subsidies” that you also can’t shut off when your city is successful. Don’t have garbage service? No problem, a neighboring city you have no control over is gonna handle your trash – for free.
I hope this is finally a step in the right direction, but I’ll never understand why it took a year to listen to day 1 issues. If the game had been releaser Early Access the response would have been better all around. Performance issues need to take second place: if the game isn’t fun, I don’t care how it performs.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
I’m sure inflation has affected that too
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
With other industries, owning 5, 10, 15 other sites might be indicative of a monopoly. But there is a metric fuckton of porn online.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
Can you define what part of PornHub owning a lot of other porn sites makes them a monopoly? Part of being a monopoly is being anticompetitive. What has PornHub done in terms of lobbying or other anticompetitive practices which makes it more difficult for a new company sharing porn to take hold? Because there is a ton of porn online which is unrelated to PornHub.
I’m all for calling out monopolies, but I legit don’t see one here. I’m open to being wrong.
I don’t believe that the thing about actresses getting work after 22 is reliant on PornHub. Porn has worked that way for 50+ years my dude.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
“Every other site”, obvs, it’s right there in the comment. You mean you’re not uploading your driver’s license to watch someone get railed?!
/s
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
OP’s claim here is just BS. PornHub is in no way a monopoly or even close. It reads like someone who has literally never searched for porn on the internet. Astroturf.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
Yeah, well that’s the thing: they like the idea of being against government regulations, but if it is presented to them as a moral issue, they eat it up.
Case in point: a comment in this thread loosely trying to pose PH’s response as being against states’ rights – in this case, due to the states tacitly regulating morality. I’m sure if the issue was e.g. raising state taxes, all of a sudden states’ rights wouldn’t matter.
The right wing learned a while ago that if you can pose anything as morality, there is a whole class of people that will simply lick the boot.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
Unfortunately they’ll go after that next.
I’m legitimately surprised at the number of pro-government control comments in this thread, though. We are truly doomed because of the people in the back.
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 1 week ago:
I’ve never, ever seen anyone lick boots harder than this.
- Comment on The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake 2 weeks ago:
+1. A lot of pushback I’ve seen is along the lines of “but all these business owners will have to close their businesses!”. What short sighted BS. We are talking about decades and decades of wage stagnation and business models that are not teneble with living wages. We are talking about a history of having the public subsidize the profits of these businesses through social programs for their workers, while the money stolen from labor goes right into the pockets of the owner.
Will some, or even many, businesses need to close? Yes. Should they have to? Yes. We collectively need to get out of this mindset that MBA-think is the way. It is not.
- Comment on Waffle House raises worker pay after strikes and pressure from labor organizers 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Fewer tips while retaining a living wage should be the goal. Tips remove the burden of the livable wage from the business and place it on the consumer, where it will never be guaranteed. Lots of businesses likely have completely untenable business models if they had to pay fair wages without tips.
Let’s stop having the average person subsidize companies.
- Comment on Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS 2 weeks ago:
Oh dang, I didn’t realize they were also doing subs now. What an absolute sham.
- Comment on Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS 2 weeks ago:
I bet they wouldn’t care as much if a significant portion of their modern business model wasn’t reselling old games.
“Here’s a game that came out in 1987, except we’ve added DRM to it and pulled its new price from a hat.”
- Comment on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is crumbling 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen a more useless waste of news space.
- Comment on Frustrated with the current political environment, come join us in the Lemon Party 4 weeks ago:
Idk if I trust this Tightpussy character, better google that first
- Comment on Furiosa's Box Office Opening Explained: What The Hell Happened With The Mad Max Prequel?! 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I’m tired of franchises. I don’t want to see more money grabs when a movie does well. Let’s bring new ideas to the table.
- Comment on U.S. workers are less satisfied with nearly every aspect of their jobs than they were a year ago, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
This. I’ve struggled to explain the general malaise, especially to older people, but you are completely right here. There is simply no point to anything anymore. Things used to operate such that hard work = reward. Now, the reward has been almost universally removed. The system itself is failing, and any hard work just makes some other rich person richer.
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 2 months ago:
I would love to see figures for this that factor out the general decline of brick and mortar sales in general. I do hope physical media continues to sell, but I think if it does, it will be a niche market that probably isn’t shopping at Target.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 2 months ago:
In spite of some of the comments to the contrary here, I really think this is fine. Early access is early access. 2 hours has been the ground truth for a while. It does seem like a loophole, and I’m fine with them filling it.
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 2 months ago:
That’s why you gotta drink during the week, change up that incentive program
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 2 months ago:
I am mostly a Linux user (surprise, Lemmy!) but recently started a new job. Given the choice of a Windows laptop vs a Macbook Pro, I took the latter, despite my long-time distaste for Apple.
I do not, even in a work setting, even want to touch Windows 11 in any recurring capacity (yes, I did try it – at my last role).
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
I mean, usually they’re already active as soon as the game starts, so I don’t really think it could be considered that way.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
Doesn’t surprise me, if you read their forums there are a ton of folks reporting issues either being outright ignored or told that the game-breaking bug they found is “as designed”.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard of people having a different experience (the economy just never picking up enough to succeed) – I think both are indicative of a borked simulation.
For me, I can even be completely in the black, with 100k+ income, and I’ll still be getting hundreds of grand in subsidies. Ruins any challenge.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
It was definitely possible to tank a city in Skylines 1. That said, it’s also not the most challenging game.
But with Skylines II, I can’t even tank one when I try. Hundreds of thousands in the red? The game throws free money at you in the form of “government subsidies” to compensate. And they cannot be disabled. Absolute shit show.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
I was so excited for Cities: Skylines II, and it is a shell of the former game. So many systems seem to fake the economy, and it also feels impossible to make your city fail.
Waiting until I see evidence of a good game post-release before I board any kind of hype train.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 5 months ago:
Can you list those tangible benefits?
As someone who has worked remotely since 2016 (well before covid), I don’t see them for a company such as WebMD.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 5 months ago:
I’m sure this makes sense to the CEO-brain. It doesn’t make sense to virtually anyone else, and it really just serves to make Capcom look like dicks.
- Comment on Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty. 5 months ago:
It muddies the water of any discussion and forces focus on others. If everyone does it, it’s not wrong, right?
Obviously that conclusion is false, but from the lack of consequences we continue to see, many people aren’t understanding.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 5 months ago:
I have one of these that I never use. Good to know they’re still getting updates. I do have a potential application for mine in the near future.