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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.

  I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.

  It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.

  I do like Valve overall though and am a fan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  His cash grab was steam, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is assassin’s creed any good? Once a game becomes a franchise with a bajillion releases I just tune it out. Feel the same way about marvel movies. Maybe they’re good, maybe they’re bad, but I’m more annoyed that they’re trying to shove it down my throat, so I tune out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Beware the diterpenes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly, at the presidential level, however I recall Congress having a bunch of “tea party” nut jobs elected that shut down the government over the passage of Obamacare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started paying attention in 2000, even though I didn’t really understand it and couldn’t vote, however my first voting election was 2004 and I remember being disappointed when John Kerry lost to Bush, who had already gotten us involved in two wars that would cost trillions of dollars.

  My experience has been that Republican administrations tend to be rife with corruption, cut taxes for rich people and run up the deficit.

  Eventually, people get sick of the moral decay and tanking economic prospects and put a democrat back in, who tries to undo all the damage, but is blocked most of the time by Republicans in Congress acting in bad faith.

  Then, the right wing media environment drums up a load of fear and actual lies about the economy to get everyone voting for a Republican again.

  That’s the cycle, except the Republican media ecosystem gets more extreme over time, and so do the candidates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tax an income above $10,000,000 per year at 90%. There really isn’t a need for more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You got in at a bad time and probably picked some subpar investments. You likely bought some big tech stocks at the worst possible time, and many of them never recovered because they were way over valued to begin with.

  Stick with total market or sp500 fund like VTI or VOO. You’d be up right now if you had.

  Also, it sounds like you invested once and then never bought more? The whole point is that you’re buying more every paycheck. You’d be way up if you’d kept investing through 2022 when prices were low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sushi Glory Hole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey where ya going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems nice at first, but having worked jobs with nothing to do, time passes so slow. It’s painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But people have been born and died, no? I’m sure total used is closer to something like $500-600 million?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨33,000 Boeing workers lose health care coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cobra sucks. “hey you have no income now because you were laid off, want to pay $850/month to continue your health insurance?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was surprisingly very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, but Fairphone should address this issue and GrapheneOS guy should work with them on it to bring support to an actual secure and private phone that doesn’t rely on big evil Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t they work it out? I don’t want to use Google hardware and I don’t want to use Google software. One provides one fix the other lacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish it didn’t have to be that way, lol. Can’t we have some quality third party hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians will vote on a $18 minimum wage. Workers already want $25 and more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Executive pay would be nice. Make it so the CEO gets paid a maximum of 20x the lowest paid worker. CEO pay goes up? So does company minimum wage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is that price too. You go in the app and start adding like $20 worth of food to buy and somehow by the time you’re done tipping it’s $70.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was at a concert recently and the merch vendor was asking for a tip. It’s like, I bought a t-shirt, why am I tipping you? Did you make the t-shirt yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans don’t know what’s good for them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely reasons not to change jobs constantly. It kind of depends on industry.

  Finding a new job might mean you need to relocate, which is inconvenient and becomes harder if you own a home or have a family.

  There is also always a risk that the new company’s culture or your new boss are bad. It’s not something you can really know for sure until you switch, but if they aren’t good, it might not be worth the extra money.

  It also takes time to ramp up and figure out the way things work. Being new in a job kinda sucks for a lot of reasons.

  Your current job might offer something that is hard to find elsewhere like flexibility to work remotely when you want, or free food, or a good 401k match.

  Some benefits take time to accrue and starting over at a new company might mean starting over. For example, some companies increase vacation days based on years of service. Same goes for other things like percentage of 401k match. You might also miss out on the full 401k at your current job if you leave early depending on vesting schedules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Employers Spend $340 Million per Year on “Union Avoidance” Consultants Who Teach Tactics to Discourage Unionization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be law that every company with more than 50 employees has a union

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Toyota Is Intentionally "Falling Behind" On EVs | Morning Brew (10:10)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In what case is a BEV better than hybrid already?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Toyota Is Intentionally "Falling Behind" On EVs | Morning Brew (10:10)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it works though. The Prius is one of the most reliable cars on the road. It can go 500,000 miles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has a much smaller user basis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have yet to buy a PS5 because there isn’t a game I want yet. Also, Sony tends to release improved consoles with lower price points and smaller footprints after a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iphone 15 pro has something called "always on display" . what exactly is "always on display" i tried to google search it and it didn't really tell me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recommend that you go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Always On Display and uncheck “Show Wallpaper”

  This will make it so the display is mostly black when not in use. Black pixels don’t use power on OLED screens, so it will help boost your battery life.

  Or, leave the wallpaper if you’d rather.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My manager sat on a leave request of mine for a week. When I inquired about it, he said it wasn’t a good time, but begrudgingly approved it. I understand why people are not asking.