DebatableRaccoon

@DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If no-one’s putting in some kind of legally-binding contract for you, assume it poofs. Whatever games you “own”, whatever platform they’re on, make a list. You might just have to go hunting for them on the high seas one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apathy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “That’ll show em!” They said, proudly looked at the divet in their face where their nose used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the top one that comes to mind is Days Gone. I can’t help but feel like we’ve played completely different games when seeing reviews for it from the likes of IGN, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Precisely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it generally takes a certain type of person to smoke and there happens to be quite a lot of overlap with the type of person who’s fine with littering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable and it’s there that things get blurry. I don’t think anyone can argue that Amazon’s bottom line is Bezos but on paper Bezos doesn’t have any money because all of his monetary value is tied up in assets. A person with that much money simply ties everything to their company and suddenly they’re corporate assets instead of personal belongings, thus tax deductible (imagine the Spongebob rainbow meme here) along with the plethora of other advantages these people get just for being wealthy. Heck, this doesn’t even apply to only the insanely wealthy. With a smart accountant, it’s applicable to business owners.

  Some years ago I worked for a small company where the owner would declare all of his purchases as business assets. Some of those items would become “loss leaders” and simply “disappear” while others would get “rented” to himself at a “generous discount” until he chose to sell it. I got to learn just how perfectly legal it all was the hard way because by the time I was done at the company, I was looking for the biggest bus I could throw him under and it turned out there weren’t any. Made me want to puke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that comes to mind is Amazon being given bramd new warehouses by governments in exchange for barely-humane working conditions. This means, the working stiff has payed for their ability to get a job. Company expansion should come out of that same company’s profit margin, not the back pocket of the working force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permabanned from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yiiiis, such delectable trash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because VAT id proportional to the item, not the person’s income. From one perspective, yes it’s a fair system but from another, the cost of living is significantly greater for a poor person than a wealthy person. Many are barely scraping by while others are out wining and dining and still getting plenty for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permabanned from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My skills as a raccoon are debatable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permabanned from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, had this happen on 2 different accounts, both of which were in good standing. Same as you, no given explanation despite the message saying there would be, and no real recourse to appeal despite there being a provided link that simply looped on itself. Eventually, I was able to get a human via the “support team” who gave me the answer “All bans are final.”. You options are to make a new account or stop using their shit platform. Pick your poison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends how you look at it. Out of my wage, I lose ~50% after taxes and the healthcare system’s “fair share” and, depending on the country, the health system is so under-funded anyway that there’s a heavy incentive to give in and pay private if you want certain operations or some such done anytime in the foreseeable future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because fuck the poor and working class. Don’t forget that they’re double dipping since income is often taken out of your earnings before you even get your money then every single purchase is taxed too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there specific terms for the different types of monetary inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one companies refer to when justifying price hikes is called “Bullshit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I respond if a girl I know keeps talking how another girl is into her, obsessed with her, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending how your friend feels about this person, it might be an idea to tell your friend how your feel about that other person. If your friend isn’t into the obsessed one while you are, you could arrange to all hang out together and your friend could effectively scrape the person off onto you. Win-win-win. Also, in my experience, it could simply be from the novelty that your friend is taking any amount of interest in being wanted like that. For most normal people it’s not common place for someone else to take that much of an interest in them. It can be an ego booster, disturbing or any combination of the 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A terrific film

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason you feel to leave a job is a good enough reason. Just make sure you have somewhere else already lined up before you had in your notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be that SMS service would get so overrun with HNY messages that it’d be a game to see how long it took to get a response. For some, at least. It truly was a time of making your own fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I PS5?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a PS5 but I’d assume many things are carry overs from the PS4. With that out of the way, purchased games are tied to the account, not the console and same for the saves; offspring B’s save is perfectly safe from offspring A, for example.

  Now, on the PS4 there was a primary account. If the primary account bought a game AND DOWNLOADED IT, the other accounts could play that game and have their own save. I’m not sure if a game purchased by an additional account would be accessible to the rest but logic would follow that they could so long as the game had been downloaded by the owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a video game triple A (AAA)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  High cost, high potential, high advertising budget, low creativity and lower likelihood of being interesting or meeting the expectations they fostered among the buying public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No Sega. Bad Sega. Down boy. Don’t make me get the spray bottle…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's potential acquisition of Kadokawa seems to be quashed for now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank fuck for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpacking developer calls out Nintendo after reporting "cheap fakes" on its eShop [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo really is the Disney of video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of a line from a Jim Carrey stand-up. On the subject of that little voice in the back of your head “Turning the vehicle into on-coming traffic would be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having experienced it personally before now, yup. Very easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way I had it explained to me is it has a good chance of severing the brain stem, supposedly killing you quicker than a hole through multiple parts of your brain matter which is a way some people survive the attempt. Also, suicide by gun is a lot quicker and easier than something like taking a knife to one of your veins, either the “results” way or the “attention” way.

  That said, sometimes it’s a moment of none thinking. Some people see a quick out and take it. I was once told an annecdote from a client I met at work about a friend of his who everyone thought was fine right until he was cutting fire wood one day and opted to throw his throat on a running chainsaw. Anyone thinking for more than a couple of seconds realises that’s an extraordinarily horrible way to go out, but sometimes that 1 is all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who said you have to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but we aren’t exactly going to be mourning either. Almost no-one wants SS to be Arkham canon so it’s no great loss… Aside for the waste of Kevin Conroys last possible contribution to the franchise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get over my reddit ""addiction""?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way too inefficient. Just comment anyway about Lemmy and through in a little #FuckSpez.

  That’s my best guess for why two accounts I had got banned on there.