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- Comment on Saviour 16 hours ago:
And yet tons of people already believe it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.
- Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™ 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, he’s commanding a ton of influence among policy makers, so it’s pretty critical to not completely ignore the bullshit he’s up to.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally what AAA means…
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/AAA_(video_game_industry)
And to think Larian is some small company is also silly. It has over 400 employees and 7 offices. It’s privately owned, yes, but it hasn’t been an AA studio since the success of Divinity Original Sin 2 and most definitely not since the massive success of BG3.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 2 weeks ago:
Agreed for the most part, but that’s not really the gaming industry’s fault. I will say environmental graphics (e.g. ambient details, texture depth, lighting, amount of miscellaneous background and ground clutter density) have gotten much better. If you play The original W3 (before the official “remake” and/or mods), it definitely looks very aged versus something like Black Myth Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077. Bloodborne even more so (although, I’d argue that game’s graphics were never its strong point to begin with, but it did have excellent art direction, as From’s games always tend to have).
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 2 weeks ago:
BG3 is not an AA game, lol. The A’s simply mean budget, and BG3 had a budget of over $100 million.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 weeks ago:
I thought everything just went to the 4x formula and/or the micro/hero focused route.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 3 weeks ago:
That’s because they’ve been frantically digging at the bottom of the cage, tearing up all the grass. I was trying to catch a groundhog and caught a raccoon instead. Little asshole was the most vicious, savage beast I’d ever seen. He wouldn’t even leave after setting it free, he turned around and death glared at me before finally running off.
- Comment on They live among us 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, my toddler will immediately place a sticker on literally the first thing they see. 🫠
- Comment on My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance 4 weeks ago:
Grim Dawn is fantastic! I can’t wait for the new expansion coming in a few months. I also heard they’re making a sequal after they finish their town building game which is coming out of EA soon.
- Comment on My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance 4 weeks ago:
Diablo’s story is now entirely detached from its gameplay, the protag can see the villains cutscenes due to a plot device, no more clever writing to explain events after, you get rewards not from an NPC but from the menu from completing world events, and somehow there are localised areas of 100s of enemies just waiting for you to start a fight in a random spot on an open field, theres a GPS showing you the way to the next objective
Diablo 2’s story is also detached, it’s nothing new lol. I’d say Diablo 3 actually had the most protag focused story besides Diablo 1. In D4, all of the cutscenes at least involve main characters you regularly interact with.
Regardless, no one plays those games for the story. They’ve always been purely about gear grinding and demon/monster butchering. D4 is probably the most polished in the series, except for maybe D3, which was a very streamlined experience, for better or worse. I like all of the Diablo games, but I still think D2 and D3 are the most fun I’ve had playing with friends. Fun is always the most important aspect, and D4 was making strong strides to improving that aspect when I last played over the summer. Not sure if that’s still the case in the new expansion, but I figure I’ll try it out when the xpac is on a deep discount.
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 4 weeks ago:
Discord has individual volume adjustor per person in chat. With my friends turning me up and me turning my mic volume setting in Windows all the way up, I’m able to talk quietly enough in the next room without bothering my wife if she’s sleeping. We also have a white noise sound machine we run at night, so I’m sure that helps a bit. White noise is probably your best bet if you’re in a smaller living area.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 weeks ago:
Because, unfortunately, millions of people still use it. If you’re selling a product, it’s in your best interest to have as much social media presence as possible.
- Comment on 'Caves Of Qud': Roguelike RPG Finally Launches After 17 Years in Development (And It's Really Good) 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s on the “other” site, but this post from a few months ago has several people saying they got it working quite nicely: reddit.com/…/regarding_qud_on_the_steam_deck/
- Comment on A real landlord special. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, it could be worse? That’s definitely pretty obnoxious, though.
- Comment on Creep. Smdh 1 month ago:
Agreed. And I’m not religious, either. I’m not rigidly atheist, but I am highly skeptical of some omniscient, omnipotent being playing some divine version of RimWorld.
- Comment on Creep. Smdh 1 month ago:
Does the Bible actually say it’s forever? I thought I’ve read a discussion before where it’s implied that one can still repent and be redeemed in the afterlife. I’m not a theologian or an expert in the least bit, so I may be misremembering or it could’ve just been someone from one of the various more modern, progressive religious sects.
- Comment on 'Powered bv SteamOS' gaming handheld validation leaks in Valve documentation, Asus ROG Ally may be among first handhelds with official SteamOS support 1 month ago:
That’s the first description on the website. It says it’s a cloud native Linux image that comes pre-installed with all the apps for gaming, e.g. Steam, Lutris, etc. I was asking a question as to why it’s better than SteamOS, as when I see cloud native I just assume it’s something designed for and around streaming. I may be misunderstanding its purpose, but that’s the impression I get from the site.
- Comment on 'Powered bv SteamOS' gaming handheld validation leaks in Valve documentation, Asus ROG Ally may be among first handhelds with official SteamOS support 1 month ago:
What makes Bazzite so much better to use on a Deck versus SteamOS? It doesn’t seem any different than just using Remote Play/Moonlight/whatever and streaming from your main gaming rig?
- Comment on Blizzard may have violated the UK GDPR following my 2019 Data Erasure Request 1 month ago:
Pretty sure the only thing that happens when violating GDPR is a fine, which is ultimately the same thing as “paying off” the government, but just in a legally obligated way.
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 1 month ago:
That’s wild that insults are a crime there, I never knew that. Quite funny back and forth, though. I laughed at how the writing got more and more chaotic haha
As for your other comment, the US also requires a judge to sign off on a warrant for raiding/searching someone’s home. Some judges are more strict about it than others, and the more high profile you are, the more the judges tend to be stricter with approving them.
However, if you’re in a poorer area and you’re not rich, it’s not unheard of for home raids to occur quite liberally. Hell, one of my old coworkers got raided a few years ago due to the police going to the wrong address (the intended house was across the street). And no, the police didn’t give shit for compensation and his family couldn’t afford to take it to court and he just didn’t want to deal with potential repercussions of the police harassing him afterwards since he’s an immigrant (here legally, but yeah, lots of people here don’t care about that…).
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 1 month ago:
Man, that might happen for a high profile family/person. For average people in many places in the US, they’ll be lucky if the police even pay out to cover damages to property, nevermind anything else.
- Comment on Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"? 1 month ago:
Your example is too damn spot-on, haha, man I haven’t seen one so brazenly fake in a couple months. Then again, I only stick to the smaller subs on Reddit whenever I do use it, so bot activity is a lot less frequent on those.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
They might be referring to people who have it occur due to a technical problem (needing to clear their cache or something). Other than that, tons of my friends and coworkers have Premium and they’ve never complained of ads, so I don’t think it’s a normal thing that occurs frequently.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 month ago:
TIL the etymology of goodbye is a contraction of “god be with you.”
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 month ago:
If kids are dumb today, millennials are on the hook for it, boomers didn’t do this one.
The bulk of older teenagers/college kids are from Gen X, not so much from millennials.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Yeah, lithium mining and processing is extremely toxic and destructive to the environment. On one hand, it’s primarily limited to a smaller area, but on the other hand, is it sustainable long-term unless a highly efficient lithium recycling technology emerges?