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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can’t you do that with a scope over the iron site that is not full screen and not blurring the peripheral around the scope on the center?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The picture in picture scope is a weird design choice. I remember old delta force games, after moving on to rainbow six, ghost recon, or operation flashpoint, not sure why you would go back to that for scopes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a PS layout kind of person. I looked at the more Xbox designed ones, but don’t folks say the ergonomics aren’t great? They have yours wrists or hands almost at parallel angles instead of a more open position based on the grip design? I almost went

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t a Japanese company make a controller with native steam input? Is that controller any good? The thing with 8bitdo and the like is you can’t map back paddles to unique inputs via steam and they only can duplicate face buttons by programming the controller iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously. I’m Lemmy and against that. But there are dominant pov’s on Lemmy that saturate threads and are reflected in up votes and down votes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with all these things. But I dont understand the hail corporate mentality of being upset or knee jerk defending steam. I’m curious to see where the suit goes and evaluate if I should consider joining a class action suit as I learn more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is Lemmy so anti corporate, but bends over backwards to defend steam as an immaculate corporation. I love steam, and 90% of my game purchases or from their store. 5% are from stores that let me redeem steam keys.

  I think their market position should have some scrutiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you could say it pushed the limits. It required the Ram Expansion Pak. I think only 3 or 4 N64 games required that. It was packed with weird game modes like counter op. The far sight gun as a weird experiment to see through walls. It really pushed the limits and tried to do a lot. TimeSplitters was a great spiritual successor to the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark series that continued the tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect Dark - Gameplay Reveal - Xbox Games Showcase 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got more of a Mirrors Edge vibe than Perfect Dark watching that trailer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My company gives up to an extra 2 weeks of PTO based on years of service. Stock Options/RSU have like a 3 to 5 year pay out vesting timeline with a % of it vesting every year. but you get new grants every year. So after you’ve been working for 3 or more years, you basically have a “full” grant value vesting every year. throw in 6 percent 401k match at 100 percent match my on paper below market value salary actually returns a pretty good total comp package. I’m not sure if switching every 2 or 3 years would provide me any significant benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about it being locked in. I have seen people with Sr and Lead titles interviewing for a lower position these days. Those things don’t always stay with you the rest of your life. But titles are cheap. Salary, bonuses, and stock are money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this work out with all in value when it comes to stock options or other vesting based non salary compensation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like debuty editor Alice Bell⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically just British terminology for layoffs with a severance package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they already had that during working hours. I swear sometimes while I’m working on the east coast hours, my west coast colleagues signs on at 12PM EST and signs off of 530EST and aren’t around to answer my 6:30 EST pings. Meanwhile I’m waking early for EU client calls, and handling 9PM meetings with Asia offices. So it goes. I don’t think we can have it both ways where you can be remote working from anywhere yet not be on the hook to work hours during the defined operational times. I’m not working 9 to 9EST, and take long breaks mid day if I have evening meetings, but there are operational realities of needing to talk to people to get work done and those times need to be defined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your comment was vague. I know there’s these days, but I was talking about a theme I have been seeing since around 2010. In the past 23 years we’ve had differing levels of inflation and what not, but entertainment seems to still draw communal vocal ire in ways that seem disproportional to more impactful issues caused by corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The defunct Consumerist used to run a poll. forbes.com/…/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-ag… . It was always strange how EA beat out the companies that I think do more harm to society for several years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason people seem to experience the most rage, vocalization frustration, etc. when it comes to having their entertainment fucked with (whether pricing, content itself, etc). Companies can cause global recession or market crashes, be responsible for child labor resulting in death and dismemberment, or engage in flat out fraud, but those companies will never bring out the toxicity, death threats, entitlement, and communal anger like a video game or film/tv company that impacts the entertainment of the masses. When people used to think of the most evil company in America back in the early 2010’s, EA was more hated than Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or AIG. That never made sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no problem discussing political opinions. I hate how every thread gets co opted by un critical hot takes for the circle jerk of up votes. It’s frustrating that any post about digital media has the top comments all saying “Yarrrr, time to sail the high sees.” Or anytime there’s any news about a corporation, the top comment seems to be “fuck capitalism and those greedy greedy share holders.” Those kinds of comments aren’t critical, aren’t contributing to any meaningful conversation. On reddit I think it succeeded when you had communities of enthusiasts having conversations about the thing they are enthusiastic about. Lemmy seems to have a lot more people enthusiastic about a political position just try to spread that on any and all communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the over representation of self described communists that take over every thread to poetically or unpoetically just keep saying capitalism=bad and then do shit like justify bad behavior because capitalism=bad or pretend to care about making sure employees get paid while advocating for piracy of everything being justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees Say ‘Sizable Portion’ Of Gearbox-Owned Studio Has Been Laid Off⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other thing you need to highlight is that during that rapid growth phase 2 years ago it meant building up teams. In tech it really became an job market where employees had lot of the power in negotiation which drove up the cost of labor to fill this surplus of openings. I worked at a company where team members were being offered 10k to 20k annual retention bonuses to not quit. But with all of the factors you mentioned in this cool down, you end up with a problem that you now have too much staff, but also too expensive staff that you can’t afford. Employees are definitely losing now with the layoffs, but for the ones that were able to make job moves and survive the layoffs, they’re probably are doing much better because of it (at least from a compensation POV, not sure about anxiety worrying about being laid off next).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wondering if it’s a touch screen to help with that. I prefer steam controller track pads, but I could get by with a touchscreen for portable in some games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with Epic Games?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not really a good answer other than convenience. Folks view Steam as the benevolent convenient monopoly. They want it to be their store for everything, their launcher for everything, their friends and social networks for all gaming on PC and what not. Epic is behind on feature parity and function, but even if it did have parity, I think gamers still want the convenience of one store/library/friends list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell of a fake new editorialize. Where is the “celebration” in this article? You could equally spin this article as “Gen Z and Millennials refuse to contribute to generational wealth and prioritize making capital enrich their lives instead.”

  “However, this fear may not be that much of a concern for the younger generation, as most are actually looking to retire early — or to retire at all, the report by Intuit showed.

  Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.”

  I am seeing that with my parents. My dad has had offers to make some pretty good cash as a consultant for a few hours a week here or there. In some industries, like law, a retired judge can make bank working in arbitration where they can pick up just a little work for a good pay check to keep them busy and have more fun money. And then there’s the God’s work that is unpaid, child care for grandchildren. For a generation that has lower birth rates as a personal choice, I can see those folks looking to do part time work if it’s enjoyable and supports their other endeavors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet is worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Atlantic is a pretty reputable source. And I think there’s a difference between subscribing to news for news reporting like the New York Times, The Guardian, etc, vs subscribing to magazine like the Atlantic, New Yorker, or New Republic that will give you more political commentary and analysis. Both have a role to play and both need subscribers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet is worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because there was a time when everyone had print subscriptions that were healthy, and the internet just gave them extra money for ads. When you start losing subscribers because everyone is looking at your shit online for free, you learn you need to charge for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s annoying. But I think there’s a misconception of “if you pay for something it must be ad free.” There’s goals to get to X revenue. It’s totally reasonable to have that way to get to X to be a blend of subscription fees and some forms of promotional content. Also, I am curious if the record labels have any agreements in place that require Spotify to do occasional promotions to both premium and non premium users in order for the service to have access to their music. I’d be curious to see what the “why am I seeing this?” link says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” goes into how protestantism cradled capitalist growth. But I think it’s a bit heavy handed to say folks support capitalist ideology. You don’t really support ideology. The ideology is what supports capitalism or is capitalism itself. But Protestantism is generally has individualistic beliefs. No longer does the clergy intermediate relation to God. Protestants believe individuals have a personal and individual relation to god. This sense of individualism can overlap with capitalist mentalities of individual success and profi.