ryper
@ryper@lemmy.ca
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
That controller is the same price on Amazon, and Camelcamelcamel shows it went up to that on Dec 6, Friday of last week. It was probably the same with Walmart.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
If the controller was $55 yesterday and $62 today there would definitely be shenanigans, but a week ago? It could just be that a sale ended since you last looked.
- Comment on I need a Glassdoor account AND a review of a previous employer to see reviews on the website 2 months ago:
I deleted my account when I discovered that bullshit. LinkedIn’s new opt-out AI data gobbling has me this close to deleting that account too.
- Comment on People who poop with the bathroom fan off 2 months ago:
How do you know when you’re done wiping?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x07 "The Race" 5 months ago:
The line is in the subtitles as "At least Z’s safe with us until we do.”
- Comment on Are they just typecasting him??? 6 months ago:
Nick Fury was Black in the (first) Ultimate universe
- Comment on Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature 6 months ago:
Its just unreasonable to expect spotify to be able to afford that when they already barely pay musicians.
The audiobooks help them pay less for music:
With the introduction of the stand-alone audiobooks offering, Spotify is now able to pay lower music-licensing rates for the music-and-audiobook bundle, introduced in the U.S. in November 2023. The 2022 settlement agreement between the National Music Publishers Assn. and streaming services includes a carveout for bundles (such as Amazon Prime and Apple Music + Apple News), which the new audiobook offering falls under. Such plans lower the mechanical licensing rates the company pays in the U.S. Spotify’s lower royalty rates are retroactive to March 1, 2024.
However, NMPA president-CEO David Israelite had strong words for the move when contacted for comment by Variety. “It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,” he wrote. “Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move that ends our period of relative peace. We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022 and are looking at all options.” The NMPA and streaming services resolved a years-long standoff over royalty rates with a Copyright Royalty Board ruling in 2022, and agreed upon a new rate of 15.35% for the 2023-2027 period.
- Comment on Discord Quests have started (ads) 8 months ago:
There’s an opt-out in Settings under Privacy & Safety.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 8 months ago:
And a lot of them don’t even wait for you to find something to buy, you just show up and it’s “HEY DO YOU WANT A DISCOUNT?”
- Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP 9 months ago:
If the network had a problem with the plans for season 2 being too dependent on older stuff it’s odd that season 3 still managed to be so full of it, considering the seasons were apparently filmed back-to-back. Did the network folks give their notes on season 2 and then stop paying attention?
- Comment on Amazon pricing makes no sense. 11 months ago:
Is it sold by the same seller as last time? Lots of stuff on Amazon is actually sold by someone else and different sellers can have wildly different prices.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
But Prime is $99 in Canada vs $140 in the US, so it’s a bigger increase percentage-wise
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 1 year ago:
A good reason would have been potential “synergies” with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 1 year ago:
They’re also increasing the price of V-Bucks to try to get even more money out of Fortnite players.
- Comment on Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down 1 year ago:
I remember driving around with the crew, singing “What I Got.” Good times.
- Comment on Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down 1 year ago:
I think Interplay still owns Freespace. They still exist, apparently.