ryper

@ryper@lemmy.ca

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nick Fury was Black in the (first) Ultimate universe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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.