billiam0202
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- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so think about it like this:
Suppose your job is making wooden chairs. It’s takes you the exact same skills to make a wooden chair to sell for profit, as it does to make a wooden chair to donate to a chairless children’s charity, right? So why would you spend all your time and skills doing a job that’s eventually going to bankrupt you? While you might do a few chairs because you feel like it’s morally right, the bulk of your work is going to be selling chairs because that’s how you sustain yourself.
CEOs are in the same situation. A 500-person for-profit company takes the exact same skill set to run as a 500-person non-profit. So the reality is that non-profits need to either be competitive in pay with for-profits, or they have to be attractive in ways other than compensation so they can entice CEOs to work for them.
Now, none of that is to say that the scale of CEO compensation is appropriate, because it’s not. But that’s the calculus a non-profit has to make.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Whether it does or not is irrelevant; what matters is the perception among executives that it does.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
Most open to “enhancing your operating system experience with special offers and promotional materials”!
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 4 weeks ago:
In 1892, a Canadian dentist called Edgar Parker
born Edgar R.R. Parker, 22 March 1872
DUDE WAS ONLY 20 WHEN HE STARTED THIS!?
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
It was ~67% of eligible voters that were registered to vote. Over 94% of registered voters actually voted.
- Comment on Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K 1 month ago:
What, Guillemot thinks Ubisoft’s share price is still too high?
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 month ago:
To make astronomically large spaces fit in the game engine from 2009, they made everything infinitesimally small.
In fairness, when Star Citizen first went in to development CE3 was a modern engine.
- Comment on Goddammit Texas! 2 months ago:
A certain political party benefits from low voter turnout. Which, coincidentally, also happens to be the party working to get Trump elected and shield him from the repercussions of his crimes.
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 2 months ago:
AccuWeather’s business model relies on “adding value” to government-provided data, and monetizing it. Maintaining a fleet of satellites isn’t cheap.
- Comment on Epic detail plans for Unreal Engine 6 and share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite" 2 months ago:
If you can get people to order their groceries from within your walled garden and take a cut… you’re golden.
That’s what Amazon tried with Alexa, and they still can’t figure out how to make it profitable.
- Comment on The Beamscope TV Magnifier - one of the most worthless game accessories of the 1980s. 2 months ago:
That’s a pretty accurate summation of gaming in general in the 80s. The art in the book was nearly always better than the gameplay for lots of games.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
don’t think that’s their goal at all.
As mentioned (via Tom Warren) by [Playstation co-CEO Hermen] Hulst in the interview, Sony wants to tempt PC players to purchase and play sequels to single-player narrative games on a PlayStation console.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
…huh. TIL.
The last time I had to download the unifying software it was more often than that.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
And to add insult to injury…
- Comment on 1337 3 months ago:
To keep people from accidentally walking in?
- Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now? 3 months ago:
Skibidi Bonesacks
As one of those “older millennials” you referenced… What the fucking shit?
- Comment on An important update on Concord 3 months ago:
There’s just too much bad rep.
On the one hand, that’s not a bet I’d take since No Man’s Sky exists.
On the other hand, NMS is definitely the exception, not the rule.
- Comment on Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing 4 months ago:
Okay, now we’re just making shit up
Self-aware wolves much?
- Comment on Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first game 4 months ago:
FTA:
As in the first game, executions are key. When an enemy is staggered, you can run up and trigger a canned death animation—usually tearing them apart with your bare hands, or impaling them on their own claw-limbs—in order to recover your armour bar to block incoming hits.
- Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first gamewww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot 4 months ago:
They started putting games on PC, but their plan is to make sequels console-exclusive.
- Comment on "Deadpool & Wolverine" has made more money in its' opening weekend than the entire box office runs of "The Marvels" and "Madame Web" - combined. 4 months ago:
That movie was so bad, writing the jokes was super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
- Comment on "Deadpool & Wolverine" has made more money in its' opening weekend than the entire box office runs of "The Marvels" and "Madame Web" - combined. 4 months ago:
On the other hand, we got a hilarious Pitch Meeting and Honest Trailer from it.
- Comment on NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing" 4 months ago:
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I provided a screenshot as an example. Obviously I’m not going to link to every fucking bigoted comment. Those were the top three comments; two of which were useful to my point.
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Note that zero of these comments are complaining about diversity
Here, let me make one bigger for you:
They “think” adding more diversity in the form of inclusion and LGBT representation would make the game worse, since apparently that point wasn’t as clear as, say, a fucking foghorn.
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Do you know what people are referring to when they use that word?
Yes. “Woke” means “anything that threatens my worldview of white masculine superiority and reminding me that non-white, non-straight, non-male people exist and should be represented in art hurts my fee-fees.”
But sure, explain how it’s really about “ethics in gaming journalism”.
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- Comment on NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing" 4 months ago:
It’s a coordinated effort to make those bigoted assholes seem to be a larger number than they actually are. And we can blame Steve Bannon for that.
- Comment on NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing" 4 months ago:
I edited my comment, but I was wrong in that it’s not the review page that gets swarmed but the comments on announcements that Arrowhead makes. Anyone can comment on an announcement (which makes sense, if [for example] it’s about an upcoming feature that isn’t out yet.)
- Comment on NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing" 4 months ago:
Sorry, you’re correct- it’s not the reviews, but the comments on any announcement made by the devs.
The lack of mouse icon next to their names means those Steam accounts don’t own the games.
- Comment on NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing" 4 months ago:
The Helldivers 2 Steam review page is covered with reviews from accounts that don’t even own the game begging Arrowhead to “not add WOKENESS!” to the game.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 5 months ago:
Yep. For anyone who’s that serious about not having children, that’s more like an incentive.
Source: got snipped.
- Comment on How does my local Sonic run out of just the small box of chicken? 5 months ago:
Now you’ve gotten your inventory counts off. There’s also a (marginal) cost difference between the two size cartons. Of course, this needs to be balanced against customer satisfaction- there will be a non-zero number of customers who won’t want the upsell or to buy an alternative item, and so the question is how much business would you lose vs how much money you’d make offset with the extra time and corporate headache of reconciling inventory?
Not that Sonic shouldn’t do this, just throwing out some real-world considerations.
