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- Comment on Harris says she supports eliminating federal taxes on tips 4 months ago:
Oh yeah I mean of course we should get rid of tipped wages and just make it a normal hourly wage, but I was just trying to make the point that removing the taxes on tips isn’t gonna somehow make it impossible for waitresses to retire, it’s the non-hourly wage and the rest of the economy that’s doing that.
- Comment on Harris says she supports eliminating federal taxes on tips 4 months ago:
I worked for the food service industry for almost a decade and never met a waitress or waiter that declared their tips, let alone declared enough to retire on via social security.
There’s almost no chance this will effect the retirement of any waitresses in the U.S.
- Comment on A kick right in the selbstbild 4 months ago:
Yeah, by manpower Germany’s was definitely larger, by budget though, our annual military spending blows theirs out of the water.
In 2021, the U.S. spent about 700 billion dollars on it’s military.
- Comment on A kick right in the selbstbild 4 months ago:
but it was definitely the biggest.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 5 months ago:
Oh this could definitely be it, let the union exist, get the good press, and then fuck them hard in contract negotiations.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 5 months ago:
Microsoft has actually voluntarily recognized a gaming company union before. It seems they prefer to voluntarily recognize the unions and then fight them during the contract phase, not sure exactly why they do it this way instead of trying to stonewall the first step like most companies.
- Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmerswww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Anon's coworker is a flat-earther 5 months ago:
Spirituality does not, as it is not organized.
As someone who grew up In a part spiritual household I heavily disagree. Flat earthers and traditional spiritualists like Neo-Pagans, Wiccans, etc, have the exact same amount of organization, if flat earthers are a cult, then so are most spiritualist groups.
Most flat earthers aren’t in some organized cult, they get their misinformation from Facebook posts and YouTube videos, with there being a couple small actually organized groups. The exact same can be said about spiritualists, just generally they used to get their spiritual beliefs from books instead of the internet, (though that’s changed now for spiritualists too).
If anything I’d bet there’s more people I’m actually organized spiritualist groups, than there are in actually organized flat earther groups.
- Comment on Anon's coworker is a flat-earther 5 months ago:
That’s if you’re including “spiritual” as non-religious.
Only 18% of people in that poll were described as neither (Atheist).
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Saints and Sinners Trailer 6 months ago:
The first game was funded through Kickstarter and a random Czech millionaire who really liked history. I don’t exactly blame them for not having the marketing budget needed to really make to first game as successful as it could’ve.
Hopefully, the amazing success of the first game can propell the second into being the Skyrim level RPG success they deserve.
- Comment on Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases 6 months ago:
While I agree they go way too easy on Republicans, this was literally authored by a prominent Democrat, it’s way more likely for them to actually do this than a lot of the average stuff the news says they should.
- Comment on yogi knows 7 months ago:
Can confirm, bears can definitely adapt to being around humans and be used to their presence. Lived in a tourist town that had a massive amount of black bears and I’ve literally been close enough to pet one after going around a corner, we startled eachother for sure, sat and stared for a second, and then calmly backed away and went our merry way. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a bear attack there, and it’s literally where the story of cocaine bear came from and is filled with incredibly dumb tourists.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 7 months ago:
Libertarian did use to be a synonym of anarchist.
Murray Rothbard ruined that.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 7 months ago:
They don’t even care if they’re Nazis, So yea.
Do you really think the U.S government are just self declaring Nazis?
Everything you said was covered with 4 layers of hyperbole.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 7 months ago:
Don’t be hyperbolic, it’s not 1984 and you still live on a democracy. You won’t face any serious criminal repercussions for saying anything in Canada or any other democracy.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show already has a second season in the works, it seems 8 months ago:
Todd must’ve liked it, it’s yet to be seen whether that’s good or not…
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 11 months ago:
Say you have no understanding of Intersectional Theory without saying you have no understanding of Intersectional Theory.
- Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox 1 year ago:
That’d actually quite interesting, thank you, I’ll definitely have to look into that more
- Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox 1 year ago:
Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
While that’s definitely possible, Bethesda games always take unpredictable trajectories.
I wouldn’t take it dipping below their most beloved game in player count as it being a flop just yet.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
Yeah, my first build was a stealth character, I did it just fine. You’re mostly likely specing your builds wrong for stealth or wearing a million pounds of armor clanking around thinking you’re being stealthy. There’s specific armor pieces meant for stealth, which also help a ton.
The weapon modding isn’t broken. If you find a gun with a suppressor, you can take that off and put it on the same model as yours. I don’t think needing a skill/crafting to make a whole suppressor warrants the game being called broken.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
Yeah, they could’ve done better with the New Game+ for sure, which to me isn’t exactly surprising since it’s their first main line game to have it.
I do appreciate that there are considerable differences to the story on certain replays, but it’s a slog doing basically the same thing every time. I wish there was a bit more variance.
I do think it will be remembered fondly eventually just like every other mainline Bethesda game has been though.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
Yep, as someone who beat it several times, I agree with this. Its a great game, but is unpolished at launch like any bethesda game, 5 years from now it will have memorable gamer cultural references and a consistent modding/playerbase.
With the love of using the game engine to create entirely new games that bethesda fans have, I’m basically expecting a Star Wars/Star Trek total overhaul mod within the next decade.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
How is the game loop broken?
- Comment on Skyrim’s Lead Designer On Starfield’s Origins And Bethesda’s Evolution - MinnMax Interview 1 year ago:
Ah okay fair enough, I’m not super knowledgeable about the newer software sided stuff like DLSS and Upscaling. I didn’t realize the AMD upscaling worked on all systems.
I saw tests where the upscaling performed comparatively worse on Nvidia and Intel rather than AMD and assumed that the upscaling was actually exclusive, my apologies.
- Comment on Skyrim’s Lead Designer On Starfield’s Origins And Bethesda’s Evolution - MinnMax Interview 1 year ago:
Any chance you’re on an Nvidia card perhaps? It was shipped with only AMD upscaling because for some stupid reason it’s an industry standard to ship with time limited exclusivityfor some stuff like that.
I’ve found that the mod (and probably update in the future) to add Nvidia DLSS helps a lot.
Still dumb that behind door deals between executives/sales can hinder otherwise good games like this though.
- Comment on Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss 1 year ago:
That’s simply not true.
Apple made 18 billion dollars of gaming in 2021
Yet Sony made over 20 billion dollars from gaming
And Microsoft isn’t too far behind either of them. Apple makes a lot of money for sure, but it’s not the most, and it’s definitely not orders of magnitude more.
- Comment on When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines? 1 year ago:
Yep, my father too, the family general store’s registers all needed to be updated to new software to keep the dates right, this was actually somewhat important in that rural town before digital book keeping had spread there.
It’s crazy how many people had a hand in making sure computers kept working after Y2K.
- Comment on Geography test 1 year ago:
Honestly, Siberia suddenly becoming Mongolia definitely wouldn’t be the worst way this war could end.