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- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 23 hours ago:
That’s because the arbitrators are hired by the company. Unless it’s an egregious situation, who’s going to side against the people signing their paycheck?
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 23 hours ago:
Most disputes most likely fall far below the limit for small claims, where a lawyer is not required, or even allowed in many cases.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 23 hours ago:
For most people, it’s a hobby for fun, not a job.
Those that want to make a job out of it tend to spread out the content creation to youtube and tiktok, and often sponsorships fill in the gaps.
The ones that actually make a decent living only from streaming are a fraction of one percent.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 23 hours ago:
You raised my hopes, and dashed them quite expertly sir! Bravo!
- Comment on Boeing proposes 30% wage hike to striking workers in its 'final' offer. 4 days ago:
What do you mean the article doesn’t specify? It’s literally the first sentence of the article.
Boeing increased its wage proposal to tens of thousands of striking workers on Monday, offering a 30% general wage increase over four years in what it called its “best and final” offer as a work stoppage that began on September 13 drags on.
- Comment on Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage 1 week ago:
Gotcha, that makes sense. The article makes it seem like 10 is all you get.
- Comment on Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage 1 week ago:
So the most expensive version of the game only includes 10 airports?
- Comment on Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing the Palworld developers for "infringement of patent rights" 1 week ago:
This is about patents, not about copyrights, for anyone confused. It’s not because some of the characters look like existing pokemon, it’s likely about game mechanics that Nintendo holds patents on.
- Comment on There can be only one winner 1 week ago:
What? No, they also took melatonin, duh
- Comment on Anon has a special request 3 weeks ago:
a roast
Oh!(comedic)
Oh. - Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic partnership agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 4 weeks ago:
I’m trying, but you’re not making it easy.
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 4 weeks ago:
Anybody named Mony.
- Comment on So sick! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found that streamers tend to have pretty nice merch. Unfortunately it tends to be pretty expensive because of special requirements and fairly small production runs. They also interact with the viewers directly, so complaints likely come up on stream.
It seems like Youtubers on the other hand just send a picture to a merch producer and let them deal with it.
- Comment on What is this plant? 5 weeks ago:
On desktop, you can copy/paste images into the textbox.
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 5 weeks ago:
Murdering scientists?
- Comment on How come in court counsel can object to what one says or shows and the judge will say sustained and the jury disregard. How in the hell does a jury just auto take it out of their memory? 5 weeks ago:
The transcript is typed by a stenographer, so good luck reading it anyway.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
That’s not the point. You specifically may not own a Blu-Ray player, but there have been 280 million non-dedicated devices from a single company sold that play them. That’s not counting other consoles like Xbox One and Series X, computers with BD drives, and dedicated BD players.
Seems like a far cry from your statement that nobody owns one. Even as hyperbole, it’s just false.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 1 month ago:
Meh, I don’t think there’s anything morally wrong with what he did. What he did wasn’t just legal, it’s literally his job. The only issue is that Valve is now angry at him for their own failing.
To continue the same analogy, they didn’t just leave the gate open, they literally invited a bunch of people and told them to invite other people. I’m not sure what they expected if not this exact situation.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
It’s worth noting disk video is usually uncompressed
Just being a bit pedantic here, but they’re much less compressed since their source is generally the original recordings. Anything you get from streaming services is much more heavily compressed, and anything you’re likely to pirate is compressed from DVD or Blu-ray sources (or worse, they can be compressed from already compressed streaming sources.)
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 1 month ago:
Playstation 3, 4, and 5 sold a combined 280 million units, that’s a decent number of Blu-Ray players.
- Comment on I need to survive for 3 days while pooping, and eating as much as possible. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack? 1 month ago:
Prunes. Nothing but prunes.
- Comment on Anon wants to play a game 1 month ago:
It does happen, you just don’t get that much of a reaction because it’s diluted. You definitely don’t want to stick around the fumes that it gives off though.
- Comment on penetration tests 1 month ago:
What about z-ray? It’s two more than x-ray.
- Comment on TEMU black hole 1 month ago:
(in a timely fashion, actually),
I bought two things. One of them had a message saying “Guaranteed by (X date) or you get a $5 credit.” Obviously that was the one item that showed up late. Sure enough, I get a $5 credit, followed by a bunch of emails on how I can get five or ten times the value out of my $5 credit.
- Comment on How much salt water to kill a tree? 1 month ago:
Look into the local tree law before you do anything stupid. It could cost you a ton of money, and possibly criminal charges depending on where you live.
- Comment on Simples. 1 month ago:
It would solve one gender scandal. The next one would be people complaining that there are no women in sports anymore.
And then we’d circle back around and have to segregate the genders in sports to give women a chance to compete.
And then when a woman stands out in her field, they’d start accusing her again of being a man.
- Comment on Not cool. 1 month ago:
Kanye? Surely you mean Eminem.
- Comment on ELI5: how do mobile devices know your movements? 1 month ago:
In addition to that, it uses GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth signals to pinpoint your location very precisely, and can use that to calculate the distances you travel and the number of steps it takes you to get there.
It can also put all of these data points together to tell things like your height and weight. It can only guesstimate things like your heart rate based on your age and BMI, but smartwatches these days have actual heart rate monitors, and pulse and oxygen meters built-in and can share that data with your phone.
- Comment on Horse 2 months ago:
I thought that was Mr. Hands.