Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The games industry ‘will only have room for one non-Nintendo console next gen’, it’s claimed | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh, if both consoles end up averaging close to $1,000 after tax then of course households are only going to buy one and that’s if they don’t just decide to go PC instead at that point. Especially with the cost of subscriptions going up again, it’s becoming financially draining

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully agree, I’ve been slowly drifting away from consoles since the tail end of the PS3. For the price it just really isn’t worth it anymore for how much I use. This time around I ended up going the X through they’re all access pass because it came the 3 years of Game Pass ultimate, and that was pretty cool not 200 plus dollars a year cool but it was pretty cool, and then when the PS5 became available I got that against my better judgment because I have been Sony my entire life and I wanted Ragnarok (which I ended up never finishing).

  I was juggling two different subscriptions for a while a PlayStation Network and a Microsoft Game Pass subscription, but since I still use both of them it was kind of worth it, then Sony increased their price without offering any competitive reason for doing so for any benefits so I canceled and moved over to almost exclusively Xbox until my ultimate ran out,

  Now I have neither subscriptions and both consoles collect dust because neither console has a subscription that I feel is worth paying for, or offers any content that I can’t just use my computer for without the need of paying a monthly sub. Last generation was iffy, this generation there’s no way it’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My hypothesis of this is that, this is happening because a lot of people were unable to acquire the PS5 at launch due to supply issues, and by the time the supply issues resolve themselves interest was lost and the customers were like I’ll just get the next one, then the next one ended up being $200 more but since they had already missed the previous iteration and they don’t want to buy a downgrade they were forced to either stay with their current PS4 or by the upgrade.

  My point is I don’t think that this is a sustainable model, the more they increase the price the more app that the everyday consumer is going to say man this isn’t worth upgrading between the base model and the pro model, and while they might see short term profits rise, instead of buying both models people will only buy one which will lower long term profits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop making up states⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the fact that I have family in florida, I would definitely swap florida and California status, least Cali does something good for the country with their tech innovation and privacy laws. I can’t recall the last time Florida did something good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion on this, it fully depends.

  I fully agree that people should be empathetic to people with kids because there are events that are outside of their control. This being said I don’t think they should be sympathetic to it. At the end of the day it isn’t that person’s problem that someone else has a kid, so therefore they shouldn’t be affected by it. Being said the world isn’t a perfect place and if you straight out don’t show any sympathy period you’re going to make enemies Having a kid should not be a get out of jail free card for any type of commitment, no if ands or buts.

  Since you mentioned the professional World I’ll keep it more leaning towards that, a worker with a kid should not be getting preferable treatment to someone without a kid unless it is something that is directly out of that person’s control. A kid being sick is one thing, leaving early due to a doctor’s appointment is a whole different thing. They make sick days and they make vacation days for that, if the company is willing to work around your appointments that’s great, but that should be a treatment that they are given to everyone regardless of if you have a kid or not.

  As for the lunch example that you gave, without getting too far off topic I firmly believe that that shouldn’t be happening. Regardless of if you have a kid or not. Depending on your contract you’re entitled to a lunch, and in most companies that lunch is unpaid. If I’m not being paid my company is not going to dictate what I’m doing. Lunch period Is very often the period that I use to be able to do the things like what you mentioned such as going to the store or going to the bank, that’s none of my employers buisness what I’m doing during that time.

  in the professional World shit happens, managers will give preferable treatment to people they like and to the more efficient workers. Some managers also struggle to see the difference between empathy and sympathy and go a little too far in worker preference, this doesn’t mean that it’s right. This is a human trait, it’s against our nature to go against it. However as cold-hearted as it sounds employees life outside of the job should not be a problem of the employer. I’m not saying they should be the first one on The Chopping block, but I am saying that if that worker is less efficient, or ends up working less than higher other workers, the fact that they have a kid at home should not be taken into account.

  Please note that this post is not including if your country has laws prohibiting certain actions. Such as in the US FMLA states that once the worker has been with the company for a year they can be entitled to up to 6 months of job protected unpaid leave as long as it’s being used by one of their eligible statuses, and one of these is if I remember my paperwork is caretaking of a dependant or immediate family

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a strict I don’t answer the phone when not working policy. They could attempt to call me in but it wouldn’t be recieved. If they asked me while I was at work I usually said yes, but I’m not about to come in on an hours notice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  out of personal curiosity, why is the bathroom concidered a weak point? I understand the door plug but I figured the bathroom is a locked down area

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t.

  Honestly depending on your relationship with this person, I would likely be seeking civil court for damages as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how often do you get wasted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you lost me at W

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees at FromSoftware owner Kadokawa reportedly "thrilled" about possible Sony takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you jest but this is honestly what is likely going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to the doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, I think the dog did care but I knew that wasn’t a battle they were going to win so they just conceded and moved on to the next patient.

  There’s a saying that you can lead the horse to water but you can’t make them drink and that summarizes the scenario quite well,

  if you mentioning a topic spurs the person into a 5 or 10 minute rant about the topic you’re not going to come out on top they already have too firm of an opinion. Just save your energy and help the next guy.

  That’s how we were trained in selling merchandise as well, you can give your recommendations but if you say your recommendation and the customer has a firm opinion otherwise, backtrack a little bit and start focusing on the good things that the customers looking for in the product. The only thing pushing the topic further is going to do is going to aggravate them and make them lose faith in your ability to know your merchandise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depression⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they figured it was easier to keep someone there than to just have it leave a voicemail saying our machines are down we are temporarily closed it’s insane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its me Carlos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes please that would be amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  long shot but, if its a samsung, and you installed the app then didn’t use it for awhile, it might have “deep sleep”'d it, basically deep sleeping apps can’t run in the background, and it does what you are describing on a per app basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be something with voyager, I agree with the other person that it sounds like the device itself is closing the app due to some sort of battery setting, but if it’s not that then it’s something at least. I’ve tried a handful of different let me clients now currently using eternity and none of them did what you were describing there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I tend to reply in the same amount of time it took my friends to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to do this as well, I’m not sure why but I generally respond proportional to how long it took for my friend to respond

  I think it might just be human nature, because I had a friend who I would talk to and we would respond back very commonly Within two or three minutes of sending the message, and then they went into a mental Funk where they weren’t looking at Discord anymore. Due to this they started being hella delayed in responding, and I found that the longer delay that it took them to respond the longer that it took me to respond.

  I think it might just be something that is common nature for socialization, I think we subconsciously use how long it takes them to respond as a judgment of what is considered appropriate for response time and then without realizing it partake the same way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first Pokémon TCG pocket promo set is almost complete with its latest release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remind me how we have gotten to the point in collectibles, that we’re now paying money to have rare collectible items that have zero resale value due to the fact that you can’t sell them third party.

  Like this is insane to me, because I was under the understanding that was primary point of collectibles, to obtain a card that’s super rare in value, but since these are digital cards and their value is zero it’s just spending money without possibility of a future return

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I do I won’t even make it a few hours most times before jumping to a new game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeaaaa no thanks. They are about 2 or 3 generations too late for that. After what they have tried to pull with the ps5, plus the price point and the fact that it would be a worse more restricted system than the steam deck. I’ll keep my deck where I get an overall better experience + no monthly sub fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my fav one recently has been ftb: skies, but that’s a skyblock , I’m going to try the decursio project soon though, it’s supposed to be an rlcraft/sevtech style mod pack, so I’m excited for it , I just haven’t have free time to play it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting any degree at University is the same way, bachelor’s is the first level that requires an actual internship in order to go anywhere, it is gone to the point where internship listings are starting to put in their job listing “prior internship experience preferred”

  So like the job that is meant to give you the skills to start out is wanting an additional internship prior to being hired. This country is going to hell lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the most dumbest Parts of this game, everyone’s complaint of the last iteration was the massive download times, and the inefficiencies in the game causing it to lag even on high end systems. And their solution to that was to increase the specs that it’s required to run the game and require a high speed internet on top of that? They more or less made it so anyone running satellite internet can’t buy their game and anyone that lives in like 70% of the US that still has absolute dog shit internet speeds couldn’t even imagine playing it. My mom still has a 5/5 mbit/s, that’s the fastest anyone offers in her area, even downloading the previous game took ages there’s no way in hell I’m going to recommend her buying this game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After the cluster fuck that was their previous release on top of the mass amount of actual DLC so I can’t just buy the game and run with it, there was no way in hell I would buy this game.

  The last flight Sim game that I had was flight simulator x, and honestly even that one if I hadn’t got it as a gift I probably wouldn’t have purchased because even without the amount of DLC that I had was outrageous, I was lucky enough that I got it on disc so I’m not bombarded with them all the time, but I had looked at the steam page because I was curious about it and man was I in for a shock.

  I wish I still had all the discs to my flight simulator 2004, it did basically the same exact thing that X did, and arguably was better than the previous iteration of flight simulator without all of the stupid paywalls. I just threw the disc in and it ran, didn’t have to wait days for it to download, it didn’t monopolize part of my drive and it didn’t need a NASA supercomputer plus Internet to run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it still ran, MW2. Loved it

  but today it would have to be minecraft. I have to play it in sessions but, it never fails to find a mod pack or challenge setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I’ve had an ad on YouTube with premium is when I went in to invisible mode.

  In my opinion it’s absolutely stupid that invisible mode has the capability of detecting that you have an account because it skips the age verification blocker on content-sensitive videos, but it gives ads to people with premium. It’s obviously able to see that you have a YouTube account so therefore it should be able to just do the next step of saying okay does this account have premium. The only thing people are asking for was it to not log the videos they’re watching but they had to make it some Next Generation NASA level secret hidden profile shit that doesn’t actually do anything.

  Also it really bugs me that they’ve added ads for YouTube and beds on discord. If I have my YouTube account linked to my Discord account I should not receive ads on the in bed. It should be able to see my YouTube account via electrons cookie system and be able to link it to an account that has premium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realize that they still had grandfather’s subscriptions, I was the same where I got it at a lower price, but they decided that they weren’t going to honor that price 2 years ago and raised it anyway. I’ve told myself I’m dropping the sub if it goes up again because honestly it’s current price is a little outrageous. But I watch over a thousand hours of YouTube a year so therefore it’s worth it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick. Someone invent an AI that can block out the orange man’s face everywhere so we don’t have to subject ourselves to it for 4 more years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I hear that, like this post slipped through because they used the term orange man instead, cuz normally I wouldn’t see political like these unless I actively seek them out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many have stated demand vs supply but, a lot of it is also because many jobs are scared to have entry level as remote. The ability to train on the go is more difficult then in house, so many entry level positions start as office jobs and move over to WFH, this causes a difficulty for people who can only do WFH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick. Someone invent an AI that can block out the orange man’s face everywhere so we don’t have to subject ourselves to it for 4 more years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  most mobile clients allow for it based off titles and post content, some sneak through like this one, but overall the feature exists for third party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no, I’m not sure where everyone is getting that ideology. Obviously if there is physical threat move. I’m just saying that moving to a blue state isn’t a permanent solution and it’s just going to fuck them twice over later.