Kichae
Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger
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People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers’ minds, to reverse course. It’s the intended outcome.
Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.
Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a “spend money” button that players hit over and over again. That’s the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They’re all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.
Gender identity is a advanced topic that children don’t have the ability to rationalize.
If you believe that children cannot comprehend “boy” and “girl”, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Other than we know what all of this is really about. None of y’all are at all subtle about it, nor are you even a quarter as smart as you think you are.
“I believe other people’s human rights should be violated because I don’t like them” is a great position to have right up until you’re the disliked party.
I imagine you picture yourself as always the top dog. Protected, even, by the belief that even if you find yourself face down in the mud, the people you gleefully abuse will not step on your head to let you drown in the muck.
And you’re probably right that they wouldn’t. Because they’re probably better people than you are, having had to learn empathy in a world that doesn’t think much of them.
But I kind of hope you choke on dirt.
Farmers should have known it was a scam when the board wasn’t broken up, just privatized. “Oh yes, you can now sell to anyone! But the market is now dominated by this private quasi-monopoly…”
I mean, they also should have known that competition wasn’t going to meaningfully increase the prices they were getting, since grain buyers are middle-men, but people in general have a hard time learning from outside contexts.
That’s just the system. This is what happens when people confuse commerce with capitalism: They think that capitalism is being rewarded for doing commerce better. Instead, capitalism is about leveraging ownership of property and underpaying workers in order to get money for free.
And the thing about money is that it’s really just a proxy for power. When you only have enough of it to eek out a comfortable life (or less), you don’t really notice, because all of your power goes in to achieving or maintaining that acceptably good life (or hanging on for dear life trying to survive), but once your needs are comfortably and handidly met, money is entirely about being able to make other people do whatever you want. And the more money you have, the more things you can get them to do, or the more of them that you can get to do what you want.
And if you’ve managed to be one of the lucky ones who just get free money for owning shit, then you have the power at your fingertips to try to grow your power over others exponentially, while still doing no honest work in your days. And if you’re a shitty person who gets off on all of this, that’s exactly what you’ll do.
The wealthy are insufferably greedy leeching assholes because one does not become wealthy without being greedy, leeching off of others, and being an insufferable asshole.
"We want the people who will stop talking to their toxic, shithead parents forever at 18 to suffer juuuuuust a little bit more, and a little bit longer.
“Coming in 3 years, once it becomes clear that this didn’t get rid of the gay queer trans liberal socialists, we’ll be increasing the age of majority to 38 and require employers to report all pronouns, nicknames, wages, or salaries to parents.”
Extra-judicial killings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_against_Indigenous_Canadians
Industrialized rape?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/sexual-abuse-in-the-military-soldiers-speak-of-systemic-problems-in-a-toxic-culture-1.5654309
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opp-officer-sexual-assault-jason-redmond-1.6797839
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/newfoundland-police-officer-found-guilty-of-on-duty-rape-once-again-seeking-bail-1.6494845
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/quebec-investigation-alleged-abuse-aboriginal-women-1.3577527
Daily mass murders?
Setting an awfully low bar with this one.
Famine?
Any year now, given climate change.
It’s hard to imagine what hardship truly is when you live in the second best country in the world.
Your own privilege within the country is just dripping from your posts.
Canada is the 12th safest country in the world. The US is 129th.
Can we just stop comparing ourselves to the States for once? Our Literally Fascist Neighbours don’t warrant any consideration when discussing the quality of life here.
We have it very good here.
Which segments of the population are you choosing to speak for here, exactly?
Maybe it depends on the specific field, but I’ve had no issues mentoring people remotely, and even when I was in the office I was doing it via Teams half the time.
In many contexts it isn’t that hard if you have the tools. The fact that many workplaces skimp on the tools is a them issue, not a mentoring issue.
Yeah. I doubt they can have debates in person, either. But getting 7 people in a room so that the 2 highest paid ones can ideate all over each other while the other 5 nod along as a paid audience just feels better for those 2 than looking up to see the glassy-eyed stares of people who are trying to get their work done while sitting in on a pointless vanity meeting.
And yet it still has a bunch of ads for PC+ littered throughout it. Despite being grandfathered in, I abandoned it earlier this year for Podcast Republic, which hasn’t spammed me or locked me out of any features I’ve tried to play with despite not having paid them anything.