BudgieMania

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[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"family therapy" is what you are gonna need if you have to pay 100 bucks for a bunch of paper sheets that you are gonna use once in your life, fuck me

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I really wanna hear what the proposal is for removing "unqualified" jobs en masse without implementing universal basic income.

The low pay and bad conditions of "unqualified" jobs often gets excused because they, allegedly, are "stepping stones", a means of sustaining oneself while working towards more specialized careers.

If you destroy a significant amount of those positions, where does that leave those people? Are we so drunk on cyberpunk-esque lust of AI evolution that we are fine eliminating the means of entry to society for so many?

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I'm surprised that they found yet another new way of making the Superstonk folk look like a delusional cult

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 122 points 10 months ago (12 children)

You see, if you pirate a couple textbooks in college because you don't have resources, but you want to earn your right to participate in society and not starve, it's called theft.

But if one of the top 10 companies in the world does the same with thousands of books just to get even richer, it's called fair use.

Simple, really.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago
[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

If you are young and there's nothing you really want to do with a significant amount of money, your emergency savings are decently big, and you don't intend to make a significant purchase in the near to mid future, then you find yourself a tax-free retirement account, a world index fund and an S&P 500 index fund and distribute money across them with the priority being reaching whatever is the max in the first one

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

well I think I see the problem sir
you wanna benefit from an ever increasing customer base in an evergreen ecosystem, without being willing to deal with any of the potential difficulties (many of which you are electing to present as bigger than they are) that stem from the mechanisms that have made that ecosystem reach such a huge customer base and that have made the titles on it stay evergreen in the first place.

The cure is to exercise the simple logical reasoning of considering:

  1. That that customer base is choosing a platform with a higher friction of entry for a reason.
  2. That your older titles keep selling on it, even while being significantly outdated in terms of support for newer systems and options by default, for a reason
  3. That if the problem was so severe so as to merit acting on it, a significant issue would have presented itself at some point in the decades that the ecosystem has been functioning in this manner.

I also suggest remembering that you own the source material that you can refer to at any point to prove that any potential issue is not your doing.

For prevention of this ailment in the future, I recommend staying away from meeting rooms in which decisions are made by powerpoint, especially if you hear buzzwords such as "brand-risk". Risk of contagion increases in environments in which all individuals have never executed a PC game and/or in which the average age is over 50.

Oh it's no problem, you are welcome. My fee will be the PC VR mode for Resident Evil 7 that you never bothered to implement and only exists thanks to a modder. Maybe next time I'll open some support tickets to ask about that since you seem to be concerned about those so much.

Thinking about it, maybe I should also ask where your randomizer modes are since you are trying to brick them. And the removal of the piss filter for RE5 that makes that game tolerable to the eyes, surely nobody would release that without an option to remove it right? Oh dangit proper widescreen support for the older titles, that's another couple support tickets, oh and while we are at it also...
I'm gonna need a notepad.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Really nice news, both from the perspective of making new non-SteamDeck portable devices more appealing as well as from the perspective of standardizing Linux-based gaming setups further

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If there was a significant amount of resin inside the printer (which I have to assume since you report strong smell), your boss is either a negligent asshole or somebody irresponsibly ignorant.

And if the printer was working and actively printing something inside an enclosed unventilated environment, then your boss can't be trusted with crayons or scissors.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fucking insane, that's like someone putting 50 lit cigarettes in your office, what the fuck

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

But Obsidian launched a campaign for Pillars of Eternity on Kickstarter a mere 3 years after the creation of the platform. As soon as they could, they did.

There is a ~6 year gulf between the point that Sawyer mentions and the creation of Kickstarter during which that option was simply not available.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I have to assume the blame of losing confidence would have lied more on the publishers stopping funding, not on Sawyer and co.

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