That hole has served us greatly

Btw this is a parody account

I volunteered at a summer camp in college and we had a $30 budget to feed 15 kids + 1.

I bought four Little Caesars $5 dollar pizzas, some dollar store big sodas, and had enough money for big bags of chips.

We made it work! 😭

Google One was a pretty sweet deal on paper.

But unfortunately, Google’s superpower of making really cool things and then killing it off continues to exist.

People on Lemmy, who kinda are on the upper echelons of technical aptitude, forget that the average user is really fucking dumb. Work a stint in level 1 IT and you will get the absolute wildest head smacking issues ever.

And companies capitalize on that by making it incredibly easy to give them money.

Haha most of us millennials in my circle are still struggling to own property.

I played this a few years ago on GamePass and disliked it. But that was before I understood how survival games worked thanks to Valheim, Raft and Grounded.

Worth it to take it for another spin?

It says Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to so-called price parity obligations, preventing titles being sold at cheaper prices on rival platforms.

Ms Shotbolt says this has enabled Steam to charge an “excessive commission of up to 30%”, making UK consumers pay too much for purchasing PC games and add-on content.

This is actually the norm on a lot of platforms unfortunately. Apple. Google Play. Not at all unique to Valve.

Just seeing how something is approached helps.

I sometimes rebuild software from one language to another for practice.

The 404 Media article is behind a paywall.

Here’s the nonpaywall version: https://archive.ph/29gJU

Steam puts the player peak for the episode release at just 559 players, and it’s down to peaking under 500 even on the weekend here.

My last job, we removed two departments and fired them all, then forced to have a “virtual retreat” to save money. Three months later, they showed a PowerPoint how this was their best year ever.

By that point, I was already looking for a new job.

Since it’s easier for me to read vs watch a video I got a summary from AI.

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The video appears to be about a critical review of a role-playing game (RPG) called “The Time of Troubles” developed by the Russian government. The reviewer criticizes the game’s story, historical inaccuracies, and glitches.

Here are some details gleaned from the video description:

The game is set during the “Time of Troubles” in Russian history, a period of political and social unrest in the early 17th century. The reviewer criticizes the game’s portrayal of the era, claiming historical inaccuracies. The video mentions issues like bugs and glitches that the reviewer encountered while playing the game. The reviewer criticizes the game’s design choices, such as making a high-level class available early in the game.

As a person who works in server hosting (not as devops or IT), I’m often privy to customer interactions. I feel like my company does a really good job at damage control - where if we fuck up, some rep gets on the phone and makes things right. We’ve eaten costs on behalf of our customers.

But sometimes, you just gotta tell a customer to go fuck themselves.

And those customers, those biggest complainers are often in online gambling, crypto, adult content, or racist shit.

We get DDos’d a lot from it. But I’m glad the company I work for doesn’t bow down to garbage companies.

Same.

And if it’s like the last four Windows updates, I’ll go right through EoL for a year or two, and finally upgrade because I wanted to play a specific video game, upgrade my graphic card, or it came free with my new PC.

As a meat eater, it’s shit like this which is why I’ve been buying more vegetarian shit. Every week there’s a new food recall. People are getting real sick and dying.

When I found a loophole for cheap Wendy’s food, I absolutely abused it a dozen times as a poor college student. It involves receipts and going to different Wendy’s.

Shame. The game looked great. But the beta state and bugs kept me from committing.

Not certain how the company plans to fix all of that with a smaller staff.

It also never happened to me.

Or maybe it has happened to me a dozen times but I’d shout, “No way man! Drugs are for losers!” And hand him a DARE pamphlet and then I gained a reputation.

No shit. Leave us the hell alone so we can focus on deliverables.

The whoe “tech layoffs” always sound scary, but we are still in high demand. And we’ll keep jumping because fuck your BS micromanagement.