People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.
That’s exactly the kind of libertarian “personal responsibility” philosophy that Valve would use as an excuse to justify themselves. You don’t need to be carrying water for a multi billion dollar company, they can take care of that themselves. Unless you work for Valve. I don’t know, I’m sure it pays well.
Unfortunately we don’t need to wait. We have every reason to be skeptical and critical of the way Valve is run now, specifically how they promote underage gambling via Counterstrike.
Whether Gaben personally agrees with that assessment, or whether he’s wiped his hands clean of the damage his company has done, the fact is that someone at Valve created this system, and they will still be there.
At this point they probably don’t even need to. America is in full “Nine (gasps) Eleven (cheers)” mode. Why waste the effort to spin the narrative when the Fox logo in the bottom right corner of the screen says it all?
This is what happens to a society that worships money. Even if presume a wealth hoarder wanted to make a good faith effort to improve other people’s lives, he’s so insulated from reality that he couldn’t even fathom doing the one thing that would make a material difference: parting with his money, paying his employees what they’re worth, paying the taxes he ought to owe.
Instead he comes up with some cockimamey scheme using the tools at his disposal. It’s like he’s trying to distract himself from the obvious right answer. And that removes any appearance of good faith immediately.
I can already imagine my maga uncle: “$30 an hour to do what!? Flip burgers!? Fucking kids these days are so lazy, they should be grateful to make $5 an hour!”
This isn’t some masterstroke from Mamdani, it’s just Fox News laundering his ideas through the fascist filter.
They were on Boston’s T stations as well a couple months ago. Maybe they target cities specifically, I haven’t seen any outside tech industry centers.
I feel you might like this blog. I think it about every day now.
if Nintendo or Sony were doing the same levels of layoffs
But they’re not. Well, Sony did layoff 900 people last year and took deserved flak for it. But you’re right, it’s not even close to the level of Microsoft the last 2 years.
As for Nintendo,
“If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.”
Call it bad faith, but I literally don’t believe them. They can say it but that doesn’t make it true. Why would anyone trust these companies? Their goal is to get you physically addicted to gambling. It is every company’s wet dream to get kids addicted to their product and leeh off their income for the rest of their lives.
I bet we’ll see all of those things - the ads, the sponsors, the jerseys, all of it - within a year of this program going live.
Meltdown is MSM’s new Slam. Everyone is slamming someone else. MAGA is melting down about everything. When are they not melting down?
Yeah once you explore the whole map, it becomes a typical looter shooter where you’re just grinding for 6 crown weapons. I will say though, having only played for a couple years, the dev team did a remarkable job adding new content over time, and not all of it locked behind DLC. Picking this game up on sale for $5 felt like I won the lottery. It might be “just ok” but I did have dozens of hours of fun in the game with my brother and friends.
GOG’s move into mod support seems pretty prescient now.
Generation Zero. Primo aesthetic, sometimes well balanced, good with friends but not so much solo.
Why would I bother?
It’s not for the sake of right wing media, it’s for the sake of the normal people who call Los Angeles home.
man you took this article really personally…
I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It’s a protest, we’ve had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.
Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I’m happy to see those death traps burn.
My brain is cooked… I didn’t understand you meant “they” to be part of the meme. XD
I want GOG to getback to what it was before CDPR.
CD Projekt saw potential to look back at their distribution days to offer DRM-free versions of classic games through digital distribution, … They founded a new subsidiary, Good Old Games, to serve this purpose in early 2008.
Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.