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| News Comments > Video Game and Tech Workers Unionization Campaign |
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Re: Video Game and Tech Workers Unionization Campaign |
Jan 7, 2020, 14:45 |
ldonyo |
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mxmissile wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 14:07:
You got to be kidding me... man the F up, seriously. Unions are for dangerous occupations, like coal mines. Not a job where if you show up dressed as the opposite gender and might be called a few names. Unbelievable. Thank goodness you're here to let everyone know who should be unionized!
Seriously, though, the one who needs to "man up" is the guy who thinks some occupations don't need to have an organized labor force. Everyone, in any occupation, can be exploited by their employer. Unions can keep this from happening. Don't want one? Don't join one. It's pretty simple. |
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| News Comments > Get Hyper Light Drifter for Free |
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Re: Get Hyper Light Drifter for Free |
Dec 27, 2019, 15:31 |
ldonyo |
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Cutter wrote on Dec 27, 2019, 15:06:
mirthy wrote on Dec 27, 2019, 13:00:
It's a strange reality where one can have the luxury complain about free games. I mean, it's free!
(I got that sarcasm btw). 
No one is complaining about free games. People are complaining, and rightfully so, about Epic's anti-consumer practices of exclusives. Obviously some of the more stupid people around here continually fail to grasp something so simple.
You do realize that consoles have been doing the 'anti-consumer exclusive' thing for nigh on two decades now, right? Obviously, many more people around here simply grasp themselves. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Dec 12, 2019, 13:23 |
ldonyo |
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Watched "The Irishman". It was a lot like watching Godfather 1 & 2 mixed together, with a bit of 3 thrown in just to make it longer. I like Godfather 1 & 2, but 3 was crap. This played a lot like 3.
My wife liked it, I thought it was pretty boring. There was no drama, no tension, no character to root for, and no surprises. You've seen Joe, Bob, and Al play these same parts a dozen times and it isn't any different than those, usually in films by Scorsese. It's three-and-a-half hours I'll never get back. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Evening Metaverse |
Dec 11, 2019, 10:39 |
ldonyo |
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| It's not just AT&T that suffers from this self-inflicted customer loss. Suits never figure out that people are leaving because the price is too high and try to maintain revenue levels by increasing the price on the customers they have left. This spiral will continue until there are no more customers or there are newer, younger, suits in charge. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs |
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs |
Nov 25, 2019, 10:20 |
ldonyo |
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[VG]Reagle wrote on Nov 24, 2019, 21:31:
I thought we nuked them twice now they do this? That was Japan, not China. Also, the TPP was godawful garbage tryingto force other countries to adopt the bullshit IP laws in this country because the MPAA, RIAA, and ESA said it would be great for their executives and the shareholders of their members. |
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| News Comments > More on Amazon's Game Streaming Plans |
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Re: More on Amazon's Game Streaming Plans |
Nov 21, 2019, 10:54 |
ldonyo |
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| It really won't matter who has a game streaming service until the broadband wasteland that is the USA sees an end to the nonsensical data caps and crappy service that we're current suffering with. |
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Nov 8, 2019, 12:51 |
ldonyo |
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Cutter wrote on Nov 8, 2019, 11:29:
There'd be no consoles either if you had focused on PC gaming too. Another place you dropped the ball.
There were consoles before there was a Microsoft, Cutter. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Nov 8, 2019, 11:40 |
ldonyo |
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| Sounds like someone needs to stop doing every single side quest they come across. Or learn how to read all the words in blurbs devs make about their games so that he can realize that the "hundreds of hours" encompasses every single bit of content in a game, not the time it takes to play it through. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Nov 7, 2019, 11:51 |
ldonyo |
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| Shorter holiday season? No retailer starts their holiday season on Black Friday in November anymore. Christmas crap has been out since mid-October at Walmart and the dollar stores and is out in full force almost everywhere now. How is that a shorter season? |
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Nov 4, 2019, 11:07 |
ldonyo |
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RedEye9 wrote on Nov 4, 2019, 11:01:
So was it unfounded fears over security or was it balance of trade related over money. Or was it incessant lobbying over being noncompetitive and needing help to meet quarterly numbers? |
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Oct 24, 2019, 13:41 |
ldonyo |
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| You mean there's data Google isn't hoovering up already? Or do they just want more data to correlate with what they already have on you so they can charge advertisers more for better targeting? |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Oct 11, 2019, 12:51 |
ldonyo |
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Creston wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 12:09:
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Oct 11, 2019, 11:25:
Well, get a bigger SSD, they are pretty cheap these days?
Yeah but few people have their internet speeds go up to match...
I'm fortunate that AT&T has me on ~ 30Mbits, so this is still somewhat manageable, but there are plenty of people who are on way slower connections for whom a game of this magnitude simply just isn't feasible to download anymore. (On my old internet connection I was on ~ 3 years ago, the 150 GB download would have taken 19 straight DAYS 24/7 downloading. And that's then 19 days where everything else turns to slow dogshit because your pipe is swamped.)
I get that 4K textures eat up a gargantuan amount of space, but for those people who do not have 4K monitors, why do I have to download 90GB of textures I will not use? Why can't I forego the 4K textures, and then download them in the future if I ever want/need them? Oh wait, that would add two more hours of work for a guy to code that, clearly that's unacceptable. 
Not only does it take extra time to download the extra unused textures, it puts an unnecessary hit on your data cap, should you have one. Cox, for example, has a 1TB cap across all their Internet access tiers. All those unused textures are going to eat that cap in far less than the month it needs to last, especially on a newly-released and multi-patched game.
When I had Cox at the beginning of this year, they were charging $10 per 50GB (or increment thereof) for going over your cap. You could opt to pay extra each month to get around this; $30 a month for an extra 500GB or $50 a month for unlimited data. This was on top of paying $90 a month and before taxes, fees, and other assorted charges. If you do a lot of streaming and gaming at your house, as we do at my house,you were going to pay for more data because you were going to go over the cap if you didn't. This is why I left Cox as soon as a viable alternative finally became available. |
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| News Comments > Evening Legal Briefs |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Sep 25, 2019, 12:27 |
ldonyo |
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RedEye9 wrote on Sep 24, 2019, 20:28:
The right and snowflakes go together like french fries and ketchup. Or Wonder bread and mayo. |
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: Evening Tech Bits |
Sep 17, 2019, 12:59 |
ldonyo |
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| I doubt that the connectivity issue is limited to just the few items mentioned in the article. If you don't want to read the whole thing, the TL;DR is to disable and then re-enable your wireless network adapter. Go figure. |
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