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| News Comments > What Happened with Anthem? |
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Re: What Happened with Anthem? |
Apr 3, 2019, 00:23 |
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There were a lot of things bad with Anthem (almost everything was bad, in fact), but the 100% inexcusable problem with it was that the storytelling was horrendous. The plot was terrible, the dialogue was written with the skill of a 4th grader being assigned their first essay, and the NPCs weren't just badly written, but they were aggressively bad. I wanted literally all of them to die except the old Russian dude.
I'd accept that level of quality from an idsoft tech demo, but it is a complete failure coming from Bioware, the company that is best known for its good writing, exceptional plotting, and memorable NPCs. |
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| News Comments > Paradox Interactive Year-end Report |
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Re: Paradox Interactive Year-end Report |
Feb 20, 2019, 04:12 |
ShakaUVM |
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| Given the terrible stuff we've been seeing from Blizzard, EA, and the other major publishers, I'm very happy to see that the publisher of a lot of games I love is doing well! |
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| News Comments > Anthem Launches on Origin Access |
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Re: Anthem Launches on Origin Access |
Feb 16, 2019, 17:38 |
ShakaUVM |
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| The writing in this game is really, really bad. Like a 9th grader stayed up late the night before an essay was due, forgot to write the essay, and then scribbled down something during the passing period before class. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Feb 3, 2019, 20:49 |
ShakaUVM |
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Subnautica was honestly one of the top games of 2018. I picked up this game in early access... and yeah, it's early access. You swim to areas they haven't made yet, there is nothing there.
I would recommend not buying it till release, but I did want to support the devs and give some early feedback that hopefully they'll look at (like why you have to hit escape to leave the fabricator, but for literally every other menu you hit tab). |
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| News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs |
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs |
Oct 21, 2018, 13:18 |
ShakaUVM |
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>Lyft, Stripe spend lavishly to kill San Francisco's homelessness relief measure.
This article is a garbage fire of misinformation. |
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| News Comments > Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire DLC This Month |
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Re: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire DLC This Month |
Sep 7, 2018, 00:47 |
ShakaUVM |
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Pillars II is an excellent CRPG. I'm playing through it right now and loving every minute of it.
The game had some serious FPS issues, which were fixed in the beta patch that came out a couple days ago. (You can get it off Steam by going to the betas tab in properties for the game.) |
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| News Comments > Anthem Gameplay Video |
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Re: Anthem Gameplay Video |
Jul 6, 2018, 07:29 |
ShakaUVM |
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Huh. I'm not interested in a Bioware game. Either I'm getting old, or Mass Effect: Andromeda ruined the company for me.
The game looks awfully bland and uninteresting. I'll pick it up on a sale, maybe. |
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| News Comments > 2018 Steam Top Sellers |
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Re: 2018 Steam Top Sellers |
Jul 6, 2018, 03:54 |
ShakaUVM |
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is very historically accurate.
The only valid criticism I've seen is "The eye slots on one helm are an inch too tall because they copied a re-enactment helm instead of an actual helm from the period."
The University of Prague is using it now in their medieval studies program. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Re: Saturday Mobilization |
Mar 3, 2018, 16:15 |
ShakaUVM |
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This was my response to the study on Reddit:
Unlikely. I've read three other studies that put gross revenue at 15 an hour or so, and net at 8ish.
The study has serious methodological problems by comparing net profits with gross revenue, and by counting tax credits against the government's income but doesn't credit it to the drivers. Tax credits exceed expenses, so this is a very bad move on the author's fault.
The worst part is when he defends his own bad methodology by invoking the name of his institution to protect himself. This is usually a clear sign someone is trying to con you. ("How dare you question me? I have 'doctor' in front of my name!")
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Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QSUFSqasfjM9b9UsqBwZlpa8EgqNj6EBfWybFBSHj3o/edit
Average pay: a bit over $15 an hour on Uber and $17 on Lyft.
https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
They break it down by city, with the low end around $11/hour and the upper end almost $30 in NYC.
https://www.earnest.com/blog/sharing-economy-income-data/
This is only monthly data, which isn't as useful.
A key point here is that the MIT authors are interested in median net (after tax and expenses) revenue, and then they contrast this against gross (before tax and expenses) revenue, and use this to claim they make worse than minimum wage. This is a very deceptive practice, as if you applied the same process to minimum wage earner, close to 100% of minimum wage earners would earn less than minimum wage! (Almost everyone has unreimbursed expenses related to their job.)
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