Yes, the gap is that big, because cronyist politicians claim that there is a STEM shortage, but in reality there are hundreds of thousands of STEM graduates, they just won't work for as little as the firms here want to pay - and they are only used to paying that, and have re-built their business models around paying…

Well, I dropped out because of precisely this - depressed wages and increased schooling cost. Then again, that was about 10 years ago. But the issue then is still extant - why would someone hire you for 50k with benefits and paid vacation when they can hire a code monkey from India, Malaysia, the Philippines,…

Most of that is likely:

*Regulation and Regulatory Compliance
*Inflation
*Taxes
*Taxes
*Taxes
*More Taxes
*Trying to survive in a market that doesn't actually like Fast Food

No, thanks.

I prefer Baseball!

If I wanted to see young, thin people doing young, active things, I'd just go
to the local hiking trails or 5ks full of snooty athletes.

You should not put all your eggs in that basket. I actually dropped out of CS because it's not worth it - they will pay a bachelor's 8-10.00 /hr in normal coding stuff, unless you're specialized, know someone, or have a Master's, you need a backup plan.

It's the Tech equivalent [now] of an Art History, English or…

All of this - including the missed paychecks, cronyism, layoffs and immunity cards - are why I left the industry after they laid me off [a high level manager] and rolled my job into "Marketing" [which is laughable] but kept the prima donnas and the overpaid ass-kisser.

Of course, our issue was compounded because the…

We didn't stream through a portal onto an alien world trying to free Sargeras.

We don't enable a Zombie Hitleress who is fast becoming a mini-LK. With Valks and everything. Who tried on multiple occasions to commit genocide. And y'all just sit there and go, "'s cool, bro."

Your mistakes, in order:

I know.

Because people will overpay for an OS designed for retards, because they have built a brand around an image that appeals to them. The image of being wealthy and 'hip'. But the actual product is shit.

You are free to waste your own money. But I will still call it overpriced shit, because it is overpriced shit.

If…

"Horde"? Is that the native self-referential word for the barbarous gaggle of alien invaders, zombies, walking hamburger patties, green-skinned Caribbean people with bad dentists, and traitorous magic addicts?

The mechanically-inclined Capitalists, at least, would be reasonable if they weren't insane pyromaniacs.

It's super easy to pick the right side. It's called The Alliance.

Their entire market is HYPE. It's the status symbol, but it's a piece of crap.

Or they could be realistic and not try to charge me $40 USD for a bluetooth NES controller with one extra button and a crappy gyro.

There's that.

Put it on a home console. I want to play these on my damned TV, not squint... at least the Vita has a pretty big screen....

Or if you don't, at least make a 2DS XL so that I can have a decent size screen without paying for 3D I won't use.

Nintendo, c'mere.

We need to have a talk.

So, there's this genre - it's one from your home country.

It's called 'JRPG'. And not 'Chrono Trigger', games before that, with turn-based combat, and everything.

Bring those.

Also - since you went and bought out Monolith Soft like [redacted], let's make a deal -

You release…

So, something that would come AFTER Zoda's Revenge? I thought they tied up the storyline pretty well...

"Sporty new Mustang"......"With its 4-cylinder engine"....

They can charge a premium because people are too goddamn stupid to be bothered to learn what a start button is, and some basic troubleshooting and/or maintenance.

I have a PC that I spent $1600 on, [and it still needs a graphics card, cause the one I have is old] - to get this level of performance in an Apple POS, I'd…

It was awful. It's ok. Go, play Xenosaga and .Hack//...... you will feel better.

It's Nintendo, so think Apple-level markup, then double it, and NEVER cut the price, ever.