That’s because everyone you know started above the poverty line and was able to leverage to get better return. If you don’t live in a liberal major coastal city, and you aren’t in on the higher end of STEM jobs, (or if you work for or are mainly funded by the government) then you probably haven’t seen your wages even…

If you are making $134K a year, then you’re in the upper echelons of society, so stop thinking you are “the norm” and stop applying your experience to everyone else.

In the same position that you had? Your career sounds like it is doing fine, but that doesn’t make you any good at statistics. Wage and salary only increases based on retention value. This is why lower income industries have seen stagnant wages for a very long time now.

Sounds like a nice bubble you’re living in; it'd be a shame if somebody popped it with their pitchfork (or, more likely, desperation)

How blessed you are, tgoee. We’re all so... proud of your success. I can’t say your personal experience is shared by all Americans but, well done friend. You are what we call “rich”. Congrats on fulfilling the American Dream.

Look, I’m making solid money (slightly less than you) but the average american HOUSEHOLD makes less than you made in 2009.  Your perspective is kind of pointless...

Everyone that I know has seen their wages substantially increase in the last ten years. I made 65k in 2009 and will make 134k this year.

you’re a VERY VERY Small percentage of the population. if you don’t recognize that you need to get your head out of the clouds. not only are your number FAR FAR higher than most americans, doubling your wage in this time period is nigh impossible. 

Congratulations on being completely fucking clueless about the rest of the world outside of your tiny little circle of jerks

Here’s an example of intelligence having nothing to do with how much money one makes

congrats! that’s not the case for the vast majority of people.

Yeah, you’ve got a big ole anecdotal evidence and that-one-kind-of-fallacy-I-cant-remember messing with your compelling argument there.

What industry are you in, what area do you live in, is there a straight line in wage growth, do you own the means of production, whats your annual cost chart look like, what exactly is…

Or just, I dunno, play for fun rather than to get the best of everything? It’s a weird concept, I know.

nah

This is the equality I want to see. Mutual and consensual ass slapping for everyone!

But what if I like Videogames AND Fighting games and understand that a focused product is a much better product. Hell, I LOVE fighting games and can’t stand the Mortal Kombat series. No amount of single player Kontent is going to make me want to play a game I feel as being very stiff; like i’m actively fighting the…

A delayed game is eventually good.

tl;dr, not everyone is of this mentality.

I feel for the casuals that get most of their kicks from 1p content and don’t really grasp the more intricate battle mechanics and developments that SFV offers. That said, I think in a month’s time that will be alleviated with the rest of the game finally being released. I have personally had a blast, but I also…

Because I want to go to the training mode and play online.