Indeed. Also, I forgot to add that the price of top-end games not changing is entirely unrelated to the insidious expansion of micro-transaction models. If we raised the price of games tomorrow, these added pricing models would not disappear. We’d simply be paying more than usual in addition to being force-fed…

Yeah, Joshua’s article seemed to be leaving out some key issues. Most glaringly was the outsized effect of the modern corporate structure and executive compensation.

Except the cat.

Reddit was leading the charge against her and was making a good case, because yeah, she’s done some shitty things while streaming.

never advocate price rises, some will benefit most will change nothing and still do all the same things. Essentially you will pay more for the same problems, crunch isn’t a financial rewards problem it is an ethics/time management in the workplace problem.

If any game deserved to be priced at $80, it was The Witcher 3, and yet they still made a shit ton of money at the $60 price point. The $59.99 price tag is not the problem. The insane salaries of these CEOs and the demands of stockholders is. Bobby Kotick is the devil of the games industry, but he’s hardly alone in…

took the words right out of my soul. The model for modern gaming,(much like everything in america) is predatory. Unfortunately with capitalism being the gospel that it is here everything is morally relative based on how profitable it is.  

Arctic is burning. Amazon is being cut down at an incredible rate. Hurricanes are dropping more water as the climate changes. Unplanned Medical services can financial cripple a large chunk of Americans. Wages haven’t gone up in years. And I got an headache.

,...another white dude.....

who’d be the obvious ship if we weren’t all 99 percent sure she’s gay

Oh, I’m pretty sure the name was intentional (and someone has played X):

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The entire discourse has been systemically shoved so far to the right that what we term ‘centrist’ these days is still conservative.

“Believing in shared values between rights activists and authoritarians is idiocy.”

Dr. Wen wrote:

SPLinTeR WIlL NevER CRitIcIzE S.t BrEnArD PuRItY TEsTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

it is moments like these that I am glad the republic has citizens with such wisdom, clarity, and gravitas, like :::checks notes::: Mr Doo Doo Penis

please acknowledge Mr. Doo Doo Penis’ key role here

Huh. He looks like a buff-and-bald Will Ferrell.

“At a union meeting on May 17, Shakir himself apparently recommended raising field organizer wages to $42,000 and changing guidelines around hours. The union rejected this suggestion, because it would require the higher-paid workers to contribute more money to health care costs.”