jivemasta

It's more about the fact that why does the streaming service get to earn money in perpetuity for someone else's work and the creators of that work don't get to as well?

If you are jealous of that model, you should probably be fighting for it for yourself as well, not blocking the way for the ones who are trying to fight for themselves.

I think the original quote was something along the lines of, "the customer is always right, in mattera of taste". Meaning to accommodate the customers wishes, even if it's ugly or a bad idea or whatever. Like if they want to paint their house pink with green trim, let them

Maybe Im reading the vibe wrong but to me, it seems like when it comes to the programmer/sysadmin/poweruser side of Microsoft, they seem pretty good in terms of not being total shit. Their "normie" facing side though seems hella shady though. Things like ads in windows, the speculated subscription model for windows, office 365, one drive spam.

For example, things like vscode, WSL, winget, power tools, the new console app, powershell, typescript, opening up .net to native cross platform. All these things are pretty sweet and seem like something they wouldn't be interested in doing.

It almost feels like there are two Microsofts right now and they are at odds with each other. So yeah, I guess enjoy it while it lasts, but always be ready to drop them like a sack of potatoes.

The theme of cyberpunk is that you have a literal anti corp terrorist in your head, and how that is affecting V's psyche. Like there are points in the game where you choose some dialogue options and the game is like "is that V's opinion or Johnny's".

I think they should have not played up the "if left unchecked, he's going to kill you" sense of urgency bit though. But basically every open world game has the same problem with how do you reconcile having an open world, but also have a plot that needs moved forward. Like they can't just outright game over you if you just do side quests for a in-game week or so.

That's where starfield actually gets it right. You aren't the "chosen one", you are just a guy. The main plot of the game has no sense of urgency, because it's fully driven by how much you dig into the artifact mystery. Any one in constellation could be doing the same things you are doing, and getting the powers and finding more artifacts, they all have seen the same visions you have when they first touched one. Again, you aren't special.

The difference is Twitter is a private company, and Tesla is public. Meaning he is free to run Twitter into the ground because at the end of the day, it's his to do as he pleases. But with Tesla, he has to ultimately answer to the share holders, if he starts running amok of the company, they can vote to give him the boot and he can't really do anything about it.

You want to know how I know this isn't true?

Because if it were, the big car makers would be rushing the hell out of pushing for killing off ICE cars and switching to 100% EVs like yesterday.

But yet most of them have put out a mediocre effort at best, offering maybe 2 models to attract the younger market. And even then, good luck actually getting one. You are on a wait list for at least a year, have to deal with dealerships that haven't bothered to learn anything about them, and if they do miraculously have one on the lot, they've been using it as a loaner car, so it's not even brand new. And while I was shopping around, I ran into multiple instances of the dealership taking the $7500 tax credit for themselves(because the tax credit is tied to the car, not to you buying it) and then having the gall to also mark up the sticker price, "due to high demand".

Then other brands have basically outright resisted making them, or will make them, but it seems like they are only doing it to say they are going green. They'll make like 2000 of the the dopeyiest looking car they can and trickle them out, make no effort to advertise them or mass produce them in any meaningful way. Then claim, "the demand just isn't there".

Like if what you said was true, we would be seeing things like dodge challengers, Ford mustangs(ones that actually look like a mustang, not just a crossover with a horse logo), dodge rams, Ford f150s(yes these exist, but they are trickleing them out, so good luck getting one), jeep Wranglers. Nobody is taking their tried and true cars and making them electric. Well VW is, but not in America with things like the golf and GTI lines.

Is it really the sloppiest though?

I'd say its about on par with their past games. It's clearly their game engine, modified to do space stuff.

If you come at it with the mindset that not every game has to get bigger and more expansive and have more and more realism/mechanics that don't serve the core gameplay, it achieves it's goal.

Not saying its game of the year material or anything, but if I was doing an employee review, I'd give it a meets expectations grade.

He didn't threaten to do it, he did it

Conspiracy, by definition, is talking about commiting a crime, and then doing an action to actually commit the crime.

So let's say I get some friends together and we talk about pulling a heist on the local art museum. That in and of itself is not a crime, we are just talking. But if we start going out and casing the joint, buying crow bars and shit to actually do it, it becomes a conspiracy to commit burglary, which is a crime. Even though we didn't actually break into the place yet, it becomes a crime when we make actions toward the crime.

Dude made statements about overthrowing the government. Not a crime. But then he went to the government and started jumping fences, and breaking into buildings. Crime.

Also, by your logic yelling fire wouldn't be illegal, it's literally speech. Also threatening is a crime. If I say, I'm gonna hit you with this hammer, and I have a hammer in my hand, that is assault, which is totally a crime. Didn't actually hit you, just threatened to but with the clear ability to go through with that threat.

Yes, but also you don't get good credit by entering into contracts you can't afford. What I can and can't afford are my decision to make.

Just like you can have good credit and low income, you can have high income and be shit with money. It really doesn't prove anything by showing a pay stub.

My finances are my problem. All a landlord needs to know is that I am willing to pay what they are asking. It is my problem to actually pay the money. There are lifestyles in which you don't have the ability to show someone a pay stub, and can still pay rent on time every month.

That is why things like credit checks exist. It's a way to verify that a person has kept their finances in order and are responsible enough to pay their bills on time.

How? Because it's a video game.

You aren't bound by what is physically possible.