Exactly.

My brain just hears "buy product! We like our product to spend money on it to try to influence you! Now look at these pictures or hear these sounds of said product"

Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I'd buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.

Enjoy your product sir, ill be leaving now.

Yeah if you hit the 'hide infrastructure' button itll remove all the 'value' that comes from that.

Since most of this is cyclical like it says in the disclaimer these numbers are most like too high as well because some of the profits between each other are going right back into each other.

There won't be any battle passes in Guild Wars 3. There will be paid expansions, paid cosmetics, paid account services, and paid "time-saving convenience items". A less generous interpretation of Johanson's post would be that some of these things are manifestations of the "hidden" subscription mentality he's knocking.

So we dont like live service crap because they just shifted the monthly sub to other things. Anyway, buy the cosmetics/services/'time saving items' from us! Def not the same live service bullshit those other guys are doing lmao.

Yeah that's my problem with the "at least its free for people with impulse control" angle.

The people who dont will buy it, and the company will begin catering to those people for profit if the company itself doesnt have the impulse control to just take the money and keep making the same game.

If theres a time skip, but the game doesnt require the time skip, less people will buy it. Incentivize the time skip and the free players suffer. So even though you dont have to buy it, your experience is worse.

Id rather a sub so i can unsub when im done playing and my time is honored.

I believe the satellite business does, its just that the rockets and ai do so bad that its vastly outweighing those profits.

So everyone using starlink is propping it up, mostly governments and military of course.

Honestly good. Let no one else use that technology. Then all i have to do is not buy a ford.

That said, if you plug your phone into your car, this tech is already in place lol.

Oh you don't like to know when we put shit in your food so you can scrutinize it? Fine we'll just not tell you.

Congratz now ALL of it contains shit.

Reddit is no longer fun indeed

One of my coworkers messed up by not checking ai output before following its direction.

When they were reprimanded, i was used as an example of what they should be doing to better use ai safely due to my low amount of fuckups.

I dont use ai and clearly they dont realize that.

I only found out because this coworker, who is a genuinely good and curious diligent worker, asked me for tips. After telling them i just dont mess with ai they let me know what happened.

So now im wondering what the funniest way to cash in on managment assuming i use ai is.

Ill do you one extra even. One of our customers, a lawfirm, has asked we remove AI from their environment over privacy concerns. We, as their IT, are still trying to push and sell licenses to our other customers and even use it ourselves.

All against the wishes of the actual workers themselves in my company. The execs and sales team is pushing it so hard and ignoring that a literal law firm is super against it.

Surely this will turn out well. I let that customer know that we're still pushing AI, and management is very pro AI still. It might be a good idea to look for a different IT provider if that goes against your values.

This has big "ill pay $20 if it has free shipping, but won't pay $15 + $5 shipping" energy.

Id rather buy food from a restaurant that doesn't need tipping and is more expensive because they pay their workers fair wage instead of a place where the workers feel like they have to do the food service equivalent of pan handling on the side of the street.

They get paid the same. One is less dehumanizing.

Leaving your wage up to a fickle customer is hell. Getting paid less because the cooks accidentally overcooked the customers steak so they felt like they werent "treated well" or some bs is ridiculous.

(The bottom half of this rant isnt aimed at you, but at tipping in general)

"Me want burger" directed at the microwave while it spins your frozen mid-tier burger.

It spits out a weirdly hot but cold "burger" after a minute. The bread is mush and the patty is frozen in the center, but it's a burger none the less.

"Wow and just think, in a decade everyone could be a 5star chef like me"

I like my microwave as much as the next person, and it has its usecase like any tool, but lets not start building microwaves into cars and fridges and washing machines.

900lbs is 4 fat adults. My sedan could haul that.

"I sing, i sang i sung. You win, you've won.

Sung won.

SANGJWINN?" -proZD

I also dislike all the stupid advertising that people post. "-brand- is doing such a funny april fools thing!"

So i like to keep this guy around

I believe the common strawman is "if min wage goes up, prices go up" which..... You know just admits the system is there to abuse. "If you make more money then we'll take more money from you".

You're all wrong, that's a prime chaotic resonator that fits 4 fossils for end game crafting clearly. The romans were farming end game and we're not even to maps yet.

https://www.poewiki.net/...

For those confused. The yellow is the view from one eye blocked.

So the clear in the center is what both eyes see. The yellow on the RIGHT is what the LEFT eye has blocked, and the opposite for the Left of the image being what is blocked for the right eye.

My favorite part is how it'll reinstall itself every so often when the OS updates. I used to be able to brick that in registry but its changed again to where that trick doesnt work anymore.

For folks who cannot do this due to it being a work-controlled machine or otherwise, you can use notepad++. (Obviously id rather this be a tipping point to ditch all the junk at once, but sometimes that isnt feasible)

That said, i find i still need a throwaway notepad for fast trashy notes. In that case ive just uninstalled the new notepad and re-downloaded the legacy notepad then re-aimed "notepad.exe" to the legacy one.

There are a few guides out there, just search your standard "how to get legacy notepad"