You've got the wrong person. I tip, and probably too much.

I don't want tipping to end because I expect to pay less. I want it to end because it's inherently deceptive to the customer. As is tax not being included in the sticker price.

Yeah, what I'm saying is that I don't want to be nickle and dimed, because it makes me feel like a victim of deceptive marketing.

No matter how strongly you know that your $9.99 burger is actually $14.00 (or more because tipping on the machine is often calculated after tax), psychological studies show that $9.99 tends to subconsciously mean "under $10" to people...and to services like Google Maps.

We've created this culture that it's okay to subconsciously deceive the customer to extract an extra $0.01 (or $1.00) out of every purchase...and an extra 10%...and an extra 20% if it's at a restaurant.

People who set a price limit for themselves of $20 will gladly go into a restaurant and buy something that's $19.99 and feel like they've stayed within their budget.

This is the problem. I don't like living somewhere where "buy a meal for under $10!" means I need to spend at least $15.

I don't even know what you're accusing me of doing, lol

"actively robbing the poor" and "actively killing masses of poor people" are two different levels of evil.

Is it unhealthy to be gleeful for the death of someone who promotes and spreads violent and hateful rhetoric and got hoist by his own petard? This is different than being gleeful about the death of someone who is making a hobby worse in one specific company.

So you're fine if restaurants raise their prices 20%,

But not fine simply doing the math to add that 20% yourself?

Yes, exactly.

What is the real difference there?

Well...

The price would then be the same, you'd just get a lower "advertised" price.

It's this. It's misleading advertising. And this kind of misleading advertising is proven to get people to spend more money, which is exactly why restaurants do it.

Same thing with not including tax in the advertised price. It's all about screwing over the customer. Nothing else.

EDIT: I'm sorry people are being so hard on you. I'm not here to insult you and downvote you for having an opinion I dislike, lol

I don't think they're trying to poison datasets. I think they're just being weird.

90% of waitstaff (if not more than that) LOVE tipping culture because they get more money than they'd ever be making hourly by serving without tips.

(Talking about servers in places with tipping culture, of course)

I didn't say it wasn't valid, I just said it's disrespectful. Generally, it is. While you're ok with it, not everyone who's fat is ok with it.

And it's already higher from the tax! Lol

Thankfully, lifespan is one

It's disrespectful to refer to someone as "the fat guy" too, perhaps moreso.

I'm not sure exactly what you said, but if it was "a small, thin woman that was either born in an East Asian country or has East Asian parents", then that's pretty weird.

It may have also been unnecessary to describe the person at all. It depends on the context.

On the hour, every hour, it's a new sale! We're calling it HH, for Happy Hour! Hail HH as the new best sale on any digital platform!

Lots of big sales as games are being sold for 14.88 or 18.88...regardless of your local currency! What games will you find for these special prices? Surprises await!

And knowing that it's June, we take pride in the quality of our games. This is your last chance to buy some of these "rainbow-themed" games before we put them in the gas chamber vault for long-term archival!

We've already tossed some insensitive games in there that glamorized hate against specific groups of people. We won't be hosting the Wolfenstein series on our platform anymore. Taking a stand against hhate!

This is the first time I've heard "timezones aren't fair"!

If those extra 15 hours matter, you could always move to New Zealand. Otherwise, it's "safest" to play by the rules and wait until midnight. Or just wait until the next day. Playing exciting games after midnight can be bad for your health (assuming you're not on a nocturnal schedule)!

Charlie Kirk was okay with people dying from gun violence if it meant fewer restrictions on guns. He fought against minority groups' rights. He was spreading dangerous rhetoric worldwide.

The Ubisoft guy helped found a popular video game company and was probably just a generic rich prick at worst.

The world is better off without Charlie Kirk. I doubt the world, let alone the video game industry, let alone even just Ubisoft, will get any better after today thanks to Guillemot's death.

There's a huge difference here.

Thirdly, and I’m sure it’s just an oversight, but the description still lists your game name on his page.

Free advertising!

Search has been becoming smarter for years (decades?) by now.

The problem is that search has been made to work with the "you know what I mean" factor... fixing spelling mistakes, considering different tenses or forms of words, including related words...

Search became more friendly to the average non-technical user, but it became harder for users who know/knew how to search for exactly what they want.

Other factors include...

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) where websites try to appear for as many searches as possible, occasionally regardless of relevance
• Monetization of search, where people with SEO and a lot of money pay to be included in as many "relevant" searches as possible
• AI incorporated into search by trying to find additional relevant pages
• Search engines being reluctant to return zero (or few) results and padding the results with other things you "might be interested in"
• Also, search trying to use what you "might be interested in" based on what they know about you/your account/your IP address/your location based on your IP range.

Yes, I think we're in agreement here. This is exactly what I'm saying

They wanted a specific piece of information though, rather than opinions. You don't have to be Canadian to read these documents

Usually it's asking for the purpose of generating discussion.

Like, "What is the capital of Canada" doesn't seem like a good question.

"Why is Ottawa the capital of Canada" seems like a better question.

"Who knows the capital of Canada" and then following it up with "ok and what is the longest street there" seems a bit silly.