Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don’t take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.
I’m still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.
It’s not that they’re allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it’s unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it’s a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.
He doesn’t give a shit about women in heels, but he doesn’t mind women in heels. It’s so much harder to run away when wearing heels, you know?
The logic is abhorrent, but it makes sense. It’s the typical two-tiered hypocrisy often employed by politicians everywhere.
“As long as we the ruling class are exempt from personal sacrifice, we support this.”
You say that like they aren’t already trying that crap. The media has been pretty damn happy to take photos and videos of the damage caused by the riot gear-wearing faction and implying it’s caused by rioting protesters.
The part the most astonishing isn’t the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.
I have heard stupid shit ranging from “he meant votes will be cast automatically” to “he’s just trolling” to “good, it’s leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020.”
Just maybe… the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?
we are an apolitical, non-partisan organization
Sure, and I’m Bob Ross.
The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it’s either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.
How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?
It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.
A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.
One instance? There’s at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to get those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.
Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.
It’s incredible how quickly our politicians managed to be paid off to fuck that one up.
Only one? “Ukrainian liberal trans communists” is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.
To conservatives, “handling” a region where the population is a different skin color and religion is removing it. So—if you asked Trump’s supporters, you would get an enthusiastic “yes” as a response.
Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.
When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws, but it also easily could have just been because it makes the company look very bad.
one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites
That sounds unethical, to say the least. Did they verify if you actually did it, or just “suggest” you do?
Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.
Amazing. We really have been conditioned to check off every god damned box without reading them just to get past sign up screens, haven’t we?
Does it literally say, “Yes, please send me spam”?
You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.
They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.
That doesn’t absolve the rural conservative voters, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. As far as things were going, our lovely oligarchs and mega corporations were doing just fine and skewing that number upwards. And that’s the problem. It’s not that we had a failing economy; it’s that we have disgustingly bad wealth distribution. A voter base capable of understanding what they’re actually asking for (higher wages, more purchasing power, higher taxes for multimillionaires) would have seen right through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled directly into it.
If you grew up in the south, yes.
Those who work forces…