Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Literally the whole point of forcing people back. To remind them that their betters make the rules.

The execs want us to see, and to truly understand, that they do what they want, and we also do what they want.

It makes sense if the company had agreed to buy the shares off of him at market rates and then sell him stock back at a significant discount. Doing this would allow him to claim the money gained as capital gains rather than employment income, and it wouldn't count as insider trading if it was an arrangement made and timelines settled upon before the bullshit was planned.

It could be something like having his contract say that the company will buy back X shares when the share price hits $Y in value, for instance.

When you sell your time and labour for a living, you tend to not have any idea about how people who own property for a living get paid. And the ownership class does a pretty good job at misinforming the working class about those details, since it benefits them to be seen as just doing the same things at a different scale. Insights into the actual process of their compensation will look like some sort of conspiratorial scheme because... Well, because it is. It's just not the one people will tend to tie it to. And it's not an illegal one.

They want us to believe they're playing baseball in the major leagues while we're on the company softball team, instead of highlighting that they're actually playing poker with a stacked deck against a casino they own.

The entire factory industry, worldwide, uses the assembly line model invented by Ford, an American company. This system also brought prices down on cars, making them a staple of life rather than a luxury.

Right, but if you have the motivation to make things affordable for people, you can and will get to the same place. The profit motivation and the centralization of wealth are not the key motivators here.

They're just the ones that made Ford rich and famous enough to aggressively publicize himself.

Stuffed crust, King Kai! You can eat them in reverse!

Oh, I imagine working conditions there have gotten worse in recent times, too. The kind of leadership that fucks over their clients like this don't start with those clients. They treat everyone as a resource to be exploited, and employees are the ones they can abused most readily.

The public furor over the pricing model is the opportunity, not the motive.

Yeah, not only will people send death threats, but they'll send them to random people they see on LinkedIn who happen to have the company in their bio.

Instead of, like, to the CEO's house.

Because too many people are both angry reactionaries, and also cowards.

Unity: Successfully implemented a product strategy that floods the market with game developers that know how to use its product.

You, an insufferable prick: "Why would they use a product they could find ready-trained developers for when they could use a niche product no one has any skills in??!?"

They make it obtuse on purpose, both to prop up the tax return industry, and to make it both possible to create loopholes for the rich to avoid taxes, and make it so that the rest of us can't really benefit from those loopholes.

It's Byzantine on purpose. They could simplify it any time they wanted to.

1.5 years of learning unity gone down the shitter.

And this is the real damage to their business here. They clearly lost sight of their business model: Create an army of developers who know their product very well, so that it's on a short list of products studios are all but forced to consider.

A wave of developers who know soemthing other than Unity or Unreal has the potential to turn the games development ecosystem totally on its head. They didn't shoot themselves on the foot, they possibly shot themselves in the femoral artery.

Yeah, let's see how many of these guys survive when unemployment is at 50% and people are starving and desperate.

"Eat the rich" will become a much more literal rallying cry.

No, that's not actually reasonable given how federation works. You're not viewing content on other instance, you're viewing content imported from other instances. Copies hosted locally. This puts admins in the position of actively hosting content they may find objectionable if it's allowable on other sites and they're federating with those sites.

Your instance is not some neutral community browser for remote communities. It's not the equivalent of Chrome or Firefox. It's the equivalent of a website hosting guest authors, and the website admins are responsible on some level for what they choose to host.

If you want wide open freedom of choice, you have the ability to host your own instance. That's how you get carte blanch to decide what you see and what you don't.

For reference.

Disagree. Indeed, I couldn't disagree more strongly.

Instances are not just abstract server nodes in some overly wasteful recreation of some other website. This is the world wide social web as it should have been.

You may as well argue that websites should be indistinguishable from each other.

This isn't Reddit. Full stop. And it's not a drop-in Reddit replacement, either. It's not "Reddit, but different". It's a whole new paradigm in forums and content aggregation. It's very different from centralized social media, and we need to stop dancing around or trying to hide that fact.

It will never get to reach its potential if we decide it needs to be nothing more than a simulacra of what came before it.

It's too late. Cat's out of the bag. It's crystal clear to everyone now what kind of people run the company, and they're not content to fish for whales anymore.

Capitalism: Where you have the freedom to choose to buy whatever you want, so long as it is what everyone else is buying, too.

Also, Oblivion just wasn't amazing. It was fine. More than good enough, even. But it was also just unmitigated and completely ubcofused sidequest sprawl. In my attempts to experience all that it had to offer, I ended up feeling like I experienced nothing of value.

Wait, this is a Bethesda game. I assumed that that was the explanation.

I wonder how much Putin paid for Elon. I can't help but imagine it was as little as a scratch behind the ear and telling him that "he's a good boy, yes he is! Yes he is!"

I don’t like the thought of schoolteachers or politicians making their own.

And why is that? She had consentual sex with someone, both parties consented to filming it, and both parties consented to streaming it online. Sex is a natural and healthy act, so where's the problem?