Poutinetown @ Poutinetown @lemmy.ca

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From the blogto article linked by op:

He says that "After a couple of sips, it became soggy and started to stain. Thereafter, I could taste a few small lid pieces in the drink, which was like 'yuck.'"

Yep sounds like terrible design and Tim's cheapen out in the material. I've had non plastic caps that were much better than that.

You know what would bring us back to the good old days? A real ceramic mug you can use to sit down, drink it slowly and enjoy. But I haven't been to a Tim's in a while where the server would ask if I wanted a mug or to go. Maybe the lady would call that woke too?

If you go on social media and ask why Canada cares about disabled and veterans, it's not gonna go well. But the "darn immigrants" is a popular trope and people will get behind you

In other news: "federal govt sparks outrage for giving seniors free access to Canada's dentists"

Social media user: "why are we even paying taxes? Canada cares about anyone but the taxpayers"

What's the tldr? Just read the entire article and couldn't grasp the main point of this article

I've never played a Sony game or owned a Sony console. I'm simply stating how a major japan-based company could save a young studio from completely disintegrating, allowing them to realize what could be a promising new IP. Also Sony could easily spinoff the studio once they've gained a certain size/reputation (they have spinoffed subsidiaries like financial services last year). Oth Microsoft would never spinoff any game company (they'd rather shut the whole thing down).

Would be a great time for Sony to acquire essentially the entire studio for $0, simply paying for their salary (won't even need relocation since it is already based in Tokyo, they could probably just reuse the same office space).

They would not even need to think of a game, simply focus on the planned sequel to hi-fi rush (obviously with different name but keeping the same core idea that was proposed for the sequel) and release it as a Sony exclusive.

They should get fined for any food thrown away.

Do you think it would make sense for valve to donate money and effort to Godot vs improving source?

Honestly a private company like Valve should consider going into the game engine business. They could probably use the same monetization as epic (5% or free on steam) and it would be a breeze for them to integrate. However it might not make financial sense for them hence they have not done it yet.

"wow, laying off so many people when he's getting 2M in salary"

Look I also think 2m as ludicrous as a bonus considering he hasn't done anything yet. But that's like the salary of 5 senior engineers in SF (where Unity is HQ'd).

Laying off 1800 sounds harsh and will hurt a lot of people, but the reality is that they are losing 100s of millions per quarter and the only options they have are: hiking fees (what the previous CEO tried) to increase or aggressively firing people to lower operating expenses; status quo would just resulted in unity running out of money and going bankrupt, meaning the choices of engine will be Unreal and Godot. As much as I wished the latter would be more utilized, the reality is that most existing indie games rely on unity, them going bankrupt would have massive repercussions on the gaming community.

So the CEO. I think most fail to realize his job isn't to push a button saying "layoff 25% of the workforce" and get his paycheck. He decides which teams to kill, which offices to blow up, how many can be sacrificed without shit hitting the fan, then make sure post firing that the company will keep running. Cause as much as reddit/Lemmy like to trash on unity, they tend to forget that unity is not just an engine, but provides a lot of the services for running a game (updates, maintenance, multiplayer servers, in game transactions), them shutting down would mean many games would just go down with them.

Yeah this is the real news. Doesn't matter how much revenue they are making, but artificially inflating the margin is literally greed and should be used as a proof of oligopolistic move by antitrust orgs to break them up.

Wow getting downvoted heavily. Looks like a lot of people either never took the subway in a big city or think that making it free would somehow not make access to the subway easier for disrupters?

Honestly the budget would be better used to subsidize transport for disabled people, increase budget for food banks, or build more shelters. I don't feel our taxes should subsidize Ms. 100k/yr living in downtown Toronto or Mr. 800k home living in kitsilano to give them free transportation, unless all of the above are being properly addressed.

Not even delivered. I'm happy picking it up at local Canada post

That would be awesome. Since it's a free market, what's stopping crown corporations from participating?

Is there any country that has fully free transit?

Also a lot of people are using drugs, sleeping on the stairs path, and using chairs as bathrooms. Making it free would likely make it much easier to disrupt daily commuters.

How is that in link with Indians specifically? Would mass immigrations of British or Aussies make things better?

India has a large English-speaking population, they have a large pool of talent interested in emigrating to places like Canada. What's so surprising about this?

Good way to drop the controller or console accidentally

I feel there should be a freeze period, like if you miss 1 payment due to paycheck delay or something would make sense, if you miss 6mo of payment there's probably a problem.

Depends what you mean by newer stuff. OpenAI is pretty good in terms of tts