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Far less than they asked for

Have you ever heard of the word "negotiation"? Why aren't you talking about how the result was "far less than what the rail companies asked for"?

Just going to ignore how Biden has asked Congress to legislate a higher minimum wage and issues an executive order requiring a higher minimum wage for Federal contractors?

The Democrats have only controlled Congress and the presidency at the same time for about 4 months in the past 4 decades, beginning in September 2009. Before then... idk it would have been before Reagan. When was the last time the minimum wage increased? 2009.

"Both sides are the same" is a Republican talking point.

Because all that would accomplish right now is get some asshole on the Internet to comment "if that's the case why doesn't he do something about it?" Or "why doesn't he do something about Medicare?"

Does he need to give a 6 hour speech outlining every policy he supports every day to satisfy you?

He has asked Congress to legislate a higher minimum wage. He issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to raise their minimum wage to qualify for government contracts.

What are YOU doing to raise the minimum wage of you care so much about it? Are you contacting your representatives? Your state can raise its own minimum wage: are you harassing those officials?

Or are you just trying to criticize Biden and draw attention away from his strike support on the Internet?

Couldn't the "moderate" Republicans do the same if he doesn't bring it to a vote though?

I would like self-checkout a lot more if those cost savings were passed on to the consumer instead of being hoarded by ownership.

It's the classic paradox. Technology and automation could be used to reduce the amount everyone needs to work and enrich everyone's lives as long as those gains are distributed properly. The distribution is the problem.

I went through OP's history and confirmed.... unfortunately yes, OP really is that dumb.

I could still use Reddit for free. At any point, I can easily decide to install the app and use it in parallel. I can go back-and-forth with 0 consequences. My income is not dependent on my ability to access Reddit.

Developers have made the business decision to use Unity or not, and this debacle pretty seriously impacts that decision.

In that US? Gasoline taxes don't even cover the cost of cleaning up emissions, let alone paving the roads. It's subsidized by other tax revenue.

Interesting what I don't see in this article. There's a lot of different drivers for costs of car infrastructure maintenance. But one of the most important drivers is weight. It causes more stress on the road surface and decreases that lifespan.

I agree with the article, just weird that they left out the most compelling argument for a weight tax on ALL vehicles.

Controller features, VR, non-proprietsry storage.

When you're talking about a premium market in particular, I think most high-end consumers who care about the aesthetics of their living room would prefer the official, matching Dualsense charger/stand over Microsoft's charging kit.

The exclusives are huge, especially factoring in backwards-compatibility. Xbox is undoubtedly a better value if you already have a library of older Xbox games or you are shopping used. But if you divide consumers up into Budget, Value, and Premium tiers, I don't think the Premium tier consumers care about playing games that old. The PS4 had way more big-budget AAA exclusives than the Xbox One did, so I think PlayStation has the advantage there.

Weirdly, I think there's some dissonance with this around disc drives. I would think premium consumers would care less about physical media: they aren't buying used games and probably have concerns for the aesthetic of storing physical media. I personally prefer physical media, but I consider myself a value consumer who has no qualms buying used and can handle a little bit of clutter. So I think disc drive versions are valued less by the premium segment, but costs more to manufacture. So I think that boosts the sales of the diaclsss PS5. Premium consumers aren't interested in the Series S at all though, so if they do go Xbox they just get the X and don't use the drive. I kind of wonder how the market will react if the rumors of Sony selling an external drive end up true.

If you're not familiar with the "gold" term, it means the game is complete and ready to be submitted to Sony's online services and be printed to discs

Am I the only one who has never heard this term before? I always thought going Gold referenced a sales threshold, similar to the music industry. The term as the article defines it is pretty dumb and useless.

The X is trying to compete in a premium space, long with the PS5. The X falls short of the PS5 in almost every category that a premium consumer cares about, and I don't think premium consumers are interested in value-oriented subscriptions like GamePass.

The S is competing with.... Well definitely not the Switch. I wouldn't say the Steam Deck either. It was competing to an extent with the PS4 and Xbox One, but not anymore. The S has kind of been left in its own market, so this news makes sense.

Maybe the Switch 2 will have some overlap in that market, but assuming it's a hybrid handheld it might still be differentiated enough to leave the S on it's own. Sony has been working on lowering the cost of the PS5 but I can't see that getting anywhere near S territory. So unless something else drops I don't see the S having competition any time soon.

She's 96. She should have retired when Bush was president of that was her concern.

If you think Congress is expected to "outwardly agree to show seriousness for the proceedings" I suggest you do some research into the ridiculous nonsense that has taken place in Congress. Wearing suits, banning women and black people, whatever it is they've tried didn't prevent fistfights or drunk people on the floor. It just hasn't happened on TV.

Yet.

There's a good mixture. Some of the games I listed were literally just ports to he new hardware. Some were complete remakes. I'd say most of Skyrim lies somewhere in-between. It's the base game, plus the 3 DLC's, plus however many officially-sanctioned mods or platform-specific changes like for VR, Alexa (lol), or Switch. The re-release and different edition names are trying to set up boundaries and market the amorphous blob that most mod-heavy PC games are to console users.

This isn't anything new though. How many different platforms has Super Mario Brothers been playable on? Or Sonic 2?

The best games of every generation get brought to the next. Whether it's older stuff like Super Mario All Stars or the various Sega Ages and Classic collections. Most great PS1 and PS2 games saw release on the PS3, either digitally or in various physical collections. Tons of PS3 games have been re-released on PS4. Despite no backwards compatibility, there's only a few PS3 exclusive titles left stuck on that platform. I don't even know how many WiiU games are left that have not been ported to switch yet: that might be in the single-digits.

I don't see how Skyrim is much different, but for some reason the Internet loves to hate it Skyrim and Bethesda in particular. Don't get me wrong: they're a giant soulless corporation. But there's so many other corporations that have had way more consumer-unfriendly practices. Re-releasing a game on multiple platforms with new content added, usually at a pretty good price, just seems consumer friendly to me.

Hilarious thing to say about a studio that literally released a new game in a new IP this month.

As a PS5 owner... Bethesda games are better on a desktop than a console anyways. It might as well be PC only for all I care lol.

The reddit issue screwed over end consumers and a couple of tiny app developers.

There's some big developers that use Unity. Pokemon Go is in Unity. Pokemon BDSP was in Unity: say what you want about the quality, but that's as still over 14 million games sold and I would not be at all surprised if ILCA was halfway through another Unity re-make.

These changes aren't just screwing over random individuals who like to play games. Not just indie developers either. Unity is looking to battle with billion-dollar corporations over this. I can't believe for once I'll actually be rooting for Nintendo's legal team.

My understanding (I don't know much about Arabic) is that Daesh is kind of a westernization of Da'ish, which is itself the latinized version of the Arabic acronym.

Apparently Daesh is what their arabic-speakkng opposition calls them becauss of puns with other negative Arabic words.