Prove_your_argument

Have there been a ton of big content changes since the EA launch?

I know they changed a ton of features like pet mounts and pokeball throwing due to morally reprehensible, anticompetitive nin lawsuits. That stuff can be modded back in - but I looked at a recent map and wasn’t sure how much it’s really changed over time or how many new things have been added.

What i’m hoping for is substantial improvements to base management and the metagame, along with loads of new pals. The bosses also seemed kind of weird compared to the rest of the game so changes to that / the story would be huge improvements for me too.

I guess I should look this stuff up.

The service is the holy grail of MBA. You own nothing and pay constantly. Subscriptions galore and there is zero portability so high vendor lock-in once you start customizing. The pricing agreement is entirely one sided so the execs can set bonus payout performance objectives in ways that let them take advantage of properly timed price increases.

It’s similar to AWS, Azure and the rest of the cloud platforms and i’ve never heard anybody say moving to those saved them money even after staff reductions.

“The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global […]”

I’m positive this is just austerity measures after folding in activision. They’re probably finding more and more ways to offshore american and western european jobs to poorer nations where they can pay the employees less $$$.

Money is the only motivation. It’s not about producing better art, just more profits.

IMO The only tax should be a wealth tax. If someone wants to spend 100% of what they make and they make billions of dollars, power to them. If they want to live on credit only and never keep a dime, power to them.

If someone wants to rent out a home they own and make money on it and keep the money, they should be taxed on the money they kept AND the value of the home. Wealth hoarding should be extremely discouraged past the lifetime earnings of something like 10x minimum wage. Assuming you work 40 years at 7.25, that’s 6 million dollars. Today that more than affords for a 4 BR home and enough investments to have ~150k passive income from dividend stocks. The market will be especially lucrative for those who are under the asset cap as they can freely buy and sell without being taxed on gains on their way up.

Use it or lose it. There’s no reason for anyone to have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars… let alone billions or trillions or more. If you can’t find ways to spend your wealth in excess of 6 million dollars of assets, maybe you shouldn’t have it.

A 5% tax per year, forever on assets over 6m would still not ever put someone in the poor house. 6.1m doesn’t mean you lose 5% of 6.1m, it means you lose 5% of 0.1m, or 50k. Get taxed down to 6m or lower? No tax. Oh, and we can do all kinds of fun things here to pass wealth down generationally. Money given to kids should be totally protected up to that 6m figure, and it should have to go into a trust that can’t be touched by anyone but the child. A % of taxes paid from a parent should be deposited into all biological children’s trust evenly until they reach that 6m figure. Conversely, kids’ taxes can also go to parents until they reach that 6m number. No more fucking your kids out of their inheritance by living to 100 and no more fucking your parents out of caregiving or tossing them onto public assistance even though you are wildly wealthy.

Want to have more assets for everyone? raise minimum wage. Want more money so you can spend more money? Keep doing stuff that produces value, there’s certainly no shortage of billionaires who have made money from millions, and 5% a year is WAY lower than what people’s wealth accumulates once they get a high income from a source.

I’d also say abolish nonprofits entirely. Organizations can exist, but they need clearly defined ownership and that 5% tax still applies to wealth. a company can become enormous and quite valuable simply by fairly distributing the assets to their employees. Not paying employees a fair share? Well that’s gonna be clawed back… and those taxes should at least partially go to the workers under the tax ceiling.

We should probably also make it so legal agreements cannot be enforced unless they are public. NDAs should practically never be enforceable. Whistleblowing should be incredibly incentivized. No more back room deals. No more loop holes. This needs nuance and much consideration as obviously some exceptions should exist, like all of the above.

Transferring wealth out of the country is probably one example of an income tax that should exist, but clearly some thought and nuance needs to be applied to figure out how to make this work, but it would work.

We could fund all of the necessary social programs with this. We could eliminate homelessness, food insecurity and poverty with this.

All this being said, i’m not naive enough to think this would ever happen. Wealth and power is too concentrated already and democracy doesn’t seem capable of escaping the levers of wealth and power. We’ll keep on hoarding wealth in an extreme minority of people, per usual.

If 1/1000 systems are DOA and they imported 40k in the US, that means 40 systems should be DOA.

0.1% of systems having issues would be a pretty common occurrence in consumer electronics. That’s why you have a warranty.

Let me guess, it just came with the unit and you still had to buy a power supply, case, storage, other necessary accessories, and the end price gets you something much more than 200 EUR. Probably more like 400-500 EUR.

How far off am I?

I get it, and that’s why they would just hire the next guy on the street who would gladly take the money for the same job because they have been mostly unemployed for XX months/years.

Hundreds of thousands of layoffs and more and more declining QOL, benefits and pay. Just how it is today unless you are in one of the trending AI jobs - which will dry up and pay a fraction of what they used to before too long.

Instead they will be offered the same role with a 20-50% pay cut due to market conditions, and it will be 100% in person instead of fully remote or hybrid as it was just five years ago.

Apple TV is basically the only streaming service I have respect for at this point, and I still hate the UI. They just have so many good shows.

They’re the only ones making great science fiction imo. Almost everything else is pure slop.

I’ve been picking up game consoles for my whole life. I decided before the NS2 was announced that I was done picking up game consoles. Now there is absolutely zero chance of me picking up a ps6, it’s just not acceptable to do this.

They all want you to go to digital storefronts because they get a bigger cut of the pie and you cannot use anyone else’s copy. Soon we’ll see them remove activating two consoles on one account entirely and possibly the offline capability as well. They want to make sure you drink your verification cans to keep playing, they just haven’t gotten there yet.

if I was on this guy’s jury I would flat out refuse to convict him on any charge for this.

Shouldn’t be legal to setup systems outdoors for mass surveillance. Cameras outside to inhibit vandalism is one thing, but this is warantless wiretapping equivalent.

affects mobile the most obviously… but google’s playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.