Wild that these comments are excusing a nuke being dropped on a civilian area, that was an atrocity and nothing less.

This dude needs to stop getting coverage, the fact that he’s allowed to run for president is an affront to democracy.

Part of the enjoyment of a meme is the way it looks, poorly made Photoshop memes are funnier in sometimes

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My point is this is a larger problem of capitalism and just supporting companies that don’t do this doesn’t always work. The gaming industry is getting worse, and there will be less and less devs that actually don’t do this. And there will be less and less devs that are fiscally able to not do this. I have seen it happen time and time again.

You’re not understanding what I’m saying. This is them testing the waters. All companies that are publicly traded will continue to do whatever they can to make a profit. Consumer be damned. I don’t buy AAA games, but it doesn’t change the fact that changes like this will propagate across the gaming industry and make it worse as a whole. The issue here is them trying to turn a profit for shareholders no matter what. So many of these companies are prioritizing making a profit why they happen to release games and not vice versa. That is a result of the last stage unregulated capitalism we have in America and those same tendencies that they’ve propagated to the global economy.

Don’t be so naive to say “just don’t buy it bro.” I won’t. It doesn’t really affect me that much RIGHT NOW. But it might, the more they’re legally allowed to and the more they get away with the more everyone will do it. It happened with DLC’s, then releasing unfinished games, in game purchase in games you have to buy, etc. God forbid I don’t want the entirety of AAA gaming to be a pile of shit. It’s time for lawmakers to step in in this industry and most others and put limits on what type of things companies can do to make a profit. And this goddamn law that companies must do everything they can to turn a profit for their shareholders must be done away with.

It’s only a matter of time before this leaks into all AAA games, I hate capitalism.

there should be a law banning private equity firms

FTFY

JUST PUT HIM IN JAIL ALREADY JFC

Sure

I mean Lemmy thread lol, like a comment thread

I tried saying that on the thread about mastodon announcing they were making a non profit and I got mass down voted

I live in a “right to work” state, there are no required unemployment benefits. I got one paycheck as severance and everyone I told within the state said, " well at least it’s not nothing"

Bruce has tried to do this a few times actually but the court of owls is pretty much the in universe explanation for why Gotham never gets better. Just like the real world, it’s wealthy elites conspiring to make their lives better and the lower classes worse.

PERHAPS BECAUSE ““THE ECONOMY””" DOESN’T REPRESENT THE COST OF THINGS ANYMORE

I sure hope mastadon turns out better. We need a strong voice advocating for the fediverse.

All I’m saying is generally when those in big tech establish a non profit, it’s for the wrong reasons, or it eventually becomes the wrong reasons. Look at open AI. They had a non profit and and profit side. The non profit side essentially controlled with the for profit side did, then when they ousted the CEO for doing things that were clearly in the interest of profit over the betterment of society, the CEO had set it up so that without him the open AI ship began to sink. Then those on the board that were against him were ousted from the board. It was a hostile takeover.

I’m not saying that’s going to happen with mastadon, I’m just saying they have some key players that are investors and/or long time workers in big tech and it puts a bad taste in my mouth.

If only this is what Reagan actually did

Misleading title, the article says that they can’t rule out Putin wanting him dead, this is probably not the circumstances or time in which Putin wanted him dead

Welp, don’t like that. US nonprofit is a huge misnomer. For the most part they’re used by the wealthy to create businesses that don’t need to pay taxes.

Edit: Not sure why I’m getting mass downvotes. The non profit system in America is where the wealthy go to create tax free income. The CEOs of non profits still get huge salaries. Just seems out of line with the vision of a true non profit IMO. That’s why I call it a misnomer. Non profits are almost never set up to do what they actually say they are trying to do. They’re often just created to get public favor and money laundering.