Steeve

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Steeve,

CS:GO is over a decade old and certainly isn’t “killed”, does the author just not want new games to be released ever? I feel like everything posted nowadays is ragebait.

Steeve, (edited )

It was a free update/upgrade for CS:GO. That’s like saying v2.0 killed v1.9.

Also, major upgrades for free ten years after release is frankly unheard of. This isn’t a “trend”

Steeve,

I feel like there was a big push for quantity of content on Lemmy, so everyone set up bots to push content to Lemmy and now we’re stuck with a bunch of shitty content on Lemmy lol.

Steeve,

What if users find the article itself to be misinformative, is that something moderators will look at if reported with evidence?

Steeve,

Bit the bullet as in… downloading a free app and clicking a button every week to get free games? Good for you?

Steeve,

Lol no it isn’t

Steeve,

Not to mention they massively over promised a game that seemed like it was meant to revolutionize every aspect it touched, but instead released a (imo) pretty fun open world game that was a bit of a shitshow on release.

Steeve,

It doesn’t even apply to software standards lol. It’s a dumb “playbook” probably made by some coked out Microsoft middle manager in the 00s that wasn’t even widely successfully used. Lemmy’s crappy example of it is Google “killing” an extensible messaging protocol, which is nonsense because they didn’t kill anything (you don’t “kill” a protocol), they extended it into a proprietary version. You know, because it’s extensible.

The only relevance “embrace, extend, extinguish” has in today’s society is as an excuse to spread FUD and ragebait on Lemmy.

John Riccitiello is stepping down as CEO and president of Unity (investors.unity.com)

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately....

Steeve,

You’re looking for blood you’ll never get unfortunately

Steeve,

Eh, more of a case by case basis in the tech industry imo. Most game studio devs should probably unionize, but it’s not all horror stories everywhere. I’m not against unionization by any means and it’s always on the table, but when me and my coworkers already have great pay, great benefits, stable careers, and great work life balance I don’t really see what additional benefits it would bring. It’s an over-generalization to say that you’ll be earning more money as a union employee when you’re already making more than 90% of the population, I know first hand that some trades even make more than their unionized counterparts in my area.

Steeve,

I already negotiate. Every couple years I interview around, I get a job offer, I take it back it my employer and they either match it or I leave. I’ve personally increased my salary 6x since I’ve joined the industry about a decade ago, I know people who have increased it more. I don’t know anyone in a unionized field who’s managed to achieved anything like this. I don’t know that it’s impossible, just seems to be much more rare. I’m a specialized individual in a specialized industry, I already have bargaining power and I definitely reject that my compensation, benefits, job stability, and WLB would be better if I had been unionized this whole time.

I’d be interested to learn more, do you have a source or anything?

Like I said, first hand. Purely anecdotal, I’m sure it isn’t the case for all union jobs.

Steeve,

I don’t know about discrimination, you’d have to provide actual statistical evidence of that for me to believe it.

I do get yearly raises, they’ve beaten inflation by a lot every year except for one. I left that job and took a 30% compensation increase elsewhere.

I rarely see crunch time. I have no problems whatsoever with the frequency and intensity of it, but if it became a problem I’d leave and find a job elsewhere.

I don’t work in silicon valley, but they make a lot more than I do and my wage doesn’t feel suppressed lol.

The job market in tech is alive and well in my experience. There was overhiring during the pandemic which ended with some layoffs, I don’t see that as the market turning, but we’ll have to wait and see.

I know Lemmy wants everyone everywhere unionized, but for me in my industry the arguments for it are hand wavy at best. I find it disingenuous to tell people in this industry that they don’t have bargaining power as an individual.

Steeve,

That’s great, I’m finally at a point in my career where I think it’ll be the same. As long as there isn’t a major culture shift, I could see myself staying at this job for the next 10+ years

Steeve, (edited )

Like I said, hand wavy at best

Edit: Lol this dude ran back and added sources to previous comments after I called him out on not providing sources. Before the edit he claimed collective bargaining can get 50% raises for everyone.

Steeve, (edited )

Right, and what percentage of unions are successfully negotiating 50% pay raises? Surface level nuance free thought experiments aren’t going to convince me here

Steeve,

… did you not read the rest of my comment?

And frankly that’s not how this works. You’re the one trying to convince me that a union is in my best interest, the burden of proof is on you and you’ve given no substantial evidence.

Steeve,

You’ve sent zero statistics and I’ve yet to see any statistics or even anecdotal evidence that pertains to my industry. All you’ve done is promise ridiculous benefits like 50% salary increases through unrealistic analogies. My experience is purely anecdotal, but frankly it’s better evidence than pipe dream analogies.

But sure, go around calling people anti-vax because you don’t know how to put together a proper argument, I’m sure that’s how you get people to change their minds about unionization. Why would I continue this conversation at this point? If this is something you’re passionate about I’d rethink your strategy.

Steeve, (edited )

My point is that skilled individuals in specialized fields already have strong individual bargaining power, something that you continue to underestimate in this thread. Collective bargaining is not risk free with one outcome, this is a fact that all the nuance free analogies in the world won’t change. If the sector is overall happy with individual bargaining power you’re going to need more proof than supposed “self-evident” claims.

Let me fix your analogy. A power tool salesman walks up to my door and tells me I have to throw out my hand tools because I can build cabinets much faster without them and then calls me an idiot for not wanting to throw away the tools I’ve mastered over the last decade.

Steeve,

I’m in the same field as you are with years more experience.

Lol is this the point in your argument where you call me a kid?

Collective bargaining may not be risk free, but it’s lower risk than individual bargaining, by definition.

Lower risk often means lower reward, and I already consider individual bargaining in my field low risk.

There’s plenty of proof, and I don’t see why I need any more.

You’ve provided exactly zero links in this thread.

like a flat earther

And there it is! Again! So far you’ve called me anti-vax and a flat earther because your unlinked evidence and shitty anologies aren’t convincing me of unproven theories in my field. This conversation is over and you’ve done more to hurt your cause than help here you condescending prick.

Steeve,

What are you arguing about exactly? Not a single comment in this chain is anti union at all, and the comment you replied to even argued for unionization where it will have the greatest benefit, i.e. all the jobs you just mentioned.

Why are you acting like this is some sort of prisoner’s dilemma where either everyone unionizes or no one does?

Steeve,

Nice buzzword answer, but nobody here is against your right to unionize

Steeve,

Why on earth do you think I’d continue this conversation at this point? You’ve called me an anti-vax flat earther, I don’t know why you decided to resort to insults before sources, but it’s clear you aren’t discussing this in good faith. No thanks.

Steeve,

The decision for tech to unionize has nothing to do with how the cleaning staff is treated

Steeve,

Engineers striking for the cleaning staff? What? That’s not how it works

Steeve,

Not how the writers strike went either, it’s ending and has nothing to do with the other IATSE contracts.

Steeve,

Well, did it sell any copies?

Steeve,

My comment was a joke because it sounds like a silly bizarre game

Steeve,

40-70% is quite the confidence interval lol

Steeve,

Dishonored 3? Yes please

What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...

Steeve,

First time I played I had to load a save back in Seyda Neen because I killed some poor half naked dude in his shack in Balmora. Fuckin Caius Cosades.

Steeve,

Hey man, Morrowind quests don’t hold your hand! It’s not like there’s a minimap and some big ass marker over his head saying “don’t kill and rob this half naked dude who looks like a skooma addict in his tiny studio apartment because he’s secretly the spy master for the main faction in the game”! I was young! I chose violence!

Steeve,

You’ve never seen my code

Steeve,

Wouldn’t necessarily be impossible to “remove” Denuvo from a cartridge after a certain amount of time, not physically remove it, but bypass it with a patch. Makes sense to add in this capability too, since Denuvo licenses can be subscription based and at some point it just isn’t worth the ongoing costs.

Definitely expect a huge performance hit though. Games with Denuvo run like absolute shit lol.

Steeve,

Not to mention it’s built on top of an already super popular brand

Steeve,

It a headline says “some” in it, it’s clickbait.

Steeve,

I can’t stand wired VR anyways

Steeve,

Sounds like G2A has tried to be accommodating and the overall dev response was just refusing to work with them entirely

Steeve,

I’ve heard of white sauce base, garlic sauce base, hell even bbq sauce base, but hollandaise? The eggs benedict topping?? I’m about to disown you too

Steeve,

My girlfriend hates video games other than Stardew Valley. She freaked out when she realized she put 100 hours into Stardew. Sweet summer child.

Steeve,

For Karl!

What's the latest video game genre rabbit hole you jumped into?

For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there's a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very...

Steeve,

Just picked up Subnautica so I could play VR! What's this submersed mod? Is it suggested?

Steeve,

TotK is very similar to BotW, not a bad idea to take a break between the two.

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