SkunkWorkz
@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
- Comment on If Peter Molyneux had a time machine to remake his cursed cube game, 'what you would give, now, would be a cryptocurrency thing' 10 hours ago:
Calling a 3D scratch lottery ticket a game is beyond ridiculous. Remember this pathological liar started his gaming career by committing fraud.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 17 hours ago:
A creampie is only creampie if it drips out. Otherwise it’s just an insemination
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 1 day ago:
So they can now be taken to court right over this? Doesn’t this violate some law or the constitution? Just asking as a secular European.
- Comment on soda 2 days ago:
Yea it’s fake not enough piss in a bottle jokes.
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 6 days ago:
That’s so baud
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 6 days ago:
Microsoft was never going to make gaming affordable. The entire goal of GP is like any subscription service, to get you hooked so they can increase the prices. Microsoft is not and never was a pro consumer company. And GamePass is Microsoft’s attempt at making a hardwareless console. It’s a BYOD walled garden. It’s bad for consumers and bad for developers and publishers. Consumers will own nothing and studios are beholden to MS gatekeepers. Some account manager basically decides how much the devs will be financially compensated before the game is even released, instead of letting the market decide. If you think the standard 30% store cut is outrageous GamePass is on another level of bad. Sure they are currently showering devs in cash, but once MS has a significant chunk of the market they are going to turn off that tap. We’ve seen it with Netflix and Spotify. Like even the most popular artists earn fractions of cents per user.
- Comment on In this essay... 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Mmmhhh, The FIA president, an Emirati, recently consolidated all power a made himself dictator of the association. Now the Saudis bought EA, the publisher that releases the F1 game. Bet the next thing to happen is a Qatari will buy Formula One, the current owner has already stated that he is willing to sell for the right offer.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
They should make a parody action movie where the protagonist in the end lets the antagonist live, because of moral reasons. Then they walk away and the camera zooms out and you see them walk over hundreds of dead bodies. Maybe Austin Powers or Naked Gun did this already.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 1 week ago:
7.81 * 1052 =8216.12 check mate atheist
J/k, you forgot this (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ 10^52^ = 10^52^
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Cuntius Assius
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
Big name stores will all move to personalized surveillance pricing. They will track your phone when you go into a store. Cross reference the fingerprint of your device to a database full of data on you that they’ve bought from a databroker. And then use that to jack up the price on the e-price tag if they know you really need that product. Plus they even will change the price on their website when you double check the price.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 2 weeks ago:
Should’ve added grapes
- Comment on We're all going home early today 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually the recommended way to heat up liquids in a microwave, especially higher viscosity liquids that don’t mix quickly like a sauce. Since the spoon can transfer heat to the center faster than the liquid can by itself. The waves can’t penetrate far into the liquid and can’t heat up the core of a volume of liquid unless it’s spread out. Just make sure the spoon doesn’t touch the sides when it rotates.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Probably income tax or a gambling tax like what you’d pay if you win money one a game show. But there is a threshold, so tax free for small earnings.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Of course he still needs to pay income tax. But that’s something else from VAT.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah you pay VAT because you are buying a service. But you “gf” has to collect it and pay it to the tax agency.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah seems like the writer of the PC Gamer article doesn’t understand what VAT is.
To laymen like you and I, this situation probably seems pretty open and shut. If you make money on something, you pay taxes on it.
Yeah VAT is not a tax on money made. VAT is a tax that is applied to a transaction for goods and service between a business and a consumer. VAT is a tax that the consumer pays. The business only collects it and has the obligation to pay it to the tax services.
The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s straight up the big tech playbook. Undermine competition with low subscription prices and a lot of content. Lure in developers with deals that are too good to be true. And then once the customers are invested in using GamePass and stop buying games, increase subscription prices. And since MS is by then the gatekeeper to the market they don’t have to pay out so much to the developers anymore. It’s basically what Uber has done, once they killed the taxi market in a city they increased prices and lowered payouts to drivers. And since customers are used to those ride hailing apps the normal taxi market will never bounce back and drivers are basically forced to work with Uber or change jobs.
Also once Microsoft has a large chunk of the market in hand they basically decide before hand which games become a success or not instead of letting the market decide. So yeah games critical of their customers like the Israeli government will probably never get on GamePass and thus never reach a large audience. Will be seeing way more censorship than what we’ve seen with Steam recently.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
yeah but we’ve seen with other social media platforms what happens when the conservatives come knockin’. Once the wave of conservative boomers and social outcasts comes it’s the end of the platform.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
lol can’t go wrong with A. Snails, frog legs, shark, whale blubber, seal, dolphin, herring, fries and cheese. Truly haute cuisine.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure how it works but the effect has been studied
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 weeks ago:
Solar panels don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Also the heat actually makes the panels less efficient. And a large solar farm in the desert also creates a massive heat island which negatively affects the local environment.
- Comment on Coincidence 2 weeks ago:
No it’s short for Nielchard.
- Comment on Coincidence 2 weeks ago:
He’s just from a culture that puts the honorific between his given name and family name.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you still pay your cable provider if you TiVo ABC? Cable providers pay retransmission fees to the networks.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Why do people keep using the word marketing to just mean ads and promotion? Marketing is more than just that, even a software developer is engaging in marketing when they for example beta test their software on their target audience.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 weeks ago:
“Ah I’m finally getting a promotion”
- Comment on And now it's not even working properly 2 weeks ago:
Why can’t your right hand peel a banana?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 weeks ago:
He wasn’t the only founder and Embracer bought them in 2021. Later TakeTwo acquired the studio when Embracer had to restructure. They operate under 2k now so he can most surely be fired.
Also probably why he is even more of a cocky cunt nowadays. He already cashed out.
