notaviking

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I play Shenmue on a pregnancy test or pdf? Checkmate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot just say this is a ROCK! What type of rock, is it igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock, then what rock is it, is it granite or norite. And what is the damn mineralogy, are there any feldspars or over identifiers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is called equity equivalents, this is where you don’t give away equity but basically still pay as if you are, hence I admit royalties are maybe not the right word but for my it is similar. Unlike other international tech companies like Google or Microsoft in our country that pays equity equivalents, the telecommunications requirements are equity or slice of your business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit it is not royalties, it’s called something else not sure what, word that came to my mind. But basically an equivalent of paying similar money but without giving away equity or ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny enough, I do believe our BEE laws in South Africa should be scrapped. According to our news he offered to pay 26% in royalties, like Google does for example in South Africa, but did not agree to give away equity. The BEE laws are basically a way for politically connected ANC members to get a slice of the pie, does not one bit help the majority of people here.

  Look Elon is a shit, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. There also needs to be empowerment laws, I say to poor citizens not based on any race laws, even though the majority of extremely poor people are black, coloured indian, mixed…, but not ones that mostly filter to the politically connected like the current BEE laws favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though I have never played fable, giving them time is never a bad thing. Industry is known to push an unreasonable time for game developers to create a game, leading to extreme working hours, then everyone says how they can force these developers such slave conditions. But then complaints are then nowhere to be seen when they say the games needs to be delayed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Branded pothole repairs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah, South African innovation for the win. The potholes in my town are so bad, even jogging on the street in certain areas is hard. Fuck the ANC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Argentina | River near Buenos Aires turns bright red after suspected industrial dye leak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck used Moses’s stick, Millei let moses’ people go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 Best Free Blu-ray Copy Software to Copy Blu-ray Discs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeez is this an ad, I thought my pop-up blockers were strong, clearly this site has shown me that their ad kungfu is stronger.

  My advice, stay the fuck away from this ad infested website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is the crash of Tesla, its evaluation is based on being a silicon tech startup, not as an automobile company. So when the shares finally fall in line with other car manufacturers valuation, shit is going to hit the fan. And I think he knows he needs a government bailout and sanctions on foreign EVs specifically to price the competition out of the market. His entire empire is basically being propped up by the Tesla share price. He needs to go all in, it is survival mode for him right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I was this funny..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not really use journals for my daily work. But usually I have a quarterly project I tackle and then search if someone in the industry has researched the issue or something similar. So you usually get to read the abstract or executive summary and then have the option to get access.

  My employer/company usually after I send motivational letter does pay. I also have a reoccurring yearly subscription to two professional bodies and their journals, even the one I specialise makes their research available for free and the other one usually has a month or so delay before it is free and available, usually to edit it and make it look nice.

  But professional organisations and journals also need to be funded, and like my industry (mining) really invests in them because the knowledge from them benefits them. The journals do not fully guarantee quality papers, sometimes a malicious actor slips through and is usually redacted, but usually journals live on their brand of producing quality papers that can be used by the industry to improve it overall. And for this they do need a bit of resources.

  But I also sympathize with OP because certain journals can make their barrier to entry prohibitive. If Nature Journal in this instance chooses to become a for profit entity I can see how this might stifle future progress especially for smaller players in the industry where cost margins are extremely tight and basically gives unfettered access to the giants to gain an edge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand that Epic funded their project to be an Epic exclusive, but was that a financially sound decision excluding the major market place. Could they not have worked in like a two year or three year exclusive period

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I feel there is a weird history between steam and remedy media. Like I remember when you could one day buy Alan Wake like really cheap since it was being taken off steam. Then the Epic deal making Alan Wake 2 exclusive basically meant they excluded a lot of customers immediately on steam.