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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Art of the Deal”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You know I can’t help but think of the movie trope where someone walks into a room holding a grenade threatening to kill everyone including themselves just to get what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  According to a post I found on that shitty alien site, An AAA game has to sell 10 million copies to break even around 6 months ago. That means at $70 dollars each. They can cost $700 million to make, market and distribute. The money has to typically be recouped within a certain time frame to keep the lights on and invest in the next 700 mil project. The successful games also have to carry the weight of the failures too, so you probably aren’t getting that bad a deal.

  I’m not saying the price isn’t inflated, just that it can cost a lot more than you might think to make this stuff, and it’s all on a gamble that it will sell.

  I remember buying mortal kombat ii on the megadrive/genesis with saved up pocket money for £45 ($58). That was in 1994, I think I maxed out at about 10 games. I’m seeing assassins creed shadows on the xbox at £56.99 ($74) today (ignoring online digital shops because they didn’t exist in 1994.) So in 31 years inflation on the price of a premium video game has been 0.75% annually vs 2.5% for all goods and that has resulted in a small 20% increase in the price over 30 years.

  Closest link I could find to back up the inflation rate. If games increased in price Inline with inflation, they’d cost about £96 ($123) today.

  Games have always been expensive, but less so now than 30 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just be yourself and let him decide if he loves you. Don’t decide for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can smell something, part of it is airborne. Pretty sure I know what peanuts smell like.

  I’ve been on a lot of flights and never been served peanuts since the 90s. I was under the impression they did not serve peanuts on flights any more but those stories you linked say otherwise, but of course you can’t stop people bringing their own.

  I think you have to speak to a doctor and maybe see what the options are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Whether you as a potential buyer would avoid tesla or not based on your dislike of the CEO’s politics, would you buy a car that has an increased chance of being vandalised due to the CEO’s politics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We've increased our subscription from $9.99 to $29.99 a month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be thinking of upload? Digital afterlife where premium users get to experience everything normally and when you run out of money your bandwidth is limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices, saying Snapdragon CPUs can't game and have "less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky is more twitter like than mastodon. Mastodon is more free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices, saying Snapdragon CPUs can't game and have "less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called bluesky now ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI: Dave, turn right and walk across the bridge. Dave : But AI, there is no bridge AI: I am 99% sure based on 99 billion images that there should be a bridge Dave: ok , you’re the smart one Dave: aaaargh SPLAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything which drives nails into the xitter coffin is a good thing as far as I’m concerned. Bluesky may not tick many people’s boxes here on lemmy, but this migration shows that lots of people wanted to leave xitter but didn’t see an option. Threads clearly didn’t attract them, likely due to the owner. I hope it nothing else, Bluesky is a less toxic place and xitter and musk become less relevant. In the long run Bluesky may end up being another head of the hydra , but for now, it’s not, and it may get people used to the idea of federation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what the point was, but Biden is included as if he is part of some political dynasty. He was VP. A very normal situation, 19 out of 49 have run for president. It’s like being promoted through the ranks until you get to the top. Isn’t that kinda in most careers?

  So why is it “insanely improbable” for Biden, someone who qualified for the job over decades, to be “chosen” as opposed to anyone else.

  We aren’t talking here about how it requires cash to become president which raises the bar above most people’s head.we are taking about political dynasties.

  So I say again, including Biden as if it is some statistical anomaly or stranglehold on politics is disingenuous, especially if you exclude Harris.

  Her situation of running for president after serving as vice president is EXACTLY the same as Biden unless you want to split hairs and say he served 2 terms and her only 1. So if you want to say Biden was given a silver spoon, so was she.

  Biden is not a dynasty. But if you insist he is, so is Harris, and that makes the original premise flawed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s really fair to include “Biden” alongside “Bush” and “Clinton” and NOT include “Harris”, just to make a point. The point is the Bush and Clinton represent two people each, a dynasty as it were. Biden is just one person. You might as well add then Harris since she has served as VP just like Biden, or Trump but I get the feeling this is intended to somehow make the statement that Harris represents a new breed of politics, a break from the old. That may or may not be true, but it doesn’t hinge on this meaningless metric.

  “since 1981 there has never been an election without a Bush, Clinton, Biden, Trump or Harris.”