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If you dont find casinos fun thank your luck you dont have the traits that those things exploit the poo poo out of. I genuinely think pretty much any cash for random rewards game mechanic should be flat out banned.
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koolkal posted:Broke: watching young streamers play in virtual casinos It's a lovely phone game, on a giant portrait mode phone screen. I know there's a huge amount of crossover between the two, but I still don't like it.
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real money poker is one thing cause like, its got Some amount of skill and you have to at least consider the presence of other human beings. circumstances change so you have to think. same with some other forms of gambling. im not a fan of most of them (at least as an actual industry, some dads betting beer money on poker night is who gives a poo poo) but i can imagine arguments in their defense. slots however should 100% be banned.
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Subjunctive posted:Nobody ever gets to keep unvested stuff, that’s the point of vesting. Exactly, and that's why a "benefit" or "bonus" of stock units that aren't immediately vested is, as I said, effectively a scam. (because the company can just lay off a ton of employees right before the deadline and not have to pay them any of it, and that's a bad thing. see: Bungie literally just doing this)
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Much like an annual bonus, you can value it at a discount based on your perceived odds of actually getting it. For some companies you should trust it very little, for other companies it's rock solid.
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Endorph posted:real money poker is one thing cause like, its got Some amount of skill and you have to at least consider the presence of other human beings. circumstances change so you have to think. same with some other forms of gambling. im not a fan of most of them (at least as an actual industry, some dads betting beer money on poker night is who gives a poo poo) but i can imagine arguments in their defense. No bets against the house is the bare minimum gambling restriction IMO. I'm not sure how I feel about bets between people, though I'm inclined to think it's not worth banning that sort of thing regardless, like prohibition. And if a casino wants to facilitate that by providing card tables and charging a fee/rake then fine. But any time you're handing money over to a business for a random return depending on an outcome they control, that is hosed up. Phigs fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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Subjunctive posted:Nobody ever gets to keep unvested stuff, that’s the point of vesting. Some places will let you keep your vested options for multiple years after termination, but I’ve never heard of anything like that for RSUs, nor do I understand why one would ever exist tbqh. i agree with you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:one of the scariest things i read about this was that some slots-addicted people say they outright dislike winning jackpots because when that happens they have to fill out tax paperwork, and they want to keep playing slots instead Any true Diablo 2 player knows the most annoying thing is when loot actually drops and you need to make room in your cube and ID it in town. Really messes with that flow state.
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Dec 11, 2023 08:53
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The Day Before, uh, experience continues. I'm not really sure how to sum this whole debacle up. https://twitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1734265789237338453
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If true, I feel like it might be the most refunded game ever? https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1734282332671205736
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embracer didn't find a buyer for free radical https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1734258422080774444
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Remembered some hilarious trailer saying Timesplitters was back, only to show a two minute screensaver with some crystals.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Remembered some hilarious trailer saying Timesplitters was back, only to show a two minute screensaver with some crystals. now i'm reminded of this legendary trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K00DCK1l98
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didn't that turn out to just be B-roll meant to be played on screens at an E3 booth, and somehow ended up on youtube labeled as a trailer
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I wouldn't personally mind learning the history of that bizzarre "trailer", it's about as old as old can be and even at the time I never really learned why it was made.
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Danish indie developer Triple Topping just went bankrupt. A new game was scheduled to be released in '24 (Dead Pets Unleashed) https://twitter.com/Astridmrefstrup/status/1733045065780437384
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Fart of Presto posted:Danish indie developer Triple Topping just went bankrupt. A new game was scheduled to be released in '24 (Dead Pets Unleashed) That's too bad. I liked the whole of Welcome to Elk a bunch. https://youtu.be/mjwCe2KvZwc
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epic won its fight against google's play store, gonna be an interesting future for mobile gaming, especially with future eu regulations on sideloading https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1734370311993172150
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Oh thats an interesting outcome given that the (seemingly) more restrictive apple store was ruled not a monopoly. Edit: Oh lol Google had secret talks to quash other app stores and paid off activision to not open one on their system. Lol. Barudak fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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kliras posted:epic won its fight against google's play store, gonna be an interesting future for mobile gaming, especially with future eu regulations on sideloading I did not expect that at all, but it's a nice outcome. It'll definitely have a lot of short term growing pains but I'm interested to see what the long term repercussions are. Barudak posted:Edit: Oh lol Google had secret talks to quash other app stores and paid off activision to not open one on their system. Lol. lol of course they did, what a fuckin shithole of a company
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kliras posted:epic won its fight against google's play store, gonna be an interesting future for mobile gaming, especially with future eu regulations on sideloading ofc it opens the door to gigantic scams but hell, the google play store already has giant scams on it
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hopefully they quash the apple monopoly on their platform also because the iOS store has done godawful stuff too. there was an incident a few months back of apple's chinese branch manipulating female devs into sexual favors in exchange for getting them boosted to the top of the algorithm, and threatening them with burying them beneath garbage if they didnt comply.
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Fajita Queen posted:
"Don't be Evil" at least not until they control everything.
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Bucnasti posted:"Don't be Evil" at least not until they control everything. That hasn't been in their corporate handbook since 2018
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Barudak posted:That hasn't been in their corporate handbook since 2018 Man, to be the guy who'll go down in history as the one who edited "Don't Be Evil" out of the Google company handbook...
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speaking of epic, https://twitter.com/moa810/status/1734388494406189344 the hatoful boyfriend dev finally got their royalties from them
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In some brighter news: Indie studio New Blood put out a big update for their flagship game DUSK - including a free DLC that redoes every single art asset - and made some big moves to honor the people who did the work.quote:This massive undertaking has been the work of primarily two of our developers. https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/1734324683536031940
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The Kins posted:In some brighter news: Indie studio New Blood put out a big update for their flagship game DUSK - including a free DLC that redoes every single art asset - and made some big moves to honor the people who did the work. XD
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Barudak posted:Oh thats an interesting outcome given that the (seemingly) more restrictive apple store was ruled not a monopoly. It was ruled that the evidence provided was insufficient to show it was a monopoly. The judges opinion was careful to not say that it is not a monopoly.
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Barudak posted:Oh thats an interesting outcome given that the (seemingly) more restrictive apple store was ruled not a monopoly. Also, apparently Google deleted a lot of files which were relevant to the case and the judge was not very happy about that at all.
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Original_Z posted:Also, apparently Google deleted a lot of files which were relevant to the case and the judge was not very happy about that at all. Google getting into the hole digging business
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Original_Z posted:Also, apparently Google deleted a lot of files which were relevant to the case and the judge was not very happy about that at all. guess someone didnt pay attention to the mandatory annual web training that tells you very explicitly not to do this
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VostokProgram posted:guess someone didnt pay attention to the mandatory annual web training that tells you very explicitly not to do this Pichai claimed he relied on the chief legal guy who testified that he never audited any employee's compliance to legal holds. they were just asking for adverse inference basically lmfao
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Google also tried to claim that all of their internal emails about their plans to engage in anti-competitive practices were subject to attorney-client privilege because they had CC'd their legal team on them. This is, as it turns out, not how that works. They dug their own grave incredibly hard in a number of different ways.
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Thuryl posted:Google also tried to claim that all of their internal emails about their plans to engage in anti-competitive practices were subject to attorney-client privilege because they had CC'd their legal team on them. This is, as it turns out, not how that works.
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2 games consoles? Take the money back for his own protection
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Rarity posted:2 games consoles? Take the money back for his own protection but it's the christmas season!
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Endorph posted:i heard about this third hand so it might be telephone/not real but i remember a case back in the 90s where a guy said his threat to murder his doctor was subject to doctor-patient privacy laws Sometimes I wish the law eorked like these people think it does
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https://twitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1734425910055678275 Lol
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1734582010210046220 Cut down in its prime. Gone too soon.
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