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credburn posted:When did video games start getting "seasons"? It's been years now. Ever since the c-suite ghouls started demanding everything has to be live service. Anything to keep selling ten dollar battle passes every couple months.
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Facebook groups. You black the 'membership' button and there's a half dozen categories of group members 'friends' 'new members' 'common interests' ect but there's no 'just show me a complete list of members'. gently caress!
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Outrail posted:Facebook groups. You black the 'membership' button and there's a half dozen categories of group members 'friends' 'new members' 'common interests' ect but there's no 'just show me a complete list of members'. gently caress!
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cat botherer posted:You complain about things getting smaller, and also if they get bigger. SANDIMASHIGHSCHOOLFOOTBALL RULES!
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Chain stores are absolutely keeping the bare minimum of employees because they’ll save .75c this quarter, yeah? Asking for someone who saw a line wrap around a Marshall’s today.
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Yeah the Lowes near me never opens the registers anymore. Just 4 self checkout kiosks and a lone employee trying to manage the chaos no matter how big the line gets.
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It’s crazy how paying someone 15$ an hour or whatever ruins their margins
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euphronius posted:It’s crazy how paying someone 15$ an hour or whatever ruins their margins Hey 2,181x15x15 = some nice floors, or maybe a wine cellar or something.
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not mine but lol
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Lobster Mobster sounds like the ghostiest of ghost kitchens. There's no way that's an actual restaurant. $40 for a cup of bagged soup from Red Lobster imo edit: wait that's not the restaurant name. But still could be ghost kitchens, some might say.
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credburn posted:When did video games start getting "seasons"? Back in like 2010/2011 with League of Legends, but LoL was using the term season the same way the NFL , MLB or (insert sport here) would to define the yearly large patch and balance changes and ranked gameplay and tournaments that lead into their world tournament. A good amount of games with esports followed suite and then they started getting used as a term for games with battlepasses and their quarterly or tri yearly updates. You can also blame Dota 2 and Valve for Battlepasses, actually you can blame valve for a lot of the gaming industries money schemes. Valve created Battlepasses, Loot Boxes that you have to pay real money for a key to open, purchasable weapon skins, always online DRM in the form of Steam, made Early access a thing and more! TLDR blame Valve and MOBA's for this poo poo Tythas fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Wilkins Micawber posted:Lobster Mobster sounds like the ghostiest of ghost kitchens. There's no way that's an actual restaurant. $40 for a cup of bagged soup from Red Lobster imo Duke’s is a real restaurant with several locations in the Seattle area.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Duke’s is a real restaurant with several locations in the Seattle area. It's been around a pretty long time no? this did just come into effect, probably will have a double impact on prices as companies take the opportunity to raise prices more with this as an excuse App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance - LaborStandards www.seattle.gov posted:## App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance
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So nice of doordash to let everyone know they're being extra greedy fucks and passing the buck onto you (because they are now required to pay a real wage) rather than like, the CEO/CSuite not having individual private jets or whatever.
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That explanation is definitely an attempt to get people cranky about those Lucky Ducky DoorDash workers and not the fact the bill is inflated without it, with their $26.50 minimum wage BEFORE TIPS AND FEES  
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ubereats is doing more or less the same poo poo, though their website also got shittier in that i live in an apartment complex and they recently updated something so now our address puts the pin in the completely wrong spot, so any attempt at ordering requires manually guiding a dude past where the app says they should deliver it it was working fine for months and now it's just hosed
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Cerekk posted:not mine but lol lmao
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credburn posted:When did video games start getting "seasons"? Apparently the price hike to charging $70 for games wasn't enough and publishers are already eyeing the $80 to $100 price point for as early as 2027. gently caress this. I haven't bought a new game Elden Ring, and I think that'll be the last one I ever pay for. If I can't pirate it, I don't care.
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don't worry, replacing all the artists and writers with AI will reduce costs so that more of that $100 will go directly to shareholder value
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Time_pants posted:Apparently the price hike to charging $70 for games wasn't enough and publishers are already eyeing the $80 to $100 price point for as early as 2027. gently caress this. I haven't bought a new game Elden Ring, and I think that'll be the last one I ever pay for. If I can't pirate it, I don't care. the sheer amount of money I paid for Crusader Kings II  at least it was spread across years and cheaper than a comparatively (lol) sized board game
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mawarannahr posted:It's been around a pretty long time no? Just stop ordering delivery imo
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Time_pants posted:Just stop ordering delivery imo You can also just call the restaurant directly if they have their own drivers. It’s way cheaper and more of the money goes to the people who do the actual work.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:You can also just call the restaurant directly if they have their own drivers. It’s way cheaper and more of the money goes to the people who do the actual work. Call? On a phone?!
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Seriously most people I know that are my age, in their mid-30's or younger, would rather chew off their own arm than make a phone call. They'll exchange ten emails to resolve something that would take three minutes on the phone. They'll chat online with terrible AI customer service robots that can't do anything for them. They'll use delivery apps and pay $$$ in fees. Anything to avoid a short verbal conversation. Anything.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:They'll chat online with terrible AI customer service robots that can't do anything for them. It's not like the call center wage slave can do much of anything for them either.
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Sometimes you can also go to a restaurant and eat inside of it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Seriously most people I know that are my age, in their mid-30's or younger, would rather chew off their own arm than make a phone call. They'll exchange ten emails to resolve something that would take three minutes on the phone. They'll chat online with terrible AI customer service robots that can't do anything for them. They'll use delivery apps and pay $$$ in fees. Anything to avoid a short verbal conversation. Anything. Hell Let Loose is a WWII FPS milsim I play that has had a poo poo ton of new people playing as it's been added to Gamepass. Communication is essential, more so than any other game I have ever played. I kid you not I see a lot of posts on Reddit where people say "Please consider those with social anxiety when complaining about people refusing to use their microphones." I try not to be all "kids these days" but we are just the biggest group of sheltered, anxiety ridden cucumbers and we need to get the gently caress over it Beastie fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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euphronius posted:It’s crazy how paying someone 15$ an hour or whatever ruins their margins There's a Wawa that was built near me that still hasn't opened despite having been completed several months ago because they can't find enough people to work there. There's a bunch of signs posted out front advertising that they pay $15/hr. That number hasn't changed in the 3-4 months it has sat empty since it was completed. You'd think they would bump that number up until they get enough people to open the store so they can, you know, actually make some loving money but then again I'm not a big brain MBA.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:You can also just call the restaurant directly if they have their own drivers. It’s way cheaper and more of the money goes to the people who do the actual work. Pretty much every restaurant where I live has stopped doing their own delivery and just tells me to use the apps when I call
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Seriously most people I know that are my age, in their mid-30's or younger, would rather chew off their own arm than make a phone call. They'll exchange ten emails to resolve something that would take three minutes on the phone. They'll chat online with terrible AI customer service robots that can't do anything for them. They'll use delivery apps and pay $$$ in fees. Anything to avoid a short verbal conversation. Anything. Maybe instead of pretending phone calls are ever the correct solution we could make the systems that aren't phone calls less poo poo. We have a state ubereats/grubhub etc. alternative that I'm convinced is just somebody calling the restaurant.
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euphronius posted:Sometimes you can also go to a restaurant and eat inside of it. If we do this then the people working there see my sister and brother in law dip all their Chinese food in ranch and one of the last things I have left is my Chinese food cred
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euphronius posted:Sometimes you can also go to a restaurant and eat inside of it. Prolonged face to face contact with another human? I'll eat my $50 steak and truffle wafered fingerling potatoes in my car thankyouverymuch.
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wash bucket posted:It's not like the call center wage slave can do much of anything for them either. You're always going to get more help talking to a human person on the phone than a chat or an email or anything else. Even if it's not much help.
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Duck and Cover posted:Maybe instead of pretending phone calls are ever the correct solution we could make the systems that aren't phone calls less poo poo. We have a state ubereats/grubhub etc. alternative that I'm convinced is just somebody calling the restaurant. I hope this happens at some point, the alternatives to phone calls getting better, but it hasn't happened yet.
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Am I just old that I will always default to pickup? If I'm in a city and it's a 20 minute walk, I'm walking.
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Duck and Cover posted:Maybe instead of pretending phone calls are ever the correct solution we could make the systems that aren't phone calls less poo poo. We have a state ubereats/grubhub etc. alternative that I'm convinced is just somebody calling the restaurant. Yeah it's this. Whenever a company doesn't want to deal with you or doesn't want you to do something they force you to call because they know they can turn that into a huge pain in the rear end designed to make you give up (i swear if I have to listen to another automated voice tell me to listen carefully to the options as they have recently changed....) It should be straight up illegal for a company to force you to call to cancel a service. Literally everything with a recurring payment should be required to have a one step cancellation button on their site.
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redshirt posted:Am I just old that I will always default to pickup? If I'm in a city and it's a 20 minute walk, I'm walking. That sounds more like a living in a walkable city thing than an old thing. The closest restaurant to me is 10 miles away.
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is pepsi ok posted:That sounds more like a living in a walkable city thing than an old thing. The closest restaurant to me is 10 miles away. A 20 minute drive seems somewhat equivalent.
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redshirt posted:Am I just old that I will always default to pickup? If I'm in a city and it's a 20 minute walk, I'm walking. I get delivery because there is no restaurant in walking distance and I'm always drunk, so I'm not driving.
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redshirt posted:Am I just old that I will always default to pickup? If I'm in a city and it's a 20 minute walk, I'm walking. Isnt your food going to be cold and lovely after 20 minutes walking back with it?
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