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acksplode posted:Haha I had to google it and somehow the actual quote is even worse The rest of the quote is quote:"My stepfather was a teamster. I saw a lot of things and heard a lot of stories about unions through there. Part of the problems with unions is that they start to encapsulate power and use that in a different way that becomes counterproductive, possibly sometimes, to the industry they're trying to unionize. If we lived in a really healthy, honest world where everyone was fair, we wouldn't need them. But because it's not a fair world, sometimes we do. What would happen to this industry is it would put out most of the small people, but the big ones would survive just fine." His stance is that unions can become corrupt and forcibly shifting the balance of power doesn't necessarily solve all problems immediately. He's not wrong.
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Anything I should know before starting up Disco Elysium? The buggy interaction thing sounds super annoying but I’m still going to go for it and see if I like this game or not. I’ll definitely post my thoughts for everyone else curious but not really that blown away by the idea of it. Gotta be something special in there with how much some of you seem to have enjoyed it!
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Mar 31, 2021 19:41
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cubicle gangster posted:His stance is that unions can become corrupt and forcibly shifting the balance of power doesn't necessarily solve all problems immediately. He's not wrong. What point do you think you're making here
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Mar 31, 2021 19:45
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cubicle gangster posted:The rest of the quote is lol "small business owners" just asking questions about how the big bad powerful union might get in the way of their job creation has been the dominant discourse for literally almost two centuries The primary reason organized crime was able to have that sort of corrupt influence on the Teamsters was because unions were marginalized and criminalized in the first place
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Mar 31, 2021 19:46
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cubicle gangster posted:
Of course he's not wrong with a nothing statement like that but that's not really what he said. I think it's easier to just say he's not against unions in general all the time but he's against them specifically in the videogames industry.
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Mar 31, 2021 19:47
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cubicle gangster posted:The rest of the quote is Problem is that like with public services (education, health, etc) People goes from that to “welp, nothing we can do about it, so better not having it” (Dunno if that’s the case with this dude) Comparing it to death penalty is still ridiculous though
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Mar 31, 2021 19:47
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Organized labor got us a 40 hour work week and a large stable middle class for decades, things that have eroded in recent years specifically due to the absence of unions. But hey some unions were corrupt once so really it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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Mar 31, 2021 19:54
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Oh oh I want to go next if we are combining unions and the death penalty. Anyone against unions deserves the death penalty.
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Mar 31, 2021 19:54
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it just didn't read to me like he was against unions. it read like he wishes there was a better solution. He's got confirmation bias from his stepdad likely being a piece of poo poo. Whatever, I'm not defending an interpretation. If i was answering that question I probably wouldn't have brought up the death penalty... sets the tone quite poorly. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Mar 31, 2021 19:57
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My grandfather was in a union and had a dope house with a wife and 7 kids on one income. Amazon employees work a thousand times harder than he ever did and they have to piss in bottles and live on food stamps and have 10 roommates and none of them have ever been to a doctor and will likely die of poo poo that's easy preventative medicine like tooth abscesses. Basically what I'm saying is it's fine that Jeff Bezos invented slavery 3.0 because one time a corrupt union boss skimmed off the top while still protecting workers from deadly exploitation.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:06
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ZZZorcerer posted:Problem is that like with public services (education, health, etc)
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cubicle gangster posted:it just didn't read to me like he was against unions. It reads to me like he's against unions because then he won't be able to force his employees to crunch and sleep at the office, which he earnestly believes is necessary to be competitive, and believes he can get away with because the market won't punish him for it. quote:"No one wants to say, 'This product was done by people who worked 9-to-5, and they all had great healthcare, weekends off, three weeks of vacation, and everyone had that. Here you go.' If it's not great, everyone goes, 'Who cares? Why didn't they lose some loving sleep to get it done and get it better?'
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acksplode posted:It reads to me like he's against unions because then he won't be able to force his employees to crunch and sleep at the office, which he earnestly believes is necessary to be competitive, and believes he can get away with because the market won't punish him for it. drat this dude really sucks lol
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Mar 31, 2021 20:11
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Unions! blasting out of my lazy workforce, into my profit margins
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It's about time someone put the screws to these freeloading assholes working 80 hours a week and sleeping in overcrowded barracks with cardboard beds.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:21
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I don't think I want to play this oddworld game lol
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Mar 31, 2021 20:21
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:My grandfather was in a union and had a dope house with a wife and 7 kids on one income. Listen man those piss bottles stories are not true. The Amazon News twitter told me that no one would work for them if it was. They would just go to the job store and get a new job.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:22
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I honestly didn't know that the Oddworld guy sucked so much especially when the games are about slave labor and capitalist exploitation
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Mar 31, 2021 20:26
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Rad Valtar posted:Listen man those piss bottles stories are not true. The Amazon News twitter told me that no one would work for them if it was. They would just go to the job store and get a new job. whatFourtySevenPercentOfAmericansBelieve.txt
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Mar 31, 2021 20:26
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In case anyone cares whatsoever, when using Hulu/Amazon Prime/Disney+ aps through the PS5, switching my TV from game mode to cinema mode makes the difference between it being in HD or not, the difference is astonishing. This is on a Nanocell.
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Rad Valtar posted:Listen man those piss bottles stories are not true. The Amazon News twitter told me that no one would work for them if it was. They would just go to the job store and get a new job. My favorite of those was the twitter account with amazon in the handle saying he'd never seen a piss bottle and his avatar was literally the first google image result for "dude"
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Mar 31, 2021 20:31
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grassy gnoll posted:Hold up, in what circumstances do you anticipate the speed of light or the Planck constant changing and there are still humans around to care? those arent base units of measurements and while theyre as close as universal as constants get they are still derived seriously you dont measure things in c and %c you measure c as roughly 300000 meters per second and oh poo poo son whats a meter but the distance light travels in a given span of time and whats a second but a specified number of vibrations of a cesium atom except the c only applies in a true vacuum which there isnt and the rate at which a given atom of cesium vibrates can vary pretty wildly within a set of constraints dependent on lots of factors not least of which is radioactive decay a calorie is the amount of energy it takes to heat one cubic centimeter of water one degree but a degree be it kelvin or fahrenheit is a derived measurement based on a number of other factors but if you wanna make it super simple its about the speed at which the atoms in a thing are moving and how do you measure speed oh yeah its distance over time but distance is measured against light in time and time is measured by a random atom vibrating basically everything is derived from one thing and reference all the others at all times how do you measure mass i mean like sure it makes sense to just talk about the number of atoms in a thing but even then when you reduce it down to a base unit of measurement like the gram you have to define a gram and the only common factor within all the materials a thing can be made of turns out is derived from the other units which in turn are derived and so on and so on even a planck length isnt a unit of measurement its expressed in angstroms so like what exactly are you trying to misinterpret here
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Casnorf posted:those arent base units of measurements and while theyre as close as universal as constants get they are still derived I use a ruler.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:39
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If you're gonna try to be a smugwad about stuff at least have the decency to play along and be silly in rhyme or fish puns or something.
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Mar 31, 2021 20:40
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I use a ruler. I use a yardstick.
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Hmm this is frustrating. Disco Elysium has me very very interested from the first little section but the buggy interaction control is really awful. I might hold off until they fix it. I can’t really believe they released it like this with the main way of interacting with everything in the game needing you to mess around reselecting it every time. It feels bad and takes me out of the game when I know the controls aren’t going to do what I want the first time. Maybe I’m being a fussy baby. Game does seem very good though. e: I feel like I’m probably dumb and just doing something wrong we’ll see! Kilometers Davis fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Kilometers Davis posted:
I played maybe an hour last night or so and I've found that if you select the thing from far away I don't need to do the double-select as much. I will say it doesn't irk me too much, since I was enjoying the game a good deal.
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There should be a patch coming this week to address it if you want to hold out.
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Kilometers Davis posted:Hmm this is frustrating. Disco Elysium has me very very interested from the first little section but the buggy interaction control is really awful. I might hold off until they fix it. I can’t really believe they released it like this with the main way of interacting with everything in the game needing you to mess around reselecting it every time. It feels bad and takes me out of the game when I know the controls aren’t going to do what I want the first time. Maybe I’m being a fussy baby. Game does seem very good though. I've played on PC and then played for a bit on PS yesterday. I decided to just wait for a patch (which was announced today.) The controls are currently broken and you are correct that it detracts from the game.
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acksplode posted:If I was the publisher for Soulstorm, right now I'd be filling Twitter up with accounts like @RuptureFarmsAbe tweeting "I love my job, the loincloths are free and the Sligs make me feel safe. Why should I give a union a cut of my meat allowance"  
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Anybody playing/played Dirt 5? I was wanting an arcadey racer, and it looks like it'd fit the bill. My understanding was that they were disappointed with the haptics at launch and were going to rework it, but it doesn't look like that has been done yet? Anybody have any insight?
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Oddworld it looks like a neat metroidvania lol, nope Rad Valtar posted:Oh oh I want to go next if we are combining unions and the death penalty. so much for the tolerant left  Pablo Nergigante posted:I honestly didn't know that the Oddworld guy sucked so much especially when the games are about slave labor and capitalist exploitation I think the more likely answer is that he's caught in a state of cognitive dissonance that many of his generation were, once-removed from the labour left, lured to the lite libertarian pseudo cure-all posturing of silicon valley venture capital. What I'm trying to say is, like many people in this country, I don't think his ideological bent is more than skin deep, it's based on cultural affectations and not a lot of critical thought goes into it wrt broader context. So yeah, his games are 'anti slave labor' and 'pro environment' but from the perspective of a generation that had totally been stripped of its class consciousness during the late stages of the cold war, so it's just buzzword terminology underpinning personal choices within the terms of a market identity, there's no actual substance to said position. Similar to the way people say: 'in order to change things you need to get in on the inside, make a bunch of money, and then donate and nudge things from that vanatge.' We all know what the weakness of that position is tho. You can't make meaningful change by being a dirtbag capitalist mass-exploiter and then maybe giving to the right charities. Fedule posted:PS5: Unions! blasting out of my lazy workforce, into my profit margins also this plz
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Fix posted:Anybody playing/played Dirt 5? I was wanting an arcadey racer, and it looks like it'd fit the bill. My understanding was that they were disappointed with the haptics at launch and were going to rework it, but it doesn't look like that has been done yet? Anybody have any insight? Last I heard, the devs acknowledged the problem in like Feb 2021 and are supposed to be working on a solution but nothing's surfaced yet as far as I'm aware. Oh, and the haptics are real weird. I have no idea what they're trying to communicate but they're a lot of it happening. NFS Heat is on sale (today's the last day I think) for 75% off and it's been scratching my dumb arcadey racer itch instead.
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Do I need to be disabling 3D audio for every ps4 game I play on this thing?
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star eater posted:Do I need to be disabling 3D audio for every ps4 game I play on this thing? do you play every game with headphones? you can have 3D audio enabled only for headphones i believe, and disabled when headphones are turned off.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:My favorite of those was the twitter account with amazon in the handle saying he'd never seen a piss bottle and his avatar was literally the first google image result for "dude" ok that's a good one but the intercept found a ticket from amazon's IT department that literally thought the company twitter was hacked after the pee bottle thing https://theintercept.com/2021/03/29/amazon-twitter-hack-union-jeff-bezos/ they got an email back from the PR department saying "it's an ongoing issue, we're handling it" loving lmao
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:do you play every game with headphones? you can have 3D audio enabled only for headphones i believe, and disabled when headphones are turned off. I do generally, I almost never use my TV speakers.
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Fedule posted:Unions! blasting out of my lazy workforce, into my profit margins drat you fedule! this is hilarious
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I think the more likely answer is that he's caught in a state of cognitive dissonance that many of his generation were, once-removed from the labour left, lured to the lite libertarian pseudo cure-all posturing of silicon valley venture capital. What I'm trying to say is, like many people in this country, I don't think his ideological bent is more than skin deep, it's based on cultural affectations and not a lot of critical thought goes into it wrt broader context. So yeah, his games are 'anti slave labor' and 'pro environment' but from the perspective of a generation that had totally been stripped of its class consciousness during the late stages of the cold war, so it's just buzzword terminology underpinning personal choices within the terms of a market identity, there's no actual substance to said position. Similar to the way people say: 'in order to change things you need to get in on the inside, make a bunch of money, and then donate and nudge things from that vanatge.' We all know what the weakness of that position is tho. You can't make meaningful change by being a dirtbag capitalist mass-exploiter and then maybe giving to the right charities. No cognitive dissonance, the man's a straight scumbag. He's cut from the latest 90s Interplay/EA corporate structure. This is going on 20 years ago now but he built his studio under long hours and low pay but promised generous performance based incentives. ONce the game went gold he 'restructured' 70% of his workforce out of a job. He was able to pull it off three separate times before no one would work for him anymore and he sold the studio to Microsoft who ended up closing it down 3 years later since the studios name was still so toxic in the industry.
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