The reason is persists is because no one believes that any company would do this without a reason. Altruism just isn’t a realistic motivation for this many publicly traded companies, so what do they get out of it? I don’t believe for a second that they aren’t somehow making money off of this. Otherwise it would’ve died out long ago.

IDK, in broadcast infrastructure it’s thin clients and virtual machines all the way down, and yes it causes tons of problems.

Not yet, but that sure do keep adding more layers of asking you about the app when you pull up to the drive thru window

I had a big ass hill at my childhood home. Right at the bottom of our driveway. I would hit crazy dangerous speeds on that thing just to see how fast i could get.

One time I aimed badly and was going into a ditch. I tell you, I pulled off a perfect sideways akira slide… right into that ditch. Unfortunately it’s really hard to control or stop a slide. So for about .1 seconds I bet I looked really cool. Before I hobbled back home with a busted up bike an some good scrapes and bruises. It’s a minor miracle that it wasn’t worse. I had a speedometer on that bike and could break 30mph on that hill.

Point being, you can totally make it happen, just don’t use the breaks and don’t expect to stop like he did. Maybe after you eat shit and break your bike 1000 times you’ll actually be able to nail it.

Yeah absolutely agree. I always but hydroflask bottles, but never through hydroflask. The exact same bottles and exact same lids are sold under a rolling list of random Chinese companies like this. Usually these companies do have real names, they’re just super Chinese and not worth properly localizing.

Hell, I recently got a new fancy video monopod. The official US name brand that sells it is harlowe. It sells for about a grand

I bought this exact same model from “yc onion” with a nonsensical name the “pineta pro” (said “pine-tah”) for less than half that.

I literally brought mine into a store after realizing how similar they are and compared them side by side. Even the stamp and sticker placement is identical. Like they clearly come from the exact same factory just with a different color and a different name printed into the same box on the side.

Why the fuck would anyone pay the 60% price hike just to have a known US company sell it to you? The really shitty thing is that I’m not sure how b and h is allowed to sell it. When I talked to my local camera store they said that they weren’t allowed to sell it because they were a brand partner to the US brand and couldn’t sell non us products without getting fined or dropped by their suppliers. Maybe b and h is just big enough to not have to care anymore, but that’s just going to be one more nail in the already dying camera store market.

I always find these groups suspicious. Even police and ice are full of overweight gravy seals. The ONLY groups of this many dudes that look that in shape are sports teams and the military.

That’s not enough to jump to conclusions, but these are not normal average white supremacists.

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I got the sixty percent from the op. It says quite plainly that total digital sales are near 30%

And yet physical discs make up over 60% of game sales.

Just because they’ve enshitified new more profitable revenue streams outside of game sales doesn’t mean they’re not shitty for dumping the core competency that brought them customers in the first place. If physical game sales were less than 3% of their profit then they aren’t a game company and are already lost.

If all this data is leading somewhere it’s towards more live service microtransaction slop anyway. If the 60%+ physical of sales that all of their massively popular single player games are that small a percentage of their profit and “digital sales and add on content” is that large or means that are mostly a microtransaction company already.

While continuing to thrust harder.

I mean, with it they’ve managed to build a walled garden that includes the majority of every phone in the world.

We can probably assume trillions.

Yeah? Hold your hands above your heart for 5 minutes then tell me why this bag is a problem.

The blood that goes to your feet also must go down first. Gravity is still helping it along.

Exactly lol. The rest of the scene had clear context that the image was overexposed and the white balance was too warm.

Anyone that understands photography instantly understood what was happening in that image. I’ve had people try to fight me and tell me I’m wrong about that, but I’ve been a professional photographer/videographer for over 15 years. Quickly identifying a technical issue with an image like that is like breathing to me. I do it every single time I take a picture, so over 10,000 a day on average. All I can say is trust me. that image was overexposed and too warm, You can tell by the way it is in the background, and if you can’t see that then my words won’t help you.

Oh no, that’s what salaries are for. That way they pay them for 8 hours of work still.

This should be celebrated though, because they get to go home early if all the work gets done.*

.*The work is done when the billionaire has enough ** money.

**Enough is defined as every particle of matter being converted into wealth for the god emperor formally known as billionaire.

Does that stop them from destroying the environment? These people are built on hubris.

Why would they get payed that much? this is unskilled labor, they get minimum wage.

That, or they hire an undocumented immigrant for even less. Extra bonus because they can’t read the sign that explains the killing thing.

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ahhh, no worries friend. i like the other commentors suggestion if you have any reason to care lol.

i guess I’m my mind “quite good” is better than “good”

like “quite” is a synonym to “very” in this context as I understand it. maybe to a lesser degree, but it’s certainly a positive modifier. i would use a similar scale if those two were swapped.

maybe that’s just my dumb american vocab or something, but i would be very confused by that scale as it stands.

i mean, on that scale a 6/10 is barely above average. I’m still looking at you funny foot calling that “quite good”