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That guy’s definitely not

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Bringing home the bacon

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The American sports convention is to list the visiting team first.

That graph plots gross pay (x-axis) against take-home cash (y-axis). The far left of the graph (in green) shows people making under 20k taking home more than their “earned” pay. At the extreme bottom is somebody making 1,000/year taking home 10,000. The progressive income tax starts at 20,000.

Not labeling the axises does make it hard to read.

The US doesn’t technically have a negative tax, but the EITC accomplishes the same basic thing. Whether it’s efficient enough, or needs expansion is another story.

Actually explains a lot of decisions by game publishers the last 5-10 years if their official position is that games are meant to collect dust on a shelf rather than being played.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

A rather obtuse reference to removing the OtherOS feature well after purchase. I tried to adapt it to game terms, but admit it’s a stretch.

Out of all the boardroom discussions, raising the price was actually the most consumer-friendly suggestion from Sony. Others included:

• Deleting the original version from users’ libraries.
• Re-printing the original on disc, but including a rootkit.
• Compiling a list of original version owners and leaving their personal details in plaintext on the web until they upgrade.
• Downgrading the original to 480p, telling users the original graphics were just a bug, and selling the higher-res upgrade.

Sony bought all the “Xbox is dead” talk (true or false doesn’t matter, Sony believes it), and has started the high-end gaming console monopoly pricing.

The thing is, there will come a day when only bots will be able to get these right. The only way into a site will be to answer incorrectly, to prove you’re human.

But it looks like so much fun

I’ve always liked Open Camera. Of course YMMV depending on your device.

edit: it’s also on F-Droid if that’s your preferred store.

• HL3 rumors
• HL3 announcement
• HL3 release
• HL3 is finished by multiple independent people, confirming the whole thing isn’t just a troll job by Valve <— This is when I start to believe it’s actually happening.

It was an early game pass title, priced at $60 to get people to sign up for a $10-15 subscription instead. If it had been released at ~$30 like the AA game it was, I believe it would have gotten a lot more leeway in the player reviews.

I did enjoy one playthrough. Most obsidian games beg the player to go again, but it didn’t seem worth another 15-20 hours for a slightly different ending. Replay value is what’s really missing for me.

Expectations are key. It’s a pretty good game at the right price, but anyone expecting New Vegas in Space is left disappointed.

Having never heard of this before watching the video, I feel like I know even less about the game after watching.

$30 for the early access plus a bit of micro transaction currency.

Questionable value, but a terrible headline.

The mod includes everything needed to downgrade other stores’ copies. To the end user, the idea is to make it as transparent as possible. This will work on Steam (with some work) and GOG (with less work), but not Epic(at all). Calling out one storefront unnecessarily would be “provocative bullshit” but in this case, it matters.

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No, no. All the NPCs are supposed to have 7 fingers on each of their three hands. It’s in the lore.

Same reason people would buy an S when they could get more power, more storage, and a disk drive with an X: price. $450 vs $600 isn’t nothing.