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  • Kalothar@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzAlt Writing
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    4 months ago

    I mean, we are? I’m tired of this whole we are doing nothing narrative.

    The media isn’t going to show national news in support of this, however:

    There are groups mobilizing, protests at city halls, capitol buildings. I have seen protestors in small cities, and in the large.

    There is steam picking up, the town halls becoming increasingly more chaotic on both sides.

    You even have the growth of https://socialistra.org/ And other like associations

    You have entire organizations of legal workers trying everything they can to slow down things through legislation. You have the the anti oligarch movement spearheaded by AOC (democrat) and Bernie (independent). Some guard rails are holding and some are failing.





  • First point in favor:

    I actually think Rockstar is one of the true AAA studios that can justify this kind of pricing, they have such a huge dev team for rockstar flagships and on top of that the quality is unmatched throughout the gaming industry.

    We are not talking about Bethesda here, RDR2 was basically a masterpiece.

    Counterpoint: they also make more than enough money from GTA online to subsidize the base game cost. They will make many many times over what they spent on game dev and marketing with their online pricing model. So it’s just a further money grab really.



  • The company fucked up by not updating their equipment, even though they knew it was outdated and dangerous

    “The North Sea Divers Alliance, formed by early North Sea divers and the relatives of those killed, continued to press for further investigation and, in February 2008, obtained a report that indicated the real cause was faulty equipment. Clare Lucas, daughter of Roy Lucas, said: “I would go so far as to say that the Norwegian Government murdered my father because they knew that they were diving with an unsafe decompression chamber.”[11] The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government, 26 years after the incident.[12]