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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Narrative driven, story rich games don’t sell?

    How many video game franchises are making the leap to tv/movies these days? Hint, it’s the ones with narrative driven, story rich games.

    Go ahead and make pay to win mobile games, I don’t play them and they rake in millions so it makes perfect business sense.

    But the idea that gamers don’t pay for good narrative driven, story rich games is laughable.

    I think the biggest problem with a lot of game franchises have is they only sell the game. So much money is being left on the table with the best efforts being a screengrab lazily printed on a cheap shirt that sells maybe one or two.

    If I could get some official, quality, Umbrella/Shinra/Arasaka/Faro corporation mugs, phone covers, meme tier shirts etc I’d be all over it.








  • People love crapping on the reality of resource economics.

    Someone is going to provide the coal.

    The real solution would be for Canada to be aggressive in its green energy programs (and start accessing resources other than lumber and oil).

    Being a leader in green energy production (not just by having nuclear, hydro etc) but actually producing solar, wind, batteries, etc for export.

    Using carbon based energy to create low carbon energy sources is the only way we’re going to successfully transition away from fossil fuels.

    The main problem is that we do 1% green and 99% carbon, and that number never really seems to change.

    Our carbon tax is not improving public options to ditch fossil fuels, which should be the whole point of a carbon tax (reduced use by increasing price, and using the tax to create low carbon alternatives).

    I doubt we’ll ever be serious about a green transition anytime soon.





  • Classic democratic party.

    Waiting until the last possible minute to begin pretending to protect Americans from the entitlements of billionaires.

    We knew Trump was running again

    We knew the media was sane washing everything Trump does, did, and will do

    He made specific promises to be a dictator and hinted at this being the last election

    He specifically promised to use the army domestically.

    Now, it’s almost a month after he won and Democrats are considering maybe doing something about framework regarding the army being used domestically.

    Both sides aren’t the same, but they’re both owned by the same people.

    Once upon a time Democrats could float the idea of capitulation to business interests to maintain Americans global business dominance. Nowadays any democrat who isn’t fully progressive on workers rights is just another flavor of corporate Greed.






  • I’ve always said something along the lines of

    “Hopefully here, as I’d prefer to work hard for a company that values me, instead of moving around constantly.”

    Doesn’t have to be true, but companies love it when you come across as someone who will “stick it out” and seem uninterested in job hopping.

    Note, if that’s why they hire you, absolutely keep looking for better compensation because they’ll never hand it over.

    Embellish the fuck out of your resume with your current roles, and apply for jobs a level (or two depending on experience/abilities) above your current experience.