AlternatePersonMan

I’ve thought about this before, and you’re definitely right that games are technically cheaper when you factor in inflation. However, they sell to a much larger audience now, so it’s not like the major studios are starving. Even so, I would probably be fine with it, if it weren’t for the tendency to:

1. include microtransactions, rather than achievements
2. sell dlc that should have just been part of the game
3. Release the same uninspired crap every year (call of duty, sports ball 2023, etc.)
4. sell broken games

I’m guessing this one will be #4. Hoping to be wrong.

My mind boggles at this.

1. Netflix was already charging per screen, so there really were never any free loaders.
2. This represents a massive price jump for most users.
3. Now if you want to use the service on the go, you basically can’t.
4. There is a bunch of competition now

I just get so tired of everyone rolling over and taking whatever mega corporations dish out. I would have thought on a non-essential service would be easy to push back against. Clearly I was wrong. Now every other service will see this as an opportunity.

Sometimes I hate people.

The problem is that they always want more. It’s not enough to make money. So the ads and intrusive garbage gets worse and worse until we reach an unusable nightmare.

TV shows have banner ads during the show. Everyone wants to send you notifications. Even cars are starting to have ads on their screens.

It’s exhausting.

Love me some Brave…I use Firefox when that has issues though.

Breaking my heart. At least it can still view YouTube without ads for now. I’ll branch out again.

Feels like I can’t support anything without finding out it’s run by pure evil- or that it’s in the process of being ruined.

Fail again

A similar article is available at mpr

It’s horrific stuff. Literally any other job would have you immediately fired, and probably sued.

Police just keep rolling.

Cool. Now do every hidden fee. Hotels, restaurants, mechanics, phone bills. If something is advertised as $100, it should be $100.

Charging for both a connection speed and a limit is ridiculous. The latter is obviously a cash grab, but paired with different tiers of speed just screams “regulate me”

I’ll believe it when I see it. There seems to be countless sources confirming egregious tax fraud (and every other crime under the sun), yet nothing ever comes of it. I read that Hunter Biden plead guilty to tax fraud this week, so it’s not impossible for the IRS to catch up with well connected people. Yet Cheeto has been getting away with it for decades.

I’ll still keep some bubbly in the fridge on the off chance that something finally catches up to the orange sweat stain.