Qatar proved with the world cup that the only ones willing to build the infrastructure for these events are ones who don’t pay because they use slave labor.

God forbid we use existing infrastructure for them, or reuse the same cities, I think it’s crazy every 2 years they expect a whole new set of stadiums to be built

Hertz left me stranded in Austin TX last time I was there. Rented a car for a week. They let me think I had a car until the morning of my reservation, when it was an hour before pickup to notify me that “sorry we’re cancelling you”. I had no other options, every other place in town was out of cars. Most said I needed a reservation and I had to think to myself how stupid it was.

I spent over 500 in Ubers on that trip going stupidly long distances.

As soon as I was home I dropped my Hertz membership and joined Enterprise. They cost a bit more but I have never been treated that way. Hertz/Dollar/Thrifty are all pretty much the same, so I’ll never use them again.

Shopify has kind of saved the day there, making it easier for individual companies to set up a web presence easily. Personally I like shopping from sites who do that

Still, after all these years?

Always.

I work with a lot of ex-microsofters, and this sounds about normal. In Microsoft-land you only get funding if you’re profitable - and even then you need to be wildly profitable. They don’t care about being startup costs, or getting to profitability, if you aren’t right now you’re going to have to beg and plead for funding.

Of course then they’re immediately surprised that things aren’t just profitable immediately, and take time to build a userbase, and wonder why they’re constantly behind on the latest tech. God forbid they actually invest in promising tech…

he’s the dude who wrote the bug, obviously

It’s because they completely rebuilt and recompiled them for x86

The problem is that for every one of us uh… “Serious” gamers there are 3 who aren’t like us. Top of my head:

• the casual gamer, who isn’t opposed to micro transactions
• the whales, from big to small who get addicted to these
• children who have (I’ll say it) not great parents who just let them buy stuff so they keep quiet and playing their Nintendos

I’m sure there’s more, and I’m sure my list is not accurate, but we are a very tiny slice unfortunately. Still doesn’t mean I’m giving them a dime. I proudly wear the basic free armor in Halo Infinite hoping that someday they’ll see me running around and know that I’m playing a free game, years later, never paying them.

I’ll counter and say even if they are… FB and insta morons gobble up parody. They have no idea what it is. You post this over there and I guarantee you’ll get 10,000 comments agreeing with it seriously.

As a developer, man do people not realize how brittle modern computing is. It’s all built in popsicle sticks and Elmer’s glue. One small config or bad file as we see can cripple entire industries.

I do love that windows is still like “something slightly wrong? Might as well crash”