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  1. She didn't argue with a stranger. She argued with a streamer who has some kind of a contractual PR agreement with her employer to promote the game.

    That's how this series of events went this fast. Streamer in question likely went through official channels within the company reserved for people like him, which was rapidly escalated within the company to the top.

  2. Re:Did Price actually say "mansplaining", though? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the archive I've seen is correct, accusation of "mansplaning" was her opening line in the conversation.

  3. Which he apologised for asap.

    I'm not in any major way a fan of TB, specifically because of his behaviour on live discussions left a rather sour taste of the man's personality. Truly, you don't want to know how the sausage is made. But his consumer advocacy was top notch regardless of it. Which is exactly why the aristocratic types of media journalists and devs hated him so much. He didn't pull any punches on calling bullshit bullshit when it actually happened.

  4. The company she answered as a representative of (discussion was specifically about main product of ArenaNet), and that she put on her twitter as being representative of.

    Essentially pillorying for "sexism on twitter" is finally starting to go both ways, rather than being a one way train that it was for last few years. And the standard misandrist crowd that is used to it being a one way street is reeling.

  5. Re:Then release a phone people want on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Problem being that "eventually" is significantly longer than two years.

  6. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Content of your previous post?

  7. Re: Then release a phone people want on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Put your money were your mouth is and start up a company that does that. 10-20% of the most expensive part of the smartphone market would be huge piece to grab.

  8. Re:Then release a phone people want on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it will bleed even more as it will lose the "thin phone" crowd entirely, all while not being able to sell you a new phone every couple of years because you can just pop a new battery into it instead and keep using it.

    Remember that laws of supply and demand are moderated not just by positive impulses, but by negative ones as well. Built in battery for example is a great example of a negative impulse that improves the demand.

  9. Re:Then release a phone people want on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few people want that. Focusing on them over the wide audience is how you go bankrupt.

    Sad but true.

  10. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws of physics are not your strong suit, are they? Energy conservation and all that.

  11. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    No opinion on shilling, but triggering the shorting snowflakes certainly does feel good.

  12. Re:Bad Challenge on DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not? It's cats in litterboxes.

  13. Yes. Privilege of being a global hegemon who's defence umbrella and guarantees of free maritime trade states like NZ need for survival.

  14. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    The car will notice sudden deceleration however, which would likely cause emergency braking. Probably faster than human.

  15. Re:Huh? on NASA To Test 'Quiet' Supersonic Flights Over Texas (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    If you can't afford first class, and your complaint specifies that you're not talking about first class seating, you're not going to be able to afford this kind of travel.

  16. Re:Great idea on South Korea Cuts Its Work Limit From 68 Hours a Week To 52 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    For average person, yes. This however ignores the well documented fact that in any given organisation, most of the productive work isn't done by the average worker. It's done by the hyper productive outliers. Rule of the thumb is that in any given organisation, half of productive work is done by the square root of total workers.

    And these are the people who go to be high grade specialists and CEOs, can manage to live on 6 hours sleep a day and work essentially all of their waking hours. For decades. There's not many of them, but if you even for a moment pretend that "average worker" is the person who is in any way representative of people who a keeping the company running, your company will be bankrupt within a couple of years after you lose those hyper productive people who will chafe under the limitations. And who have all the opportunities to find another place of employment.

    So while the limitation makes sense for the average worker, you always need the way to allow the hyper productive individuals to work the way they do. Otherwise, you'll lose them, and that is literally how huge companies that are currently doing well go bankrupt in a few years.

  17. Re:Xbox and PS, not Nintendo handhelds. It matters on Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, why are you still shilling through such disingenuous methods? Practice?

  18. Re: Win10 1803 is ready for prime time? Nope on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not in fact come with such "upgrades", unless you got a slipstreamed disk where someone actually put those upgrades. Otherwise, you actually need to download them from windows update.

    And unlike win10, 7 actually asks you which updates you want, and which you don't. And if you're in doubt, you're a simple google search away from a comprehensive list of all of the "phone home upgrades" that you can just not install, or if you got that disk with them on it, uninstall said "upgrades".

    That moment when you remember that 7 actually acts like an operating system, and not malware. Shocking to current win10 pushing MS shills, I know.

  19. Re:No Windows... on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows 7 is like modern liberal democracy. It's a terrible system for the purpose, except when compared to all the other systems that were tried for the same purpose.

  20. Re:Xbox and PS, not Nintendo handhelds. It matters on Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    If your measurement stick is "this or the end of the world", we do indeed agree. I also think that end of the world is worse than world existing. I'm quite agnostic as to details of quality of specific forms of entertainment in this scenario, simply because the scale of comparison is frankly inane to the extreme.

    By any reasonable measurement on the other hand, as was noted in countless public critiques of onlive, it was a garbage system that was awful at what it was supposed to accomplish.

  21. Thank you for conceding your point with such grace and eloquence.

  22. Certainly. So do other vehicles. On the other hand, the most expensive maintenance is typically that of engine and drive train systems, as those are commonly some of the most work intensive and complex operations, unlike say troubleshooting a problem with a door, which is a fairly simple mechanical device.

    Buying full electric engine over ICE massively reduces complexity of both engine and the drive train. As a result, it massively reduces maintenance costs on those systems. Which is why it is indeed correct to state that buying electric car will on average save you money on maintenance costs compared to average comparable ICE vehicle.

    Tesla's problem is that your typical sedan in the same size category as relevant Tesla model will be so much cheaper, that these savings simply won't be sufficient.

  23. Electric engine and drive train have much less moving parts and much less complexity than ICE on principle.

    He has been proven wrong. We're done here.

  24. No, luxury vehicle is a vehicle that cost far more than a budget vehicle, and as such is not a justifiable cost. You must have never lived middle class or working class life to read my statement the way you did.

    Granted, your lack of empathy on this issue is not surprising. I've seen this problem for people who spent their lives living comfortably. They make rather silly assumptions about reality for overwhelming majority of population.

  25. Re:Xbox and PS, not Nintendo handhelds. It matters on Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    How are you still shilling for a service that is well documented to have been utter garbage even with the "magical 20ms latency"?