ut wait! Hes going to fix all that right? Our growth sucks we need 10% GDP growth per year which he will deliver! He said it during a presidential debate! America, land of 4.9% unemployment
FYI: If you're counting the actual unemployment rate it's probably closer to 15% in the US. Keeping in mind that the U6 is just shy of 10%, and after a few years even those people permanently drop off the system. You can massage the fuck out of anything to make you look better, hell the Liberals(Trudeau) here in Canada managed to "massage away" a $6B surplus, then blow another $27B and another $6B rainy day fund, and claim that there was no surplus in the first place. The current state of the US is much closer to that of the 1980 then anyone would like to admit. The only thing that's kept it at the same state is repeated pumping of money(AKA QE) directly into the stock markets. The bubble popping and shit hitting the fan? That 10% GDP isn't only possible, it's down right likely.
Which part is that? The part where she moved through the system faster then normal? Or that the Ontario patient wait times for treatment agree with me? Don't worry if you look like an ass, happens to the best of us. Hey then again, when they lopped the cancer out of my hand, I only waited 7 weeks. That was a far cry of the standard 14 weeks at the time in the early 00's.
The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing. Trump wants to deport 11 million people, persecute Muslims, force other countries to respect and build walls for America, and all on the back of a populist campaign of lies and blame.
Sure are! Media was in the tank for a single candidate. Told the world and the american people if they didn't vote one way, the world was going to end. That those people were racists/bigots/sexists/misogynists/delplorables/etc. That "white people are the problem" and they were "all poor and uneducated." And the people said Fuck and You. In that order. Trump wants to deport 11 million illegals AKA people breaking the law. And enforce the laws that are on the books, unlike the current "we'll just turn a blind eye." And if you're an ICE agent, you'd better let that illegal go--or we'll can your ass. He wants to restrict muslim immigration, especially from countries where fundamentalist islam and repression of women is the norm, and the murder of gays is not only great--it's a past time. How's that unrestricted importation working out for you in Europe? Trojan horse scandal, Rotherham, 700% increase in rapes, sexual assaults, and robberies? Just to start with. And wants to actually enforce the borders that exist, instead of having them as an unrestricted flow of people who want to enter the US illegally to gain citizenship to boot. While said illegals piss all over people who waited in line, followed the rules, and became citizens.
When Ayn Rand gets cancer, she uses public health care.
Not these days. You're better off going to the US and getting private health care. When my grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, the doctors and nurses were amazed she was in for treatment so fast. See normally that takes upwards of 3-7 months. Her belief, and many of the doctors is that since she was once a head nurse, someone in the system "bumped her along." Especially since the diagnosis and treatment began just under 14 days.
Even if it was scripted, the host clearly fumbled the question. Like, I don't see how there could possibly be any dispute about that. So if it was scripted then that explains it even better, as Obama was answering the slightly different (scripted) version of the question instead of what was actually asked.
That doesn't even make any sense. She was reading off a sheet of paper and reading off a teleprompter. If it was scripted it simply means that the exact phrasing of the answer was deliberate calculated.
Evidence please? All the actual evidence shows that in-person voter fraud does not really happen.... Democrats tend to oppose Voter ID first of all because if you're charging for the IDs then that is essentially a poll tax
Since we're talking about voter fraud in general? It sure does happen. Hell there was an investigation into fraudulent registrations in every county in Indiana and it's still on-going. We see in-person voter fraud even here in Canada, including fraudulent affirmations under oath. Feel free to hit your favorite search engine, you can find them in both the US and Canada. The real problem is actually prosecuting the people *after* they've already voted.
You mean like those voter ID laws we have in Canada, that are more stringent in the US but require things like "a copy of a bill where you live, drivers license, a bill, a friend who will affirm under oath " that the democrats are against? Or in one case, where 53 different forms of identification were accepted. This is the same country where you can't even get welfare without ID, and require ID to buy controlled substances? Give your head a shake.
That's wintery? Pft wimps. That's still shorts weather in Canada, and I'm not even kidding. You'll see people out here in t-shirts and shorts when it's -10C(14F), it's only when the windchill starts kicking in and it's really cold that winter starts. Most people here don't consider it winter until there's 6cm of snow on the ground and it hits -15C in the daytime(or twilight).
If this one comment which can be twisted to mean something it clearly doesn't is your only evidence that Obama wants undocumented immigrants to go and vote, you need to fuck off Mashiki.
If you think that was unscripted or "twisted to mean something" and no one knew the question you're more naive then I already think you are. Couple this with 8 years of Obama and the DOJ refusing to prosecute illegals, release illegals, and telling ICE agents to let them through? Grow the fuck up. A tell-tale Obama unscripted event is multiple "uh, uh, uh, uh's." He knew exactly what he was saying.
I think you need to go out and rewatch the video. I transcribed the thing lower down in the thread, he tactically approved of illegals voting and they won't prosecute them. That's word-for-word. You can try and spin this shit all you want, but couple that with the "down on high" orders from the administration and DOJ not to arrest illegals, release illegals, and not prosecute illegals, you've got a president who's a piece of shit and refuses to enforce the law for various reasons.
Obama misunderstood the question because of the host's incorrect use of the word "citizen". If you listen to what he says it's clear.
Oh piss off. Questions like this aren't even unscripted, that was as scripted of an interview as you can get. Not only did Obama know the questions beforehand, the people surrounding him did as well.
And they can't. Only Citizens can vote, you have to be a Citizen to get on the voter roles in the first place and they always check the voter roles.
Sure explains those cases of illegals voting multiple times doesn't it? Sure explains all those times the democrats are against voter ID laws doesn't it. "Only citizens can vote" and the only way you can tell who's a citizen is with voter ID laws, and ensuring that those voter rolls are accurate. Keep in mind that multiple elections have been lost with a hundred votes or less.
"Many of the millennials, dreamers, undocumented -- undocumented citizens, I call them citizens because they contribute to this country. Are fearful of voting, so if I vote will immigration know where I live, will they come for my family and deport us?"
Obama:
Not true. And the reason is, first of all... when you vote, you are a citizen yourself and there is not a situation where the voting rules are somehow transferred over and people start investigating, and etc. The sanctity of the vote, is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for. If you have a family member who is undocumented, you have an even greater reason to vote."
Seriously, fuck you. You can try and cut that anyway you want, but it doesn't get much clearer than that.
Greenmangaming, Gamersgate and Gamesrepublic sell Steam keys.
They also sell keys that work for Blizzard, Rockstar, Origin, Ubisoft's store, desura, and several others.
In many cases, developers will give you a key if you show that you have prior ownership. And the game is "locked" to a particular ecosystem. Say, only on the apple store and steam store. And you just bought a new apple system and want to get the copy on the apple store. Filing a tech support email works 99% of the time. Hell, I've got a steel collectors box of "Return to Castle Wolfenstin" and I sent an email to Bethesda with a picture of the jewel case, box, and CD and they sent me a key for steam, and asked if I'd like one for the DRM free version from Humble Bundle.
OK, your UID is too low to be an astroturf account, so, seriously, you're advocating a distribution monopoly as the key to low prices? Really?
K, you're really not that stupid are you? If the definition of monopoly is more digital storefronts then there are owners of major US media corporations it's not a monopoly is it. That's not counting sites that sell keys that work on those storefronts.
Wait, maybe you worded the first quote wrong or something? Origin is EA's "own ecosystem for digital downloads" and unsurprisingly isn't big on discounts. Steam OTOH is famous for "80% off" sales for older games. I have hundreds of Steam games, lots of them big-budget titles, but my average purchase price is well under $10
Well, Origin offers discounts all the time. They also offer coupons -- something that Steam doesn't directly offer which will work with most titles. Rather steam "gifts" coupons which you can apply to a product. Steam is famous for that, so is GoG. And Origin is famous for giving away games too. Keep in mind that Steam also doesn't have anything to do with the sales price outside of their initial cut(steam takes 30%--which is far less then other storefronts), every part of that is on the developers side.
Overlap between console peasant gaming and PC overlords isn't necessarily good for game quality, and mobile gaming is the same deal - three different worlds with three different ideals for good UI and good gameplay.
Of course it isn't. Kind of the original point I was making, the key thing that stops it though is buy-in costs. Look at several small studio releases and how it fucked up one, for the case of the other.
OTOH, making all "PC games" available for Windows, Mac, and Linux is certainly worthwhile. Smaller devs might not be able to afford to test everything thoroughly on three platforms and be wiling to stand behind it, but that's what value-added distributers like GOG could come in. GOG, for the old games they sell, does the work to make DOS and early Windows games work well on modern Windows (and they're starting to do that for Mac, but again for old games). There's certainly room for a Mac-specific GOG-like, that makes indie games run flawlessly on Mac for a larger cut. Ditto Linux. For an indie dev, that's still more money coming in than not being on that platform at all.
Most developers can't afford it. When they can afford it though, it's usually down the line when sales expectations have been exceeded and they can blow $50-100k to port it over to another platform and do UI changes. FYI GoG doesn't sell just "old games" it hasn't for a while. They'll sell any game that doesn't have DRM, that's their only bar for entry to their site.
The reality is on consoles, even with people using a m/k on a console. The people using controllers? Developers have to add extra gimmicks to get them onto the same playing field. Whether it's a bump in life, less damage dealt to them, aim assist, larger hitboxes, doesn't matter. There's dozens of articles on it from different people who work on the industry. This is probably one of the most famous though. To put it simply, no matter the advantage given to a person playing on a console. They got their ass beat into the ground by even mediocre players on the PC.
The developers simply need to allow for this to happen.
There's nothing stopping developers from doing this now. The a couple of reasons it doesn't happen though. One is because multiple large developers all want their own ecosystem for digital downloads. That in itself is good since it helps with the cost of the games in the end, and in most cases leads to significant discounts. See the 20% off or more on titles from places like Greenmangaming, Gamersgate or Gamesrepublic vs say Steam, Origin or Ubi's thingy. Now getting all games on all platforms? More difficult, since developing for multiple platforms becomes expensive. Especially since consoles require a "buy-in" to develop on and for every patch they require you to pay for certification of said patch. Something that doesn't exist on PC's. Steam, Origin or Ubi's, etc., storefronts all take a cut but that's a one-time cut for each sale. Unless it's sold through a 3rd party/authorized reseller. The whole buy-in/patch certification stuff is something that can add a huge amount of cost to a developer, and for small developers failing on a single platform in terms of sales can be enough to cause them to fail financially. You might be able to float $150-450k+cut of each game sold on one console, on 3 consoles? Nope.
Correction: Trump either knew what was going on, which makes him complicit in the illegal actions of his workers, or was oblivious of their dealings, which makes him shit at managing one company. Either way, he's either a criminal or bad an managing.
Let me ask you, with 500+ businesses do you think he directly manages each and every one? Or do you think that it's more likely that someone down the line from him simply thought "Well, I can do this and show the boss how good of a money saver I am. And he'll give me a bonus for it." If you think the first, you're unimaginably naive. If you're thinking on the second then you probably have some scraping of understanding how how "businesses empires" work. Meaning the person at the top looks at multiple things every day, usually not very closely unless something is going wrong, and leaves it to the people under them.
Keep in mind that Trump has been consistent since the 1980's on this. The reality is, someone down the line thought it was a good idea. Ran with the idea, and it flew under the radar because he didn't look at it. And the management under him simply saw dollar signs of saving and went with it. So now we're getting into multiple issues where the DOJ didn't care, ICE didn't care, other branches of government didn't care. And now we're seeing something else going on, multiple failures of law enforcement and those who prosecute those laws before the courts either ignoring or simply ignoring it. Now why are they ignoring it? Because it's convenient? Because there's orders on high because everyone is doing it? Because they're incompetent? Or a combination of several things. Keep in mind as well over the last 8 years, that ICE agents have stated that the DOJ and the administration have ordered them NOT to arrest, prosecute, and release illegals. If you're going to run with this line of reasoning though, then I'm sure you're lining up to impeach Obama for what Clinton did, instead of holding Clinton directly responsible for her gigantic fuckup with her email server and lying multiple times including to the investigative committee and to the FBI. And instead of going directly after those that ignored the law/ordered it not to be enforced we're gonna go for the top instead.
So, if your neighbor or brother lost his job, in a similar line of work, it's totally irrational to think you're next? I think this has stopped making sense again.
Yes, it's irrational. Didn't you listen to what the political pundits who are pro-establishment, and business owners who are eyeing 3rd world shitholes to export your job to said?
Well, media pundits will say anything, as long as it's stupid and wrong, but the skilled trades have always been going strong. It was manufacturing jobs that people were being steered away from as far as I recall, and that was and remains good advice.
Yes, and no. Pundits will say a lot of things to hit a lot of bases to give them a good view in the eyes of other pundits. Skilled trades have been hit or miss for the last 30 years, you *might* hit it good if you got in during the 90's when there was a need for electricians or plumbers. And by the 00's, they were being laid off in droves. If you got in early as a mechanic in the 90's and bought out some guys shop ~6-8 years after your apprenticeship ended you were also likely in a good spot. If you didn't it could be very hit or miss depending on the region. Part of the reason there has been a shortage in some trades, is because both government levels(federal and provincial/state), have said "trades are outdated, you don't need do THOSE." Of course trades aren't safe from imported labor either. Here's an example from Canadawhere skilled tradesman were laid off and replaced with 3rd world labor.And the effects of it.
Manufacturing were just the first ones hit, and hit hard. But now you can see imported labor and people being laid off. From janitorial staff to machinists, and IT(at any level) to accountants and legal.
Correction: The people under him imported illegal labor. Buying foreign steel isn't illegal though, shady or even underhanded. So what's the real problem here? That the people under him did shit that was illegal, or the people under him were smart enough to buy cheaper steel because it was a cost saving measure?
Then again, considering Trump has been speaking out against worker offshoring, H1B's and shitty trade deals since the 1980's. I guess that makes him a bad person right? Or is it that he's a bad person because those imported workers are brown? Or that the establishment rails against him for his view on that. The times being what they are though, there's a reason why he's got such widespread support from the general public and the establishment is railing against him with any type of bullshit they can find or make up. They're scared to death of even the possibility of him closing up those avenues to import workers and derail shitty trade deals. Hurting the crony capitalism games, and the current state of kickbacks and golfing-rounds done for political favors. Hell the area I grew up in felt the effects of NAFTA hard. I don't live in the US, I live in Canada(in the SWON). The land where a lower CDN dollar = more money via manufacturing. The unemployment rate hit 52% in the area I grew up in SW-Ontario. There's still huge factories that are empty over 20 years later, that employed thousands of people each. Sure some of those jobs would have been lost to automation. But it took over 20 years for it to recover after all those businesses decided to pack up and move to Mexico, where you could pay someone $3.15/day vs $14/hr($21/hr today). Hell, you guys in the US think you have it rough? In Canada not even fast food jobs are safe from imported labor.
So, wait, is opposing unlimited immigration racist Trumphitlerism, or rational self interest today? Slashdot groupthink seems very confused on this one.
Depends, did you lose your job? Then it's rational self interest. It's Trumphitlerism otherwise, always is. That's why you should vote Hillary. By the way... Today is November 9th, they're outsourcing your job in 2 weeks and you're going to be training your replacement. They're from Bangalore so you'd better use small english words or get an interpreter.
Oh, wait, I get it: immigration is fine when it's other people's jobs, but it's totally a tool of the sociopathic corporations when it's our jobs at risk. Perfectly consistent after all.
Of course it is. Going by your UID, your age is probably close to mine. You'll also remember all that smugness from white collar workers and media pundits who said to the skilled/unskilled/trade workers back in the 1980's and 90's that "if they didn't want to lose their jobs, they should have turned around and gotten white collar jobs like theirs." Now those white collar jobs are facing the same outsourcing that all those blue collar workers faced.
Strange though isn't it? All those minimum wage jobs coming along these days, very few full-time jobs. Well I suppose they can feed their families on those, I seem to remember those white collar workers and news paper pundits saying that too.
Your post was was written to discredit Trump voters as bunch of whackadoodle conspiracy theorists.
Conspiracy theory: Straight out of the horses mouth with a paper trail, author, and events to go with it.
In other news, channers were running around screaming "We love you Christ-chan" and "deus vult." FBI currently investigating all the way back to the 11th century for leads.
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ut wait! Hes going to fix all that right? Our growth sucks we need 10% GDP growth per year which he will deliver! He said it during a presidential debate! America, land of 4.9% unemployment
FYI: If you're counting the actual unemployment rate it's probably closer to 15% in the US. Keeping in mind that the U6 is just shy of 10%, and after a few years even those people permanently drop off the system. You can massage the fuck out of anything to make you look better, hell the Liberals(Trudeau) here in Canada managed to "massage away" a $6B surplus, then blow another $27B and another $6B rainy day fund, and claim that there was no surplus in the first place. The current state of the US is much closer to that of the 1980 then anyone would like to admit. The only thing that's kept it at the same state is repeated pumping of money(AKA QE) directly into the stock markets. The bubble popping and shit hitting the fan? That 10% GDP isn't only possible, it's down right likely.
>illegals like the ones trump employs ?
You mean the ones that people under him hired illegally? You bet.
Which part is that? The part where she moved through the system faster then normal? Or that the Ontario patient wait times for treatment agree with me? Don't worry if you look like an ass, happens to the best of us. Hey then again, when they lopped the cancer out of my hand, I only waited 7 weeks. That was a far cry of the standard 14 weeks at the time in the early 00's.
The parallels with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s are quite disturbing. Trump wants to deport 11 million people, persecute Muslims, force other countries to respect and build walls for America, and all on the back of a populist campaign of lies and blame.
Sure are! Media was in the tank for a single candidate. Told the world and the american people if they didn't vote one way, the world was going to end. That those people were racists/bigots/sexists/misogynists/delplorables/etc. That "white people are the problem" and they were "all poor and uneducated." And the people said Fuck and You. In that order. Trump wants to deport 11 million illegals AKA people breaking the law. And enforce the laws that are on the books, unlike the current "we'll just turn a blind eye." And if you're an ICE agent, you'd better let that illegal go--or we'll can your ass. He wants to restrict muslim immigration, especially from countries where fundamentalist islam and repression of women is the norm, and the murder of gays is not only great--it's a past time. How's that unrestricted importation working out for you in Europe? Trojan horse scandal, Rotherham, 700% increase in rapes, sexual assaults, and robberies? Just to start with. And wants to actually enforce the borders that exist, instead of having them as an unrestricted flow of people who want to enter the US illegally to gain citizenship to boot. While said illegals piss all over people who waited in line, followed the rules, and became citizens.
When Ayn Rand gets cancer, she uses public health care.
Not these days. You're better off going to the US and getting private health care. When my grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, the doctors and nurses were amazed she was in for treatment so fast. See normally that takes upwards of 3-7 months. Her belief, and many of the doctors is that since she was once a head nurse, someone in the system "bumped her along." Especially since the diagnosis and treatment began just under 14 days.
Despite what the article says, I'm going to go with the "this is not unwittingly." Those teachers and organizations know or should know exactly what they're doing.Seems like some kids are able to. The court case for anyone who wants to read it. Keep in mind that the UK is the same country that tried to create life-long student records for "extremism." And there was also most recently the trojan horse scandal, and on top of that a school recently turned around and said that "If you don't go to the mosque, they'll be marked down as a racist for their entire school career." FYI: School is in the same region as the trojan horse scandal. The UK has a lot of problems.
Even if it was scripted, the host clearly fumbled the question. Like, I don't see how there could possibly be any dispute about that. So if it was scripted then that explains it even better, as Obama was answering the slightly different (scripted) version of the question instead of what was actually asked.
That doesn't even make any sense. She was reading off a sheet of paper and reading off a teleprompter. If it was scripted it simply means that the exact phrasing of the answer was deliberate calculated.
Evidence please? All the actual evidence shows that in-person voter fraud does not really happen. ... Democrats tend to oppose Voter ID first of all because if you're charging for the IDs then that is essentially a poll tax
Since we're talking about voter fraud in general? It sure does happen. Hell there was an investigation into fraudulent registrations in every county in Indiana and it's still on-going. We see in-person voter fraud even here in Canada, including fraudulent affirmations under oath. Feel free to hit your favorite search engine, you can find them in both the US and Canada. The real problem is actually prosecuting the people *after* they've already voted.
You mean like those voter ID laws we have in Canada, that are more stringent in the US but require things like "a copy of a bill where you live, drivers license, a bill, a friend who will affirm under oath " that the democrats are against? Or in one case, where 53 different forms of identification were accepted. This is the same country where you can't even get welfare without ID, and require ID to buy controlled substances? Give your head a shake.
That's wintery? Pft wimps. That's still shorts weather in Canada, and I'm not even kidding. You'll see people out here in t-shirts and shorts when it's -10C(14F), it's only when the windchill starts kicking in and it's really cold that winter starts. Most people here don't consider it winter until there's 6cm of snow on the ground and it hits -15C in the daytime(or twilight).
If this one comment which can be twisted to mean something it clearly doesn't is your only evidence that Obama wants undocumented immigrants to go and vote, you need to fuck off Mashiki.
If you think that was unscripted or "twisted to mean something" and no one knew the question you're more naive then I already think you are. Couple this with 8 years of Obama and the DOJ refusing to prosecute illegals, release illegals, and telling ICE agents to let them through? Grow the fuck up. A tell-tale Obama unscripted event is multiple "uh, uh, uh, uh's." He knew exactly what he was saying.
I think you need to go out and rewatch the video. I transcribed the thing lower down in the thread, he tactically approved of illegals voting and they won't prosecute them. That's word-for-word. You can try and spin this shit all you want, but couple that with the "down on high" orders from the administration and DOJ not to arrest illegals, release illegals, and not prosecute illegals, you've got a president who's a piece of shit and refuses to enforce the law for various reasons.
Obama misunderstood the question because of the host's incorrect use of the word "citizen". If you listen to what he says it's clear.
Oh piss off. Questions like this aren't even unscripted, that was as scripted of an interview as you can get. Not only did Obama know the questions beforehand, the people surrounding him did as well.
And they can't. Only Citizens can vote, you have to be a Citizen to get on the voter roles in the first place and they always check the voter roles.
Sure explains those cases of illegals voting multiple times doesn't it? Sure explains all those times the democrats are against voter ID laws doesn't it. "Only citizens can vote" and the only way you can tell who's a citizen is with voter ID laws, and ensuring that those voter rolls are accurate. Keep in mind that multiple elections have been lost with a hundred votes or less.
Female host:
"Many of the millennials, dreamers, undocumented -- undocumented citizens, I call them citizens because they contribute to this country. Are fearful of voting, so if I vote will immigration know where I live, will they come for my family and deport us?"
Obama:
Not true. And the reason is, first of all ... when you vote, you are a citizen yourself and there is not a situation where the voting rules are somehow transferred over and people start investigating, and etc. The sanctity of the vote, is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for. If you have a family member who is undocumented, you have an even greater reason to vote."
Seriously, fuck you. You can try and cut that anyway you want, but it doesn't get much clearer than that.
Keeps trying to fix a broken system after the damage has already been done. If he wanted to fix this, he would need to restart the primaries.
Obama has no interest in fixing this, or even enforcing the laws. Hell he came right out the other day telling illegals and non-citizens to vote, and there would be no prosecution on it.
Greenmangaming, Gamersgate and Gamesrepublic sell Steam keys.
They also sell keys that work for Blizzard, Rockstar, Origin, Ubisoft's store, desura, and several others.
In many cases, developers will give you a key if you show that you have prior ownership. And the game is "locked" to a particular ecosystem. Say, only on the apple store and steam store. And you just bought a new apple system and want to get the copy on the apple store. Filing a tech support email works 99% of the time. Hell, I've got a steel collectors box of "Return to Castle Wolfenstin" and I sent an email to Bethesda with a picture of the jewel case, box, and CD and they sent me a key for steam, and asked if I'd like one for the DRM free version from Humble Bundle.
OK, your UID is too low to be an astroturf account, so, seriously, you're advocating a distribution monopoly as the key to low prices? Really?
K, you're really not that stupid are you? If the definition of monopoly is more digital storefronts then there are owners of major US media corporations it's not a monopoly is it. That's not counting sites that sell keys that work on those storefronts.
Wait, maybe you worded the first quote wrong or something? Origin is EA's "own ecosystem for digital downloads" and unsurprisingly isn't big on discounts. Steam OTOH is famous for "80% off" sales for older games. I have hundreds of Steam games, lots of them big-budget titles, but my average purchase price is well under $10
Well, Origin offers discounts all the time. They also offer coupons -- something that Steam doesn't directly offer which will work with most titles. Rather steam "gifts" coupons which you can apply to a product. Steam is famous for that, so is GoG. And Origin is famous for giving away games too. Keep in mind that Steam also doesn't have anything to do with the sales price outside of their initial cut(steam takes 30%--which is far less then other storefronts), every part of that is on the developers side.
Overlap between console peasant gaming and PC overlords isn't necessarily good for game quality, and mobile gaming is the same deal - three different worlds with three different ideals for good UI and good gameplay.
Of course it isn't. Kind of the original point I was making, the key thing that stops it though is buy-in costs. Look at several small studio releases and how it fucked up one, for the case of the other.
OTOH, making all "PC games" available for Windows, Mac, and Linux is certainly worthwhile. Smaller devs might not be able to afford to test everything thoroughly on three platforms and be wiling to stand behind it, but that's what value-added distributers like GOG could come in. GOG, for the old games they sell, does the work to make DOS and early Windows games work well on modern Windows (and they're starting to do that for Mac, but again for old games). There's certainly room for a Mac-specific GOG-like, that makes indie games run flawlessly on Mac for a larger cut. Ditto Linux. For an indie dev, that's still more money coming in than not being on that platform at all.
Most developers can't afford it. When they can afford it though, it's usually down the line when sales expectations have been exceeded and they can blow $50-100k to port it over to another platform and do UI changes. FYI GoG doesn't sell just "old games" it hasn't for a while. They'll sell any game that doesn't have DRM, that's their only bar for entry to their site.
You weren't paying attention. If they were anymore praiseworthy, I'd have figured they were on their knees and slurping away.
I don't believe you.
The reality is on consoles, even with people using a m/k on a console. The people using controllers? Developers have to add extra gimmicks to get them onto the same playing field. Whether it's a bump in life, less damage dealt to them, aim assist, larger hitboxes, doesn't matter. There's dozens of articles on it from different people who work on the industry. This is probably one of the most famous though. To put it simply, no matter the advantage given to a person playing on a console. They got their ass beat into the ground by even mediocre players on the PC.
... is to get all of our games on all platforms.
The developers simply need to allow for this to happen.
There's nothing stopping developers from doing this now. The a couple of reasons it doesn't happen though. One is because multiple large developers all want their own ecosystem for digital downloads. That in itself is good since it helps with the cost of the games in the end, and in most cases leads to significant discounts. See the 20% off or more on titles from places like Greenmangaming, Gamersgate or Gamesrepublic vs say Steam, Origin or Ubi's thingy. Now getting all games on all platforms? More difficult, since developing for multiple platforms becomes expensive. Especially since consoles require a "buy-in" to develop on and for every patch they require you to pay for certification of said patch. Something that doesn't exist on PC's. Steam, Origin or Ubi's, etc., storefronts all take a cut but that's a one-time cut for each sale. Unless it's sold through a 3rd party/authorized reseller. The whole buy-in/patch certification stuff is something that can add a huge amount of cost to a developer, and for small developers failing on a single platform in terms of sales can be enough to cause them to fail financially. You might be able to float $150-450k+cut of each game sold on one console, on 3 consoles? Nope.
538 also said Trump had a 1% of winning the nomination. And flipped between 60-90% of the UK not leaving the EU.
Well maybe you can enjoy what the current president said, you know that being illegal and voting is okay.
Correction: Trump either knew what was going on, which makes him complicit in the illegal actions of his workers, or was oblivious of their dealings, which makes him shit at managing one company.
Either way, he's either a criminal or bad an managing.
Let me ask you, with 500+ businesses do you think he directly manages each and every one? Or do you think that it's more likely that someone down the line from him simply thought "Well, I can do this and show the boss how good of a money saver I am. And he'll give me a bonus for it." If you think the first, you're unimaginably naive. If you're thinking on the second then you probably have some scraping of understanding how how "businesses empires" work. Meaning the person at the top looks at multiple things every day, usually not very closely unless something is going wrong, and leaves it to the people under them.
Keep in mind that Trump has been consistent since the 1980's on this. The reality is, someone down the line thought it was a good idea. Ran with the idea, and it flew under the radar because he didn't look at it. And the management under him simply saw dollar signs of saving and went with it. So now we're getting into multiple issues where the DOJ didn't care, ICE didn't care, other branches of government didn't care. And now we're seeing something else going on, multiple failures of law enforcement and those who prosecute those laws before the courts either ignoring or simply ignoring it. Now why are they ignoring it? Because it's convenient? Because there's orders on high because everyone is doing it? Because they're incompetent? Or a combination of several things. Keep in mind as well over the last 8 years, that ICE agents have stated that the DOJ and the administration have ordered them NOT to arrest, prosecute, and release illegals. If you're going to run with this line of reasoning though, then I'm sure you're lining up to impeach Obama for what Clinton did, instead of holding Clinton directly responsible for her gigantic fuckup with her email server and lying multiple times including to the investigative committee and to the FBI. And instead of going directly after those that ignored the law/ordered it not to be enforced we're gonna go for the top instead.
So, if your neighbor or brother lost his job, in a similar line of work, it's totally irrational to think you're next? I think this has stopped making sense again.
Yes, it's irrational. Didn't you listen to what the political pundits who are pro-establishment, and business owners who are eyeing 3rd world shitholes to export your job to said?
Well, media pundits will say anything, as long as it's stupid and wrong, but the skilled trades have always been going strong. It was manufacturing jobs that people were being steered away from as far as I recall, and that was and remains good advice.
Yes, and no. Pundits will say a lot of things to hit a lot of bases to give them a good view in the eyes of other pundits. Skilled trades have been hit or miss for the last 30 years, you *might* hit it good if you got in during the 90's when there was a need for electricians or plumbers. And by the 00's, they were being laid off in droves. If you got in early as a mechanic in the 90's and bought out some guys shop ~6-8 years after your apprenticeship ended you were also likely in a good spot. If you didn't it could be very hit or miss depending on the region. Part of the reason there has been a shortage in some trades, is because both government levels(federal and provincial/state), have said "trades are outdated, you don't need do THOSE." Of course trades aren't safe from imported labor either. Here's an example from Canada where skilled tradesman were laid off and replaced with 3rd world labor. And the effects of it.
Manufacturing were just the first ones hit, and hit hard. But now you can see imported labor and people being laid off. From janitorial staff to machinists, and IT(at any level) to accountants and legal.
Correction: The people under him imported illegal labor. Buying foreign steel isn't illegal though, shady or even underhanded. So what's the real problem here? That the people under him did shit that was illegal, or the people under him were smart enough to buy cheaper steel because it was a cost saving measure?
Then again, considering Trump has been speaking out against worker offshoring, H1B's and shitty trade deals since the 1980's. I guess that makes him a bad person right? Or is it that he's a bad person because those imported workers are brown? Or that the establishment rails against him for his view on that. The times being what they are though, there's a reason why he's got such widespread support from the general public and the establishment is railing against him with any type of bullshit they can find or make up. They're scared to death of even the possibility of him closing up those avenues to import workers and derail shitty trade deals. Hurting the crony capitalism games, and the current state of kickbacks and golfing-rounds done for political favors. Hell the area I grew up in felt the effects of NAFTA hard. I don't live in the US, I live in Canada(in the SWON). The land where a lower CDN dollar = more money via manufacturing. The unemployment rate hit 52% in the area I grew up in SW-Ontario. There's still huge factories that are empty over 20 years later, that employed thousands of people each. Sure some of those jobs would have been lost to automation. But it took over 20 years for it to recover after all those businesses decided to pack up and move to Mexico, where you could pay someone $3.15/day vs $14/hr($21/hr today). Hell, you guys in the US think you have it rough? In Canada not even fast food jobs are safe from imported labor.
So, wait, is opposing unlimited immigration racist Trumphitlerism, or rational self interest today? Slashdot groupthink seems very confused on this one.
Depends, did you lose your job? Then it's rational self interest. It's Trumphitlerism otherwise, always is. That's why you should vote Hillary. By the way... Today is November 9th, they're outsourcing your job in 2 weeks and you're going to be training your replacement. They're from Bangalore so you'd better use small english words or get an interpreter.
Oh, wait, I get it: immigration is fine when it's other people's jobs, but it's totally a tool of the sociopathic corporations when it's our jobs at risk. Perfectly consistent after all.
Of course it is. Going by your UID, your age is probably close to mine. You'll also remember all that smugness from white collar workers and media pundits who said to the skilled/unskilled/trade workers back in the 1980's and 90's that "if they didn't want to lose their jobs, they should have turned around and gotten white collar jobs like theirs." Now those white collar jobs are facing the same outsourcing that all those blue collar workers faced.
Strange though isn't it? All those minimum wage jobs coming along these days, very few full-time jobs. Well I suppose they can feed their families on those, I seem to remember those white collar workers and news paper pundits saying that too.
Your post was was written to discredit Trump voters as bunch of whackadoodle conspiracy theorists.
Conspiracy theory: Straight out of the horses mouth with a paper trail, author, and events to go with it.
In other news, channers were running around screaming "We love you Christ-chan" and "deus vult." FBI currently investigating all the way back to the 11th century for leads.