https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

Conclusion Existing research on content warnings, content notes, and trigger warnings suggests that they are fruitless, although they do reliably induce a period of uncomfortable anticipation. Although many questions warrant further investigation, trigger warnings should not be used as a mental-health tool.

Just like trigger warnings aren't effective and actually make things worse...

You know, you can just admit you were wrong instead of insulting people.

You're the one saying that all extra hands are beneficial to the economy, yet we intentionally refuse people who apply for immigration, why? By your logic we should be welcoming everyone to boost our economy, right?

Why then don't we just let in anyone and everyone that wants to move from the USA to Canada?

We're talking about people rising against the Republican side of the government

But the president has the power to tell the army "Don't do shit" in complete impunity.

I mean, why should a rich country accept people from other rich country if they don't bring any necessary qualifications to the table? You're not a refugee, the fact that the situation is shit in the USA is on the people that live there, it's not our responsibility to save you guys.

Paid subscription services increase because constant work has to consistently be put into them at a regular rate.

So like an early access game that requires constant work to fix bugs and add content?

The literal only other game to increase the price of a game over half a decade old has been Factorio.

Even you said that Minecraft did the same (and I'm sure I can find plenty of early access games that did the same).

As I said you're just mad that they're being honest, you're angry that inflation is a bitch and you would prefer that some sectors pretend it isn't, that makes you unable to analyze the situation objectively so you keep contradicting yourself. But I'm the one arguing in bad faith somehow.

I'm done here, goodbye!

"If X gets elected I'm moving to Canada"

Both sides say the same thing, Republicans say it not realizing that Canada is in general much more progressive than the Democrats...

Building on LEGO Builder's journey

They actually are affected the same way tough, hosting cost, labor cost, the programs used for development, the computers used for development, all of these things cost more and more, just because some people in the industry don't act on it doesn't mean that the same thing doesn't happen...

Oh wait, what's that? They actually do act on it by selling paid DLC for extra content and people are too dumb to realize that it's exactly the same thing as increasing the price of the complete game while continuing to provide updates? Dang...

Also, look at paid subscription services, are prices staying the same forever or they're increasing? Because I'm looking at Netflix and they haven't released a new program, they've just added more content and the price is going up! Plex's lifetime price nearly doubled in 2014, they didn't release a new program, it was the same thing just getting updated.

You're just mad because the Satisfactory team is being honest about why they're increasing the price and it makes you angry because it doesn't fit your vision of how the world should work but everyone else is doing the same thing just without mentioning inflation and that's fine to you.

Deep Rock Galactic would like a word about friendly player base!

Pay is handled by the studio. If the devs want a pay increase, which is more than deserved, then the studio needs to find the funds for that. If they don’t have the funds then they need to create more product. Simple as. Artificially boosting the price of existing products isn’t the answer.

So contrary to any other industry, game development studios don't have the right to increase their price on products that are already on the market to follow inflation and to have the funds to increase their employee's wages, that's what you're saying?

Regardless, office pay has next to nothing to do with this. The consumer doesn’t directly pay the worker’s salary. The worker makes the product, the consumer buys the product, end of transaction.

It's funny because your next paragraph makes it seem like it's the exact same thing happening for games, there's a third party in-between the consumer and the employee doing the work in both cases.

Then go to the office, don't be angry if others don't go

That's exactly what Minecraft did...

Free then 5 then 10 then 15 and so on, all price hikes that happened while the game was still in development and had not reached 1.0. it was one of the first mainstream example of an early access game!

You just don't want to recognize that Satisfactory today is different from what it was when it was first made available, just like Alpha and beta Minecraft weren't the same.

But hey, I guess I'm the one that's not arguing in good faith by pointing out that the situation is pretty much exactly the same and that the alternative is worse for all current owners.

Again, if you keep doing the same office job as before, do you refuse to ask for a pay increase and prefer to become poorer over time just because your job hasn't changed?

"I'm not against what Minecraft did, I'm just against what Minecraft did."

Get your story straight buddy.

I mean, they get to decide when it's finished, if it's stable and there's enough content that people are playing hundreds of hours then they can say that that's the basic experience and if people want more they need to pay for it, in the end it's even worse than just not having paid DLC and increasing the price as the game gets more content and life becomes more expensive.

Not as if there was anything new to doing that, Minecraft cost about 5$ for the people who bought it as soon as it was made available, now you don't even get the mobile version for that price.

So they should just stop development on a game that's still considered early access and leave it in an unfinished state and start working on something else that they can charge more for and just stop working on it once inflation catches up no matter the state it's in? That's what you're saying devs should do?

EA, Activision, Ubisoft don't do it this way, instead they charge you for all extra content separately.

Maybe that's what the Satisfactory team should do, release the game as is as being complete, not change the price and then release paid DLC that would otherwise have been updates so in the end people need to pay more to get the full game... Damn, we're back to square one but now people who already paid for the game also need to pay for updates...

Selling the game is the devs income, if everything else costs more and you don't increase your income you're just becoming poorer.

Just because you're doing office work do you believe you shouldn't get a raise?