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When will you people learn "fuck you, accept this candidate or else" doesn't work? You can't blackmail and extort your constituents.

This. If you don't have kids there are basically no support systems to start a family. Wages aren't high enough and it looks like a daunting task. But if you have kids, suddenly you can qualify for food stamps and assistance(which is good). The system is basically set up to help prevent you from failing once you've already done it, but not to set you up to do it successfully beforehand. To have kids, you basically have to say "fuck it, we'll just figure it out". A lot of people aren't willing to take that risk.

Yes, I would agree that the conversation were having is useless but you sure wrote a lot of words....

It's not equivalent though. It's a grey wolf made to look like a direwolf. If they'd crispered a grey wolf into a dire wolf, that would be one thing. This is not that. This is basically a designer breed at best.

If you click through the linked article you discover WSJ is paywalled.

I think something you're missing is that "we create communities as needed" has an inverse as well. "We delete communities as needed". Sometimes you create the general topic and it's so general that all of the niches overtake it. When that happens and the general just isn't needed, you prune it. No community has to exist forever and sometimes it's only purpose will be as a reference point to others. And sometimes even that isn't needed anymore and it vanishes too.

It's a constantly changing, dynamic system. The point is that it should cater to what's needed/being used at the moment.

Seriously, you're doing good work OP. Good job, buddy.

We don't really disagree. I think you should make the communities. But I also think they won't grow until they're being mentioned on the general community.

I think what needs to be tacked on is you need the generalized communities to point to the niches. Sure, you can start the formula1 or flightsim community immediately - that group already exists outside the fediverse and you just need to give them a new location. Sure.

But for your niche communities, you need the general community to be a launching off point for the others. You need the gamer who's interested in different controllers to see the other flightsim community exists and decide to follow it too. You need to give the average person a way to discover the community without already knowing explicitly that it exists.

Otherwise, you'll only attract people who are migrating from one service to another(and doing a 1:1 swap of their communities) and not reach the general audience. A lot of hobbies or communities I've joined were because of someone else mentioning it in a different but related community.

Think about people in general: no one starts by saying they want to program data tables in Python. They start with a general interest in computers and move on from there.

Did that actually get confirmed? I saw that as well but it wasn't confirmed as best as I can tell. RIP if true. Dude was a legend.

Ok, disagree. Show me that games aren't better. Show me that they aren't bigger with better graphics, more features, longer stories. Oh yeah, you can't. So disagree all you want lol.

Also, I'll just point out again with wages: ok, so cars, houses, everything else has gone up. So explain in economic terms why a luxury good shouldn't too? I'll wait. You're arguing economics of society. That's a much bigger issue. But please, explain. I'll wait. I expect more than a few paragraphs, by the way.

So you have no reason to deserve it but entitlement. Gotcha. Thanks for articulating. Companies don't owe you shit. As soon as you get that through your head a lot more will make sense. If companies owed you anything, we wouldn't have micro transactions and season passes and all of that money grubbing bullshit. But did your outrage stop that? Nope. So go ahead and yell and scream and see what it does now.

Again, what's it matter? A PS store game is limited to their platform. An Xbox store game is limited to their platform. A Steam game is....

Seeing a pattern? It's irrelevant. Console exclusivity has always been a thing until modern times. But now we have cross play, something that never existed. So again, objectively better. Are some games still stuck to certain consoles? Yeah. And that's their prerogative and frankly is the norm. So what? What reason do you have that you deserve it? You don't. You just want it.

Ummm Nintendo has a digital platform, so not sure what you're on about that one.

And in regards to indie studios: then buy their games and stop complaining, duh. Like, if you know there's all these amazing and cheap alternatives, why are you bitching about what Nintendo charges? No one's forcing you. Go play something else. It's really that easy.

Nintendo, love em or hate them, is like Disney. They want to curate a very specific image. Look up the invention of the Nintendo Seal of Approval and why that was such a big thing. Nintendo wants to be very specific thing and frankly doesn't give a shit if you like it. If you dont, then you're not their target audience. It's really that simple. Their not catering to everyone, they're catering to a specific group. If they want to charge a certain amount but you know it'll be quality cus it's Nintendo, then what's the harm?

Yes, but you can make the wages claim about EVEYTHING. House, cars, food haven't gone down. Everything else went up. So why is this one luxury exempt?

And yes, because of globalization, a Steam Deck is cheaper than a NES was. That's great! So why are you complaining when prices are objectively better than 1980? Like yeah, we made things better! And even with inflation, they're cheaper!

So why are you complaining about a $20-30 increase when the math says you should have a $60 increase? That's what I'm calling entitlement. We have it objectively better by every metric in video games, including cost, and people are throwing a fit over an increase that's still below inflation.

Exactly, games back then were EXPENSIVE. Currently we live in luxury where you have hundreds of options. How does that not justify it costing more?

Exactly. So then the number of sold units is only $$$ in their eyes, not a reason to be more efficient.

Lmao that's a completely seperate issue between you and your employer. Has nothing to do with the value of the dollar.

Has inflation kept up with wages? No. Have prices gone up anyways? Hell yes. Only thing you can find under $1 anymore is Arizona Tea, and even that isn't a guarantee.

But yes, complain that a luxury item has gone up in cost. You know, something not necessary. So no one needs to make sure "everyone can afford it". The ones who can buy, will buy, and the numbers show overwhelmingly that they do.

All you're literally arguing is that wages should increase. Agreed. It should increase to match the new prices that are inflating as well. Wouldn't change the fact that games cost the same "spending value" as before with the new pricetag.

Yeah, that's a basic supply and demand curve.... Guess what happens when demand is high? There's no reason to lower prices if you have high enough supply(digital copies are infinite). Your argument is completely invalid. If anything, it's proof to them that they CAN charge more and SHOULD.