MolochAlter

Cause that’s not how salaries work?

Salaries grow because people negotiate for better salaries, either through collective action or by being indispensable and getting better offers, not by magic.

The game industry is full of wannabes chomping at the bit to get in, so maybe seniors can hope to haggle for a higher cut or become partners of a studio, everyone else is entirely replaceable, which means their salaries will grow extremely slowly already.

Add to that that the industry selects for financially stable/affluent croney kids by using unpaid internships to filter anyone who would be overly dependent on their salary and basically select for rich “starving” artist types and you have a recipe for a ridiculously strong buyer’s market when it comes to salaries.

Yeah, sales have also gone way up.

They also conveniently forget that trans men exist when trying to argue their point.

1. Most people forget trans men exist. If they get surgery and hormones they almost always pass enough to go completely stealth in day to day interactions, which is sadly rarely true for trans women.
2. Trans men in sports overperform compared to cis women whom they wouldn’t want to compete against in the first place, and underperform against cis men. There is no reason to worry about an unfair advantage by allowing trans men to compete in their preferred category, and men’s categories are often open categories to begin with, so there may not even be a rule against it.

I don’t know if you’re just not a sports person so you don’t follow enough to know, but it’s not a gender issue, it’s a sex issue, and it’s not a debate unless you literally never look at data.

Here are some examples:

100 Metres dash: every one of the last 25 male world records is faster than the current female world record (and thus every previous one), every continental record is higher than its female counterpart.

100 Metres freestyle swimming same for both long course and short course.

The Williams sisters challenged “any male top tennis player outside the top 200” claiming they could beat any of them and number 203 beat both in the same afternoon, after playing golf in trhe morning and drinking alcohol at lunchtime.

This has nothing to do with transgender rights and what trans people choose to identify as or whether they should be allowed to get surgeries or hormones or anything of the sort, sports are segregated by sex, not by gender, and there is no surgery to reverse male puberty.

Male puberty is akin to a years long round of doping, it literally releases testosterone into the body and, while some markers regress upon taking estrogen long enough (bone density and muscle density most of all), some aspects will never regress, like lung capacity and limb length, both of which are massive advantages in most sports.

There are some sports where this division is unnecessary, famously sport shooting records are very close, with women’s records outclassing men’s records more than a few times, if you ask the federations why this separation persists the answer is almost invariably to encourage females to participate as an “open” league rarely sees female participants.

However, in any sport where physical prowess is a factor, the sex separation exists for a reason. It’s not an -ism, it’s an exclusion for the benefit of females to be able to participate in the sport alongside people who don’t have an in-built biological advantage over them.

I have a mole on the top of my head, multi blade razors glide over it, my safety razor is how i found out I had it: sharp pain and suddenly being covered in so much blood I could smell it.

So yeah knoblliness should not be overlooked.

Truly a fate worse than death.

Technofeudalist

1. programming doesn’t mean you have a high IQ, I should know, I’m a pro and I’ve worked with some absolute dullards
2. high IQ doesn’t mean you’re not a dumbass, I should know, i have 123 iq and am a dumbass.
3. free online tests are always bullshit, the only reputable ones are paid
4. how old are you that you’re worrying about this and who put this moronic worry into you?

That’s very neat then, you’d probably get sued anyway cause companies don’t care, but it does make me want to make a game like that and see what happens.

My dude, the world isn’t only about you.

It’s not about you and your inferiority complex, either.

You’re much closer to ending up on the street than you are from any billionaire that exists.

I’m also much closer to the center of the earth than the sun, I’m still quite far from either, and I’m not very worried about being near either anytime soon.

Short of world war 3 or some other world-shaking catastrophe that won’t be my problem alone, I’m pretty sure my biggest worries are my health and not getting hit by a car, rather than sudden bankruptcy, and I don’t live in the US so the former can’t lead to the latter.

Now off to the block list you go, people like you don’t deserve anyone’s attention.

You’re not a plane, you don’t need to announce your departure.

That seems to be wrong at least according to the ESA.

The software itself is copyrighted, the invention is patented, either way the Nemesis system seems to be protected in europe.

Implying I care LMAO

I’m more than economically comfortable, by no means a billionaire but I’m not hurting like, at all. I own my own home, I am set to inherit like 2 more houses, I make good money at a stable job, I have time for my hobbies and a family I love.

I want for nothing that I can’t have, with some patience.

Gaben having a Yacht collection makes no difference to me, Steam existing and Valve doing what they do does, so I am happy to see them thrive.

Not everyone is an envious crab in a bucket who feels the constant need to compare themselves to others and ensure nobody is more well off than they are.

What a sad life you must lead that you get this angry over something that doesn’t affect you in the least, or did Gabe outbid you on your dream yacht?

You realize that the cut they’re taking ends up being used to pay for a yacht collection, right?

God forbid a man spend his money however he wants. Get that commie bullshit out of here.

Money changes hands consensually and Gaben/Valve have more than earned mine. Treating your customers like they are your priority in running a service will do that.

There’s nothing great about Valve at this point

Except their massive contributions to the Open Source/Linux ecosystems with Vulkan and Proton, SteamVR being the only properly supported agnostic VR library, and them basically being the one thing between us and Microsoft becoming a walled garden when it comes to gaming, and more recently the Steam Deck?

If you gotta be a hater, at least be correct.

Anyone who would complain about game design has already stopped buying or caring about Ubisoft products years ago.

You should have capitalized one of the two so they would be case-sensitively different but parse the same, another thing to get used to on linux.

you’ll get to see the difference between a bad and discriminatory democracy and a pure dictatorship soon enough.

The former elected to enfranchise the aforementioned blacks, the latter is deporting people on a hunch, for instance.

Man, the hidden upside of Europe being largely deforested: not enough wood to build houses with.

Only the inner frames are wood here and still covered in plaster wall and such. Most parts of my house are not flammable, let alone a fire hazard.

Depends on where you live, I literally never met a person whose house burned down, but our houses are not mostly wood.

Sounds like he’s done a lot of research and has kept an open mind. He’s also wise in suggesting to go into therapy and see if there may be other causes/co-causes.

Anecdotal, but a friend of mine has ADHD and once she started treatment for that she also lost like 95% of her feelings of dysphoria and decided to postpone transitioning until she could figure her shit out a bit more.

Years later she’s decided she’s fine as she is and saved herself shittons of money and physical suffering with no real drawback.

It’s important not to be emotionally attached to a diagnosis.

You can easily buy 3 10TB HDDs with that money, plenty of redundancy, no need to have someone else do it.