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I bet he has a Steve Ballmer like thinking “Linux is cancer” and cannot think beyond his preconceptions.

Im starting to believe the big triple A game industry is starting to collapse, not the gaming industry it self, but the big companies that make generic after generic blockbuster kind of games.

I’m not that hopeful, casual gamers keep buying the same low effort games like Fifa, NBA, Pokemon every year even though they got enshitified 10 years ago. The opinion of game-educated and demanding people that represent a minority of their market will not change those game companies. It’s like asking fat food chains to get into Michelin ranking, they don’t care. All we can do is allow good quality independent game makers to exist by giving our money to them instead of the fast food games companies.

Depends for whom, it’s probably worth for the owner who just want an exit with money and that’s why it happens. Not many people have strong enough values to think about the welfare of their customers before their personal comfort.

That’s nice. How does it work if you have a transportation subscription, like paying once a month?

You can use your phone or other smart devices as transport card, but it uses a specific wireless tech that is not included in western phones as far as I know.

In which other country can you use the same transportation card in so many different cities, as well as a mean of payment in shops? Also, you can pay your bills online too nowadays.

Outdoors equipment most famously winter coats. They are famous for environmental policy and treating their employees very well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougsundheim/2023/12/12/how-patagonia-became-the-most-reputable-brand-in-the-united-states/?sh=7f50e1ef1473

Yes, if you intend to buy some, let’s buy from the companies which have some values and respect their customers so they are successful and more companies may get inspired, instead of from the other ones. See also Patagonia and Fairphone for other rare examples.

I’m just saying that you can live in Japan and avoid this work culture.

Japanese work culture honestly sucks, I would never want to.live in Japan because of this.

You can find Western companies and semi-westernized Japanese companies where the work culture is better.

Didn’t FB use some shady practice to make their users fall into Threads without noticing?

Web UI works great for me except for the few already reported bugs that are not experience breaking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterprises / businesses

Valve seems to be the only company on this capitalist world that actually understands that company profits cannot and should not grow exponentially forever without eventually destroying itself.

Nah, they are many of them, maybe even the majority of companies are like that (think SMBs). The peculiarity of Valve is that it also managed to become and stay the world leader in its domain, so every nerd knows about it.

in the last decade we’ve started to see games really take shape as cinematic masterpieces. Experiences that truly top movies.

Metal Gear Solid is from 1998

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The pilot crashed on the field because the helicopter was misfunctioning, and it risked falling on a primary school.