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If you want a community of people who are absolutely unsavable, just look at AEW: Fight Forever

It’s supposed to be a spiritual successor to WWF No Mercy on N64, built on an entirely lesser version of Def Jam: Fight For NY (probably the greatest fighting game of the past 20 years, for my money) and sold at $70 with basically zero real story mode, literally zero GM mode, and the first DLC with TWO NEW CHARACTERS is out for $12 now

There are like ~50 (yes, fifty) daily users on steam of a game that cost over $20,000,000 to make… and it’s just… So bad.

As a musician… Thanks, I hate it

You’re literally following my posts (after your “hedgie circle jerk” outburst) to find other ways to call me a “hedgie” because I… checks notes… Quoted research on market share and said that anyone who can’t develop for both chip sets doesn’t even deserve money? Like a fairly pro-consumer if not outright leftist position?

I’d report you to get you banned but you’re such a fucking joke, it’s not even worth it.

Heh. There’s a lot of shit I don’t know about. There’s one or two things I do.

The first “job”, the first task I ever had as a professional accountant was to go and bust some super high muckity muck who was violating every rule, every actual law, regarding the use of taxpayer money to get multi-thousand dollar checks for travel reimbursement. It was paying for his literal mansion. Barack Obama was on a first name basis with him, but there’s maybe a half dozen people who are on a first name basis with Barack Obama. It’s two different things.

And of course, much the same way the blockchain people act, his response was “Who the fuck are you? What the fuck do you know? Don’t you know who I am?”

Every accountant, somewhere deep in their heart, wishes they were a half ass lawyer.

I don’t like debating and I don’t like engaging in the marketplace of ideas… But I fucking LOVE going down a line of questioning. If someone outside of an official setting actually entertains me long enough to finish it… I usually don’t miss.

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No idea what a GameStop is

Your insistence that blockchain is the future and use of the Extremely SuperStonk term “hedgie circle jerk” has determined…

THAT IS A LIE

Even the equating of (former) accountants who work 80 hour weeks for $60,000 a year with hedge fund tycoons is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week, thanks, I’ve really been in a sour mood and needed it.

I literally don’t know what this post is even supposed to mean in relation to mine.

One question for you. Be honest.

Are you now, or have you ever been, a holder of GameStop or AMC stock?

Respectfully imma bow out as the global-ledger aspect seems to be confusing people who don’t understand the tech.

Ok. I’m rather disappointed by that, but okay.

If you’d like to come back around and suggest how the blockchain can prevent things like briefcases full of cash, moving money through several offshore subsidiaries, and outright sham transactions, I’m all ears.

“Many such cases” always seems to be the fallback for anyone when they get challenged on blockchain being the future of the entire world and everything on it. You literally just can’t understand it.

I’m going to approach this respectfully and with genuine curiosity.

What’s your background in accounting that you’re so sure about public ledgers? I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in it and was about 3 months away from becoming a fully licensed CPA when I had a heart attack at my desk and was told by my doctors that I had to change everything about my life.

Literally every accountant who I know and respect deeply in this field, from PhDs to CPAs and on down, thinks that blockchain is a joke for business accounting. It can all be gamed even worse with phony transactions and contracts that have no real basis, rather than a genuinely audited financial statement. (That final phrase is a whole other topic for a whole other time… believe that.)

The foundation of blockchain seems to rest on “we can see that it exists, so it must be true.” This is really not much further off from “we told you that it exists, so it must be true”. The idea of auditing is to prove what REALLY happened and what is REALLY true, not just what a piece of paper or a line on a screen says.

“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…”

I like his stuff but when you start a movie like that, you’re kind of setting a tone. It’s tough to say that someone actually meant this or meant that when you’re not in their head but I go back to that evergreen quote, there’s no such thing as an anti war movie.

Unless you show men women and children screaming and crying, human rights abuses, things I won’t even discuss here… It really can’t be anti war. So I feel what you’re saying about Scorsese.

Adam McKay movies all have kind of a formula and it’s a little off putting to me. At least it was a critique.

You want a movie that glorifies all that shit? Wolf of Wall Street, it’s not even close, and it will never be beaten. Scorsese says no, it actually was a critique. Someone else I can’t remember said “there’s no such thing as an anti war movie”.

Big short was quasi-documentary enough that I think it presented a legitimate critique. Wolf of Wall Street had a million people saying “man I wish I got to try quaaludes when they were still around”.

Of course I’d be remiss not to say that Michael Lewis wrote the book, The Big Short. He also wrote Liar’s Poker about the junk bond boom, bust, and fraud in the 80s. I’m sure nobody here will agree with his politics that much, being educated at the London School of Economics and all, but if you want raw, down and dirty reporting about what the finance world is REALLY like… Accept no substitutes.

You reckon they’ll be in the bottom of the ninth by then?

Actual baseball fans are such a dying breed. I’ll go to a minor league game (way more entertaining, cheaper, overall just better btw) once every few years for the same reason I see 90% of the people going - it’s an excuse to day drink and bullshit with your party while once every hour or so you feel 5 seconds of existential terror that you’re about to be killed by a foul ball to the head.

Roller coasters ain’t got shit on sitting by a baseline.

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I’m pretty sure people reprint those - I’ve been seeing an uptick in kind of ironic campaign stickers lately.

I assume the faded and half torn Romney one was real though.

So brace from trueanon is responsible for the rumors of an ebola outbreak at burning man

He also got onto New Tang Dynasty television as tech CEO Racial Jake after attending Shen Yun. Then there’s his epic prank in Syria gone wrong.

I wish I had 1% of this dude’s posting power. Dudes rock.

Not that it’s safe to use Lemmy to organize anything real, but at least I know they aren’t leaking my IP to atomwaffen or those Florida Nazis.

Eh, well, as long as you don’t count literally the very first instance our admins decided to federate with and immediately air out their discord drama with.

I will absolutely figuratively die on the hill that this was a mistake from day one.

Pizza delivery was honestly a great job if you had a shitty old Toyota you could work on yourself, was reliable and got good gas mileage.

Me and the guy who drove the 80s CR-X were crushing it. Literal shoeboxes full of cash, untaxed and untracable. Sushi comped. Whatever the fuck we wanted to do on our days off. The people with car payments on a new Chevy that needed a new transmission at 60,000 miles, or the people who god forbid drove actual TRUCKS all over the city to deliver a pizza… not so good. They were miserable and for good reason. The tires alone - which you will be going through - cost EASILY 4x as much on any newer car than some old hatchback on 14s. If you don’t change your own oil, well first of all this job probably isn’t for you, but it’ll cost you easily an extra $30-40 a month for the increased oil capacity of a larger engine.

I reckon I spent an easy $10 a day on gas, making 40mpg. You double or triple that, you’re talking up to $900 a month on gas… It gets out of hand super quickly. High MPG is probably your #1 key to success or failure in driving for a living.

I think 90% of the Lyft/Uber trap is that you basically have to have a $10,000+ car (probably $15,000+ these days) to even get in on it. Destroying THAT car is a lot different from some old shitbox that’s maybe worth $1,500, and if it comes down to it you can get a new engine or a transmission for that much anyway.

If my fat ass can get around with no car, no bike, a broken foot, and completely refrain from using these apps… Unless you are completely bedridden, I’m sure you can reduce your use of them by at least 90% too.

Or order pizza or Chinese from a restaurant like a normal person.

It’s like people saying “I literally can’t live my life without Amazon.” Yes the fuck you can. The first time I’ve used Amazon in three years was to get the medical brace for my leg because it was the only place that could get it to me overnight, and I live in a major city. I -actually- didn’t have any other options, and it was an -actual- emergency.

Harden the fuck up a little bit. There’s no ethical consumption… but do you have to pick the worst form, every time?

yes, I am anybody else and it happens every time

My solution right now to that is opening tabs in groups when I want to view threads, but that’s not really my problem with the site lately…

We were around for 3 years before you brains threw a shitfit about your precious apps being taken away

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) shows that AMD gained overall GPU market share in Q2 2023, while rivals Intel and NVIDIA declined. AMD’s GPU share increased 1.2% year-over-year to 26.9% in Q2.

So it sucks for 3/4 of people lol. AMD is big enough that anyone who can’t be bothered to make both run well should be blocked from all the marketplaces and starved for money. They clearly don’t deserve it.