Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.

People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.

been trying to lower my social presence on services as of late, may go inactive randomly as a result.

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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Some people are here because they don’t want to be on reddit, either due to issues with the platform or otherwise. But that doesn’t mean the content posted is bad, nor does it mean that it shouldn’t be shared. By that logic any external links or content shouldn’t be allowed on lemmy either. At the end of the day, lemmy is a federated link aggregator. That is it’s purpose to allow for aggregation of content. You can take that entire argument and apply any other external website and it would be equally valid

    Even moreso with this community to be honest, where most content is opinionated, its hard to argue that someones opinion isn’t valid, so if they share the same opinion? I don’t see why that is a bad thing to share it.






  • Yea, I intentionally restricted my post to the base tiers as gamepass has a similar schema since they both show similar featuresets at higher tiers.

    I made a basic breakdown:

    1. Basic
      • ps essentials: 11$/m
        • multiplayer
        • shareplay
        • save backups
        • discounts on store
        • monthly games selection valid for duration of subscription
      • gamepass essential: 10$/m
        • multiplayer
        • free game catalog: 123 [81 of which supported on Windows as well]
        • cloud gaming: 87
        • in game benefits in select first party games
        • rewards program
    2. Mid Tier
      • PS Extra: 15$/m
        • previous tier
        • free game catalog: 409
        • ubisoft classics program: 59
      • Gamepass Premium: 15$/m
        • previous tier
        • free game catalog: 572 [395 of which is supported on windows]
        • cloud gaming: 412
        • First party games promised to be on game catalog within 1 year of release (Call of Duty Excluded)
        • semi-priority cloud play queue
        • 2x reward points
    3. Best Tier
      • PS Premium: 18$/m
        • previous tier
        • classics catalog: 163
        • game trial catalog: 260
        • sony pictures catalog (a movie/media streaming service)
        • cloud streaming
      • Gamepass Ultimate: 23$/m
        • previous tier
        • free game catalog: 909 [587 of which are supported on windows]
        • cloud gaming: 555
        • day 1 first party releases on free game catalog (Call of Duty excluded)
        • Free EA Play: 182 games + select DLC
        • ubisoft classics: 120
        • fortnite crew
        • priority cloud gaming
        • 4x reward points

    This was just a somewhat quick list of info found online when comparing the two. I can see each tier being useful to someone, but I personally find that Sonys offerings for PS+ don’t stack to Gamepass, and that’s from someone who has been loyal sony fan since the PS1.


  • how worked up am I supposed to get about executive payouts

    I think this is the wrong mentality looking at it. Regardless of payout (which I do agree should be going to employees as well which according to most sources do seem to agree that at least some will be going to the employees as well), imagine the precedent this would imply:

    Larger companies being allowed to “agree” to terms as part of an acquisition, and then once they have control over it just decide “yea you know what I don’t need to pay this” and then not doing so. That was my main issue regarding this. The concept of a company agreeing to terms in order to acquire a company. Then deciding after the fact that since they regretted their decision that they just shouldn’t need to uphold their end of the legally binding deal put a massive sour taste in my mouth.

    Honestly I would have been just as satisfied with a ruling stating that unknown world’s acquisition was invalid due to the EPA breakage and therefore is now its own independent studio again, but has to refund the 500m (minus whatever amount the court decides to use as compensation/retribution that Krafton had paid for the acquisition, and completely throw the 250m bonus out the window.


  • With every one of these price increases, my chances of subscribing to PS plus drops lower and lower.

    They don’t even give a competitive service when compared to Xbox… Like don’t get me wrong I think Gamepass is a scam as well but it’s less of a scam than PS plus… 11$/m vs gamepasses 10$/m and gamepass gives a handful of games, cloud backups, cloud gaming and multiplayer… PS plus just gives multiplayer and save backups and a couple free games a month that require ongoing subscription to play.







  • Not just meth heads. If you live in a really populated area, Walmart is actually super picky.

    Their HR departments are basically brainless. The computer makes all the choices

    when you apply to Walmart you drop into a 3 colored queue, red yellow/orange green

    • green: worked their before no issue
    • yellow/orange: no job experience or left in bad terms not violently or a way that harmed the company
    • red: you stole something or you had massive red flags when they searched you

    They’re heavily pushed towards hiring greens, and if forced to, they’ll hire yellows, and they’re not allowed to hire reds outside of excruciating circumstances.

    I had a friend who had no criminal record whatsoever, but due to someone being disabled and needing care in their household, they had never really held a job into their late 20’s, The Walmart that was closest to her house wouldn’t touch her with a ten-foot pole after repeated attempts, but that was in a massively populated area. However, the one that was in her old town, which was significantly lower population, called first try (but sadly that was an accidental application didn’t notice the town defaulted back)