I know they are doing very well, trust me, I’ve seen the inside of the beast. It’s not Microsoft either, any megacorp will talk to you in terms of how much they lost by not fully monopolising a market segment.

And that is my point, not that they don’t make insane amounts of money, but that it will never be enough.

Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.

That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.

Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

The world is not enough for these companies.

Even if you rawdog the internet with no ad blocker. Actually, especially if you do that.

Yeah the solution there is spiral roundabouts with hard barriers at critical points.

Viornzirgizuetunkuszt

If anything that sounds more Hungarian than German, with the lack of diphtongs and the “sz” at the end, but funny thing, Hungarian does the same thing as German with compound words, except it makes it even worse with turning prepositions into suffixes.

For example:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

meaning

Examination for the treatability of the manifestation of the syndrome of neurosis caused by the compulsion of breaking the world record of the most heavily compunded word.

Technically this isn’t correct, as you should put a hyphen in there somewhere between the two main parts to improve readability if it’s more than 6 syllables. Good luck finding the “two main parts” though. Maybe:

legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszer-neurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálat

But you can also go crazy with suffixes, the often cited example is megszentségteleníthetetlenkedéseitekért, which is not at all a compound word, it means “for your acts of repeated demonstration of your beliefs that you are unable to be made unholy” (with a plural you).

And finally, you can just do an infinite loop to construct arbitrarily long words using suffixes, like this:

úszik - swims
úsztat - makes someone or something swim
úsztattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg swim
úsztattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim
…
úsztattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattattat - makes sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg … make sy/sg make sy/sg make sy/sg swim

Which is ironic as Blitzkrieg itself is a rebrand of Schwerpunktschlacht IIRC

You should read up on the EU then, I think you’d like it here.

• Much less centralised than the US, member states have broader rights up to and including secession
• This indeed makes the EU less corrupt, as it is indeed harder to bribe politicians as there are more of them, see EU vs Big Tech
• The EU also has a Human Rights Charter, except it is even more unalienable than the US Constitution as it extends to non-citizens and there are courts independent from the EU who actively enforce it

It is far from perfect, but it works much better than anything else this size.

Who the hell uses social media while at work that’s limited to your work I wonder.

They are more alike than they are different to normal people.

You can take trees and replant them in the city, you don’t have to grow it there. There are tree farms.

LinkedIn - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L
Word - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + W
Excel - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + X
PowerPoint - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + P
Outlook - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + O
Microsoft Teams - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + T
OneDrive - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + D
OneNote - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + N
Yammer - CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + Y

I’m not saying that the 40s-60s was the best time to live in the US, I’m saying that the other way around, in the 40s-60s the US was the best place to live in.

So yeah, for example Asian women might have had real problems, even get put into internment camps in the US, but at least they weren’t mass raped like on the Eastern European or Asian fronts.

So that’s a load bearing comparatively.

I mean there were major race riots in the 90s.

I think it’s more like there were places in the US where it was fine for some people, and those bubbles are getting cracked by the constant Trump bullshit.

Maybe between the 40s and the 60s the US was the best place to be comparatively, but that was mostly because we managed to burn and bomb literally everything else.

It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

They let people EDIT THEIR CHARACTERS in the CHARACTER EDITOR!

So does air, or the thing you’re sitting on.

I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.

Depends on where you are from, but the sort of thinking that gets people into religion gets people into misogyny even without religion in my experience.

The point is that they shipped an update that was mostly pointless, or even completely pointless on PC, that basically blocked the release of a huge scale very anticipated mod days before the release date.

The argument is that they like profiting off their mod creators, but they try to squeeze the community for more money every time they can, like with the paid mods nonsense, and also don’t give a shit about them.

Someone was telling me about a series about a similar premise, which ended with the US military bombing Hell with all the civilians in it, out of essentially religious fanaticism.

Feels more fitting.