Swordgeek @ swordgeek @lemmy.ca

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I don't disagree, but I ...don't entirely agree either.

It's absolutely true that devs are pretty bad at estimating costs, because it's not their job. (And they're usually good at estimating timelines, but bad at insisting on them.)

It's also true that games blow over budgets and deadlines all the time, and yeah I remember when Duke Nukem Forever first became a joke and then a meme.

But consider that DNF was completed by a small handful of devs who ran with an almost-finished game that they knew they could make happen. In contrast, there is no finish line for Star Citizen. There is no path to success. As you say, they can't drop it and be satisfied, so they make more promises and ask for more money. But here's the key: They KNOW they cannot fulfill those promises - existing or future. It's impossible at this point! The only thing they're doing is delaying the inevitable, which would be fine if it was their own time and money; but since they're constantly begging for money from optimistic gamers with promises they have no intention of delivering on, they are grifting. No excuses, no conditions, no "but maybe..." just pure con-artistry at work.

Denny's is now "Denny's Canada, PROUDLY CANADIAN OWNED AND OPERATED."

Fuckers.

The entire board of directors after their political coup. From about 2009 onwards, they restructured to focus on growth growth GROWTH! That was when they started to ramp up Chinese-made products and wind down their own manufacturing, and when they started to sell bikes under their own brand name.

I read it as sarcastic - what the courts are quietly thinking.

Take off that flag you fuckers have draped yourselves in.

MEC is dead, and I will never set foot in one again.

A small number of board members biased the vote to get moreof their friends onto it. The now-majority proceeded to run the co-op like a for-profit business, expanding for growth's sake, and ensuring that if (when) the co-op failed, they'd make out like bandits. They then voted to violate the charter of the company, declare themselves a for- profit corp, and sell to US investors.

Those fuckers didn't even pay out the shares to us owners. They stole the co-op from us.

It's possible that it wasn't a scam to begin with.

But now? Now it's impossible for even the most dewey-eyed dreamer to see it as anything less than a deliberate hustle, perpetrated by amoral grifters.

And they'll continue hiring and expanding, pushing the 'churn' bullshit to keep thrir employees scared.

Asshole company deserves to die.

I support strict gun control laws, and also have my RPAL.

My question is what specific changes do they want, and what specific weakness does it address?

Are there deficiencies in our laws that could be improved, to reduce firearm injuries and deaths? Let's have at 'em!

Are there specifc guns that are too easy to modify to full-auto? Don't need 'em.

But if we're going to start (continue) banning guns only because they look scary, then stop with the performative BS.

Step one: tax the rich.

Tax. The. Rich.

Tax them until we eliminate working poverty. Tax them until we can move away from destroying the environment. Tax them until we eliminate billionaires entirely.

Heirloom furniture from Old Hippy in Edmonton, AB.

So "improved recomendations" means none at all?

Huh. Sounds like Musk got it right for once.

That'd be nice, except that the fringe extremists ARE the party.

This is really to justify to the 'moderate' conservatives why she's pandering to the extremists, and isn't one herself. (Which is a lie.)

Swap Catholic for almost any Abrahamic religion here, and it would still hold true.

This is identical to what my relatives in the Dutch Reform church accept. It's not Catholic dating culture.

They have to choose an interim leader who isn't going to make Poilievre bad by comparison. Scheer is perfect for that role.

I find it interesting that Carra has to mansplain it to us.

"Tearing down historic buildings is unfortunate," says the man who is deeply embedded in the Real Estate industry, has pushed harder than anyone for increased urban density, and was censured for sketchy 'off-the-books' realty deals.

No shit sherlock.

"Nazis protect Nazi interests, as declared by Supreme Nazi."

If you're writing about the Trump administration and not using the word 'Nazi' repeatedly, you're doing it wrong.

We're working on it.

I don't have any great love for Neufeld, but I'm curious about why he's very suddenly leaving mid-contract. Did the city or province lean on him, or is it something else?

Can you imagine?

"We just had 338 team members face a tough challenge. 144 of them, including the boss, failed. You did the VERY BEST out of alk of them, and now we're firing you so the boss doesn't get in trouble."