Reagan did it in 1981 and it didn’t cause a collapse. 11000 air traffic controllers went on strike and Reagan fired all of them. This is arguably what started the decline of unions in the US.
It was fucked up then, and it would be even more fucked up now, but in reality the industry would move on pretty quickly. Hopefully the people would rise up in response, but I’m not holding my breath.
It makes it more likely Mamdani will win. Nobody’s debating whether to vote Mamdani or Adams. He’s only splitting the vote that would otherwise go to Cuomo.
Make it P2P or player-hosted and then you don’t need to pay for server costs.
It’s not a AAA GaaS, there’s no real reason for them to host the games.
I don’t get it, the year on the calendar keeps getting bigger, and I can’t figure out why.
Some of us are already in depression territory.
I think it causes more ills than it could ever cure.
What’s weird is they offer preorder bonuses, but no preorders available 2 days before launch.
I mean I think preordering is dumb anyway, but this is even dumber.
I haven’t bought on Amazon in 6 years. When marketplace vendors from other sites ship Amazon packages to me, I usually report them. I’ve had two of the marketplaces reply that they had no policy against this, and I let them know that I will choose to shop elsewhere from now on.
It really hasn’t been very much trouble to avoid buying from Amazon. There’s no shortage of online shops, and Amazon’s prices aren’t always lower like they used to be.
Sort of like how people view the Soviet Union.
I’ve never met anyone personally who speaks fondly of their time in the USSR. Tankies online who are too young to have lived through it are the only ones.
Paper ballots are also easier to falsify, with all the videos of box stuffing in corrupt countries.
That said, Canada uses paper ballots and hand counting, and I’m not aware of any accusations of election fraud related to that ever happening.
TBF, at the time, 800x600 was a pretty standard resolution. For gaming on a low-end PC, you might go down to 640x480 to get a better framerate, which wouldn’t look too bad on a CRT.