Does anyone have an alternative for Privacy Relay for a resident of Canada that travels a lot? They’re the only ones that offer phone number masking up here, it saves me from SO MUCH SPAM.

Google voice isn’t an option for my Canadian accounts 😞

Net cafes are already a thing there, but personal gaming at home has always been dominated by the portable market or consoles, partially because Japanese companies are the ones making 2/3 of them, but also because the majority of the “gaming” demographic are younger people who live in small studio apartments in Tokyo, and would opt to have a TV with cable television and consoles in their living rooms.

With streaming becoming a big thing, at home media centres are slowly shifting to personal laptops (especially during the pandemic). I have maybe seen two actual gaming PC towers when I lived there (because again, you can go to a net cafe/PC bang for that), but a lot of the gamers I knew were slowly shifting to modest gaming laptops for their at home setups.

Is it really? I remember Mt.'Hope being more flat, but I’ve only gone to the side with the tennis courts and the soccer field (for anyone that doesn’t know, the University of Rochester and a bunch of it’s facilities are right next to Mt. Hope, a sort of cemetery/public park hybrid).

Everyone should watch Shogun! If your anathema is crappily produced/costumed “high quality” streaming shows, it is the exact opposite. Best production I’ve seen in a long time.

Sorry to be horny on main, but I’m pretty sure Tilda Swinton’s Gabriel jumpstarted puberty for me.

It’s much cheaper for you to buy a disk PS5 and install an M.2SSD yourself (up to 8TB), it’s incredibly easy, and Sony has a page/videos on how to do it yourself.

I’ve seen disk PS5 go on sale as low as $400USD at big box retailers, presumably to make shelf space for the pros. The used marketplace is there as well.

Duly noted. I didn’t like The Lobster, but I liked Killing of the Sacred Deer. Maybe Poor Things can be the tiebreaker.

I’m just relaying what the women around me have said when they suggest I watch it. I myself haven’t actually gotten around to watching it yet (not the biggest Yorgos fan), so I can’t judge.

A lot of women in my life actually do find the movie quite funny. I don’t think it’s a straight forward slapstick comedy, but rather in it’s satire.

SHOW ME THE CHAMPION OF LIIIIIGHT

Come to the ARAM/TFT retirement home, it’s where the chill people are.

Man, I just wanted public tomato throwing back, not the whole medieval punishment arsenal.

I remember finding a Steam community thread about it when I saw it was being implemented for Resident Evil, and the consensus was it was sus as hell. Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: Here, literally first startpage result after their website.

Option 4: It’s modern SqEnix, their executives couldn’t profit from selling popcorn at a movie theatre.

I don’t think many people would claim overall valuation has much of anything to do with the value labor brings to an organization.

Apologies, can you clarify what exactly you mean by this? Because when I say their labour is not being valued, I do extend that to the Wall Street orgs that are doing the evaluations. They look at the “product” on offer, not the people actually working and developing it.

Are you saying because stock prices aren’t steady, we can’t correlate that to salaries?

Brilliant, thanks for this!

I said in a comment on mastodon that I don’t think the batch of newer employees hired at Nvidia are going to have anywhere near the same compensation as the current employees do, and this kind of helps support my suspicions…

Which could lead to a morale problem in the company too (speaking from experience)

Well, they technically will see SOME cents of this because I’m pretty sure Nvidia gives employees stocks too.

But yeah, I also posted this because it’s a clear illustration of how most salaries will never reflect the value your labour brings to an organization.

It’s so interesting that there are comments about how people can mute/block people if they get harassed, but nothing about the people doing the actual unhinged harassment. It seems personal responsibility only should be for the victims of harassment…

On the topic itself, I actually know someone who works at Riot that is working on their “player management” tools, and the amount of data they have driving these is fascinating. The datasets they have are global, and aside from Vanguard, apparently there are certain toxicity trends that are so niche (in the Chinese servers, for example), you have to tune for the other server data sets for it (they weren’t really clear on how this works).

I really wish I could see what the backend of this tech is like, very few games have 10+ years of player and esports data to train their LLM/AI models.

This is why I report the job postings to the website posted, and to my country’s department of labour. I know it seems futile, but I’m petty and I have time.

Turns out, it’s actually helpful, I had someone reach out to me saying they were investigating a certain company, and if I had any more information about the screenshot I sent them a year ago.

Yes, that is indeed my point.