PorciiVorbesc

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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>Starcraft III would be as far from a new IP as you could go while still making an RTS What are existing players missing from Starcraft 2 to justify buying Starcraft 3 so that Blizzard can justify the money to develop it?
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>Or that home ownership is inherently good Home ownership is always better than no home ownership, 3rd world country or first world country. Owning an asset is better than owning nothing. >You ever live in a 3rd world country? Wh
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>Colorado is shipping a regional rail project in the front range. Unfortunately my city doesn't have US/Colorado money. >the district is voting on new sales tax to fund the expansion Won't more sales tax make the al
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>when I was partially responsible for hardware refreshes in a UK public sector organisation with around a thousand endpoint PCs we budgeted something like £600 a box. Same here in EU mainland, at every org I worked we used to get budg
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>Tempest Rising made more in profits than Marathon Choosing the biggest flop as your benchmark is a very poor argument. If you lose half as much money as Marathon, you're technically twice as good, but it's still a flop and i
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>There's quite a few new RTS games coming out And how many copies are they gonna sell? How big is their player base? All important things bean counters want to know before they pony up north of seven figures of investor money into
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by PorciiVorbesc 3d ago
>Repairing a broken PC was a trivial help desk ticket; my PC was restored in an hour or two. Except that even IT would know that a missing 8MB RAM stick is not a defect, it's (petit) theft, since RAM stick have no legs to just wan
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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
Gon on, as in you mean like to explain the obvious? Just google/chatgpt sales of RTS games vs shooters and other shit. Good luck convincing an exec to give you 200 million $ to make a new RTS for the 50 player based market out there wh
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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
The trailer != the game, since there was no gameplay footage.
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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
Couldn't be more wrong. The market for new RTSs is too tiny and saturated to turn a profit on any new IP. The small existing player base is too entrenched to move away from the old established IPs that are still popular to something ne
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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
Great idea, if you want to stay unemployed. How many corpo HR/recruiter types you met that will gladly bypass company policy and switch to the tools demanded by the candidate?
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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
Original Youtube title of the video I got a few hours ago was: "LG’s Manipulative, Gaslighting Response to GN Report" Either they changed it for some legal reason, or Youtube allows for A/B testing of multiple titles for enga
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>If you think him getting money from Jack Dorsey and Michael Dell has no political implications, And the device you type this on is made by which company? Apple? Google? Microsoft? Lenovo? They all involved in politics and lobbying. An
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>For some reason nowadays, that ointment does not exist any more. <tinfoil_hat> big pharma? </tinfoil_hat>
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
Yes, I was never against that. I initially argued/asked where do you get the money to implement it if the city is broke? And until that is solved decades from now maybe, how should people get to work without their cars?
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>Car infrastructure is typically a huge part of the costs of any city. Car drivers, at least in EU where I live, are net cash cows to the local economy with all the taxes they pay on everything car related and second order business th
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
HDMI and Ethernet are comedies at this point, no need to hoard so many. The point is to not throw away the more rare/niche ones since getting one after will be hard and/or expensive.
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>Because they're intelligent, work hard and have strong family ties. So when imported workers are having strong conservative values prioritizing their family over progressive values = good, but when western locals are having stron
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>There's an interesting dynamic with this in that the Chinese and Indian (and other foreign born/first gen immigrant) workers at big tech companies don't care about these things at all. Why do you think the elite busine
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
> the cities could invest in public transportation today Again, with what money? My city is insolvent and every extra money it gets goes to cover the massive financial hole of social programs like elderly care and handicapped people, w
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>Urban centers are significantly more economically productive and significantly less expensive. There's no enough real estate in urban centers.
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>The point is that society's priorities are messed up. People's priorities are putting a roof over their heads and food on the table for the family. Everything else is secondary. > Throwing your hands in the air and takin
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
People are poor because of the economy and gave up on their car loans?
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
YES, unless you wanna build me public transport from your tax money, let's! If you want people to stop fucking the planet with driving, then you need to stop fucking their lives with hellish public transport commutes and improve it til
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by PorciiVorbesc 7d ago
Wouldn't 'America Park' been the correct renaming pun?
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by PorciiVorbesc 7d ago
>I think you're coping, like most car owners, we bought the propaganda of freedom &Co When the bus (in your example) runs on a hourly schedule, while your car is always there when you spontaneously need it, then that freedom
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by PorciiVorbesc 7d ago
>You could always invest in actual public transport & sane infrastructure, rather than relying on clogging the streets up with more cars, autonomous or otherwise So what should the disabled people do until that amazing public trans
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by PorciiVorbesc 9d ago
>The per capita part literally covers the amount of people in an economy. But like I said, it doesn't cover inequality. >Switzerland? High GDP per capita objectively nice place to live. Japan? High GDP per capita, objectively
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by PorciiVorbesc 9d ago
> (German) that is believed to be a "climate extremist" Gonna be tough to narrow that down
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by PorciiVorbesc 9d ago
>there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in Berlin in winter Anyone go to jail for that one?

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