p03locke

p03locke, 7 days ago

Yep, it’s rather demoralizing when the side of sanity and critical thought are ranting about getting rid of all firearms, when the other side already has enough firearms to turn a potential civil war into Team America vs. Cavemen Throwing Rocks At Each Other.

Be less like Ghandi and be more like fucking Black Panthers. Or at least support the 2nd Amendment and stop with this pointless bullshit about how we don’t need guns because the city police is totally going to have our backs :rollseyes:

p03locke, 9 days ago

No. That’s called Star Citizen, and it’s a scam at this point.

p03locke, 9 days ago

This is the real answer.

p03locke, 9 days ago

Valve does good not because they don’t have shareholders, but because their leadership is not gonna get fired for thinking about next year instead of next quarter. So they don’t squeeze the consumers for every dime, so people stick with them, and developers stay even though their fee schedule is not the best because they have all the people.

All of that short-term thinking is because of the stock market. All of their shareholders think of, day in and day out, is “line go up”.

p03locke, 7 days ago

The largest stock investors are institutional investors managing funds on behalf of retirement plans. Those investors tend to prefer consistent long term growth over a narrow quarterly growth target, and will actually look at things beyond just stock price, like strategy and long term market prospects.

Based on what evidence? They just make sure the line steadily goes up each quarter, instead of accounting for companies that invest potential profits into longer-term plans. If not, the 401K investor will either drop the stock, or put it in a higher-risk plan.

That sort of thinking is akin to corporate suicide when in a publicly-traded market, so they don’t do it.

A company like Valve isn’t publicly-traded, and they have a limited number of investors they can talk to about their plans. That and they have a reputation of quality products, so even the investors are going to put up with short-term drops in profitability for even more profits.

p03locke, 16 days ago

Just absolutely greedy fucks that think entropy doesn’t exist and everything infinitely scales.

p03locke, 6 days ago

Or… you could… you know, watch the video yourself and be proven wrong.

p03locke, 4 days ago

The way voters protest this sort of issue doesn’t follow logic or reason. People will happily not vote in protest, even if it means somebody far worse will win because of their actions. Cutting off their nose to spite their face.

I think the news needs to shame these kind of voters, instead of pushing this narrative that it’s Biden’s fault. Biden’s views are his own, and yeah, the news should try to highlight and change them. But, voter patterns of using “uncontested” or third-party candidates to sabotage the main electees is actively destroying Democrats’ chances of winning elections.

p03locke, 4 days ago

Does it rhyme with “sex fair”?