Very interesting article. Prabhakar Raghavan’s basically Ted Faro.

I actually have an engineering friend who did this and he did it in 2 years. Dude had no life, but he put a full down payment on a 750k house in two years. So I guess technical jobs just pay well enough

Lol. I’ve seen a video in China of something like this. It’s a public restroom that requires you to watch an ad accessed by QR code in order to get toilet paper. The future!

That’s no excuse. Scummy practices are scummy

No, rising prices of menu items increases tips as a proportion. If menu prices stayed the same and you want larger tip %, then sure. But not both. That’s just greedy

Some cities require minimum wage paid toward service employees. This is about $20/hour before tips. They don’t lower their tip expectations because, as you might expect, greed is a thing. You will get treated worse if you don’t tip

I mean, the city I live in requires at least minimum wage paid to service staff. It’s like $20/hour. They’re not going to decrease their tipping expectations because you know, greed is a thing

What does covering more employees over the same period mean? I don’t follow. Also, you’re assuming that customers’ salaries increased with COL and inflation. They haven’t. These policies just squeeze value out of customers. Of course they’re offended

At what point did this minimum change from 10 to 15 to 18 and now 20? Restaurants increase the cost of food items and your tip is a proportion of that. Why would the cost of food increase AND the proportion of tip also increase? That’s double dipping and yeah, people should be pissed about it

Mmm… Sure. I think it’s morally correct for yourself. But the copyright people? They’ll argue all day that you shouldn’t be allowed to pirate it even after ownership. You need to buy the same movie on, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, purple-ray, AND omni-ray when it comes out. After all, there’s money to be made.

triple A studio with 8 years to work getting B-? That’s not expected. If it were the expectation, CDPR stock wouldn’t have dropped half its value after release. It’s currently sitting at 1/6 of all time high (before cb2077’s release). Nobody agrees with you, buddy. Either something’s in your water or you were dropped as a baby as hard as CDPR dropped cb2077.

is it really unrealistic that police spawns in a reasonable way and not…anywhere out of your line of sight? Your expectations have to be shit-tier low for that to be acceptable. Also, no. I finished the game on release on PC. It was a B- experience at best. The shortcuts they took were so obvious you’d have to be retarded to not see them. Maybe you just don’t think about these things and your expectations are so low, you can be fed shit and still tell people it’s fine. It’s okay if that’s you, just don’t tell anyone else your opinion’s worth reading.

How do you play through cyberpunk and never spawn the cops by doing a 180? It’s like you didn’t even play the game. But whatever. You’re the bottom 1% when it comes to expectations. Literally eating shit and can’t taste the waste. But blaming others? There’s no wrong in blaming CDPR for cb2077’s release. They fucked up and every metric agrees with that. You’d be a fool to argue otherwise.

Sure, if your expectation was for a shortened, shittier game due to a rushed development cycle, even compared to contemporaries at the time. Most people don’t expect a shotty product. I mean, I don’t even know how you can excuse the low effort police spawns around you. That’s not even hype… That’s clearly low effort, unexcused disappointment.

You can add blizzard to that list. That merger practically killed the studio anyway

You got amnesia or something? That game at release was a buggy, incomplete mess. Features originally promised and advertised were just missing. To this day, some of those features are still missing. Did you play through act 1 and somehow thought that a cutscene summarizing your growth with Jackie was the intended experience? The whole game reeked of rushed release. Hell, they still have an empty spot in the hills where the casino’s supposed to be.

If you’ve never operated or owned a restaurant before, it’s because the top 3 expenses in a restaurant are: food, labor, and paper. Controlling paper usage helps control costs significantly. That’s why.

Maybe what we miss is battle.net. It was essentially an endless games playstore and you didn’t need to pay for any game modes. It was gamer paradise and we didn’t even recognize it back then. We live in a gaming dystopia now

Yeah, broken support needs to be illegal. You can’t even do a credit card charge back sometimes because you’ve had an item too long.

I get this kind of shit dealing with LG and Samsung support too. It’s like customer experience doesn’t matter in this day and age. They’ve cornered the market