• @TheEntity@lemmy.world
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    1563 months ago

    When Tim fucking Sweeney calls you out on your bullshit, you know you’re a special kind of piece of shit.

    • @AAA@feddit.org
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      483 months ago

      Not really. Tim Sweeney would sell his grandmother to appear cool / anti-establishment / consumer friendly - while trying everything to establish Epic Store as a monopoly. Once he achieves that, he would lick boots just like the others.

      • @dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com
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        333 months ago

        Totally, he wants to be in complete control but since he isn’t, he’s taking shots at people kissing the ring. Were he in control, he’d kiss the ring and beg for regulations on his competitors and not himself.

  • @WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    1123 months ago

    And he’s 100% right.

    They’re all lining up to kiss Trump’s stinky ass because they expect him to provide them with an unprecedented opportunity to thoroughly and completely fuck us all, and there’s nothing they want more in the world.

  • @Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world
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    413 months ago

    If they’re willing to say and do anything to convince government to advantage large corporations at the expense of workers and consumers I don’t think they’re “pretending” to be republicans.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    323 months ago

    News flash!

    This, just in: “Leaders of capitalist meat grinders prepared to lie to keep money flowing and try to pull in more”

    I’m shocked.

  • Yerbouti
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    283 months ago

    Fascist country, fascist babyllionaires, fascist businesses = fuck GAFAM.

    • Farid
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      133 months ago

      I came here to make this joke, but I would have gone with something like:
      “He’s not that epic of a CEO 🙄”

  • @JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    I reckon we will see the biggest transfer of wealth ever during trumps second term. They are all lining up for the big one. I see them trying to undo Labor laws and deregulate across the board.

    I suspect they will push RTO even harder and try to drive down wages but specifically to screw over software developers currently on decent wages firing the lower paid ones, with CEOs claiming AI can do it while manufacturing the narrative that its the new normal 🙄.

    • @csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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      You’d be surprised to hear that most software devs i talk to think the benefits of ai are overrated. The problem is the bubble keeps growing and growing.

      … also leads to worse for all in the meantime.

      We’re getting it shoved down our throats too. We get asked to use ai to enhance things… that no one wanted fixed with ai.

      • @JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        I added some more words to clarify, I meant the CEOs will claim it is replacing the developers. I’m a dev myself, we know it has its uses and its very obvious limitations.

        Yes they just slap Ai in the marketing and scale up the price.

  • flamingos-cant
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    123 months ago

    He’s 100% right. (Still a douche for what he did to Bandcamp though)

      • flamingos-cant
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        23 months ago

        He bought the company to bolster his lawsuits against Apple and Google, only to fob it off to Songtradr a few years later in the middle of the staff unionising. Songtradr then sacked half the staff (coincidentally all the ones who were part of the union) and still refuse to recognise the union to this day.

    • @tempest@lemmy.ca
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      33 months ago

      No shit right.

      People need to stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They are not moral and simply respond to incentives.

      They earned good will saying black lives matter and now they earn political will by saying trans lives don’t.

    • Zement
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      43 months ago

      I didn’t understand ether. None of the Epic Games were actually Epic…

      • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        103 months ago

        You shut your mouth; Unreal Tournament’99 and 2004 were both legitimately epic in their day!

        Now get off my lawn… *damn kids today*

        • Zement
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          Kids there days would say Fortnite is very Epic… but for me UT2004 was the last game they made that deserved the title Epic/Unreal.

          • @dankm@lemmy.ca
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            23 months ago

            UT2K4 was bloody fantastic. It, and Q3 are two of my absolute all time favourites.

            Everyone who disagrees can either admit they don’t like FPS (which is fine) or get off my lawn.