tiredofsametab

You have to file federal taxes. Maybe state taxes. You don’t necessarily have to pay depending upon how much (in USD) you make. Things also depend upon per-country tax treaties. The shitty part, at least for me, is that I can’t use the ISA and similar programs here in Japan for retirement because the US considers them all passive foreign investments (PFICs) which require copious paperwork and punitive taxes wiping out any tax-advantaged retirement savings. Also can’t just invest non-taxed income in many things in the US either.

Voting being at the state level also just fucks all kinds of other things up with taxes and the like.

We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.

There are already people who think NewsMax and their ilk are now correct and fox is wrong, so it may just be shifting.

Admin is out of their area due to work and the firewall server or something died completely preventing them from remotely accessing anything to bring it back up and also preventing using their backup (per a post I read a few hours ago).

Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.

I don’t daily drive linux at home because of the video editing software I need to use (Davinci black magic) not reliably working and often breaking on upgrades. Secondarily, some games won’t run. If I’m afraid to upgrade to not break things, that puts my security at risk which is not an acceptable situation.

Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.

Counterpoint for the general case: games also have a much larger playerbase these days and manufacturing of cartridges and components can be done at much greater economies of scale. In many cases, there is no physical media manufacturing cost to a lot of the sales.

For the specific point: Gearbox/Take2 have lost all faith from me so, while I don’t generally mind some games being in that price range, there’s zero chance pitchford and his ilk are getting that from me.

Just go to the normal human arcade with all the other totally real, normal humans.

Wait 'til the pigeon pope hears about this; pope wars, all over again.

/ very poopy pope wars.

literally ruin part of society

Not being able to steal something someone put a ton of time and/or money into for a couple of years without compensating them at all is ruining society… how exactly?

open source doesn’t pay my mortgage, pay back any business loans, put food on my table, etc. as the sole breadwinner in my family.

To be clear, I have contributed in a minor degree to open source and build things for fun; this is specifically about why copyright exists in certain domains. I also think it should be something more like 3-5 years max. I am a software engineer and used to work in the games industry for a number of years (though not anymore).

If I spend millions of my own money and hundreds or thousands of hours of my own time to build something, another company should not just be able to yoink that, put a coat of paint on it, and leave me with nothing to show if theirs just happens to get more popular or be advertised a little better. I don’t think the current laws are good but, absent basic income and such for everyone, I see why something should exist.

I’ve seen no evidence of this. People are clamoring for the switch 2 and talking about all they want to buy. Fuck Nintendo, but people keep giving them money so they’re going to keep doing anti-consumer shit with no sign of any government stopping them. The government isn’t going to attack one of the most beloved companies in Japan whose mascot they used at their olympics. A lot of Japanese are event against things like free, labour-of-love randomizers made for old games. People need to stop buying their shit globally if they want anything to happen.

That’s how it’s been used at the two companies I’ve worked for that use slack.

Not particularly, but I’ve played maybe 40 minutes of pokemon in my life total so my opinion probably shouldn’t count.

More zelda like aLttP, though…

As someone who owns a Kawasaki motorcycle and has been very pleased with their sales and service staff: won’t touch that thing. I don’t even know how/where one would refuel the thing; I’ve not seen hydrogen Stations anywhere here in japanJapan so far despite various automakers talking about it.

I borrowed one (I can’t even tell you what the make/model was) in the early 2000s. The pics were OK, but the thing took forever to save; there was no quick shooting by pressing the button again.

Not just unionizing, but getting legislation put forward and passed that protects workers’ rights.

In Japan, the barrier to firing workers is much higher than in many other places. Even layoffs for financial reasons are tough and can be challenged. This is one reason companies sit on hordes of cash here is to weather financial issues, but it also has negative economic impacts as well. That said, Nintendo are a bunch of greedy cunts IMO, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don’t get a cut).