icermiga

joined 1 year ago
[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

The human checkout gives a better service but the shop does not charge me differently for different checkouts. For shoppers, the equation is simple.

[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 19 points 11 months ago

Yeah, just think that while the game awards were congratulating people and social media was abuzz looking back on the gaming year, a lot of the people who actually made those games were already laid off, watching that from the outside, at home. A reminder of something they want forgotten: that employees are not people or even team members, they are "human resources" of the shareholders.

[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

Something was stolen - they were giving out copies of Link's Awakening, not just the enhancements they made but the game and art content of the original game, which is Nintendo's IP so it is piracy (not to dispute the rest of what you're saying necessarily though). Projects normally get around this by releasing the fan enhancements as a patch that can be applied to a ROM, shifting the piracy from the project to the end user.

[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago

The event costs is embezzlement -the donations were taken with a promise they wouldn't be spent on that, and paying for the event means paying for content for his channel, paying to promote his channel, paying to expand his subscriber base, etc.

Compare it to a non-charity event on his channel. He makes content, he takes the money from subscriptions. A "charity event" would then be when he makes content and instead of taking money from subscriptions, he donates it. If the "charity event" is still him making content, and him still taking money from subscriptions, then that's more like a non-charity event. Even if a donation is made with some of the money then the event is still a non-charity event in the sense that he said he was donating the event itself, i.e. not being compensated for it - if he's being compensated for the event then he didn't donate "the event", he was employed for the event.

[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I heard that it's an internet joke that his character asks for donations, in fact what he actually says in-game is something else.

[–] icermiga@lemmy.today 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This video was almost entirely excellent but I was so disappointed to see Karl cross over into being rude and unprofessional in a couple of places. I want micro-documentaries, not youtuber fights.