fracking clankers.

Why do you think that?

Because corporate greed > all?

The reason is simple. Inflation.

The NES originally sold for $180 USD in 1985, which is worth $530 today. The SNES, circa 1991, was $199 USD or $459 today.

Fast forward a bunch…

The switch 2 is currently priced at $449 USD.

The literal price has gone up, but the cost is going down. Slightly, but still.

I’m sure I could repeat the same experiment for PlayStation, Xbox, or Sega’s consoles and see similar results.

Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to “PC pricing” than I would expect from Sony if they’re subsidizing the cost with future game sales.

I’d kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.

Yeah… That’s just unnecessary to put a dog at risk like that, whether service or otherwise.

Also, don’t work in a lab by yourself. Have a buddy, even if all they do is sit in a corner and scroll on their phone. Have someone there in case something happens.

In the best case, you’ve maybe wasted some of their time. In the worst case, at least you’ll have company in quarantine.

Successful middle management is just professional blame passing.

When workers complain, the messages are filed in the round “very important” bin 🗑️

When management complains about the workers, you pass that feedback along to the peons who are actually making money for the company.

Workers come to you trying to blame you for policy, oh, it’s not me, it’s the management … Management tries to blame you for work not being finished… It’s not me, it’s the lazy employees!

They’re glorified mouthpieces for the management that only serves to insulate them against whatever it is that you think is important enough to complain about.

Well, I meant it as a joke, but if you insist.

You always have to complete your work. Anything less will result in unemployment.

But the employment contract probably doesn’t say how fast you need to complete your work.

If you’re done early, take a break and scroll on your phone for a couple hours, then send in your completed work at the end of the day. No need to tell anyone you’re finished, just go about your day looking busy.

Oh. So you’ve become the enemy.

It’s nice that you outed yourself like that.

There used to be loyalty in business. Then they realized what a mistake that was.

You owe your employer nothing more than what’s legally agreed upon in your employment contract.

If they ask for more, your response without hesitation should be “fuck you, pay me”.

Don’t do anything for these fucks, for free.

This. Right here.

It generally doesn’t pay any better than just scraping by with minimum effort.

Also, it really does pay to be a hard worker, it’s just someone else that is getting paid for your hard work.

I can’t afford that either.

No. But it generally keeps the lights on, and I like lights.

Oh yeah! I can do this!

… I mean, I’ll probably bounce a bill payment if I do, but I can do this!

Woo! Adulting!

That’s fair.

Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.

When I was a kid, first using computers in the mid 1980s, blue LEDs were considered to be impossible to make.

So my basic bitch IBM clone only had red indicator lights.

The implication is that people who grew up with newer technology had stuff that was fancier than the stuff older generations had, which is objectively true.

I’m sorry that you didn’t get the joke, and I’m sorry that I had to explain it to you.

Good luck with life, seems like you’ll need it.

Blue?

Look at Mr fancy pants over here with blue power indicators on their childhood computer.

Most of us made due with red, or if you were lucky, green.

I don’t think I’ve seen these words assorted in this order before.