Should we also have a ban on all sports memorabilia then? It’s a gamble for me to go to my local team and have the players sign things and then at some point in the future it could be worth a ton of money?

Would this conversation be any different if they sold the cards for what they think the expected value is? Then you’d have people complaining about how they’re charging hundreds for a card and that’s not fair because little Timmy can’t afford it.

Edit: those tumblers that people drink out of have “rarer” colors and designs, better ban those two because of gambling.

So the issue isn’t the loot boxes and gambling to get items, it’s the resale? That’s a different issue.

Also it’s not “cash”, you can only spend that money back into steam.

So those cards have been around forever, and no one complained about them.

People care about these loot boxes because it’s easy for a young kid to get their parents credit card and rack up a ton of charges because they see a cool skin and don’t realize that ultra rare or 1/1000 chance to drop means that they won’t get t without spending a ton of money.

By definition gambling can be defined as playing games of chance for money. Well they aren’t going to win money, their reward is a collectable item.

Or to take risky action in hope of desired result. I don’t really see how this fits that definition either. There’s no risky action.

I would prefer if there were no loot boxes because I’d rather know what I’m getting, but people are focusing on the wrong thing here.

No one buys baseball cards for the informational side of it. They buy them as a collectors item. The same as these skins. The only difference is that one is digital and one is physical.

Sports cards have been around for ages and no one gave a shit. People care about the loot boxes in games because it’s easy for a kid to get their parents credit card and rack up a ton of charges.

How are these cases any different from any trading card that you can go to the store and buy packs of? Are those also unregulated gambling?

Just look whenever you have the time. If you have to take a call or an interview during your work hours, just say you have an appointment. You don’t need to give any more information than that.

If you work in office, try to schedule things during your lunch.

You can make espresso with decaf coffee beans.

I wonder if they make their coffee more like an Americano, so you do a shot (or two, or three) or espresso and then add some hot water. This takes the traditional espresso shot, which is more concentrated, and changes it to a more drip/filter style taste.

😭 Sad to see it end, but I think it’s time. The last few seasons just didn’t measure up to me. I still watched them, but there was just something off.

Loving Shorsey though. Joked with my buddy that we should get a skids spinoff. More Gae and maybe Devon 😂. There’s so many other storylines to explore.

Thanks for the great seasons, hoping it goes out with a bang!

So laws only apply if they affect people or companies you care about? Interesting.

It seems like people aren’t reading the article and just downvoting.

So here’s another snippet from the article which shows you the kid needs serious help:

Kurtaj leaked 90 videos of GTA VI gameplay footage last September while out on bail for hacking Nvidia and British telecom provider BT / EE. Although he stayed at a hotel under police protection during this time, Kurtaj still managed to carry out an attack on Rockstar Games by using the room’s included Amazon Fire Stick and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse,” according to a separate BBC report. Kurtaj was arrested for the final time following the incident.

Like come on man, how many chances is enough? If there’s no real consequences for people’s actions, they just do whatever they please. Actions have consequences.

This is literally the first case I see in the results: https://www.microcenter.com/product/504427/thermaltake-versa-h17-microatx-mini-tower-computer-case-black

Transactions are the safe way of doing it.

You can also return * to see the changes, or add specific fields.

Like for example:

Begin; Update users Set first_name=‘John’ Where first_name=‘john’ Returning *;

Then your Rollback; Or Commit;

So you’d see all rows you just updated. You can get fancy and do a self join and see the original and updated data if you want. I like to run an identifying query first, so I know hey I should see 87 rows updated or whatever.

Haven’t had any issues with table locks with this, but we use Postgres. YMMV.

I don’t understand. What do you expect out of a company that distributes nationally? The US has a population of 330+ million. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

So it sounds like we have the root cause of the issue: customer connects a new app to the DB and didn’t tell you.

This seems like the problem you need to solve.

There may be some technical solution there. But you could also suggest a change to the contracts (which would be very difficult to push through). We provide support for connections to the DB from XYZ app. If you make changes to what’s writing to the DB, a consultation with our team is required to ensure sizing is correct

The issue here is that this would make life harder for c levels and sales because it doesn’t allow clients to walk all over support.

Yeah this sounds like more of an issue with how the company interacted with the clients and the expectations that are set.

My comment also isn’t helpful, just saying the situation sucks when you’re the employee dealing with the situation.

In my view, from some years in customer service and tech, you either need to develop a more robust system to prevent this behavior, or start slapping clients on the wrist for this behavior. Otherwise they will continue to walk all over your company. The c-levels don’t care because the customer is happy because shit gets done and they get paid. However, if a client runs into an issue due to their negligence and you’re not there immediately to fix it they either learn to prevent the issues themselves or switch to another service.

There are points where you may need to grin and bear it, but it’s not sustainable as you mentioned.

My favorite issue that’s been happening far too frequently is my company takes on a new client or a new request from an existing client without confirming that the software can do the request. And then right before their deadline (1-2 days typically) they go “oh this value isn’t what we expected” or “can we provide X to the client”.

We sure can fix that, but it won’t magically happen in your expedited timeframe. Failure to plan on your end does not constitute an emergency on my end.

How so? The lawyers at Meta are actually good at their job, they are doing what lawyers should do when they have more money than the opposition. Just like the managers are doing what they should do when they want something and can burn cash to get it.

Yeah, I’d actually argue it’s the opposite. Meta knows exactly what it’s doing, it just sucks for the little guy.

Meta will just drag this out in the courts until the little guy can’t afford to keep going and then they settle.

Escalator*

I don’t necessarily know if people think it’s controversial. I think people might be annoyed that they are empty words based on what was said to Russia prior to their Ukraine invasion: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-emmanuel-macron-europe-moscow-1f353699f0be1609da5435c98cfc8022

Hey no issues here, happy to learn about new things.

I never watched The X-Files but with winter coming up it’s always nice to have some new (to me) shows to watch.

A spinoff would be the way to go if you want to extend a series. I’m not quite sure who you could do that for in Archer. I was thinking like Better Call Saul (a fourth show has entered the discussion). I think that was really well done but I’m not sure a similar thing could be done for Archer and be as successful.

I hope you enjoy your rewatch of The X-Files!