So then why haven’t software developer’s salaries gone up proportionally?

CEO pay has also increased VASTLY, something isn’t quite adding up here. 🤔

Oh absolutely, my heart bleeds for the selfless video game CEOs bravely sacrificing their third yacht to keep game prices only $70. Imagine the hardship of cutting executive bonuses down to just eight figures, all so we can enjoy our digital horse armor without paying $99.99.

These modern saints really are holding the line for the little guy. If only we could all aspire to such noble self-denial.

And in addition to what Zangoose said, your argument ignores the basic principle of technological progress: as industries mature, costs typically decrease, not increase. Economies of scale, automation, and digital distribution should all lower the cost of making and selling a game over time.

A $60 game in 2008 had to be printed on physical discs, boxed, shipped to stores, and supported with traditional advertising. Today, most games are sold digitally, cutting out huge portions of that overhead. Studios also reuse engines, assets, and development pipelines now more than ever.

Sure, inflation is real—but so are productivity gains. If your costs are going up despite all these efficiencies, that’s not just inflation—it’s mismanagement or greed. Consumers don’t owe companies an inflation-adjusted price just because they want to maintain record-breaking profits and raise prices.

And Pokemon games only increase in price over time.

You can search public discord groups.

I honestly forgot about civ 7. Wow what a crazy long month it’s been…

This exactly. Around 2015 is when I really noticed it becoming astroturfed.

Ah yes, the tragic wave of innocent Tesla owners having their daily drivers ritually torched by angry mobs. Definitely a real thing, definitely not just a few dealership lots going up in smoke under extremely convenient circumstances. Definitely not insurance fraud from a company that’s hemorrhaging value and propped up by enough tax subsidies to fund a small nation. Let’s all clutch our pearls and act like someone’s grandma just lost her only ride to church. You good, or do you need a GoFundMe for your imagination?

Everyone acting like it’s okay to throw eggs at billionaires’ yachts because of wealth inequality. Then you should have no argument against rich kids throwing caviar at homeless shelters because they disapprove of being asked to share. Just saying.

Wait nevermind I don’t want to know.

I’m 30 and what is this?

Is ‘Tesla innovation’ slang for copying other’s work and calling it your own? Because even that isn’t exactly original.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Oh yeah, that’s dumb. People suck.

Interesting. Time to speculate on which state actors were threatening her in order to put in a backdoor for them.

Good for them.

You’re probably right, but this feels an awful lot like a ‘violence in video games will lead to violence in real life’ argument.

Just gonna add that it can also be installed directly to any Linux PC or in a docker container. The raspberry pi isn’t necessarily necessary.

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That extreme’s name? Albert Einstein.