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[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 158 points 5 days ago

When Tim fucking Sweeney calls you out on your bullshit, you know you're a special kind of piece of shit.

[-] AAA@feddit.org 50 points 5 days ago

Not really. Tim Sweeney would sell his grandmother to appear cool / anti-establishment / consumer friendly - while trying everything to establish Epic Store as a monopoly. Once he achieves that, he would lick boots just like the others.

[-] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 35 points 5 days ago

Totally, he wants to be in complete control but since he isn’t, he’s taking shots at people kissing the ring. Were he in control, he’d kiss the ring and beg for regulations on his competitors and not himself.

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 115 points 5 days ago

And he's 100% right.

They're all lining up to kiss Trump's stinky ass because they expect him to provide them with an unprecedented opportunity to thoroughly and completely fuck us all, and there's nothing they want more in the world.

[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

They are disgusted by Trump but also love what he can do for their wallet. It’s all about money.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 100 points 5 days ago

He's an opportunistic jackass, but he's not wrong.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago

When the worst person you know made a good point.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[-] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago

If they’re willing to say and do anything to convince government to advantage large corporations at the expense of workers and consumers I don’t think they’re “pretending” to be republicans.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 33 points 5 days ago

News flash!

This, just in: "Leaders of capitalist meat grinders prepared to lie to keep money flowing and try to pull in more"

I'm shocked.

It's funny because the majority of voters thought voting for meat grinders means they'll get the meat, not be the meat.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 days ago

Fascist country, fascist babyllionaires, fascist businesses = fuck GAFAM.

[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

No shit? Companies will kowtow to curry favor and increase their profits every single time.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 9 points 4 days ago

When are people going to realize that billionaires have no moral code and no ethics. The only thing they want is more money and they will do literally anything to get it, even if they destroy the world.

[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 22 points 5 days ago

I don't get it, what's so "Epic" about this CEO?

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago

I came here to make this joke, but I would have gone with something like:
"He's not that epic of a CEO 🙄"

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 23 points 5 days ago

Not who I expected would be saying it loud, but I'll take it.

[-] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's not pretending if that's what you want. It's just what you are.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I reckon we will see the biggest transfer of wealth ever during trumps second term. They are all lining up for the big one. I see them trying to undo Labor laws and deregulate across the board.

I suspect they will push RTO even harder and try to drive down wages but specifically to screw over software developers currently on decent wages firing the lower paid ones, with CEOs claiming AI can do it while manufacturing the narrative that its the new normal 🙄.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You'd be surprised to hear that most software devs i talk to think the benefits of ai are overrated. The problem is the bubble keeps growing and growing.

.. also leads to worse for all in the meantime.

We're getting it shoved down our throats too. We get asked to use ai to enhance things.. that no one wanted fixed with ai.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I added some more words to clarify, I meant the CEOs will claim it is replacing the developers. I'm a dev myself, we know it has its uses and its very obvious limitations.

Yes they just slap Ai in the marketing and scale up the price.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 points 5 days ago

I don’t see how stating the blindingly obvious makes him “epic”.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago

I didn't understand ether. None of the Epic Games were actually Epic...

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

You shut your mouth; Unreal Tournament’99 and 2004 were both legitimately epic in their day!

Now get off my lawn.. *damn kids today*

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Kids there days would say Fortnite is very Epic.... but for me UT2004 was the last game they made that deserved the title Epic/Unreal.

[-] dankm@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

UT2K4 was bloody fantastic. It, and Q3 are two of my absolute all time favourites.

Everyone who disagrees can either admit they don't like FPS (which is fine) or get off my lawn.

[-] svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 12 points 5 days ago

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

In other news, business people say whatever they can get away with to make more money.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

No shit right.

People need to stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They are not moral and simply respond to incentives.

They earned good will saying black lives matter and now they earn political will by saying trans lives don't.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Nothing they say is more than PR; no person, thing or idea matters except increasing profits.

[-] zante@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago

No shit Sherlock Holmes

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 5 days ago

He's 100% right. (Still a douche for what he did to Bandcamp though)

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago

What has he done to bandcamp?

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

He bought the company to bolster his lawsuits against Apple and Google, only to fob it off to Songtradr a few years later in the middle of the staff unionising. Songtradr then sacked half the staff (coincidentally all the ones who were part of the union) and still refuse to recognise the union to this day.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

That's disgusting.

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

[-] guava_tropic@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

It's almost like they have cutting edge artificial intelligence that can brief them on meta game theory and how to ensure successful outcomes for their personal interests, regardless of who's ass they're kissing.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Isn't "skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors" making them officially conservatives?

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's just every major company nowadays

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

If you're at a table with nine Nazis and you don't leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won't care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

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