Idk man you’re making it out to be a lot bigger problem than it is. There isn’t a single “buy once” game out there that is even remotely close to beating WoW or even XIV in terms of playtime or playtime:cost. As long as you’re having fun playing them and have stuff that you want to do in them, they are essentially an unbeatable value.

Even terraria and FNV don’t come anywhere close to matching the playtime I have in those MMOs, although terraria is so cheap that it probably beats everything on cost value.

Touch grass.

Get off the fucking Internet, stop immersing yourself in anxiety and misery, and exist in the real world for a while.

Shit’s okay.

You don’t need to be fully engaged, but you also don’t need to be staring at the clock bored out of your skull and thinking about how much better you could be using your time. Adding some redundant mopping or polishing to that boredom doesn’t make it any better.

Like imagine we pay labor what it’s actually worth rather than pennies on the dollar. Would you still want to sit on your ass to get your full 40 each week? Or would you rather only come in when there’s actual work to be done?

Fuck’s sake dude. You want to talk about promoting toxic management ideologies? The 40 hour work week is a fairly recent fabrication and there’s oodles of evidence indicating that working more hours doesn’t even necessarily lead to more production.

Touch grass, dude.

That seems like a pretty useful tool. Thanks!

But why is its website written like it’s trying to sell me something?

I haven’t needed a single tool to turn off the junk in w11 that’s annoying, replace the dumb icon-based UI with the previous text, and so on.

W11 is fine. It’s not good, but it’s fine.

You can just… cancel the sub…

I’ll take years off between playing for a couple months here or there.

Alright well I’m going to continue surviving. You have fun doing whatever I guess.

Yeah, MMOs are a special case. Realistically WoW or XIV are a better deal than most games. I’m probably in the tens of thousands of hours in WoW since 2004. Pretty crazy value for money.

I agree paying for online in consoles is dumb but that’s always been their strategy - cheaper and easier to get into than computers and they’ll nickel and dime you since you don’t know any better.

Ohhh. I’ve never, ever used that except when I accidentally fatfinger my way to it. I forget it exists.

Monthly subscription? You mean like PS+ or something?

I haven’t bought one in probably like 12 years. Are the new ones all greebled up with “smart” shit? Even the store brand models?

I drive them until the cost of fixing them significantly exceeds the cost of getting a new used car. Accounting for it being a pain in the ass to shop for cars etc.

But yeah every 3-5 years sounds about right for typical middle/upper class families. My parents did pretty well when I was little and I remember them doing 2 or 3 year leases.

Yeah. Find a Honda or Toyota from the latter half of the 00’s with a reliable service history and they’ll last another 10-20 years if you take them to a decent imports mechanic.

Ideally you just look for a Honda or Toyota from like 20 years ago, assuming you want gas powered. Look for only like 1-3 owners, regular service history. Those things will last into 600k+ miles if they received regular service and parts are dirt cheap.

Infotainment ain’t justified, at least not up front. Put all that shit in the back if you gotta have it, but the driver should have as few distractions as possible. A simple radio, climate control, and the instrument panel. That’s it.

Utterly insane that we ever allowed glorified tablets to become standard equipment in dashboards.

Windows is fine. But it’s a lot harder to justify when “for brainless morons like me!” distros like Bazzite are so readily available and robust and SteamOS is right there too.

But like. It’s fine. You can turn most of the annoying stupid shit like copilot off.

Where are you seeing ads in Android? I have a pixel and I’ve never had ads shoved in my face. Well, not by Google. The producers or providers of apps, sure, but that’s not on Google is it?

Yeah I’m not saying that’s better. I never defended that stupid shit. I’m pointing out there’s a lot of Reddit bullshit flying around this post by people that have more than likely either never been in a proper management position or who were absolutely godawful at it when given the opportunity.

You think people are happy doing busywork? They’re not. People fucking despise it.

Yeah. Being stuck at work, nothing to do, just waiting for the time to clock out and go home.

It’s fucking miserable. Those days suck. You get to think of all the shit you’d rather be doing than staring at walls or lazily scrubbing floors you already scrubbed twice already just to look busy. It’s shitty for staff morale and it’s even worse for budget efficiency. No one likes feeling unimportant or unneeded.

And besides, how the fuck you think a company is gonna survive if it’s wasting money on unnecessary staff? Even with a redistribution of wealth from the worthless c-suite back down to people who work for a living, the company still has to be profitable in order to be able to pay those wages and salaries, in order to be able to increase those wages and salaries for cost of living and inflation and merit based raises.

You don’t become profitable by wasting money.