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Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline
The only way to increase profits is to cut 10,000 jobs, increase prices by 25% and further reduce quality of the ingredients, right? Right?
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Starbucks is reeling as customers go elsewhere, sales decline
The only way to increase profits is to cut 10,000 jobs, increase prices by 25% and further reduce quality of the ingredients, right? Right?
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PS Plus price hike: We'll all pay for a subscription-based future | Opinion
We'll all pay for a subscription-based future
Not me - the moment when buying a game outright is no longer an option is the moment when I stop paying for video games. I already have a large library on Steam (1,700+), GoG (400+), and I'm not planning on buying any Playstation or Xbox products. I've never paid for Xbox game pass, or PS plus, nor do I plan to. They can scheme all day long, hike the prices every week, I already buy games only if they're on a really deep discount or in a bundle. Never paid more than 30 bucks for a game, and I could count on one of my hands how many I paid more than 20 bucks for.
I do, of course, realize that I'm in the minority, but hopefully more people will realize how big of a scam these subscription services are.
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Bronny's source of cardiac arrest revealed
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The cause of Bronny James ' sudden cardiac arrest has been revealed. One month after LeBron James ' 18-year-old son went into cardiac arrest during basketball practice, a James family spokesperson revealed the cause of the health scare in a statement to ET.
"After a comprehensive initial evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center led by Dr. Merije Chukumerije and follow-up evaluations at the Mayo Clinic led by Dr. Michael J. Ackerman and Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center led by Dr. Matthew W. Martinez, the probable cause of Mr. James' sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) has been identified," the statement read. "It is an anatomically and functionally significant Congenital Heart Defect which can and will be treated."
As for Bronny's athletic future, the family spokesperson said, "We are very confident in Bronny’s full recovery and return to basketball in the very near future."
"We will continue to provide updates to media and respectfully reiterate the family's request for privacy," the statement concluded.
On July 24, Bronny was rushed to the hospital after collapsing during practice with the University of Southern California Trojans' basketball team.
At the time, a family spokesperson said that LeBron and his wife, Savannah James, "wish to publicly send their deepest thanks and appreciation to the USC medical and athletic staff for their incredible work and dedication to the safety of their athletes."
Bronny was discharged from the hospital three days later, with his doctor,Merije Chukumerije, telling ET, "Mr. James was cared for promptly by highly-trained staff and has been discharged home, where he is resting. Although his workup will be ongoing, we are hopeful for his continued progress and are encouraged by his response, resilience, and his family and community support."
Shortly thereafter, Bronny was photographed for the first time since his health scare. The next month, Bronny attended a Dodgers game and a Drake concert with his dad.
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I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor
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How else would you test the difference? By looking at a still picture?
The difference matters very much in high speed video games and this is the most basic of ways to test it.
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Early 2000s players that would be great in the modern NBA?
Peja Stojakovic. One of the best shooters of the 2000s.
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PS Plus price hike: We'll all pay for a subscription-based future | Opinion
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I was mostly referring to the last part of the article where the author explains the entire long-term plan behind the subscription services - first they offer a large variety of games for a low price, then they squeeze the customers for every single penny after they've cornered the market.
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What was the best video game music of all time?
Some of my favourites:
If I remember any more I'll update the list. I listen to these all the time.
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It's the horror movie season. What is your favorite horror movie genre, and what do you consider to be the absolute best example of that horror genre?
I prefer Gothic horror movies (usually with vampires) and some of the very best examples would be Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu by Werner Herzog, Sleepy Hollow, and Hammer Studios' Dracula.
I'd also like to give a shout out to the most recent hidden gems from this genre that I enjoyed tremendously, The Haunted Palace (Based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft) and The Family of Vourdalak (The second segment from the Black Sabbath movie, based on a story from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy).
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I wish for everyone alive and yet to be born, to have +1 empathy added to their character stats.
Everyone gets a +1 empathy but that point needs to be taken from somewhere else. Therefore everyone also gets -1 intelligence.
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What happened to online computer games?
Just want to add, if you're feeling nostalgic about some of these Flash games and want to play them again, download Y8 browser. My personal favorites are Warlords: Call to Arms, and Steppenwolf: The X-Creatures project.
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What can I say to someone in your field or hobby to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about?
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This is true for a lot of fields, but I'm going to take a guess you're working with machine learning?
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Mistakes were made. Apparently, my cat tried to go fishing in the neighbors pond.
My neighbour has a fountain where he keeps some of the fish he catches. A few months ago my cat returned with three fishes (took her multiple trips carrying each in her mouth)
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Goodbye, Eevee!
For a moment I thought the Eevee Blender render engine was discontinued, lol.
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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?
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After binging the 12 books over the holidays, I've made an attempt to watch the movie adaptation. It couldn't be that bad, could it?
It was much worse. Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.
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The Elder Scrolls VI Is at Least Five Years Away, and Is Likely to Launch on PC, Xbox Series X|S Only
The official announcement teaser for The Elder Scrolls VI came out in June of 2018. That means Bethesda will have most likely started advertising the game a full decade before it came out, if the game is at least five years away at this point.
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1P1 = 1 * 2^1 = 2
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Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat
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Because that's how Mastodon works.
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What book(s) are you currently reading? 07 September
I have just completed Sheridan Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales collection from Kindle Store couple of days ago, so I decided to re-read Carmilla. I must say, after reading most of his short stories, Le Fanu is definitely one of my favorite writers of all time.
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What will the most famous Lemmy post ever be about?
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It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion. Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.
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Netflix competitors (Disney, Comcast, Paramount,...) lose over $5 bilion, and now some of them are thinking about merging into one huge corporation.