a dui 25+ earlier.

Thats a misdemeanor in the US.

25+ years earlier is silly to block someone, but if "misdemeanor" means minor crime, that's fucked up.

Anyway, the US turns away people who have ever used weed in their lives. In Canada, it's legal to use it regularly.

...driver cellphones? Lol

I've done full-time work and part-time college and still had time for leisure activities. My work weeks were about 60 hours, before getting into errands and such.

I'm not a parent myself, but my friends who are parents have hobbies and we have social interactions and meetups. Sometimes with their kids present, sometimes without.

I can't speak to your situation. Maybe you are incredibly busy. Either way everyone on Earth gets the same 24 hours per day. And while I was lucky enough to be born in North America, I wasn't born into any sort of extravagance.

Plenty of people have to plan and schedule leisure activity, including gaming. And there are plenty of options if you only have time for quick bursts here or there. Puzzle games and turn-based games are great for that.

I find Lemmy in particular to be very much into using the downvote button for "I disagree" or "That's not my experience" or "I don't like this" or "they disagreed with someone who I upvoted"

Yeah, and you said..

If we prioritized gaming, we would not have any money for the games and hardware or the place to hook it up and use it.

Plenty of people find space in their schedules for gaming. And based on your more recent comment, you probably do have other hobbies or optional activities that you find more fulfilling than gaming...which is great!

Some people game with their families. Some people find time for gaming instead of consuming other media like TV, movies, books, or social media.

If you prioritize other hobbies beyond gaming, that's great if it makes you happy.

I guess I think the difference between being robbed and being killed is greater than you do.

I also don't think "robbing" is the right word to talk about someone who made video games worse..

"Prioritize" doesn't mean putting it above everything else.

How do you think most gamers have money for games?

I'm surprised by the fact that this is 14 gigs and seemingly missing 5 years of new hacks!

I think you've just gotten used to replying to people who disagree with you, haha

I agree with you that people should tip in places where tipping is expected to make up wages.

I just think required tipping as a concept is a way to take advantage of the consumer, and it shouldn't exist for that reason alone.

The way that it'll be made to not exist is by going to restaurants that don't do tipping. Or switch entirely to takeout, lol

You're accusing me of wishing death on someone?

Give him extra time to make up for how long the early ban was? Or maybe give him an extra 24h as a courtesy? I dunno, lol

So you're fine if restaurants raise their prices 20%,

But not fine simply doing the math to add that 20% yourself?

Yes, exactly.

What is the real difference there?

Well...

The price would then be the same, you'd just get a lower "advertised" price.

It's this. It's misleading advertising. And this kind of misleading advertising is proven to get people to spend more money, which is exactly why restaurants do it.

Same thing with not including tax in the advertised price. It's all about screwing over the customer. Nothing else.

EDIT: I'm sorry people are being so hard on you. I'm not here to insult you and downvote you for having an opinion I dislike, lol

I don't think they're trying to poison datasets. I think they're just being weird.

You've got the wrong person. I tip, and probably too much.

I don't want tipping to end because I expect to pay less. I want it to end because it's inherently deceptive to the customer. As is tax not being included in the sticker price.

Thankfully, lifespan is one

Yeah, what I'm saying is that I don't want to be nickle and dimed, because it makes me feel like a victim of deceptive marketing.

No matter how strongly you know that your $9.99 burger is actually $14.00 (or more because tipping on the machine is often calculated after tax), psychological studies show that $9.99 tends to subconsciously mean "under $10" to people...and to services like Google Maps.

We've created this culture that it's okay to subconsciously deceive the customer to extract an extra $0.01 (or $1.00) out of every purchase...and an extra 10%...and an extra 20% if it's at a restaurant.

People who set a price limit for themselves of $20 will gladly go into a restaurant and buy something that's $19.99 and feel like they've stayed within their budget.

This is the problem. I don't like living somewhere where "buy a meal for under $10!" means I need to spend at least $15.

90% of waitstaff (if not more than that) LOVE tipping culture because they get more money than they'd ever be making hourly by serving without tips.

(Talking about servers in places with tipping culture, of course)

I didn't say it wasn't valid, I just said it's disrespectful. Generally, it is. While you're ok with it, not everyone who's fat is ok with it.

It's disrespectful to refer to someone as "the fat guy" too, perhaps moreso.

I'm not sure exactly what you said, but if it was "a small, thin woman that was either born in an East Asian country or has East Asian parents", then that's pretty weird.

It may have also been unnecessary to describe the person at all. It depends on the context.

On the hour, every hour, it's a new sale! We're calling it HH, for Happy Hour! Hail HH as the new best sale on any digital platform!

Lots of big sales as games are being sold for 14.88 or 18.88...regardless of your local currency! What games will you find for these special prices? Surprises await!

And knowing that it's June, we take pride in the quality of our games. This is your last chance to buy some of these "rainbow-themed" games before we put them in the gas chamber vault for long-term archival!

We've already tossed some insensitive games in there that glamorized hate against specific groups of people. We won't be hosting the Wolfenstein series on our platform anymore. Taking a stand against hhate!