Free-to-play has done irreparable damage to video games
kids have no money usually
>>731497672>WoW has done irreparable damage to video games
>>731497672Based kids killing this faggy degenerate gaming industry.
if your game is worse than cave story you shouldn't ask money for it.
>>731497672>$30whatthat shit is like $2 regularly
>>731497779Nah, cuhh asking for mocap slop
the third world getting internet access you mean, everyone who lives in a country under the equator is societal cancer
surprised we haven't trained kids to only buy games on steam sales
Blame Halo 2. No one dared to charge for DLC, previously known as expansion packs, prior to Bungie's shameless effort to charge money for maps.
>>731497921Vtumors incite them to buy garbage out of fomo
>>731497672nobody has jobs nigga
>>731497861probably talking about the switch version that has nintendo tax
>>731497861$30 in brown people money maybe
>twitter screenshot of a literal who responding to an instagram? screenshot of some random zoomerhow does /v/ do it
>>731497672always been the case, just look at china and korea mass producing slop every year
>>731497672Why would i play wikislop when roblox and fortnite are just better games and they are free
>>731497672>try before you buy has done irreparable damage to <industry>HAHAHAHAGet back to making free demos you clowns.
>>731497921>>731497861you think alphas and zoomzooms have the impulse control to wait for a sale? they can barely focus long enough to tie their shoelaces
>>731497672I bet that kids spent more on individual skins than whole games.>>731498001Whats with you consolefags bringing your shit into unrelated threads.
>>731498106>have the impulse control to wait for a saleGood point. The fomo fortnite shop has done irreparable damage to impulse control
>>731497989less than 5% of the workforce in the US is currently unemployed
>>731497672>getting rage baited by some foreign bot of a hostile nation in the process of establishing a believable human-like personacouldn't be me
>layered bait thread where a guy fails to troll children
>>731497891>>731498279he's american
>>731498158i didnt mean anything by it, its just that switch is the only version thats 30 (ps and xbox are 20). i know because i bought them (was a wiki editor at one point)https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/terraria-switch/
>>731497989The left window shouldn't exist in first place.
>>731497861It's $10 at MSRPHe probably saw the price for the four pack and thought it's the normal price because zoomers can't read
>>731497989Weird, I make 5 times that one on the right but I could just find another one if this one fires me, which it won't, because paying me to do things makes them more money than they pay me.
>>731498436He was definitely talking about the switch version because the shitch is the braindead zoomer's console of choice
>>731497672I managed to teach my zoomer nephew that MTX are an awful use of your money. He still plays roblox with his friends but instead feels baffled when they spent hundreds of dollars on it.
>>731497672Yah think? Developers got the smart idea of making shit free and then charging a shit ton for micro transactions and people end up spending more money than if the game was paid up front. The gaming industry now is all about draining wallets and not about producing quality games. You can thank the chinks for that too with their gacha shit.
Good. I don't want retards playing my favorite video games. Zoomerism is an excellent form of gatekeeping.
>>731498264Did you know the U.S. Government is allowed to literally just lie about unemployment statisticsDid you know that anyone who goes more than 6 months unemployed is considered "voluntarily unemployed" and no longer counted in the statistics
>>731499706You're wasting your time casting pearls before swine.
>>731499706that happens literally in every single western countryIn my shithole if you are considered to be doing an activity to "improve yourself" or you consider yourself "looking for a job" you are not counted as unemployedand still the "official" unemployment rate is like 15%
The sentiment of "game isnt worth the money because graphics are ugly" has existed since the 90s, this isnt new
>>731497672I missed when we used to make fun of F2P games and bully anyone that bought into them, sadly the jew is always one step ahead.
>>731497759true
>>731497672Indieshit is worth at best 10 bucks. And once you factor how every indieshitter necessarily, and enthusiastically, lobbies against all your interests with your money, it becomes 0.
>>731498519The right window is hiring one person, so here we are.
>>731498084mmmmmmm, demos
>>731498084Nowadays we have day one full playthroughs on Youtube. I'm fine with this.
everything is free if you can hack. Im a l337coder and i hack every game
>>73149767230$? it costs like 300 rubles on sale tops
>>731501491
>>731497672It worked on Newgrounds, Kongregate, or Cool Math Games. Blame the microtransactions for the microtransactions, not the pure version if the model with no bloat.
Retvrn to tradition and make games shareware again.
>>731497672its all LoL's fault fuck that game
>>731501491kids tend to worship niggers and use ebonics
>>731501870>kids*americans in general
>>731497672>Costs 30 dollarsDoesn't that game cost like 10 bucks since it was first released 15 years ago?
>>731502258Still does. Kids are retarded lying poorfags, what else is new.
>>731498626weird larp but ok
Roblox
Call it>horse armor>Console online subscriptions>F2P>P2W>TF2 Hats
>>7315024502020s have been such a dogshit decade. 2030s will be even worse thoughbeit.
>>731497759WoW is not f2p though. You can argue about acshually you can play trial all you want, but it's a full priced game with a monthly subscription fee, with paid services, AND (after a few years passed) with a shitton of microtransactions on top of it all.
>>731497672bro, children are more aware and clever than you think. they’re probably saying exactly this to piss people off + youthful arrogance + not having access to more than maybe $10-20 without asking parents
>>731502645>$10-20 without asking parentsthen they can afford itkid's simply retarded, no need to overthink it anon
>>731497989>$330/weekIf only.
>>731497672Sounds based. Indie slop deserves to get shit on just as much as AAA slop.
>>731502645>they're probably saying exactly this to piss people offThis is why the 6-7 thing is funny to me. It so obviously means nothing but the fact that it upsets literally every single other generation and scream WHAT DOES IT MEAN is what gives it value and makes it funny. Like if I was a kid and saw a teacher crying on tiktok that she can't use those two numbers together without the class losing their shit I'd be laughing my ass off.
>>731499706Let me guess, this is only true when a red is in office but not a blue?
>>731497672>picture in question shows kid 2 ratioing retarded kid 1 (what the children actually pay attention to)i don’t get it theres always going to be retards getting dunked on
>>731502862It's true for both you tribalist retard
>>731502705but are their friends playing it? when will they get another 20-30 bucks handout? maybe an even better game (in their eyes) will come along and go on sale from 60 to 30. oops, bought terraria instead now you cant get XYZ game all your friends / favourite streamer is playing.
>>731497672f2p existed before you were born you retard
>>731502959Oh, is this the part where you tell me communism wouldn't have this issue?
>>731498519>Oi vey
>>731502974>kid's retardedrepeating myself: no need to overthink it.
>>731503037>that tribalism didn't work>shit better immediately pivot to this other one!You good boss?
>>73149798970 bucks a week is an extra $3640 per year, at a modest 6% cagr over 25 years that'll be 200 grand when you're retired, plus humans love working and having tasks and things to do, neet bums are always depressed n shit
Ha, this doesn't even begin to describe how vile free to play is.I remember a really old (2007?) article from Tim Rogers describing the process of pitching a new f2p game to a publisher. He was there when a psychologist was brought in to discuss ways to get people hooked on the game.
>>731502806teacher here, had a pair of boys in the back of the room and one of them kept playing a 6 7 soundbite or something so I began addressing them as 6 and 7 was funny desu neand yes, everyone clapped.
>>731503210>Bro lives in a world where he can magic 6% out of thin air
>>731503210>plus humans love workingthe nose knows
>>731498558>>731497861It's $30 on Switch.
>>731501870>>731502249*SQUAWK*
>>731503264on 20+ year timeline we've been in that world for like a hundred years so yayou could get that risk free and guaranteed in savings accounts for the short term a couple years ago even
>>731503210>He's investingLmao, arms and supplies are going to be the real wealth sooner rather than later
>>731503367@grok i don't understand this post, translate it to nigganese
>>731503286most of what we do for leisure is just simulated work, or the work we'd rather be doing than the work we actually do. humans love work but we're forced to choose our work based on the rewards we need to sustain ourselves rather than our personal preference, its a tragedy
>>731497759Have you been in a coma for the past 20 years? Anybody with eyes can see how much damage WoW has done to gaming.
>>731503217We are past the most vile of f2p milking, it is much more subtle now
>>731503612Considering there use to be timers on cosmetics, things have gotten better.
>>731497672Zoomers will say this and then proceed to spend $20 bucks on a single power up from some random Roblox game
>>731503210>humans love working and having tasks and things to do, neet bums are always depressed n shit
I grew up playing F2P Korean MMOs 20+ years ago. How's that any different?
>>731503678>paid for rent instead of life saving medicine???even if you are dirt broke, how do you pay rent when you can just live rent free for like 3 months and landlords cant do shit?
>>731503817You were the minority then. These kids are now the majority.
>>731503868Everyone has at least tried Runescape or MapleStory back in the day.
>>731503678Insurance is 100% a scam once I got a refund for paying in cash for my doctor visits.60% refund, I was astonished.Literally no reason to get insurance unless you're shit at saving money.
>>731497861Roblox kids balk at spending $2 for a full game but will spend $20 on brainrots.
>>731503918The poor kids did. The rich kids bought games. Now, the rich kids just whale.
>>731504021Insurance literally never made sense to me anytime it was explained. "Oh we gotta pay these guys regularly so that when and if something happens they can pay for that" Then just fucking save the money yourself and pull that out IF something happens? Why does there have to be a third party for this?
>>731504232and since insurance companies loves to not pay for stuff, it just is a waste of money, put it in a high yield savings account so that it is easy to pull out and the amount will probably match inflation
>>731503210>>731503523We love working on meaningful things. Things where the benefit is immediately necessary for survival, are directly in tune with our needs as humans or an expression of our selves in one way or the other . Think being a farmer, construction worker or someone that wants to become an artist, mathematician, scientist engineer, etc.Most modern "work" is just bureaucratic nonsense made to give the person doing the labor an illusion of satisfaction by talking about how much money the job makes, not how it benefits society or them in any real deep sense. Modern jobs are fucking soul-sucking nightmares that only exist to enrichen the people at the top, not to satisfy the true human craving for work/labor that benefits the person and his/her community.
>>731497672Based kids. Tell them to download qbittorrent
>>731504021Some states give penalties for not having health insurance. Like, in California, it's about a $1000 fine every year you do not have health insurance.
>>731504232Its a ''''safety net'''' just in case your house blows up, you break a leg, your dog stomach explodes and your grandma needs cancer treatment.But even then you're 9 times out of 10 shit out of luck to even get the money to help you with all that.Just save your money, folks.Any penny helps.
If you were born after 2000, tell me the names of these coins and their value. I know that some of you have never paid with anything with change and some of you have never even been to a store by yourself before.
>>731504432>it's about a $1000 fine every year you do not have health insurance.Why the fuck does anyone go to California, it sounds like hell on earth.And fuck even then it sounds cheaper to not have insurance than having it.
>>731497672>games taught kids blahblahblahlol nowhen i was a kid we used to play free to play games with micro transactionsdid we ever think that was what the games were? no, because we were not retarded like todays zoomers
>>731504517lol
>>731504527>Why the fuck does anyone go to CaliforniaThe people who go there willingly think all the shit you hear about is just lies from "the bad people" and California is actually a great experiment in the government taking care of people like it "should".
>>731504021>>731504232>>731504328Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks
>>731497758Biggest retard award
>>731504527it only really affects high-income earners with no employer sponsored insurance since california subsidizes a lot of it if you are low-income.
>>731502862>>731503037You're acting strangely defensive over some objective facts, "anon".
>>731504432>"Yeah you gotta pay us for your own protection. If you dont there will be... complications"How did this get past literally anyone, this is textbook protection racket isnt it
>>731497672That isn't a new phenomenon. Kids and cheapskates will find any excuse in the world to not pay for a game they want to play, but also don't have the fucking balls to just pirate the games.
>>731501748Damn the deadlock patrons really needed that makeover.
>>731504635There he is.
>>731497810That makes sense.I would say you can ask for money, but as a donation rather than a sale, like on Patreon or something similar.
>>731502862>>731503037lmaoing at this direction brain
>>731497672That's why video game sales are in decline. $70 vs $0 is usually a case in which free wins, see: all the pirates on PC.
>>731503918Everyone was playing WoW, a pay to play game.
>>731510356I have never paid for a MMO, no one with a brain did.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't defend Ubishit's garbage even at a gun point but I remember when their shitty cod clone named XDefiant came out one of the biggest complaints on social media was>this game needs battlepass, there's nothing to play forThat was the first time in years where I truly felt like the gaming had pass the point of no return.Younger generations can not frathom the idea of playing a game for the game itself. And I'm not even blaming them for it, it's suits, shareholders and other parasites. They won. They own the market and they own the minds of audiences. It's their turf now.
>>731510749Think of it this way, they had to poison that turf a lot before they could get to this point. Almost none of their strategies will last forever, and they're already starting to fall apart right now. They want this place fine, but there's not much left for them after getting here, and they'll leave unsatisfied.
>>731503348holy moly it's been $10 for fifteen years on steam
>>731497672beeg pixle = beter gaem
>>731497672Bethesda has done irreparable damage to gamesHorse armor was the start of it all
>>731503348Lmfao, tendie tax, no refunds.
>>731510749Indie games are becoming increasingly popular and outselling AAA games now. There's still hope, it's just you need to charge $20 like Silksong. $20 is probably the sweet spot, we've returned to the old days.
>>731510749I think old saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained" applies. There are a million games to play and a million videos to watch. People want to do the most rewarding thing. All other things being equal, getting fake points on a fake leader board or progression scheme when you win is more rewarding then just winning.
>>731511174i still blame these as the real inception of bullshit content for dollars
>>731507189that's WaldoWaldo is looking for mildew.
>>731497989Being unemployed in the US is a choice.
I wish all F2P suddenly cost $30 and nothing else about them changed, just to filter out Ruskies and BRs.
>>731498519I agree but not in the way you think, I'm thinking more like btfo'ing jews and making jobs good again.
>>731497989whom the fuck made this silly image
>>731498264How can a workforce be unemployed? By definition, the workforce is 100% employed.
>>731512289people that have friends that don't' work and gets tons of money for free from the government and then see what minimum wages jobs look like.
>>731497989KEK YOU LITERALLY VOTED FOR THISI'VE FUCKED DOZENS OF ZOOMER GIRLS FOR MONEY CAUSE OF YOUR RETARDEDNESSYOU WILL BE WAGE SLAVES WORKING 3 JOBS AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
>>731511185Indie games are also trend chasing garbage
Since when was terraria 30 bucks? I paid 5 bucks for it back in like 2011 or something
>Twitter thread>About what indians are posting on some other social media>Posing as american children>Lying about terraria costing $30
>>731512956>>731513060It's $30 you retards https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/terraria-switch/
>>731513146The Switch tax is brutal, even for physical I often see Switch games being more expensive than PS5 ones(the Xbox ones are usually way cheaper than both).
>>731497779so true, can’t wait to swing pickaxes with you in the gulag, brother
>>731503210what if you have to spend money commuting to work
>>731513146who the hell plays non 1st party games on switch?
>>731498519Just pay your workers, bourgeoisie swine.
>>731513615Switch cultists are more common than what you think
>>731497989>got fired from my job last May for no discernible reason other than them looking for an excuse to get rid of me >ok fuck you too, guess I’ll collect unemployment gibs for a while then >unemployment office says I got fired for “misconduct” >whattheabsolutefuck.avif>have spent the last 8 months jobless and trying to convince my state to give me the unemployment gibs they are desperately trying not to give me Fuckers will owe me $6k when all’s said and done.
>>731513146>nintendotendies view Nin as their thrid parent so they would never complain about anything Nin doestherefore not an argument
>>731513615Casuals
>>731511019how the fuck is this even legal?
>>731511019XD
>>731514610Tendies have no human rights so it's completely legal to exploit the hell out of them
>>731497672>$30
>>731498519>Just piss of your voterbase and give power to whatever future warlord created by elite glut>just have a large portion of the population unable to contribute to the economy while still soft-sucking out cash by being in the system>Just let hundred thousands people of people consider joining up criminal elements because at least they're hiringYeah real good politics there smoothbrain
>>731504335I think there's a kernel of truth to this. I fucking hated being a grocery shopper, but I never disliked cleaning schools and hospitals, even though the work was much harder. It feels good to see someone get put into the room I just cleaned, and that's why it pisses me off when my coworkers half ass this shit.
>>731497989>Get cancer in leg>Have it removed.>3 months off work.>get government assistance for my time off for recovery>Make more money literally sitting around the house than what I earn in labor at work.
>>731497672Twitter and Reddit repost threads have shown an entire generation to be incapable of original thought or ideasand I don't think we talk enough about that
>>731507189Wildew anything for a dollar.
>>731503210>neet bums are always depressed n shitI'm not. I have all the free time I could possibly want and I use it anyway I see fit.I'm not going to be the one who retires at 70 when I'm too decrepit to do anything with the time I have left and think to myself "I sure hope Mr Shekelberg appreciated me helping pay for his second yacht"
>>731515482What are you going to do when your parents die and can't subsidize your lifestyle?
>>731497989Are Americans really so poor that $30 is considered a significant expenditure?That's really sad, I thought you guys were supposed to be rich.
based zoomers not paying $120 to get sjw lectures from balding numale developers that hate video games
>>731515642They poisoned the well to sell you bottled water.
>>731515007On one hand its fucked, but on the other hand its good that people that are literally unable to work are treated well.
>>731497989
>>731516121Yeah it's mixed feelings for sure.It woke me up and realized I seriously need to find a way to make better income.
>>731497672He's right though. Terraria and other 2D pixel games should be 5 dollars at the most. What the fuck could you possibly be paying for that would cost more? Hell, Terraria should be free.
>>731498084I have to wonder why try before you buy ever stopped being the main way to market games and entice players.
honestly the kid playing fortnite won in the end. imagine paying for video games.
>>731497989>>731498264Nobody is going on unemployment, they're all doing uber/eats
>>731497989turd world problems
>>731497989tired of winning?
Unc playin dot games :skullemoji:
>>731517268I'm amazed you guy aren't ashamed of putting Bill 'under the table' Clinton on there.
>>731497759it did
>>731517268Fucking libs just want to hand out jobs to people. What they should be doing is creating a bunch of CEO jobs, and then letting the entry level jobs trickle down.
>>731517268how many of those jobs went to brownos instead of white american youth who needed them, thoughbeit
>>731499706A small % of that is legit like people living off investments, already have enough money to never need to work, or trophy wives/gfs but yes its mostly a bullshit stat that doesnt include the leeches
>>731517541>uhm, exscuse me, don't you know having consensual sex with your subordinate is literally rape?Damn, I'm sorry not everyone can be a paragon of woke right virtue and fuck only kids
>>731518227He was married.
>>731517758Supply and demand is a spook, if we simply reduce the amount of jobs, all employers will feel good and warm in their tummy and just give away money for free.>>731517978Not a lot considering the constant bitching from employeers that they can't hire anyone
>>731518457>Not a lot considering the constant bitching from employeers that they can't hire anyoneHave they tried hiring people?
>>731518386they were kids
>>7315183861) Modern relationships are a fucking joke. They can be serious (and be treated as such as a result), but who cares if some dude cheats on his gf/wife or vice versa? Most people don't get into relationships for anything approaching true love or something worthwhile anyways2) Bill Clinton and Trump are both pedophiles. That's much more serious than fucking some slatternly woman outside of your loveless political marriage (where your wife gave birth to a daughter who looks nothing like you).
>>731504335>We love working on meaningful thingshuman men love digging big holes in the ground and knocking over big shit or moving dirt or stacking objects, the meaning we invented for all that ie all of society is a post-hoc rationalization for our base childish instinctual desireswork without meaning is what we call hobbies
>>731513531that's typically covered by the company in first world countries, if not at least you can write the expense off of your taxes :)
>>731519146Attaining pleasure is a meaning in and of itself, so hobbies don't count as meaningless work. Most of the shit done in a corporate office really isn't since it can be done in 2-3 hours if you're proficient and you're not doing it for any other purpose than to get a paycheck, which you can get in many other ways that are more in line with your goals in life.
>>731516823Because most games sell on hype and marketing now. If they let people play the games first, they'd realize how shit the games actually are. Not even joking, I'm pretty sure EA or some other publisher outright said that providing demos resulted in lower sales.
>>731519479>Companies hate pirating not because of the fear of losing sales but because people find out their game is shit for free.It all makes sense now.
>>731517978Why do you think it's in the negatives under Trump? He gave jeets all your jobs and said it was because his own country isn't skilled enough to have jobs. You got what you voted for.
>>731519935I thought you guys loved immigrants? What happened?
>>731518946I'm not taking pedo allegations seriously from someone who plays anime games lmfao
>>731515620So did we.
>>731497758This. Me and everyone I knew played free tablet slop (temple run, angry birds, minecraft) or flash games. That one kid whose parents paid for FNAF on his tablet would bring it to school and everyone would play it during lunch.Anerage kids have one birthday and one christmas (like $200 total) worth of annual income.
>>731515620Considering some people order uber every day, I doubt that is the case.
Thirdies don't have money to buy games even if they wanted to
>>731519996What happened is there's less cheap construction workers outside my Lowe's and more Good Morning Sirs in every tech and customer service division.
>>731520023They're not allegations. They're facts.Anyways, that's your problem if you want to be your typical retarded low-info American voter. Hope you have fun losing your way of life and your rights lmao.
>>731498519>The left shouldn't exist in first place.Thank you thank you THANK YOU
>>731520338I thought you guys hated '''facts'''.Sounds like you're leaning to the other side with such problematic rhetoric.
>>731501261Why would you want a complete playthrough of a bad game?Demos help you form your own opinion. Haven't you ever felt differently about a game when you play it yourself than when you watch someone else play it?Or do you base your opinions on what people who play that game say?
>>731514335Similar shit happened to me>Have 2 bosses, both of which are negresses>Both are sketchy cunts>Clearly play favorites (favoring the niggers), denying my accomodations, scheduling shifts only 9 hours apart, over the top expectations (only for me who is disabled), changing rules, assaults employees, etc.>One of the nigresses actually gets fired because everyone hates her and did a poor job>Shortly after, the other nigress waits until head of HR is on leave to schedule me 30 minutes before my shift ends>She uses this against me to get fired because I left the store in a mess (there were plenty of customers even after closing)>Because of that and swearing at her after being fired, enemployement initially denies me my money for “misconduct”Luckily I was able to appeal it. This being surprising since this is Florida, but goes to show that my termination was pretext if Florida judges sided with me.
>>731519479>Because most games sell on hype and marketing nowIt's true, it happened with CP2077 at launch. They never wanted to show a demo of their game other than videos uploaded by themselves, and look at the mess it was at launch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyoJ7onNrg
>>731520338They're facts, huh? Go ahead, anon. Show me the proof.
>>731520462>le ntr girl
>>731519996I thought you guys hated being replaced by immigrants? What happened?
>>731497989>UnemploymentLmfaoIf you try and get on unemployment you are competing with every single mother and disabled veteran in america. If your sob story is good enough you get put on a waiting list for a few months. If you're lucky and the program isn't cut during that time you get MAYBE $70/month until that program gets unexpectedly defunded too.In America you have income, be a leech, or die. Welfare is a meme unless you're brown.
>>731520801
>>731520801:shrug: No one's replaced me in my job yet. Have you guys tried doing more than basic bitch entry level work?
>>731520813You made up this opinion of a country you don't live in based on /pol/ shitposts you read on /v/.
>>731520462I'm not a shitlib or a cuckservatie, if that's what you are insinuating. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are complicit in the destruction of the American middle class, American social and civic culture and the undermining of our Republic.Neither party is in tune with reality nor do they care that their insanity is ruining America so long as it benefits their corporate overlords.>>731520657The simplest fucking proof is Bill Clinton and Trump's association with Epstein and both of them actively ignoring their legal duty to report on said association to the public (Trump by releasing the files in their totality by the date set in December and redacting the files that were released when explicitly told not to and Clinton in not even showing up for testimony via subpoena). That's not the behavior of innocent people, especially considering the grave nature of the allegations.
>>731520627makes me laugh that there are retards who compare this to no mans sky, given that they've already stopped updating it and are now thinking about the second part
>>731521015>the proof is that...ok well I don't have proof, just be mad about what I'm mad about!Cool story broBy the way the Daily Show isn't the only news network, just fyi. No, that doesn't mean Last Week Tonight is the only other news network, get a clue.
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>>731498264the real unemployment rate for those 40 years old and below is approaching 80%no i did not typo that. 80 fucking percent.
>>731521246There's no point in talking to cult members like you. They're too far gone. See ya later, retard
>>731521481I'm sure a swell guy like yourself who can't even use a shift key properly wouldn't lie.Right?
>>731521409Every argument on 4chan boils down to this these days
>>731521682yes thats correct anon im not lyingheres the rubthe government, in the USA at least, is well practiced at deception and double-talk, and they use it to obscure the reality of how completely fucked the 99% are, one of the methods being to hide the real actual unemployment rate.the specific way that they do this is by simply not counting anyone who isnt receiving unemployment benefits as being unemployeddo you just not qualify for it because your state is strict? you dont count as unemployed, even if you dont have a jobwere you taking it but then it ran out because the maximum duration you can have it is 8-10 months in many states? you dont count as unemployed, even if you dont have a jobhave you been mentally crushed by the soul-deadening reality of society as it is today and retreated from it, becoming a NEET? you dont count as unemployed, even if you dont have a jobthe vast majority of those in those 3 categories are 40 or below. the real unemployment rate for 40 and below is near 80%; the government just uses the statistics version of gerrymandering to hide it from reality so they can pretend that the rate is between 5-10 percent
>>731521483>well since I couldn't convince you with my complete lack of proof I'm outSee ya never
>>731497759yes.it completely killed how mmos are designed and quest design in general.
>>731521974u-6 unemployment is not and never has been hidden.
>>731497989truth nuke
>>731522449sure, anonin the same way that the thousands of page long privacy policies and 'you're only renting our game not buying it' legalese laden EULAs that are fucking everywhere arent hiding anything eitherstop being a disingenuous faggot. it might not be hidden in the sense of having to break into the pentagon to find it, but it is concealed under mountains of fluff and documents to make sure the average joe never see it, because the average joe isnt going to spend a ton of time sifting through the layers of obfuscation to uncover the truth
>>731498814>shitchthat's -600karma faggot
>>731522606>something you can easily find with by typing in "u-6 unemployment" in google>hiddenretardhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE
>>731497672Kids have always said shit like this.
>>731521884Because you cannot accept the truth that it is the jews and they all need to be exterminated. It's always >how do we compromise with being occupied Not >how do we get rid of them
>>731497672we let our kids become whales, let that sink in
>>731497989This image is inaccurate.It needs a giant obstacle course in the employement line since even getting a shitty dead end retail job is a nightmare.For perspective, Harvard’s acceptance rate is 4.2% while Walmart’s is 2.6%.I’m not joking, it’s easier to get into Harvard than fucking minimum wage at Walmart where there isn’t AI yet.
>>731520982NIGGERI MADE 8K LAST YEAR AND THEY CUT ME BECAUSE OF THATBecause that's too muchMy parents don't make enough to support me anymore, and I can't leech off my grandma because she's at risk of being evicted for rent hikes. Town council won't help her about itI'm literally only alive because, after I went two days without food and more was nowhere in sight, I begged my highschool YMCA counselor for a job since my life was on the line.How many 20somethings like me do you think weren't so lucky as to have a connection like that in my position?In America it's hustle or die. Third world tier shit. This isnt the fucking nineties, get thar ubereats boomer propoganda out of your skull. Hundreds of millions of us are fighting starvation and homelessness daily. *That's* America.
>>731522728>this being a web page that the average joe is ever going to seethanks for proving my pointalso move out of st. louis anon that place is a shithole
>>731523316Just stop spending all your money on Funko Pops and $10 coffee every day!
>>731523550>um that doesn't countEvery single official government employment report lists u-6 along with u-3. There is no attempt by the government to hide u-6 at all.
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>>731497672I feel we're slowly reaching if not in the civilazation your parents were worrying about when video games/the internet started becoming a thing. Oh my kid is spending all his time on video games that's making him dumb and finding porn on this internet that's rotting his brain, won't somebody please think of the children.They were a generation early worrying about it though. It wasn't their kids, it was their grandchildren.
>>731517268>job growth>a meaningless term that everyone throws around>how about wage growth>home ownership before 30 growth>vacation growth
>>731524714but that won't benefit duh uhconomy. You should just get more jobs.
>>731520182do kids just not get allowances nowadays??
>>731511993Dumbest comment of the thread award goes to...
>>731512473And you'll tossed off a cliff when you become too old to even walk or wipe your own ass.
>>731524714It's not meaningless, it means net change in the amount of jobs, in other words a change in demand for labour.Now class, what happens when demand raises?
>>731504232Because if you leave it to people they never save shit and then die in the streets because they can't afford any medical services. Insurance lets us force the plebs to invest in medicine against their will because in the long run people actually getting treated both in emergencies and for chronic conditions is better for both them and the economy.
>>731528965Oh, I know this one, you open the borders and enable and refuse to prosecute corporations using cheap illegal labor!
>worked at the same place for 3 years>the 2(two) local new hires i've seen until now didn't last a monthblame immigrants all you like but kids nowadays throw a fit if they get dirt on their clothes and theyre all trying to get their dream desk job where they can spend their entire shift on their phone
>>731517268They're both bad. Blue is fake jobs funded by extracting value from the third world. Red is economic shrinkage caused by the greed of the upper class.
>>731503541lol
>>731497953It started with expansion pacms, now go back in time and tell everyone they were wrong to buy shit like Blue Shift and Lord Of Destruction.
>zoomers get conned by ecelebs regurgitating Heritage Fondation republican talking points>gaslight into believing absolute individualism, think they can make it all by themselves with zero help and be their own boss in a capitalistic society>propagandized into thinking unions are bad, worker's rights are bad and collective bargaining is bad>"WTF how come I have no power in my workplace and my boss can make up retarded rules and fire me without cause?"I'm ROFLing at you zoomies. Have fun on your 2nd shift kek
>>731528110>ayyyyyyyyye I smoke weed and these White people won't hire me, dios mio!lol
>>731530762Maybe you shouldn't have let your economic movement get enervated and subverted into focusing on trans penises.
>>731497672stop getting your opinions and world view from twitter and you won't be so retarded, and the world won't seem so retarded.
>>731497672It's literally just one retarded nigger.
>>731518946>where your wife gave birth to a daughter who looks nothing like you).What are you talking about?
>>731528965its meaningless because most of those jobs are shitty jobs that one actually wants but are forced to have because the job market is shit.
I voted for this!
>>731497759why are people replying to this bot as if they said something relevant to the topic?
>>731530820I don't smoke weed and have applied to dozens of jobs since July 2025. Most of the time they supposedly choose someone else or reject me. So GTFOH with all that bullshit about unemployment being a choice.
>>731528965It is meaningless because most job growth is tied to population More people more jobsYou need to show that high value jobs are being createdA gas station chain hiring minimum wage teenagers and drop outs isnt something you should brag about
>>731498519Thanks for funding my lifestyle, wagie! Remember to not go too crazy tommorow, you gotta be up bright and early for work!
>>731530762is this supposed to be a pokemon character
>>731531301Try applying for something you're qualified for
>>731503541like how? retarded devs killing themselves to make the wow killer is their own fault.
>>731499923i was curious about the origin of this saying lol i love how all our problems kinda just loop together
>>731497759we need to WoW to exist as a containment for the mentally damaged
>>731531016The fact that Chealsea Clinton looks nothing like Bill Clinton and a lot like Webb Hubbell, another politician in Arkansas that was part of the Clinton's crime syndicate there.It's not even a retarded conspiracy so much as common sense when you look at who's facial features Chalsea has.
>>731497672>30 dollarsim pretty sure i got terraria like 10 years ago for 10 dollars or a dollar or something
>>731524164I was thinking about this too.>Grandma what the fuck does Super Mario World have to do with gambling?Guess Im taking the L Dick or whatever they say.
>>731532550>Chealsea>Chalsea It has come to my attention I have misspellt Chelsea twice.Still the bitch does not look like Bill at all.
>>731521884This.Sometimes I see a retard go "all christians are fucking OWNED by jews" paganfags and I start trolling them by jokingly accusing them of being Jews trying to trick christians into worshipping them. Works everytime.t. ICE officer with former IDF experience
>>731497759having to buy the game and expansions on top of the subscription is so incredibly yewish
>>731497891consumers did a great job of setting themselves up for this. paying for access to your own internet with xbox, buying the same game for 15 years and paying for mtx on top of it. Thats not even mentioning mobile games
>>731527367I was born in the 90s. No, I didn't Neither did most kids I knew growing up. I remember when I became a teenager and how badly I wanted money and tried to mow lawns and anything else that cartoons and TV Shows showed was a thing. Where I lived all the typical "first teenager job" places were hiring single moms and hoodrats and everyone cut their own lawn or paid a service that sent Mexicans to do it. I have never had money outside of gifts while I was growing up. It has to be way worse now.>Stores do not set up games to play for free.>Game Rentals are no longer a thing.>Buying the game is only the low up front cost and doesn't include the $200+ worth of expansions and DLCs to do it.>Even paid games now have in game digital currencies and cash shops.This is why I feel disheartened with the attacks on Gen Z and beyond. They literally never had a chance.
>>731511019>People defend this
>>731511869no that's Wally
>>731517268Never heard of this nor saw it, college grads have reported being unable to find jobs for decades. This must be including "ghost jobs" and not counting actual hires. Junk, but thanks for suddenly making this political.
>>731498519The left window keeps goycattle docile, so the right window can keep being extremely Jewish.
>>731497672Just like they turned a generation of middle class white boys into single hkv ConsOOMers, They are doing the same thing to the next generation. We don't have to let (((them))) keep doing it, but we do.
>>731497891your country is almost getting into a civil war because you're deporting spics tho
>>731534732almost all american job growth is located in the public sector. there simply arent private sector labor that is expanding, and in most regions it has contracted over the past 20 years as more and more labor moves overseas. when you see job growth in the united states it is almost always the NSA opening up another surveillance hub and hiring 20k workers.
>>731497672Yep.>>731497759This too, but unironically.>>731497989Don't forget.>Hrmmm it seems you have some gaps in your employmentGee, I wonder why?
>>731511019lmaodeserved for being retarded enough to buy a nintendo console
>>731497672Another trend that can be traced back to the literal anti-christ of gaming (can't say the name of the studio out loud or the drones will show up).
>>731499706wait you say the stat as it's scary scary number but it's not that high>In January 2024, approximately 794,000 people in the U.S. were classified as voluntary job leavers, representing about 12.8% of the total 6.1 million unemployed individuals
I don't really mind F2P with cosmetic MTX. That means retards who care about skins pay and I don't have to.
>>731530762>xhe has a job>xhe willingly pays taxes to Epstein listers
>>731540661you do realize theres tax when you buy things correct? taxes are unavoidable
>>731538483The data is readily available despite all the statistics derived from it being false.
>>731523729nta, but no normie is even going to know what a U6 / U3 / whatever even is.
>>731497672Literally who cares what random tiktok kids say
>>731504432I always just eat the fine because it's like 3 months of premium tops. The absolute cheapest plan I was eligible for was ~$350 a month with a NINE FUCKING THOUSAND dollar deductible. What's the damn point? My uninsured ER visit last year, first in my whole life, cost ~$3000 so I would basically pay more than one of those every single year and then end up paying $9000 more anyway, oh and coverage isn't guaranteed. Compare this to getting debt that is way less severe than other kinds of debt. Obamacare was a mistake just like college loans were a mistake, as was mandatory auto insurance. Fuck, it's all so awful.
