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Bad at video games, but I play too many of them anyway (I do not play league! the banner is a lie!) occasionally work on stuff on riggsmarkham.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

the key to understanding today's moment in journalism is specifically a subset of elite journos at NYT/Free Press/WaPo who basically adopt the position of the main character of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) when it comes to their role in the news

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

maybe a hot take but I think that journalists like Astead (if you can even call him that) should be focused on the fact that Trump has appointed a bunch of deranged antivaxxers instead of the fact that libs got vaccinated four years ago

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 21h

What?

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest failure of the Obama era was doing austerity, making the economic recovery anemically slow.

The central policy of the Biden era was to provide a ton of financial stimulus during COVID, making the economy boom.

Biden's biggest failure was letting the fascists go free.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that’s absurdly wrong.
As always, most of the US federal budget goes to social security and healthcare (Medicare/Medicaid).

Aid to Israel, at it highest, is about 0.3% of the federal budget.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

Am I reading this right? Is he simultaneously the mayor of Union City and a member of the State Senate?

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, so technically, the record on wikipedia (shared by 4 players now) is just times on base (9), but two of the other guys, Max Carey (1922) and Stan Hack (1942), also did it in only 9 PAs.

Max Carey also stole home in that game (and got 2 other SBs)!

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

Very blaseball

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

It's tied for the record (it's already on wikipedia)

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

Making some wikipedia edits

A screenshot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_on_base#Single_game showing Ohtani's current performance.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

boooo

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 3d

God, this game is incredible

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 4d

Which is extremely incorrect.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 4d

When you make people hungry, they usually don’t overthrow the system; they usually just starve.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 4d

By agreeing with the implicit sentiment that welfare is bad and that we wouldn’t need it in an ideal world. Which is extremely incorrect!

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 4d

That’s not the root cause though. We would still need welfare even if wages were 5x what they are now.

Most people in poverty are non-workers. You cannot help them through higher wages. You can help them via welfare.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, but we definitely shouldn’t do that trade. Welfare isn’t a regrettable necessity that only exists because of low wages; it’s a necessary redistribution to non-workers at all wage levels.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for your insight!

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 5d

At least using literally like that had a purpose (at its inception): sarcasm

Using POV like that has nothing to do with the term

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 6d

Why wouldn't that work? Is it because CDA and PVV/JA21 are too far apart?

I guess that unity coalition seems obvious in retrospect. My impression was that VVD was firmly in the right-wing camp nowadays.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like CDA pretty firmly holds the median vote here.
I don't have a good handle on their relationships with other parties, but can someone tell me which of these seems more likely for them:
GL/PvdA + D66 + CDA + some small center/left parties
PVV + CDA + VVD + JA21

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. Property/wealth/unrealized gains taxes are all the same sort of thing.

Any complaints about how it’s immoral or infeasible to tax unrealized gains also apply to property taxes (read: the complaints are mostly bullshit).

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 8d

Those games are only that price because indie games are expected to be cheaper than whatever the going rate of AAA games is, regardless of quality.

Those games should be more expensive than the average AAA game, tbh.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 8d

In the era where rapid user growth was funding everything, it seems like the "acceptable" price levels got stratified based on the prestige and size of the development studio.

AAA are always $60 (max price) and indie games are always cheaper than that.

The real issue is the indie game prices.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 8d

In the 90s and 2000s, companies relied on a rapidly expanding user base to drive profitability without changing prices. That price level stayed so stagnant that it became culturally ingrained. Once user growth started slowing, they pivoted to live-service models instead of changing prices.

Riggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 8d

People bought more expensive games on lower wages with less disposable income back in the day. Video games have gotten significantly cheaper, however you want to slice or adjust it. I don't think it's offensive to say the truth: that Americans could afford to pay much higher prices for video games.