overview for Volume

be on the lookout for the giant rake from the sky in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

An oldie but goodie from Mad TV https://youtu.be/UjAZnGeBcgg?si=LZBLTrqa-XE1FQ3o

Fellas of Lemmy, what's your Every Day Carry (EDC)? in c/[email protected]

Neil Druckmann Teases Next Naughty Dog Game: 'It Could Redefine Mainstream Perceptions Of Gaming' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As a AAA Game Dev, so am I.

In fact, I feel like most of the people who actually work on games and are in the trenches are tired of it too.

I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm from the US, and I moved to Canada for 4 years for work. As a young adults, my partner and I had revolving medical debt. Not a ton, but enough to make it annoying. A couple thousand here and there. It felt like I was always had a hospital bill that we were trying to pay off. When we moved to Canada it was weird for us because, just as another person in here stated, you just didn't have to think about going to the doctor. I had major stomach surgery, we had a kid, we got monetary support for our other kid who's on the spectrum to take them to therapy... We got gtube supplies, meds for infections.... Anything we needed was covered. Not once did I think oh man, this is going to wreck us. Well, that's not true, I thought that the first time I took my oldest to the doctor to get an xray because we thought they might have broken a bone, but that was just a thought and it didn't actually cost us a penny.

Every time we went to our PCP, a specialist, or emergency, the only thing we had to pay for was parking and maybe a few bucks for pain meds. But each time we had to get pills it was less than $5 to fill the prescription. One of the kids fell and hit their head? Straight to the doctor. A cold that's been taking too long to go away on its own? To the doctor!

Now we are back in the US, and I just paid off another medical bill because my insurance only covered a small amount of an ECG, because they wanted to check make sure my kids heart was strong enough to put her on medication, and that the meds wouldn't kill her.

We should move to a single payer medical system.

Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, it isn't those boomer parents living in a house for 40 years that are driving up the costs. It's corporations and landlords buying houses as investments so that they can rent them out while the market skyrockets.

Netflix considers adding in-app purchases and ads to games, report says in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This isn't news, Netflix Games is a mobile game developer, they will follow the trends of mobile gaming to generate profits.