Let me just check with you that i'm interpreting this comment correctly:
I accidentally informed you of a Linux platform that is highly interesting to you and fits your exact use case?
Well great! happy to help. I work for a HW OEM that is "IGEL Ready" so I'm familiar with their platform and it's use cases, but I don't use it myself.
so, bit of a non sequitur here but: I'm interested in other work if you are familiar with some roles looking for a "solutions architect" type person and want to chat about that sorta thing in the DMs.
lol I’m glad people are enjoying what could easily be considered a shitpost.
I must be honest: I did not consider looking at the rules before posting. I just read them now and found that I am not violating them unless you strictly consider the implication of rule 6 to be real history.
Anyway yeah I’m not looking to flood the sub with fictional leopard-eaten faces. There’s a strong possibility I never post here again just because that’s not really my jam but I do enjoy the sub! I’m thrilled people are enjoying the levity here!
That’s the thing. Pricing in a direct comparison of inflation and base game label price ignores all the ways in which that same game would have been diluted to increase the average price with microtransactions, deluxe editions, and early unlocks for pre-orders or whatever. It’s not apples to apples with the past.
I adore XI and highly recommend picking it up next time it drops to $20 on steam. My daughter is playing it now and I’ve been really enjoying watching her get into it, knowing what happens later to all the characters she’s meeting now in the early game.
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I work for a HW OEM and while SoC availability certainly dictates the availability of a product line, there’s usually an opportunity for “last time buys” with plenty of notice in an instance where that part was going EOL. It’s unlikely that valve was caught off guard by the planned discontinued parts.
It’s also unlikely that they would like to deliberately make a successful and popular product unavailable without officially discontinuing it to promote other, yet to be released, products that have little to no overlap in use case. That makes no sense.
If a Deck 2 were about to be released, this would make sense. But it’s not, and so this is probably unplanned parts shortage causing the deck to being of stock.
We’re not really raising prices above costs, in fact we’re eating a lot of the cost increases ourselves to flatten the overall increase across the board that ends up with our customers. But a lot of them already made commitments to buy that we have to raise the price on through no fault of our own. And more are coming. So I don’t think the sales dudes are seeing any benefit tbh. Though you’re right to not like them.
I work for an OEM and the sales dudes have been getting reamed by our customers because they’ve had to deliver this news to folks like you. Sucks all around.
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