wizardbeard

Some additional context to my previous comment: I work tech in the financial industry. I have some experience with payment processors and the stupid amount of bullshit around all this stuff. "They could do both of these things almost instantly" is a big assumption holding the entirety of the weight for your argument.

Anyway.

50 Cent was doing a one off publicity stunt, not trying to ensure continued existence as a company. How many mainstream artists are still doing that? I shouldn't have to say that this is very much an apples and oranges comparison.

Your other idea has legs, but it's still suggesting that Valve try entering a game of financial chicken with Visa and Mastercard. Effectively infinite money. And in the meantime most users would just be pissed off at Valve for making it harder to buy anything. We're already seeing people attack itch.io for not standing up instead of bei g pissed at the payment processors.

Valve can't make purchasing through a different processor a requirement for some games but not others because Visa and Mastercard said "stop selling games with this content entirely, or we stop processing your transactions entirely". So anything they do will have to effect all transactions.

I'm frustrated Valve didn't do more, and that they've not made any public statements about trying to fight this, but Valve isn't just leaving money on the table because they're lazy or dumb.

Changing payment processors/engaging a new one is anything but a short term thing to implement. Otherwise Mastercard and Visa wouldn't be in this situation to have this level of control to begin with.

"your cool friend who's fun to be with"

I see you, sneaking in a little hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference.

You can configure loot respawns when setting up the server I believe. It's an option in single player at least. Not perfect, but it's something.

Maybe the "use it for free off someone else's hardware" ones are, but why would you want to trust those with your sad NSFW RP? They make their money by harvesting all that data.

You can self host all of that stuff now, if you truly must.

Tell me again how you've not actually read up on the issues with crypto as payment processor.

This shit has already been tried and the issues discussed at length. I think it was Mullvad that stopped accepting BTC and did an extensive writeup on why.

In short: the constantly shifting conversion rates make this unsustainable, as even if they accepted payment in crypto, they have to pay their bills in fiat currency. So their choices are to have crypto prices change literally every page load to reflect the exchange rate, or to just eat extra costs when suddenly 0.51btc goes from being worth $5 when the user pays to being worth $1 when they try to use it for anything else. Even with constantly updating prices, the shifting rates screwing them will still happen. The costs associated with even offering it as a payment type outweigh the actual revenue generated by an extreme order of magnitude, and even privacy/crypto oriented storefronts see something like under 1% of users using the option when it's available.

And that's my understanding of the short version.

There's a big difference between "prioritizing short term profit" and "committing commercial/financial suicide to make a point".

Get over here Davis.

Oh no, you beat me in a Pokemon battle! But I don't have any money! Perhaps there's something else you want, hmmmm……?

I WANT THAT HAT

Short term profits? How are they supposed to make any profits if payment processors refuse to process payments to them? They can't just spin up their own fucking payment processor.

Beyond that, how does limiting the sale of any products make them money?

I swear, were none of you people paying attention when this happened to the right wing ghouls in the lead up to the 2016 election? Nothing of value was lost (or would have been), but Visa, Mastercard, etc have already shown they aren't above using their position in the transfer of money to enforce their will.

Edit: Can't believe I forgot about the payment processors playing games with Wikileaks. For shame. Would have been a much better example.

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Please get off your high horse and stop making assumptions. I've literally laid four eldery family members in the ground over the past 3 years. For some reason I'm always asked to be a pallbearer and I'm never going to say no.

All of them required care. While my wife and I weren't full time caregivers (living 8 hours away will do that), we've done more than enough time in the trenches. Nearly all our time off from work from 2018-2022 went into help and care for elderly relatives. Everything beyond our own days off sick or for Dr's appointments. Weeks at a time of giving round the clock care. It only stopped once stable care had been sorted out and we decided to start IVF (with the blessing of those family members still able to communicate so) to try and have a kid.

I've also been minorly involved in a few hirings. Not directly making the decision, but part of the "meet your potential co-workers" interview. Talked extensively with my boss about the approach, and read up quite a bit about the process. My feedback was part of the decision.

Your points are valid, to a point. Caregivers do tend to underestimate the work involved, and the skills required. It can be, and quite often is, some of the hardest work out there to navigate all the shit involved while watching a loved one slowly die. It changes you.

Edit: and yes, I know caregivjng is not always related to loved ones, elderly, end of life, pallative, etc.

But I would still caution against listing it as direct job experience. Again, I would suggest listing it under an "Other Experience" section with any other skills from volunteering or personal life if they are particularly significant.

Resumes are all about making a good first impression, and there are tons of people out there who would see "Full time caregiver" and mentally file it the same as if someone listed "Stay at home parent". I mean they would view it as an excuse and a cop out. It's not necessarily fair, but I'm trying to be realistic here.

does this mean absolutely nothing to people?

Yes, this exactly. Anyone who hasn't had direct exposure to the mechanics of elder care isn't going to get it. That's not a smart gamble to make on a first impression when job hunting unless you absolutely have to go all in on that gamble.

Caring for a family member would have no relevance to just as many, if not more, positions than it holds relevance to.

Like any tech related position beyond (at quite a stretch) helpdesk, not relevant.

There's something to be said for character reference in your resume, but most places are more concerned about more tangible skills.

Like another commenter suggested, maybe under an "other experience" section, but not in the same area as relevant work experience unless you're trying to pad things.