Pika

So I am an app fan. If there’s an app available, I will use it. However, I do have to say the fast food industry is one of the few industries that I had used the apps for and then stopped.

Mostly because you can take any fast food restaurant out there and it will likely fall into at least one of these categories.

• app barely functions
• food gets prepared when you arrive anyway
• deals on the app are either non-existent or not worth it
• improper worker training leads to order mistakes or deals not applied

You would think that the number one reason for not using the app in today’s world would be the absurd pricing for the food or the fact that there is non-existent deals. But honestly, the second bullet point is the one that I have the biggest issue with.

Like seriously, what is the point in ordering ahead using a mobile app if you arrive at the establishment and you have to wait 20-30 minutes in the drive-through line anyway? You go by the drive-through window anyway to get your order. You might as well just place the order at the drive-up window, be able to vocalize exactly what you want in the order without the restrictions that the app forces you on it, and if they’re out of something or one of their machines are broken so they can’t do a part of the water, they can inform you of that before you give them your money.

McDonald’s is notorious for that. I used to give them a pass because you weren’t charged until you arrived there anyway, so it made sense that they didn’t prep ahead. But about four years ago now, I believe, they updated the app to charge you when you place the order, and then proceed to still not start your order until you go up to the drive-through window and give them your order code.

Seen a PS2 buddy, I still have a PS2. It’s chilling next to my TV collecting dust until I get the urge to play need for speed underground, cabelas outdoor adventures, 007 or sims 2 castaway again!

I never make my bed unless I do my sheets

Like the other person said, you can check your Steam account to see every key redemption that you’ve ever done. I believe refunds should still appear on that. I’m not sure if Steam initiated refunds will though.

A very manual process. Unless they can get greenlit from valve to have API access to the steam key system it would mean they would need to go in and manually deactivate keys that are not redeemed per batch.

I’m more surprised steam doesn’t offer the feature built in to be honest.

I was quite surprised as well, when my card was stolen I called discover and they just charged back the transactions, granted they said it would be reinstated if their internal investigation proved to be a fake claim but, they got insurance from the feds for stuff like that, so they don’t need to care too much.

This right here is why I never believed the claims either.

I get the claim of they buy the key in lesser off regions for cheaper to sell at a higher price but, steam dashboard allows you to individually disable keys for any reason you like. I wouldn’t imagine anyone actually daring to try to resell those(review keys), they would be blacklisting themselves from the industry.

There’s the argument that the publisher/dev might be new to it and didn’t log who got what key but, I wouldn’t bet access to games on that.

if its steam, none of the stats are lost, if they repurchased the game they would have it again. You just can’t buy a game you don’t know is missing. I don’t think cloud saves are ever deleted, I’ve had cloud saves be restored when I refunded and then humble choice provided me a key to the same game 4 years later.

likely because they know no one would pay for it. YouTube would die overnight(in terms of content creation). The only people remaining would be the people like Markiplier or the huge content creators that made it big way early on, and even then, I think you would expect heavy resistance against the big content creators just because they’re gonna be the ones that are fronting the majority of the bill just due to how many videos they have uploaded.

YouTube would have better chance of survival requiring a subscription to watch the platform than if they were to try to get content creators to pay for storage, it would be content source suicide.

it sounds promising but, ultimately I’m put off by the change to GPL to MIT you did back in july. I’m seen too many projects burned by that change. Generally the flow ends up being project becomes MIT, project gets acquired, project gets moved to be closed source/w payment model, creating a fracture of two different products, one that is owned by the company and one that is maintained by the community. In my opinion, It isn’t worth the time contributing or learning a system that has the potential to just be rug pulled once it gains traction.

Don’t take me wrong, I firmly get why the change was done but, it doesn’t change my thoughts on it

I don’t see any situation where I don’t go with the parts never wearing out. Like, it could have stated that your parts never wore out, but you hit every red light you ever come into, and I would have still jumped on that one.

So the parts never wear out and then probably the bread one because I like bread.

I don’t play very many series-based games, but off the top of my head, I would have to say Subnautica Below Zero is my most hated series game. And if I had to choose the second one, battlefield 1, or whatever battlefield it was that added a bunch of smaller stories instead of having an overarching story.

squirrel with a gun x The Mist crossover.

That actually would be interesting. It sounds like a potential Squirrel with a gun 2 lmao A squirrel attacking a ghost village who stole its acorn or something

I should clarify. I don’t understand why it’s been tolerated for as long as it is. I do understand why it happens, but I don’t understand why it’s allowed to happen.

I’m not sure I’m understanding the point of your comment. It sounds like you are making the case that somehow Ublock origin announcing they are no longer blocking ads on facebook because it’s too cumbersome, somehow will not cause companies to be like “oh facebook figured out the ad blocking problem, what did they do” and then try to implement similar systems.

Yes more people could contribute, but you know what else would help the cause as well? Not announcing to the world the solution to break your product. They have now put in writing that the solution to making the “problem” their product creates go away, is to just make it super obnoxious/tedious for the team to try and find filters on. This is going to act like gas on fire and only cause more work for them than if they had just silently let the filters phase out and use the excuse none of the maintainers are on the platform anymore.

The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.

Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.

I feel like most devs are going to agree with this. Most aren’t against using AI as an assistive tech, they are moreso against using it as a generative tech. Formatting, commenting and suggestions? Sure. Sometimes it even recommends things you haden’t thought of. Actually writing the code and making the entire thing is where many draw the line into “this is bad don’t use it”

they need to be sued for deceptive marketing practices to be honest. The ways it tries to sneak you resubscribing to it without your knowledge is super deceptive. My gramp has accidentally subscribed at least 4 times now when he goes to place a normal order they have like 3 different locations that toggle on where you need to keep telling them no you don’t want a free trial, and then we don’t actually find out about it till months after because he is very old fashion and doesn’t always check things.

Considering that despite my grandfather having an ad blocker, he sees constant scams in their advertising. I would have to say, yeah, it’s already a dangerous place.

Honestly, I don’t understand why more companies don’t get charged criminally for the blatant scams they have in their ads because all of the FANG companies do it.