working class person: I’m forced to beg for money and am at the mercy of other people’s goodwill as I’m facing serious suffering and/or death because my wages don’t cover the expenses I need to literally stay alive
friends of working class person: we will scrape together some of our own funds at the possible detriment of our own families because we have no other choice if we don’t want our friend to, and we can’t believe we have to say this out loud, die
media: This Uplifting Story of Friendship Will Brighten Your Day :)) Look As These Brave People Go On Happy With Their Lives Despite Hardship :)) This Story Proves That Poor People Who Complain About Their Standards Of Living Are Just Not Trying Hard Enough :)))
this post was sandwiched on my dash between two people’s medical gofundmes and i want to cry
Massive, bug filled game and day 1 patch, broken game play that won’t let people load or even launch once opened even after patching and fixing via various forums and message board user fixes. a player found and used God mode for a while, too many nukes crashes a server, lack of apparent support, and now… reneging on the ability to refund after the download was already complete and only able to refund if it was a physical product? Like… just…
How dare anyone keep giving this terrible and horrible business money. Why do people just keep getting duped into thinking this time is going to be any better than the last 5 times. THEY HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME GRAPHICS ENGINE SINCE TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING TWO PEOPLE!
Bad games, bad practices, unwillingness to let developers internally work with tools that work? Like… If You went to McDonald’s okay? and you asked for a Big Mac, right? and you were told, “that’ll be 49.99 US, please.” and hand them the money, then proceed to tell you. “It will be 30 minutes before we can get you the burger patties, the buns are in the back, you can’t get lettuce because its bad, but the tomatoes are fresh, the condiments are empty, but you can see about creating your own with these tools from 5 years ago and squeezing the Ketchup from the tomatoes and were out of sugar, so its basically just going to be salsa on your burger if you decide you want to finish that. Also, the beef is about 10 years old, and stuck to the side of the freezer, so there is that.”