Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "Asmongold TV " channel.

@Stÿks-s5c not really actually. He's still one of the owners of the company, so he can fire the CEO anytime he wants. He's still the chairman of the board, and the board holds the real power, including the power to fire the CEO. A CEO is just an employee, yeah the highest one in the hierarchy, but still an employee. Johan Pilestedt still owns the company. The CEO just runs daily operations, it's a job, not actually a position of power.
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@funkymunky7935 not all DLC is to milk players. DLC are completely optional and you can choose to buy them, that's not milking, that's people voluntarily buying a product they like. There's nothing fundamentally bad about DLC. It's content and people can decide for themselves whether they want it or not. If you don't think it holds value, don't buy it.
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Yeah he's the chairman of the board. He literally has the power to sack the new CEO anytime he wants (with the approval of the board, which I believe are like all his buddies he started the company with). He's the boss, not the new CEO. A CEO is just a job title, it does not mean you're the boss, like a lot of people think. It just means you are in charge of daily operations.
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Well it was 20%, so just an expensive restaurant and probably quite a few people. 300 dollars is not that surprising of a bill in a fancy place with 4-6 people.
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 @TheMrFellaTV yeah I have no fucking clue what she's talking about and I've been paying taxes for years. I get money back every year, because you always pay too much beforehand.
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@galerus3776 than it's not DLC though? DLC is just an expansion for the game. If you get it through playing the game it's just part of the game.
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@alexrodrigues4775 you're not supposed to take it literally. Show don't tell is not writing "he sat there nervously", but actually showing by having dialogue that shows that someone is nervous. Maybe describe a leg bouncing around. That's show don't tell, it doesn't have anything to do with the medium with which the story is conveyed.
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@DieselRamcharger yes he does, the board can fire a CEO. He's the chairman of the board. As long as a majority of the board (the owners), which basically just the people that started the company, choose to sack the CEO they can. It's a construction that exists quite a lot. One of the more famous cases of this happening is at LMG. Linus is no longer the CEO, but he's still the boss (together with his wife), if they decide to sack the CEO, they just can.
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Why? The covid vaccines are quite successful. The vaccines were rolled out and now everyone talks about covid as something from the past.
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I mean you can make more money doing nothing than Sony made by making Concord. At least you didn't lose money.
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@NA-nz9lv Well, there's a moral in that story there. Don't steal.
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@mememoments2779 not my country. I was just like it's not that weird, considering the video is probably American. I'm Dutch, if you get a 2 euro tip that's a lot. There's a difference between agreeing with something and being suprised by something. The fact that something is normal doesn't make it good.
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Yes, being poor is expensive. This is very well known. If you don't have the liquidity to afford stuff, you're forced to cheap out on lots of stuff. If you need a car, you'll have to finance one instead of just buying one, which is way more expensive in the long run. And this is true for tons of things. Just having 10.000 euros/dollars or something equivalent is gonna make your life so much cheaper.
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@alexisrivera200xable Maybe it's because I play a lot of games that have actual real DLC and the last time I touched a game that has micro transactions in it is years ago. But micro transactions feel like something completely different from DLC and it feels weird to use the term DLC for micro transactions for stuff that is purchasable with in-game currency. Just call that what it is: a micro transaction.
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@jimmyv3170 I mean you don't really choose to be dumb. It's not as if you can read some stuff and suddenly be smart. That's not how the brain works. It's about your ability to actually recollect that information. And just the ability to think logically as well. The vast majority of people are not good at that. Most people are just dumb, and if you are you can read a 1000 books, you are not going to suddenly win a noble prize. Doesn't mean that it doesn't help to read, it can definitely make you a bit less dumb, but you're still going to be dumb in the end.
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@noelic6744 60 dollars for rent?! Where do you live?
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@HappyDragneels_page he left Paradox years ago, also a CEO is not the boss, the board is, and Johan Pilestedt is still the chairman of the board. CEO is just a job title that any employee can hold. It just means you're in charge of daily operations, it doesn't mean you're the boss.
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@Nothistime-qd3kh yes, that happens all the time. CEO is a demanding job, a lot of people are quite done with it after a few years. Lots of people step down on purpose by their own volition. Not everyone remains CEO until they are heavily encouraged to step down. In fact that's a minority of CEOs that happens to.
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@Tiasung what the hell are you talking about? It's literally illegal to fire someone based on what he did here. You could sue the school and you'd win if a school tried this in the Netherlands at least. And I'm pretty sure it's the same thing in practically all EU countries.
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I think one of the main reasons the US is so obese is actually a lack of public healthcare. When there is public healthcare the government has a massive incentive to keep the population healthy, since a significant part of the budget is allocated to healthcare (in the Netherlands for example the government spends about 30% of all their money on healthcare), so there is a public demand for being healthy and the government has huge incentives for decreasing the demand of healthcare, hence the governments efforts to reduce unhealthy practices. A significant portion of what can be found in US supermarkts is literally illegal in the EU for this exact reason. The sugar tax found in many European countries is effectively the same idea. It's basically like well you can eat unhealthy if you really want, but you're effectively paying for your own heart surgery this way through extra taxes. Also there are actual limits to what is straight up legal. Coca cola has a different recipe in the EU for this very reason I've heard, because the amount of sugar they put in the US recipe is literally illegal over here. Meanwhile in the US the healthcare industry is massively profiting from unhealthy people and have absolutely no incentive to stop it. Let alone the extremely powerful food lobby, which is dominated by a very small amount of companies with very deep lobbying pockets.
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I mean assuming a 23 year old is a student is not that weird is it? Lots of 23 year olds are students.
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NATO at 5%?! That's absolutely bat shit insane. Not even the US, which spends obscene amounts of money on the military, is even close to that (3,5% nowadays). 5% is unsustainable and would mean significant reduction of standards of living all across NATO with no benefit. With 2-3% NATO is already more powerful than any threat that can be posed against it in the world. Trump is the ultimate shill for the industrial military complex if he actually enforces this. You could literally give every US citizen 1000 dollars every year with the kind of money he's proposing the US needs to invest extra in the military.
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@n3viem yes that was my point. And usually you get money back at the end, since the system is designed in a way that it's almost impossible to pay too little. If you get a raise in the middle of the year, you're getting money back at the end for example, since you're paying the full taxes over that, even though your average salary over the whole year was lower. If you start your own company things are different, but then you actively choose to do that. If you just get a job, no, all taxes is money your boss paid before you ever saw said money. It's the Netherlands btw, but I believe this is pretty much the standard almost everywhere outside the US.
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 @boozie773 how's mRNA new? It's literally just a molecule in your body. That's like being afraid of something like DNA. It's not new, it's literally as old as life itself.
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This video has nothing to do with that quote. The quote is about the subscription model. The idea that subscription based services are on the rise and become more common in a wider range of products. It has nothing to do with being poor. It's about moving from buying films to getting Netflix.
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@PrairieWolff then why "you'll be happy", that doesn't make any sense in a feudalism context.
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We'll need a fundamentally different system. In theory automating jobs away is amazing, it just means we can have the same standard of living without having to do the jobs. The problem is that income is currently coupled to work. That has to change, if it won't it will anyway, but in a lot more violent way.
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I don't know how much the money argument really holds, since people do it all the time in poor countries that actually don't know if they have food tomorrow. Poor people even have more kids on average within most countries (and poor countries have way higher fertility rates). People stopped having kids since the advent of anticonception and hasn't changed a lot since then. People just have the choice now, while in the past the only way to not have kids was to be celibate all your life. People want to be rich, which is indeed easier when you don't have children, but being poor is and never has stopped people from having kids if they really want to. What does stop people from getting kids is stress, and I do believe more and more people are stressed out from the work they do, more then we used to. But I didn't have a job 40 years ago (I wasn't even alive), so I don't really know. A single income household has become rare and people aren't willing to go back to the standard of living of 70 years ago. And the standard of living 70 years ago wasn't the the typical atomic family you see when we think of the 50s, that was like the top 10%. A lot of people, way more than now, lived in abject poverty. A lot of people didn't have a car, or even a washing machine. They had to wash all the clothes by hand. I'm not blaming people at all (I don't have nor want kids myself), I just think the financial argument is bullshit. There are many arguments to not want children, but money isn't really one of them. The only reason fertility is dropping even more is because it has become more socially acceptable to do so. And I do also think that peoples perception of what your standard of living should be has increased a lot, more than what the increase in real income is. The ever present media where you constantly see rich people and excessive marketing may have something to do with it. Ads work, otherwise companies wouldn't pay for them, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people actually got worse with money with how prevalent the constant in your face 'buy more stuff' our society has become.
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Inflation is fundamentally not a problem at all. In fact it reduces wealth inequality. It reduces wealth and it reduces debt. The problem is when inflation is one sided. Inflation SHOULD cause wages to increase as well. The problem is that that didn't really happen. If all the prices double, but your income doubles as well, there is no problem at all. The real problem is profit growth. Because the stock market has moved so far in the direction of trading instead of dividend, just making a profit isn't good enough anymore, the company's value must grow and therefore profit must increase. But increasing profit margins is unsustainable in the long run. You have to stagnate wages, you have to introduce evil practises such as planned obsolescence. Maximising profits comes at the cost of the entire economy just for the benefit of a few stockholders. And this is happening en masse in the world. To the point that more or less the only way to make a lot of money today is having a lot of money. That's where the wealth inequality comes from. Inflation is an equalising force, but it only equalises if it actually increases wages adequately. In most of the western world wages need to go up about 100% to be back on track at this point.
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Just in the US really. All over Europe we had the same inflation, but wages rose more than inflation. This is really just a US problem.
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@OtiumBorealis it's not as simple as you make it out to be. Inflation is the price of products. Inflation isn't based on the supply of money for the most part, it's based on the prices of products. If stuff gets more expensive inflation goes up, it's that simple. The reason could be real scarcity, it could be increased profit margins, it could be increased tarrifs. These are all causes of inflation. The supply of money is only one relatively small component of inflation. It's a lot in the news, because it's the only part the government actually controls other than tarrifs.
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I thought the console wars were over like 10 years ago. Apperently I was very wrong.
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It's about 2x (2.06x compared to 1995), but these numbers are closer to 10x or even 20x, so games still got 5x to 10x more expensive.
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Well those games, while great, have always been niche. Both Paradox and CA are AA companies, not AAA companies. They make games that sell relatively well, but still have a far smaller player base than games like Call of Duty or FIFA.
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I mean that's kinda what happens with most cars... Honestly it makes sense, nowadays optimising games has some very deminishing returns. It's often better to focus on other stuff, like bug fixing or adding more features to a game. Optimising isn't that important anymore and it just makes better games. Are there still bad games? Yes, of course, but the frequency at which there are good games has gone up quite a bit in the last 15-20 years. Everyone just forgets all the stupid boring games that came out in 2005 and only remember the gems, and then claim that games used to be better, which just isn't true, it's the opposite. If you're comparing one of the best games between 2000 and 2010 to a modern game, you have to compared it to the game you loved to most that came out in the last 10 years, now lets see which one is winning. You shouldn't compare Skull and Bones to Elder Scrolls Oblivion, you should compare it to Sonic: the Hedgehog (2006).
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@rickroll9705 what? Movies have gotten so much faster and more complicated, at least the good ones. Old movies are extremely slow and hold your hand so much compared to modern movies. Media literacy has gone up a ton and directors know it. If you watch a movie like Oppenheimer and compare that let's say Rain Man the difference is staggering. Not that I would call Rain Man slow, but it's definitely a lot slower.
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Idk, I really liked the story. You still have a couple of hours of gameplay with him before he dies. That's still more than most movies take in its entirety. I felt like the story was by far the strongest part of the game. But I have the unpopular opinion that I actually liked the game at launch (or a few months after, I basically never buy games like this at launch).
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@silviuvisan505 30 fps is very playable, that's like most youtube video's. You need to go down to like 10 fps for it to start looking like a slide show.
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Yeah I basically exclusively play single player games or co-op games I can play with friends I know in real life.
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