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so NCSoft, makers of Lineage and my beloved City of Heroes
are donating 500 million yen (about 6 million USD) to disaster relief efforts in Japan.
they're not trying to do some kind of special deal where you buy stuff from them and they send some money and still make some money
nope
they're just taking a bunch of their money, pure profits, and dumping it into the relief effort
on their website they're like
if you want to help?
donate to doctors without borders
or the red cross
or one of a bunch of other legitimate charities and NGOs
don't give us money
apocalyptic machinery
just mowin' us all down
going to bed
holy fuck
Wait, really? Are you serious?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
multi-national corporation to just say
yep, we're going to sacrifice a month's worth of our profits and run on skeleton crews and minimal power to compensate
that is hella baller
Totally.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm seriously impressed. It makes Blizzard look like a bunch of greedy cunts with their 'buy this stuffed animal and we give part of it to charity!'
Mim, that does not make a show to me. The story is bleh and I get bored pretty quickly with it. Just not my cup of tea. The only reason I have it on is complete and utter boredom at the moment.
Is this the Friday girl everyone finds so hilarious
I haven't heard that song, what's so great about it
or her for that matter
Nothing.
That's the joke.
yeah, lots of companies are doing shit like this
"buy this thing we are selling, buy stuff during our sale, and some of the proceeds will go towards disaster victims! (the rest go in our pockets)"
but NCSoft was like
nope
we're just going to donate a bunch of money and if that means we gotta tighten the belt for a little while
so be it
those greedy neoliberal corporate bastards
hmm maybe I should start playing CoH again
I don't want to order something I hate and waste it, but I don't want to drink nothing but Strongbow forever.
I keep telling people
Corporations are like human beings.
You can trust them as much as you can trust any human, which is to say, trust needs to be established and you need to find out who deserves your trust and faith
and, like humans
some of them are nice
and some of them are psychopaths
Pony and I had a conversation about this like, I think earlier in the day, where I quoted the documentary the Corporation in that the modern corporation is akin to a sociopath.
He's rubbing it in my face now.
This is actually something that bothers me.
Like, a lot.
At least, when they don't say how much of the proceeds are going to charity, or what charity they're going to.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
EVEN THE GOOD ONES
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
it's working already!!
The fuckin' breast cancer everything is probably the worst.
Buy these PINK PACKAGED mushrooms for BREAST CANCER
and then like one penny goes to breast cancer research
and the sellers look awesome
let's just stop it here
Yes.
I talk about this with people sometimes but I think I just come across looking like a sexist heartless bastard.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
new conversation
how big a loser nerd is 8-)
thank you, cass