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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by bananaboy »

weberer wrote: post #52
cautiouscat wrote: post #50

Nintendo gets a lot of flak for how they treat consumers and how litigious they are. However I get the impression they treat their employees very well in Japan. Like when the Wii U flopped, execs took a pay cut to avoid layoffs. No company is perfect, but Nintendo seems like an example some C-suites should follow.

Its not even like they indiscriminately shut down fan projects either. Just the ones that try to make money. You still have sites like Pokemon Showdown and Advance Wars By Web that have been running for several decades without incident.

My friends and I made a game for Ludum Dare 36 called No Mario's Sky years ago and received a DMCA take down notice. We weren't selling it, but we still had to remove it. Maybe because Mario is 100% a Nintendo property but Pokemon and Advance Wars are co-owned with other companies.

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Post by leetrout »

SSLy wrote: post #57
leetrout wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

I am afraid MK World isn't even the best kart racer on NS2. It's Sonic Crossworlds

I'm actually not loving mario kart world. I didn't know the sonic game was a thing so thank you I will check it out.

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Post by chrischen »

rjh29 wrote: post #66
isakmarr wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents That can't be true. So inflation just doesn't exist in Japan?

Historically, no. Prices were basically flat for a long time until covid.

They've also been making things smaller. Some would argue that it's a cultural thing, but being poor also means you have to start adopting austere cultural habits as a coping mechanism.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by pavlov »

epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

Japan had decades of deflation after 1990. There’s a generation of people who got used to prices staying flat or going down.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by the__alchemist »

woodruffw wrote: post #53
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

I can't say I've ever been to Popeye's, but $68 for 3 people seems unlikely based on their online prices: I picked a random one in Orlando, Florida and the "family meal" (which appears to be a very large amount of chicken) is $20. The closest thing would be the "16Pc Classic Signature Chicken Family Meal," which is $55.69 at that location and is described as feeding between 6 and 8 people. So you'd need to tip a bit…

My general assumption for any food I'm getting eating out in the US (across a range of regions) is $20/person for fast food/casual, and $30 if it's a basic restaurant. The food will be listed at $7-12 etc, but the receipt will show twice that due to fees, add-ons etc.

IMO what matters is what you pay; the numbers they post on the menus and other media aren't useful.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by woodruffw »

Retric wrote: post #56
woodruffw wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't say I've ever been to Popeye's, but $68 for 3 people seems unlikely based on their online prices: I picked a random one in Orlando, Florida and the "family meal" (which appears to be a very large amount of chicken) is $20. The closest thing would be the "16Pc Classic Signature Chicken Family Meal," which is $55.69 at that location and is described as feeding between 6 and 8 people. So you'd need to tip a bit…

Did you include tax? Also, that meal doesn’t include drinks. Poppies is significantly cheaper if you’re taking it home and supplementing with your own drinks.

Yes, but that meal is for 6-8 people. I don't think you can get to $68 for half as many people, even with drinks and tax.

I just tried it with the "8pc meal" and 3 fountain drinks for the same location, and it came to $39.36, including tax.

(If you want to try for yourself, I picked the Popeye's at 45 N Orange Blossom in Orlando, FL.)

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by StilesCrisis »

CM30 wrote: post #34
leetrout wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

Donkey Kong Bananza is probably my Switch 2 game of choice. Like it may not be marketed as such, but it's probably somewhere on par with Super Mario Odyssey in terms of game design and mechanics, and has the craziest ending sequence I've ever seen in a video game. It is a really solid 3D platformer, and does to Donkey Kong what Super Mario 64 did to Super Mario Bros/World. The DLC is really fun too, though whether it…

DKB was created by the Odyssey team so it makes sense that it scratches the same itch!

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

That's very cool. They don't say whether or not it's retroactive, though (I'll bet not).

I am astounded at some of the starting salaries, these days. Kids, right out of school, make more than I ever did, at the peak of my career.

And can't afford a house.

My father never made more than about $40K, but had a house in Potomac, two cars, and a stay-at-home wife.

Money ain't what it used to be.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by woodruffw »

the__alchemist wrote: post #75
woodruffw wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't say I've ever been to Popeye's, but $68 for 3 people seems unlikely based on their online prices: I picked a random one in Orlando, Florida and the "family meal" (which appears to be a very large amount of chicken) is $20. The closest thing would be the "16Pc Classic Signature Chicken Family Meal," which is $55.69 at that location and is described as feeding between 6 and 8 people. So you'd need to tip a bit…

My general assumption for any food I'm getting eating out in the US (across a range of regions) is $20/person for fast food/casual, and $30 if it's a basic restaurant. The food will be listed at $7-12 etc, but the receipt will show twice that due to fees, add-ons etc. IMO what matters is what you pay; the numbers they post on the menus and other media aren't useful.

This is from their online checkout, so it is what you'd pay.

(It doesn't seem implausible to me that you'd pay $20/pp for food in most parts of the US; I'm responding purely to the hearsay claim that someone paid $68 for 3 people. I can't square that unless you actually bought twice as much food, and then some.)

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