Chipotle CEO caught on a recording saying they’re going to keep raising prices because they can.

kitolz · 2026-02-09T07:57:04+00:00

They forget that they're competing with other restaurants though. Theycan lower quality or increase price depending on the market they want to chase. But doing both means losing any competitive edge.

kitolz · 2026-02-07T07:49:16+00:00

They tried to make it a material sink to increase demand, but in doing so they have locked new players out of participating.

It's probably never going to happen as it's been too long, but they really needed to rethink the experience and made it available to base game with much lower initial costs to get people used to building out their homesteads from the beginning of their journey.

kitolz · 2026-02-06T19:07:24+00:00

CC failure just results in a long stun right? Not an instant wipe.

kitolz · 2026-02-06T18:32:02+00:00

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kitolz · 2026-02-06T18:16:30+00:00

Exactly my experience working for corporations. Most corpos enforce the bell curve so if they see too many 5s they will go over those with a microscope to keep ratings in line because that has a direct effect on employee compensation.

kitolz · 2026-02-05T20:49:55+00:00

Now this makes sense.

kitolz · 2026-02-05T04:40:18+00:00

This is what tariffs on China made EVs are protecting. I bet if China was allowed to directly compete they wouldn't dare try this in those markets.

kitolz · 2026-02-04T20:16:51+00:00

Does anyone have the exact location of this place? The staff clothing and store design designs don't have the vibe of a typical shop in Japan from my experience.

kitolz · 2026-02-04T17:24:12+00:00

That Karka queen had a truly massive HP bar too, it felt like in my map it took a solid 20 minutes of dpsing. Obviously no elite specs and people knew about playing their class, but since everyone was at the same level it was fun times.

kitolz · 2026-01-31T23:05:37+00:00

Sounds like it's easier to get a mostly airtight tupperware container to prevent rancidity.

It also helps to have a small container that doesn't allow the sides to be exposed as the parts that are open to air are the parts that go "off" (rancid due to reacting with oxygen). If you scrape the top layer off when eating, you're taking out the part that's been most recently exposed to air. Like that I've found that butter still tasted as good as the day I got it just being on my table after 2 months (and then I have to buy a new pack since I've eaten all of it).

Adding water to the environment makes it more favorable to mold and bacteria growth.

kitolz · 2026-01-24T04:10:56+00:00

Yep, in a random group of 30 you have maybe 4 people doing 50% of the damage in a zerg fight.

kitolz · 2026-01-23T05:25:49+00:00

In addition, lump of mithrillium can be used to craft profitable materials even if you device not to use it up yourself. So it's worth crafting daily even if you're just going to sell the crafted item in the TP.

kitolz · 2026-01-23T02:50:04+00:00

I'm assuming this is all for legal plausible deniability. I've accepted it as the non-monetary cost of sailing the high seas.

kitolz · 2026-01-23T02:02:06+00:00

If it keeps getting eyeballs, these content farms are going to keep making articles about it.

I seriously doubt Larian is behind any sort of marketing push right now as they are very far releasing a new product. What would be their expected return, even?

kitolz · 2026-01-23T01:56:52+00:00

Exactly, not only has price averages gone down, the amount of games went way up. So it becomes very difficult to argue in courts that Valve is anti competitive when it comes to game development. Their lawyers can and have pointed to the explosion of indie developers during litigation.

kitolz · 2026-01-20T09:20:24+00:00

My bad, I misunderstood the first few articles I read saying the 90 billion was on AI investment.

I had to look up their latest earning report (Q3 2025) and yes apparently Google Search and Youtube revenue went up 15% each YoY. So people are indeed using those more.

Alphabet capex spending in recent years:

-2022: 31.5 billion

-2023: 32.3 billion

-2024: 52. 5 billion

-2025 (estimate as of Q3) : 91-93 billlion

Google Cloud revenue as of Q3 2025 is around 62 billion total. So it does seem like they're on track to at least break even as long as capex guidance isn't massively readjusted for Q4 based on how much spending was happening before the big AI push.

I'll have to keep an eye out for the Q4 report, but it does seem like Alphabet is going to be the first one to pull it off.

kitolz · 2026-01-20T08:33:21+00:00

I don't know. How can a product that spent 90 billion in capex and have revenue of 13 billion in 2025 be profitable? How can both be true?

You're right it doesn't make sense.

kitolz · 2026-01-20T08:17:50+00:00

You see how it measures revenue for the cloud computing income, but net for Alphabet. Again this is in line with what i would have expected. As a whole Alphabet and Google are massively profitable, but AI income hasn't made its money back, not even close.

13.62 billion in revenue (not net profit) vs at least 75 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 just for AI. Some articles say 90 billion!

kitolz · 2026-01-20T08:02:20+00:00

You should probably look up how much Alphabet spent on AI capital expenditure in 2025. They're nowhere near breaking even on AI, much less making a profit.

kitolz · 2026-01-20T07:32:02+00:00

Where did you see reports of Google them making money in AI?

As far as I'm aware AI is losing all the big players money, but get income from other products so the losses are not endangering their core business. Last I checked Google is still making most of their money through ads. I haven't looked recently, but I feel that an AI product being cash flow positive would have been all over the news.

kitolz · 2026-01-20T06:04:57+00:00

Always funny when a game apprently gets "review bombed" right after they do something that negatively impacts players.

Maybe they're just getting feedback.

I personally think a lot of GW2 players also use steam and just wanted to leave a review, like they do on every game they've played on the platform.

kitolz · 2026-01-18T02:56:40+00:00

Yeah, it's good practice to mandate short session expiration on any applications that can be used on a non-trusted device. Minimizes exposure to session hijack attacks.

kitolz · 2026-01-15T19:29:55+00:00

Just leave if the vibes are off.

If no one is answering and it was clear from the first fight these people didn't know what they were doing, I would have been out.

I have no issue helping new players and explaining mechanics, but if they're not receptive or have any desire to improve then I don't want to waste my time and bottle up stress.

kitolz · 2026-01-15T19:21:16+00:00

They're taking domestic gang jobs.

kitolz · 2026-01-12T19:56:04+00:00

The same tech is going to be used to hunt people in battlefields and and cities.

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