u/Adventurous_Safe_138

This post is abit after the fact because this happened over CNY but my mother just brought it up again so here goes

I will keep this post short but feel free to ask if you want more questions/tea

Basically, my sister got married early last year. Before the wedding, our family got along very well with her husband. But during wedding prep, my parents suddenly demand for an extravagant GDL (with fat angbaos to match)

There was some back and forth about it but the husband basically said if they want to act like he's "buying" her, he will reciprocate in kind.

Since then, he has practically refused to let my sister meet us, citing that my parents have sold her off. Entire CNY we saw them for <2 hours. They spend almost all their free time with his family.

Just wondering if this is normal? My parents are contemplating returning the GDL just to see their daughter a little more.

Some info:

My sister does not have alot of money or savings, there's no way she could have helped with the GDL

He also not very rich, hearsay he really had to explore every avenue to scrape together the $

My parents (MIGHT) have had the wrong impression that he was wealthier than he actually was when they demanded the GDL

SORRY WRONG INFO: I have told some people in this thread that my parents did not return any of it. I just checked and I was wrong: They actually returned $88 (somehow I feel like this made it worse lmao)

Edit2 / more info:

My sister is not held from us against her will. She has made it clear its her own decision to stand by her husbands wishes.

I will not disclose how much was the $$$

Hello everyone,

Some folks, and maybe admins, might see this post as bragging but I hope you'll let me share my achievement nonetheless.

I first laid hands on powerapps as an intern in 2016. From there, my boss made me explore it when I started my first job in 2018.

I didnt study CS or anything like that in Uni, so this was all new to me. Since then its been 8 years of working on powerplatform, building solutions for my company and our clients. And at some point I started lurking on this sub and r/powerplatform, just seeing what the community is up to.

Throughout that time, Power Platform adoption was slow in my country. Jobs and opportunities didnt come by too often. Many times I thought about switching to some other career path. Im glad I didnt. Because next week, after 8 years, I start at Microsoft.

The role is a pretty respectable one and I am beyond stoked. It may not be much of an accomplishment to most people, but coming from a non-IT background, working at Microsoft was a career ambition of mine that felt unattainable for so long.

Anyway, thanks for reading this far. I hope PowerPlatform has been and will continue to be as rewarding to you guys as it has been to me 🫡

Edit: I realised I forgot to mention that I'm actually really nervous to start next week and writing this post was my wife's suggestion to calm my nerves 😅

The business model for live service games is usually making money from in game purchases like cosmetics, loot boxes or memberships. Arc Raiders doesnt seem to have a very big emphasis on their in game purchases (they're not pushing them onto players nearly as much as other games)

So as the game stabilises its player count and new purchases of the game dwindles, do you think embark with switch to more aggressive marketing of their in game purchases?

They've got to make money somehow right? I just hope its not lootboxes/blindboxes/gachas