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- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 12 hours ago:
Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.
I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.
It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.
I do like Valve overall though and am a fan.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 15 hours ago:
I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 1 day ago:
His cash grab was steam, lol.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 1 day ago:
Is assassin’s creed any good? Once a game becomes a franchise with a bajillion releases I just tune it out. Feel the same way about marvel movies. Maybe they’re good, maybe they’re bad, but I’m more annoyed that they’re trying to shove it down my throat, so I tune out.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 2 weeks ago:
I always wondered this too. It was a good idea 15 years ago. But, they don’t offer enough to justify the price. Literally everyone offers cloud storage now and a million other features too.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Do China next
- Comment on How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up. 4 weeks ago:
I degoogled in 2018. Not much would change for me.
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 1 month ago:
Microsoft will under invest in the space and then panic when someone releases a viable product.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
It’s funny that Apple was added later given that it is the most valuable company… it’s seen the highest stock growth of any company on earth.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Yeah and they have an average tenure of like 1.2 years, but their stock vesting schedule gives you 5% in year one, then 15%, 40%, and 40%. So you’re pretty likely to never get whatever carrot they dangle in front of you.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I really do wonder if Amazon will run out of people willing to work for them someday. Their approach assumes there is an infinite supply of workers to burn through. Given everything I’ve witnessed from the company, I’d never work there. Do they at some point poison the labor pool against them?
- Comment on 2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC! 1 month ago:
It was surprisingly very good.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
“OP wants to pay an American middleman to import the Chinese junk for him”
- Comment on The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics. 1 month ago:
Listen to the episode from last week “why cynicism is bad for you” … you’re on to something with your post here that is covered a lot in the episode.
- Comment on The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics. 1 month ago:
Do you listen to The Grey Area?
- Comment on Telegram will allow users to report illegal content in private chats 2 months ago:
So as long as everyone is complicit, no one will report
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
What happened to his hair?
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
It would be nice if the GrapheneOS dev would work it out with the FairPhone folks to make a device that could be supported. I don’t know why any company would hesitate to work with him, he is obviously doing good stuff, but I agree, Pixel only is kind of a turn off because it doesn’t seem like a long term path to building something sustainable in terms of both hardware and software. It’s a workaround.
- Comment on Elasticsearch is open source, again 2 months ago:
They got forked and were losing users?
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
So what you’re saying is, each site gets its own container?
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Does this make containers unnecessary? Or basically built in?
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Waiting for the day the headline reads “Microsoft officially killing Windows.”
- Comment on Golly-gee, what possibly could have caused you to stop using your account? 2 months ago:
I just sign up and cancel every few months depending on whether I actually have time and something I want to watch.
I used to just let the subscription run, but not anymore.
- Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes 2 months ago:
Yeah and they make ad revenue hand over fist. So anything else is just “experimental” to them aka a cost center. Since they don’t commit to these side products they don’t become profitable and inevitably get cancelled.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 2 months ago:
lol, the irony is patreon is also a platform. Its platforms all the way down.
- Comment on Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla 3 months ago:
They do look a like
- Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS 3 months ago:
The fact that they’re running 3.1 is not something to be proud of. They’re probably extremely vulnerable to any other attack.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
That’s why steam looks outdated
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
Cya