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People don’t understand that the nozzle needs to be calibrated…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSX0sZcp0w

I had to do something big. Because I could take all the credit if it worked, and none of the blame if not!

-American CEO culture

No, I just acknowledge reality

Obviously.

But the point isn’t the exclusives and their sales.

The point of exclusives is to get people who can only afford one platform to buy yours and be forced to buy every game from your online store.

If it didn’t make sense the first time, ask what you’re missing.

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Does someone in 2026 really not know what the fuck “capitalism” is?

We can’t even get healthcare and you think video game consoles should be a nonprofit endeavor?

It’s wild how the people running these giant corporations have no idea how their business works…

The point of modern consoles is locking someone to your store. They saw PC sales they were missing and wanted, so they ended exclusives.

Then were shocked that if people didn’t have to buy a PlayStation, they didn’t overspend in the PS store. They’d just buy the PlayStation games on PC and Sony loses their cut on all the other games.

Incredibly obvious, but only if you think more than one financial quarter at a time.

Just like this article is an example of, people will be slow to re-enter that ecosystem because exclusivity is no longer guaranteed. Why buy a console for exclusives if a year from now they won’t be exclusive again?

It would be hard to quantify, but Sony just set fire to millions and millions of dollars in profit with all this snip-snap shit.

Right on, I’ll try to remember to mess with that later.

If I ever click on “new and trending” that’s almost all the games.

It’s possible we’re seeing the same thing, and our lines are just different, they may be normal games to you

Bruh, have you seen the Steam store?

Borderline porn horny games flood the store in a lot of categories.

Filtering nudity filters porn, but also RPGs with customizable dongs like BG3.

This sounds like you go to ticketing kiosks (where you go to buy a ticket) and want to try and browse ticket prices…

That’s not how it works

You should be looking up ticket prices online and know what you want to buy before you get to the kiosk.

Like, you want to go up to a kiosk with a fucking giant machine and make everyone wait why it punches in ever option?

How the absolute fuck haven’t you been banned from every public place or not constantly chased off by angry mobs?

Do you ever think about how you affect others? Like, ever?

Gamers:

No slop games, ok guys?

Game Devs:

We’re good guys, were not gonna slop it up…

One second later

Let’s slop em up

youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI?t=250

Yeah, the roots were about to start rotting then.

It should be fine now for a couple years.

Like I said tho, pretty sure that plant species is super picky. If it still dies you might want to try like a rubber plant or something. They’re pretty easy to keep alive, which make them a lot more forgiving.

It’s like learning how to drive a manual transmission on an old Civic instead of a Ferrari.

You can make a lot more mistakes and learn from them with ruining it.

Start with what’s easy, and then move on to more difficult options that you’d enjoy more.

But damage from under watering is always more gradual and less serious than over watering for any plant. I just water mine when the soil is visibly dry or leaves are droopy, and I’ve even managed to keep a fiddle leaf alive and growing for a couple years now. If I had started with that, I’d have killed a dozen learning the basics.

A few roots are sticking out of the drainage holes a bit

Yeah, that’s not just “rootbound” that’s a serious case.

A bigger pot and new soil will def help, just watch some YouTube videos first if you’re nervous.

But if it’s growing out of drainage holes, there’s too much roots and not enough soil in the pot.

It might be something else.

But as far as repotting as soon as you get it, it depends. It might be fine for a year or two, or it might be completely rootbound in old soil that has no nutrients and just a bunch of nitrogen dumped on top as a bandaid.

I grew up on a farm, not an expert on houseplants. But most of the time if everything else seems fine but leaves are browning, it’s because there’s too much nitrogen. Especially for houseplants a lot of fertilizer is “slow release”, so if that’s the problem, repotting is the only fix. All that nitrogen in the soil will just stay there and keep getting picked up by the plant.

As far as I know, repotting “early” can’t really backfire either.

Nitrogen burn?

Either from over fertizilation or bad/old soil.

Are you buying all these from the same place? Changing out the soil and reporting might help, but pretty sure these are just “difficult” plants.

Glad to see the youth getting involved with science…

Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out of a circular pit.

The president, duh…

If Keith David is in something, he’s probably playing the president.

As long as it’s not a gagool

Did you say F or S?

-Pierce Hawthorne, who’s basically trump

And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…

They’d have to start vetting games to tell.

You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?

What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…

I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?

It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.

Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.

Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.

It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.

But no one wants to pay for that human level review.

And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.

So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.

They’d have to start doing vetting for that…

All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.

I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…

They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.

The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.

But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!

I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam

So does most of Trump’s ideas…

What different here, is it’s going to cost billion dollar tech industries a shit ton of money.

They’re gonna end up just building satellite offices in those countries to avoid the 100k up front, pay them even less, and avoid what little US working laws are left.

There was like 110k h1bs in 2024, that’s about 10 billion dollars.

Preemptive edit:

I saw something that trump can just waive this for whoever he wants, so it’s 100% going to be used as a club to try and keep big tech on his side.

Piss him off, and he’ll demand you fire every h1b he waived, or give him a giant check.

What’s actually bad about it?

Like, this is something you opt into and is only relevant if you’re watching their ad supported stuff, which I don’t know anyone who watches that over their own media on Plex.

And honestly, every “bad” thing I’ve ever heard about Plex has been the same thing, something that sounds horrible until you understand it

If you’re watching their “free” content and agree to that box…

The title made it seem waaaaay worse than what the screenshot actually says

Corporations blurred the line between “actually made in America” and “the last doohickey is attached in America” for so long that they actually forgot there’s a difference…