jonesy
@jonesy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 5 weeks ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kTNIYsFnQ You can form your own opinion from this clip.
- Comment on 3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain 1 month ago:
Link was down but this release from NTI has similar info: www.nti-group.com/home/information/…/3dbenchy/
- Comment on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance 2 months ago:
I don’t know, man, I was just making a dumb joke. The article is here: theverge.com/…/google-chromecast-line-discontinue…
- Comment on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance 2 months ago:
How long until individuals start getting listed on killedbygoogle.com
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 5 months ago:
I’m not certain if it’s still the case, but the announcement earlier this year stated the upgrades were being undertaken with no increase to wholesale costs: …com.au/…/nbn-plans-to-accelerate-highest-speed-t…
That’s also not to say that the retailers don’t increase their pricing independent of the wholesale pricing.
- NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025www.nbnco.com.au ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on The Agony And Ecstasy Of The BP6 Dual-CPU Motherboard | Cathode Ray Dude 6 months ago:
Legend of a board, I still have mine in a cupboard.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 6 months ago:
Personally if there’s no technical reason for a game to be exclusive, then I just want that game to be freely available for people to buy on their platform of choice that has the features they want, or supports their values. Personally, I would prefer to see a GOG release over Steam, as I highly value that they allow me to actually download and own my game installers, they have done amazing work making older games playable and accessible on modern systems.
There’s no technical reason for Alan Wake 2 to be an Epic exclusive, it’s simply that Remedy got a financial incentive up front from Epic to release that way. This isn’t Epic trying to compete with other game platforms, but rather betting that by being the only platform to offer the game will be sufficient to attract players.
This has all played out before with other publishers pulling their games from Steam and releasing on their own platforms (Origin, uPlay etc), but both have vome.back as players will simply go and play something else rather than flock to another games.platfork.in which they have no investment. It’s something that even Sony has seen the light on and why we are now seeing historically console exclusive properties coming to PC like God of War and Last of Us.
Steam may be the biggest game in when it comes to games distribution, and monopolies are bad, but to advocate for Epic Games of all companies as an alternative is a weird position to take.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 6 months ago:
Apparently they’re not making enough profit on Epic to avoid taking a loan from Tencent.
Personally, I object to Epic using purchased exclusivity as a tool to gain market share, and refuse to capitulate to approach approach when there’s so many other games to play. If they truly.want to compete with Steam then actually make their marketplace competitive with more social and community features that Steam offers.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 6 months ago:
Another thing that would help is not releasing one of your most anticipated and subsequently well received games in recent memory exclusively on Epic. Still waiting for Alan Wake 2 to release on Steam or Gog guys…
