Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 hours ago:
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 day ago:
Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files.
I can do that today too. I can buy from gog, download the installer an burn it to a DVD. I now own a physical object with the game files that gog or the game publisher can not easily take away from me. I’d still just own a license, not the game, and the license can be revoked. They just couldn’t really keep me from playing the game even after it was.
You need to understand the difference between having something in your possession and having the rights to it. You never owned any video game, even in the days of cartridges, they were always licenses.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 4 days ago:
to be a communist he would have to have been a dictator who seized power with force rather than democratically elected.
Communism and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 weeks ago:
You have the most powerful military in the world and basically are your allies’ (former) protective power. There is no outside help coming because (among other reasons of course) nobody is physically able to help you.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 weeks ago:
Let’s see who is as old as I am.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 weeks ago:
In BG3, when I accidentally released the breaks on the windmill.
- Comment on Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power 2 weeks ago:
It’s the most expensive form of power we know. It’s far from clean (still shouldn’t pick too many mushrooms in parts of Europe), and it’s really funny you should bring up “limitlessness” when competing against the Sun and Wind.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 3 weeks ago:
Not if you only receive 40% of the wages too because the gains go to the capitalists.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 weeks ago:
That one is so much more fun once your buffs last all day.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 weeks ago:
That’s true with many regulations. The quiet part that they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is that behaving ethically and responsibly doesn’t earn them money.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 weeks ago:
Oh, so just like with the GDPR, cool.
- Comment on The resemblance is uncanny 1 month ago:
That was her HAIR? Fuck, I thought it was a weird hat! Screen resolution sure was bad back then.
- Comment on We are helping 2 months ago:
Both things can be true at the same time.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
I do want a TV that can access Netflix etc without another box. I just don’t want the surveillance that comes with it.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
Can i summon it anywhere without going there?
And do you create matter from nothing or do you relocate preexisting gravel? I see a way to virtually free unlimited energy here with the use of gravity batteries.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 2 months ago:
He made it on his own. 40 Million copies even at 10$ and with steam taking 30% is still 280,000,000$. I honestly don’t think you need to worry for ConcernedApe’s financial situation.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 2 months ago:
So far foreign companies don’t appear to be eating the cost. So the impact to their competitiveness seems to not be high enough to force them. It’s likely to stay that way.
It’s important to understand that if you place tariffs on all imports of a certain good, you also incentivize domestic manufacturers to increase their prices to just below those of the taxed imports, at least as long as domestic supply is lower than domestic demand (so they can expect to sell all they have anyway).
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 2 months ago:
Obviously this is aimed at the simple one click solutions like ublock origin that are far more widely used and therefore impact ad revenue more. The relatively few tech savvy people who get around it with more complicated solutions don’t matter in the big picture.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 4 months ago:
Also, slave labor.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 4 months ago:
Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of the customer base you built with initially cheap subscriptions / good service.
First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.
Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.
When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won’t sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can’t use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won’t leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn’t have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won’t leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. “What’s a few more bucks a month, what’s a little additional ad before my game loads, what’s a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers”. That’s the enshittification part.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 4 months ago:
This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time. That’s what economy is.
The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn’t diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can’t fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 4 months ago:
Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 4 months ago:
Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven’t seen from them, so let’s hope that’ll work out.
I’m hyped.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 4 months ago:
If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Asssange.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 4 months ago:
Garbage out is what he aims for.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank 5 months ago:
You first.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Ok, but which? Can you sue them if Galaxy, a free tool that they provide for convenience and that isn’t required for the actual service, doesn’t work, or if it breaks a game? Name one thing.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use galaxy.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn’t work you can download games from the website.
Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.
