Rose
@Rose@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 1 day ago:
Just realized that I was a little gaslit there, as Epic has already had bundles since 2019, with one of the most recent being the STALKER bundle that costs less than the individual games combined. As with its game editions, a bundle can even be wishlisted, a feature lacking on Steam.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for hosting this. Many users have alts though. Would you be able to send the gift via email? At least with game gifts, that is possible on Steam.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Turns Two! 🎂🎉🥳 2 weeks ago:
Happy birthday, .zip!
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago:
I like that it’s done that way rather than by defederating, as it lets each user decide, as opposed to someone having decided for them with no way to change that.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, is there a way to see the communities included in the default blocks? I must have registered here before those were introduced, as I don’t have them.
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 3 weeks ago:
The OP says global preloading and gifting are going live soon. Bundles are also on the roadmap. At the end of the day though, what’s the main benefit of a bundle? It’s the discount, right? I’m not sure the discounts offered via bundles on Steam are an overall better deal compared to Epic offering cashback of 5% on everything, sometimes increased to 20% (like now). For some countries, Epic also offers significantly better base prices compared to Steam. It still supports the Turkish and Argentinian currencies and presumably has specific price guidelines for those as well, compared to Steam having removed those options. I also remember Epic talking about supporting more regional currencies compared to Steam. From looking at the documentation now, it’s 37 on Steam and 43 on Epic.
Regarding the app, I disagree. It was very convenient to have everything in one place (which Steam fans should understand, given their reluctance to use a different launcher) and I used the chat feature all the time, but after Valve separated them, I just got tired of switching and ended up not installing the chat app after resetting my phone OS. Sometimes I need to message a friend, but I feel like the effort of installing it and logging in is not worth it for those occasions.
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 3 weeks ago:
People love to bash Epic and list all the (often redundant) things Steam is ahead in, but nobody mentions the ways in which Epic is ahead. Something as simple as being able to chat with your friends is no longer a feature of the mobile Steam client, but if Epic sticks to the roadmap, their app will allow that. It also makes me think of how despite so many years of existence, Steam still doesn’t allow to add game editions to your wishlist, while Epic has allowed that from the start. It was also the first to introduce a custom value field for downloads throttling, before Steam followed suit.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the detailed and honest explanation!
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
Valve enabling Nazis on Steam is about as good as being a Nazi. If this is the first time you’re hearing about the problem, search for “steam nazi” via your favorite search engine and you’ll get some pretty good results among the first.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure if it’s love. When something is all you’ve known, you just view everything else as strange and inferior. When you have so many games and have had so many experiences on Steam, the cognitive dissonance of accepting that Valve is quite problematic could hard to bear. Knowing that everybody around you praises Steam, with many turning to rage and harassment when they see competitors like Epic, the fear of being ostracized and ending up in the same position as those competitors is also a strong factor at play.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
I even got to downvote that back then!
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 weeks ago:
cultivates chill working culture
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
Let Doechii do it for you 😛
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
If it does “flop”, they undoubtedly would chalk it up to it being inclusive and diverse though. Otherwise they just quickly move on to the next target.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
Very true. I have its history tracking disabled, but it still suggests those videos or creators even when I’m watching something that has no relation to outrage, like a movie trailer or a GDC talk like one on Unreal Engine.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
just agitators who don’t even play these games.
Duh, however, they get millions of views across YouTube and X and hundreds of thousands of followers on Steam.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
Searching for Dustborn on YouTube is the best way to get introduced to those channels.
- Comment on Lemmy.World no longer participates in this community 2 months ago:
The main maintainer of this instance and PrivacyGuides, Jonah, was last active on reddit just days ago, but a year ago on Lemmy. Clearly it’s not a priority for him.
By the way, it’s the same website that scrubbed the section on alternatives to the big tech social networks like Twitter and Reddit, making the wild claim that there’s no practical difference between them and the alternatives. They argued that the public nature defeats the point of privacy, but refused to account for the fact that the amount of personal and other data collected and sold by the corporations is multitudes more than what is collected by the likes of Lemmy.
- Comment on Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong 2 months ago:
I definitely felt that! Trying to check the feed and getting a 502 was not nice. Good thing I had an account with another instance for the interim. Anyway, no service is bulletproof and things absolutely go wrong when running a server, no matter how good or prepared we may be. Having working backups is instrumental and I’m glad you have that going.
- Comment on Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice 3 months ago:
Is there something like GitHub Actions that builds straight from the code?
- Comment on As Kingdom Come Deliverance II releases, what are your memories of the first title? 4 months ago:
Daniel Vavra having no clue about history and being racist.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update - January 2025 5 months ago:
One of the big platforms I managed had the issue of the founder not making a clear distinction between its moderators and administrators, which is one of the reasons I left it.
One is a public-facing role for people who are great at conflict resolution, while the other is for people who can program or manage behind the scenes. One individual exceeding at both skills is not common. More importantly, relying on someone for their admin skills means you’ll probably fear pushing them away even if they do a poor job as a moderator. This is what we saw with Rooki of Lemmy.world: despite the clear power abuse and the community recognizing that, it felt the other admins had no chance but to keep him because of his help with the platform development, so they even went as far as changing the rules.
Perhaps the issue is not as obvious now, but once the admin has been around and substantially helped you for a while, with a lot resting on their shoulders, it will be impossible for you to not think of that when deciding whether they are doing good as a moderator or if they should be let go.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 months ago:
Probably Fortnite. It’s not just one battle royale game anymore. If I feel like racing, I can play Rocket Racing. If I feel like building, I can play Lego Fortnite. Festival if I want a Guitar Hero experience, Ballistic if I want a Counter-Strike experience, and so on. It’s all tied to Epic’s servers though, so it’s not for life.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 5 months ago:
The Last Case of Benedict Fox being around 90% off was the only one with an acceptable price tag for me. Got it even cheaper via a bundle because I already owned Arise.
- Submitted 6 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments
- Submitted 7 months ago to gog@lemmy.world | 1 comment