DireTech
@DireTech@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 days ago:
Sorry if I took it the wrong way. I can see some common ground in Steam vs others and Apple vs others since both focused on the user experience against really poor competition in that area, though Apple has a helluva stronger walled garden.
I do think fanboying a for profit company is silly, but a lot of this is also driven by hate for Epic’s CEO. Epic’s just another business that wants to make money and that alone isn’t the reason people keep backing Steam on these threads. People shit on them because their CEO is an asshole who spends a lot of time bitching about other storefronts while their own still sucks 7 years after release despite the company raking in billions. Guy tries to act like he’s some underdog despite Unreal engine having a greater stranglehold over game development.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 days ago:
Epic doesn’t do a single thing that doesn’t directly result in profits. Features are only added off they can derive income from them. Lawsuits are filed so they can take a larger percentage of profits. Even his twitter posts are mainly about him getting a larger cut, when he isn’t defending AI child porn.
Valve is very old school in their ‘keep improving your offering and it will work out’ way. Usually companies like that get bought out and their name run into the ground. It sadly happens in all industries, from Samsonite luggage to BioWare games and even service companies.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 days ago:
Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.
Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 4 weeks ago:
Huh I still don’t remember ever getting an open ended choice.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 4 weeks ago:
No because we can’t add our own picks. You choose from a limited selection.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 4 weeks ago:
Would love this for sofas. Last one I got was crap and I find myself regretting not continuing to fix up our old 80s era leather sofa. That thing was built to survive the Cold War.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 weeks ago:
What is a hallucination if not AI being confidently mistaken by making up something that is not true?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 weeks ago:
Either you’re using them rarely or just not noticing the issues. I mainly use them for looking up documentation and recently had Google’s AI screw up how sets work in JavaScript. If it makes mistakes on something that well documented, how is it doing on other items?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
Considering my kids already refer to pre millennial days as the ancient 19’s, you can already do it with the younger crowd.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 month ago:
Bravo for writing so much you had me believing Anthro Heat wasn’t exactly what the title sounds like.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
They only count the official release date on Steam. DLC/expansions don’t count even if they are new releases, which I consider pretty odd. My report shows zero new games played, yet I played two expansions that came out this year.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 2 months ago:
Of course it had to happen to the best game to come out of the AC franchise. I freaking love black flag.
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 2 months ago:
But what if they smack it so it spins around and hits me like in a cartoon? Not sure I can take that risk.
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 2 months ago:
But they let me see who is at the door without coming up from the basement.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
If by disparity you mean sometimes Windows is better and sometimes Linux is better. I have one of those GPUs. Give it a try before you slam it. Valve has thrown so much money into Proton that support is amazing compared to when I tried a decade ago.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 months ago:
Google does it so much I’ve had trouble finding favorite places because they’d rather show an ad that overlaps it.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 months ago:
It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 months ago:
Speaking for the US, major universities may be there for research, but they are a small portion of the mass of schools across the country.
People have mostly been getting degrees to get a good job since at least shortly after WW2. It’s silly to pretend people are going massively in debt without the expectation of a return on that investment.
Nothing against people learning for the joy of learning, but I absolutely hold schools accountable for not making job prospects clear when most of the students are both young and ignorant of the world.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 5 months ago:
Did you see another video about this? The one linked only showed the walls and still showed them doing interior framing. Nothing about windows, electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc.
What they showed could speed up construction but there are tons of other steps involved.
I do wonder how sturdy it is since it doesn’t look like rebar or anything else is added.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 5 months ago:
Since when is a 300 person company a startup? I feel like you lose any claim to that long before you hit 100.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 5 months ago:
You literally assumed the article was correct and said ‘his actions were illegal as hell’ when all it has is a picture of him throwing a rock. Your comment seems to presume guilt but I’m going to assume he’s innocent until there’s actual evidence shown.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 5 months ago:
After how many felony charges were dropped in LA from police falsifying testimony, I’d have to see a full recording of him throwing a rock and hitting the cop to believe they had the right guy and the pictures weren’t unrelated.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 7 months ago:
This was all via chat so much faster than the painful voice prompts. I agree those are terrible.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 7 months ago:
The kind of AI I mentioned isn’t a massive resource sink. I can run that sort of thing locally on my own computer. They don’t need supercomputers for level 1 material.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 7 months ago:
Nah, AI chatbots are at least useful for the basic repetitive things. Your modem isn’t online, is it plugged in? Want me to refresh it in the system? Comcast adding that saved me half an hour a month on the phone.
I fully believe they’re at least as good as level 1 support because those guys are checking to see if you’re the type to sniff stickers on the bottom of the pool.
- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 7 months ago:
What’s wrong with Safari on iOS? I prefer Firefox on my computer but on my phone all I want is better adblocking.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch 7 months ago:
Yeah that’s the only reason I’ve considered it. However, things have changed a lot since the Switch 1 came out. Existing Switch emulators will likely work well on Switch 2 soon given the similar hardware and the Steam Deck massively raised the bar on what I expect out of a portable system.
Plus the controller still looks like it sucks for adult hands.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 8 months ago:
Working as a solo dev on a project you know by heart is literally the easiest work to do. If you’ve never had to work on a large old codebase you have no idea just how hard it can be to make changes.
I’ve done this sort of thing for years and I would not even give an estimate on a change for a new project without some time to look at the code base.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 8 months ago:
Can’t be done is usually shorthand for the cost massively outweighs the benefits. No different from remodeling a building. Like coding, literally anything is theoretically possible but sometimes you’d have to redo so much existing work it’s never going to be worth it.