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- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 days ago:
That’s literally how it works. If you run a store selling/licensing media you get to decide what’s on the shelves and what isn’t.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 days ago:
It is available on other, quite popular, stores. GOG and itch.io are household names in PC gaming.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 days ago:
I haven’t heard about the details, what’s your source on that?
As far as I recall, the developer said he didn’t know the actual reason for the ban.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 5 days ago:
Valve is pretty upfront about being a business first and foremost. Their customers are loyal because they consistently provide high value at reasonable prices, even though they are in a dominating position in the market. They’ve taken unpopular decisions in the past, but never any that seriously alienated a meaningful chunk of their customer base.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 5 days ago:
Based solely off the trailer I can see how a big American storefront would err on the side of caution here. There is very little to gain from carrying a game decidedly built with controversy in mind, but a lot to loose.
With the publicity around it and sales still possible through alternative stores maybe things will turn out alright for the developer in the end. “Banned” media is always in demand, after all.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 1 week ago:
This is the reasonable way.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t Valve just fix this with Fex?
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 weeks ago:
Venn with the Taliban is growing.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 weeks ago:
Gotta appreciate the choice of ad, though.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 1 month ago:
From a business/productivity side it would be cataclysmic.
For the private life of people quite the opposite, things would get a lot more sane.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 1 month ago:
Honestly: does anyone at this point think to themselves that using an OppenAI browser is a good idea? What does it even provide in terms of benefit over literally any alternative?
- Comment on Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program 2 months ago:
Nice!
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 months ago:
Now that I think about it, the situation in the US really does play out like an unconscionable large version of Lord of the Flies.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 months ago:
Twelve year olds are more advanced, make it 8.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Going for plastic when paying instead of using a digital wallet, using the banks’ websites for transactions instead of the app.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 2 months ago:
Sure, throw more shit at the wall, maybe this will stick. I doubt it, though.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
So it would seem.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Beats me! I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone in preparation for a Linux one. These things will very likely not work on non-proprietary devices.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
There’s never been a more urgent time to switch to Linux on pretty much every device.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 months ago:
Thank God I’m out of there.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
All I really wanted was SQ42 back when I supported it on Kickstarter. With my 20 bucks there’s no regret, but it’s quite funny where things have gone since then.
I install the latest alpha once every year and am both amazed and disappointed.
I don’t expect SQ42 to be released before 2030 and I do expect it to be a buggy, unoptimized mess when it finally arrives.
I’ve been thoroughly entertained all those years, though.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 months ago:
Since I made the switch these kinds of news are hilarious! Yes, make Win 11 into hell! Your customers are your shareholders, users are too be exploited! How long can it last? Who cares, only the next quarter counts!
- Comment on Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source! 2 months ago:
They built it with PHP? Oof.
- Comment on Tesla offers pay package to CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion 2 months ago:
Totally cool and normal, definitely not a scam.
- Comment on Time for a purge 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 3 months ago:
He is on the way of becoming the Trofim Lysenko of our time. The results of his work will be… interesting.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 4 months ago:
You know what also blocks Recall reliably? Not using Windows.
- Comment on Don't worry it builds character 4 months ago:
Except the ride doesn’t stop under any circumstances, ever.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 months ago:
Thank God we have the GDPR in Europe.
- Comment on StarLink reportedly down world wide 4 months ago:
This is what industry professionals call a “whoopsie”.