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- Comment on Oh god 2 days ago:
I just walked past a parked car as I read that—it’s been nice knowing you all
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 5 days ago:
The Telegraph has been Tory fan fiction since about the same time as the BBC changes. Loads of scandals of them taking money from shady places to print favourable news for the questionable people in the world and turn the other way when the Tories do something shitty.
They even beat the all time biggest liar, the Daily fucking Mail in the annual making shit up awards recently (IPSO factuality violations where they are forced had to issue corrections)
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 5 days ago:
The guardian is far from flawless, but it’s one of the best news sources that we have available in the Anglosphere by an increasing margin—yes I’m including the BBC in that given everything that followed Mr Cameron’s changes to the charter in 2015.
- Comment on Anyone? 6 days ago:
I swear by O’Keefes “working hands”
It’s one of the few moisturisers that doesn’t leave my hands feeling greasy
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 6 days ago:
The speech free platform continues to remove speech.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
Looks like cherry coke zero.
Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 week ago:
Fujifilm’s Velvia color film that saturated green and blue colors.
Photography has never been an objective art.
Today’s “enhancement” is yesterday’s “choice of film”
Velvia is a banging film tho
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
MSN messenger died for Skype
Skype died for Teams
We’re not on a great trajectory here
(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Potentially related: velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-b…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Also tangentially related: one of Tim Berners-Lee’s regrets is the two forward slashes between the protocol scheme and the domain name
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Unless they made fake fibreglass installation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
I see .uk
Based on my experience, yes they probably should.
- Comment on Thats a polar bear 1 week ago:
And it’s clearly a manatee
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 1 week ago:
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 1 week ago:
Well one of the main problems people are having with AI is that it doesn’t get things correct every time.
I mean, if they adjust it away from the correct assessment that modern conservatives are actively malicious morons, it’s probably going to be so bent out of shape that it’ll be incapable of telling anything remotely truthful.
- Comment on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material 1 week ago:
What does this tell us of the teeth that your average escargot enjoyer has?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
(Sorry, you made me think of this article)
- Comment on Modern day Exodia 1 week ago:
I also used to quite enjoy the mustachioed man with plasticine on his neck
- Comment on Half Life 3 1 week ago:
Sure but that’s like calling Vice City GTA4. It’s not named that by the people that make it
- Comment on Half Life 3 1 week ago:
IIRC valve outright said it wasn’t HL3
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
Surely the sales are an equivalent there? Both ultimately mean the total price goes down and the store’s cut goes down accordingly.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely profiting these days. $11bn is a massive amount of revenue* for a company with the number of staff they do. But Steam are going to have disproportionately high datacenter costs compared to most other companies. As a rough comparison: Watching an hour of netflix at HD quality is about 1GB of transfer or so, Call of Duty is something like a quarter of a terabyte. Someone who downloads call of duty once would have to watch 250h of netflix to cost them the same.
Then remember they’re likely paying their staff very well, I would not be surprised at all if well over half of their revenue just goes to operational costs before any reinvestment.
*Checked the figure was revenue and not profit.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
I’d argue it makes more sense for digital distribution, once the sale has been made in a physical store, there’s no ongoing cost for them.
A digital storefront has the ongoing cost of downloads and updates, as well as the distributed storage costs (Steam many copies of games all over the world to mean downloads are quick)
Data transfer costs back in the mid 00s mean that every install of a game like HL2 cost them a dollar or two. If a user ever uninstalled and reinstalled more than a couple of times (a lot more common back then with the limited storage everyone had), couple that with ongoing update transfer costs and most of the profit from a full price sale could be gone. If they never made any profit from the sales, Steam never makes it past its awkward years.
Data transfer is definitely cheaper these days, but then games are bigger and they probably spend a lot more on datacenter space than back in the day
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
30% has been industry standard across any digital storefront until Epic found out they couldn’t beat steam by just paying for exclusivity deals. Then they decided to go down this race to the bottom strategy.
Steam is good because of that 30%.
Firstly, data transfer and storage isn’t free and is an ongoing cost for Steam even after purchase. How many times can you think that you installed a game, then deleted it and ultimately downloaded it again—Steam doesn’t get any more money, but that costs them. They could have done all the limited number of downloads or transfer speed limiting shit that used to be more common.
The profit they make on top goes straight back into Valve. They are a private company without shareholders to please and pay dividends to. This has allowed them to keep reinvesting into Steam and making it the best experience for the consumer they can—they’ve been rewarded with a load of goodwill and market share following that. You can guarantee that we wouldn’t have proton or the steam deck without the money valve made from steam sales.
Epic doing this is just another attempt to try and tempt developers to choose their store and not list on Steam. They have no interest in actually improving their offering, their only strategy is to try and find ways to put Steam users at a disadvantage and hope that people go “well I guess I’ll go for it on epic if I have to”. They don’t have any problem getting companies to list their games on Epic, this is 100% about manipulating developers to not list on Steam.
GoG is the alternative to Steam, and offers something that benefits consumers to compete with Steam in DRM free games.
Friends don’t let friends reward Epic for anti-consumer business practices.
- Comment on Still haven't adapted 1 week ago:
Reminds me of this: ssoready.com/…/truths-programmers-timezones/
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.
Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.
I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. That’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 1 week ago:
I mean it’s the logical conclusion of “everything the right says is projection”
If a right winger wants to ban something you can find as a category on pornhub, that’s what they’ve been clicking.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 1 week ago:
No, not at all, generally not a good sign at all. I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.
The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?
Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, I guess I’m maybe looking for one
