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- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 5 days ago:
They do. There are plenty of indie Devs.
Exactly. In fact, there are so many indie Devs that it’s nigh-impossible to break through the massive numbers of them. Occasionally there are breakthroughs like Stardew Valley, Hades, Vampires, etc.
On the other hand, you partner with a company like Microsoft or Sony and you’re basically guaranteed success. They put up all the capital to make sure you make it to release (albeit probably a rushed, half-baked one that you just fix later because why not). Even if your game blows ass and is completely broken, full of DRM, microtransactions and ads, gamers still buy that shit up.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 5 days ago:
what’s holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies
Same thing as any other business: money.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 1 week ago:
I mean there are certainly benefits…
I would argue modern games are much more fun when their publishers aren’t trying to explore new ways to fuck you (which seems to be always).
- Comment on Video Game Preservation Has Become an Industry Urgency 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
This is the way YouTube likes it, unfortunately
- Comment on Palworld Creator Loves That Others Are Trying To Clone The Game 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, let’s make a clone of a clone.
I’m so tired of original games being cloned and emulated.
I just started up Shadow Warrior 3 and it’s just a clear rip-off of Doom and Ghostrunner.
- Comment on Game designer created a Playdate game to pop the question to the love of his life 4 weeks ago:
“No Steve, stop trying to always get me to play your stupid video games!”
That’s how that would have worked out for me.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
Did I what?
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
Only if they’re allowed to. ActivityPub exists to spite of Meta, so I’d be very surprised if anyone allowed to them have any sort of negative influence.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
I was curious if you had an explanation I hadn’t heard before.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
They will be the most anti-consumer, exploitative influence the law will allow
You’re right. They will. But there’s nothing they can influence. Laws be damned. No one owns ActivityPub.
there’s no good argument for going along willingly, IMO.
Except the one where, you know, you can use the Fediverse as an actual social media outlet where your friends and family are, public figures and all that, without subjecting yourself to ads and spying. I think that’s a pretty good one.
Oh and all of your friends and family can do the same, if they so choose.
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 5 weeks ago:
Lots of great reasons to print. Paper can’t run out of power. Can be stored for hundreds of years without concern for corruption. It’s a lot cheaper than another screen. Etc. etc.
Not to mention the scanner so I can scan all the garbage people, companies, and government send me in the mail.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
…why?
- Comment on This Asus PC case monitors your dust filter so you don't have to 5 weeks ago:
a small LED will illuminate on the side of the case. It’s tastefully done.
Surprised it’s not integrated into some AsusIQ spyware or something.
Also surprised they’re not using a simple pressure sensor.
- Comment on Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 5 weeks ago:
I don’t necessarily have a problem with advertising in general. I kinda hate that too. What I have a problem with is super invasive advertising where it collects a monumental amount of personal information, maliciously and often without your consent, to target ads for specific products.
And anyone who says they’re not doing it, I don’t believe them anymore.
Roku is capturing everything that’s on your TV and processing it as personal data.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
There’s no other way.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
Just Google it.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen an artist on Bandcamp that I actually recognize.
Telling anyone to “just Google it” is proof that you have no intention of a good faith discussion.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable 1 month ago:
I understand what “the idea is”. The only way to make that will happen is to get people to stop buying them. And I think it’s abundantly clear at this point that that is not going to happen.
So yes, piracy is and will be your only recourse.
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 month ago:
How do you even buy music anymore?
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Not right now it can’t
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Not when you’re campaigning for people to vote for you.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
To be clear, this is supposedly temporary and eventually it’s supposed to be bidirectional but I will be totally unsurprised if they “never get around to it”.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Yes but then they couldn’t post to Threads. Which is where far more people are, unfortunately.
- Comment on Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5 1 month ago:
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yes, far more than that, actually.
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These games were not released last year. It says right in the title that they’re old games.
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- Comment on Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable 1 month ago:
We’ve all been there right? You paid for a game, it required an active internet connection
Yes I’ve been there. I immediately refunded the game and then downloaded a pirated copy that worked offline.
- Comment on Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform 1 month ago:
You can’t really have it both ways…
I don’t want it both ways.
Allowing third-party apps also allows those apps to scrape and store user info, which is what Cambridge Analytica did.
Accessing an API is not scraping. Scraping is still possible without an API. All CA did was access public information. The problem in that case is not access to public information, it is intentional paid disinformation.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
I’ve been “trying it myself” for over a year. It’s a giant pain in the ass. And that’s for someone who is tech-literate.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
You’re lying.