inlandempire
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- Comment on Steam Next Fest - October 2024 edition is now live with lots of demos 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily, I think Steam only allows demos that have not previously been featured in Next Fest, but some have demos that were available before the event started.
Demos can totally be available outside, but some devs prefer to feature their demo during the event, it’s kind of a marketing step before release
- Comment on Steam Next Fest - October 2024 edition is now live with lots of demos 2 weeks ago:
For events/sales on Steam in general, it’s an opportunity for Publishers to showcase their games through events disguised as “sales”.
For the Steam Next Fest in particular, it’s an opportunity for Developers to show their upcoming games, and you get an absurd amount of demos available to play, for free!
For me, the Next Fest is a nice way to find interesting games, see what the indie scene has to offer, and have access to free games I can play in short sessions. Every edition, I download around 50 demos, and try to play them throughout the week (and the following week because some are still available after the event ends)
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Joker - Folie à deux 4 weeks ago:
Just came back from it, I regret sleeping on La La Land, because had I watched it, I would have skipped Joker 2
- Comment on Fossilesque appreciation post 1 month ago:
Ceci n’est pas une mémé
- Comment on Anon composes game soundtracks 1 month ago:
Underwater level : PTSD
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 2 months ago:
Listenbourg from Lidl
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months ago:
Oh wow thanks for the correction, I’ll edit my comment
- Comment on How is Open Source developed paid? 2 months ago:
Most open source projects will have a donation page / link, so it relies on people feeling compelled to donate because the software provided is useful to them.
Lemmy for example has options for financially supporting its development. Some Lemmy instances also feature a link to a donation page to cover the hosting costs.
Some have an organisation behind it, like Firefox has the Mozilla Foundation to finance it.
The team behind VLC has a “for profit” branch that adapts the video software for companies, allowing them to also finance VLC’s development in addition to donations.
- Comment on I invented this a few days ago (and I even patented it) 2 months ago:
I personally couldn’t run in it
- Comment on why is lemmy.world such a toxic queerphobic shithole? 3 months ago:
can you be more specific what you’re talking about ?
- Comment on What's does "ffmpeg" really stand for? 5 months ago:
Good bot
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
When life gives you Reddit…
- Comment on Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux 6 months ago:
Their data overall feels very cherrypicked
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 7 months ago:
Their manifestation in our world was limited, they have already gone to another plane of existence
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 9 months ago:
Man to me it’s their best, I loved every single part of it, I connected to the story and it’s relation to gameplay more than any of their other titles
- Comment on This was actually a thing btw 9 months ago:
I guess some laws can be forgotten. From 1800 to 2013, there was a french law that banned women from wearing pants in Paris : www.senat.fr/questions/base/…/qSEQ120700692.html
- Comment on This was actually a thing btw 9 months ago:
The law was overturned in 2015 apparently: theguardian.com/…/basques-safe-iceland-district-r…
The edict was issued in 1615 after a storm destroyed three Basque whaling vessels on an expedition in Iceland. Eighty members of the crew survived, said Gudmundsson, and were left stranded in the area. “They had nothing to eat, and there were accounts of them robbing people and farmers,” he said.
The brewing conflict between locals and the whalers prompted then-sheriff Ari Magnússon to draw up a decree that allowed Basques to be killed with impunity in the district. In the weeks that followed, more than 30 Basques were killed in raids led by the sheriff and local farmers. “It’s one of the darkest chapters of our history,” said Gudmundsson, noting that the incident known as the Slaying of the Spaniards ranks among the country’s bloodiest massacres.
Four centuries later, Gudmundsson decided it was time to set right the wrongs of history. Last week, at the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to the Basque whalers who were killed, he repealed the decree. “This decision was made 400 years ago and it has never formally been repealed until now.”
- Comment on Percentage of sewage being released to the Environment without treatment 11 months ago:
I know for sure it’s not blue when I’m healthy haha
- Comment on Percentage of sewage being released to the Environment without treatment 11 months ago:
That colour key is also mildly infuriating