Carrot

@Carrot@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon delivers a prophecy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the fact that 30% is a lot, but the way you’ve written it suggests no one but Valve takes a 30% cut. 30% is pretty standard for game platforms. Steam, GOG, Apple’s App Store, Google’s Play Store, PlayStation’s PSN, Microsoft’s Xbox Store, and Nintendo’s eShop all take 30%. The only reason why Epic Games takes less of a cut is because it’s the only way they might entice games to get published on their platform.

  Steam is super problematic in so many ways, I just don’t think their 30% cut is as big a deal as everyone thinks it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon delivers a prophecy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an adamant AI hater, but I think this is fine. If the game runs smoothly and without bugs, I don’t care if the game was programmed with AI. If it’s a buggy mess, it gets filtered out with all the other asset flip garbage. Steam supports returns and you can pretty quickly determine if a game is garbage within that return window, and leave a review saying it’s a buggy mess. Sure, it’s an extra step but almost all of the buggy garbage on Steam is immediately apparent from the Steam page or a AAA game, both of which would never get my purchase to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good to know what can kill you in each state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and Washington definitely has grizzlies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hide and seek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, definitely not the same cat, but better a different cat than none at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck, space cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s pretty much the same, though shockingly, One Piece doesn’t have a lot of filler episodes, but instead stretches out the “filler” (long camera holds, repeated scenes, flashbacks, etc.) across cannon episodes. Naruto had something like 40% of its episodes that were entirely content that wasn’t in the manga, One Piece has like 10%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecosystem services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be before it cost money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m sad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in the US, I’ve used the YMCA for many years, it had a decent gym. When I had to move, I just had to talk to the receptionist on my way out of my last visit and they cancelled my subscription in a few minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate got every wrong answer before the one you wanted lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping my promise to Zephyr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally prefer Hoss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beatboxing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anytime I see anything related to beatboxing I feel compelled to bring up the most insane beatboxer I have ever seen, WING. All of his stuff is great, but check out his song “Dopamine” if you haven’t heard it, it’s what made him really blow up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like a corn dog 👉👈⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both sticks are also in the same corndog in the mirror. That’s because this meme was brought to you by AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main issue is that, once you have enough value in stock, you can take loans out against it, thus extracting the value of the stock without actually having to sell the stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cultural impact⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know there was a 3rd one, I thought everyone was talking about the second one this whole time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Language barrier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious how it is for other languages, but I find that in English I can usually understand someone trying to explain something using incorrect words and bad grammar if we go at it long enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smut book author

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been waiting for this for a long time.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was as well. Put off buying it for years, as I am the patient gamer who waits for deals. I caved after playing Satisfactory and still having the itch to build factories

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the dog people out there⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s cute, but I cannot agree with selective breeding for defects, so I would never own one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shoutout to yall⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was going to say that this is the bare minimum of public decency, if you don’t think this is normal behavior you are a plague on this earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #54⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only missing ones these days are consoles, since they have proprietary codebases that Godot doesn’t support. There are companies/tools you can pay for to port them over, but those are really expensive ($800/year for the most popular one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cycle lane paused after thousands of locals object⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as I got a bike path near my home that led to my grocery store, I stopped driving to the grocery store. This only happened when two bike routes were linked together, since I live off an arterial street. You either have to be willing to put in a huge stretch of bike lanes all over, all at once, or be willing to put up with a few stretches of underutilized bike lane until enough are added that they become usable. With your mindset, you could never go from no bike support to having bike supporting infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch just surpassed the DS as Nintendo's best-selling console ever⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree here I think, the DS was a fun iteration on an existing console (gameboy advance xp), but the Switch spawned a new classification of console. The hybrid console has pretty much taken over casual gaming, including Steam’s Steam Deck, Microsoft’s ROG Xbox Ally, and Playstation’s Portal (PS kinda phoned it in here). While I don’t think that hybrid consoles will replace normal consoles altogether, I do think the Switch has made having a handheld variation of your console a necessity moving forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the fact that they aren’t a great company, but anyone who’s shopped around for skins/decals knows that dbrand is a cut above the rest in terms of quality. I’ve stopped buying from them due to how they run things, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France seeks to ban social media for children under 15⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The old canned chat Club Penguin was a safe space for kids on the internet in my youth. Sure, you could have snowballs thrown at you, but since there were canned-chat-only servers, it was a safe space to hang out and make friends, despite not getting to know them very deeply.

  I think it was a pretty solid approach to teaching children how to interact with the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Straight up snorkin' it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My exact thought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw MS⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can remap using AHK. I did it for my father in law a few months ago. AHK runs at startup, he doesn’t have to do anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a mode to turn off the creatures for exactly that reason. I haven’t tried it, but other than the spooky factor the creatures don’t add a ton to the game, so it probably wouldn’t lessen the experience. (There is a small thing, but it’d spoil some story elements if I were to say them here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, people can use the presets, but on a lower end machine, those aren’t perfect for getting the most out of your specific hardware. What I meant there was that consoles, and by extension the steam deck/steam machine, have the exact setting loadout for that hardware dialed in.

  Sure, he could pay someone to upgrade it for him, but at that point it loses a lot of the benefits that come with being able to upgrade in the first place.

  The Fractal Terra is actually larger than all modern consoles. The Fractal Terra is 11.4 liters. The PS5 is 7.2 liters. The Xbox series X is 6.9 liters. The steam machine is 3.8 liters, 3x smaller than the Fractal Terra. When it comes to dimensions, the Xbox series X is smaller in all dimensions, and while the PS5 is longer and wider, it’s height is half that of the Fractal Terra. The steam machine is pretty similar in two of the three dimensions, but the depth is less than half that of the Terra. The Fractal Terra is a really nice, small case, but it’s only small for a PC, not a console.

  As for normalizing incompetence, I doubt you have as extensive a knowledge as you do for computers for every single thing you interact with every day. Knowing “how to use one” is different from knowing how to build and upgrade one.

  You come across as someone who is smart, and yet doesn’t fully understand that half the population is below the 50th percentile. The generalizations you make for yourself and those you regularly interact with cannot be made for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I haven’t seen any evidence that Trump is straight. Evidence that he’s definitely not gay, sure, but no real evidence of straightness. Sure, he’s in a heterosexual marriage, but so is my wife and she’s bi, so that’s not much to go off of. He seems to pass legislation that harms the wellbeing of lgbtq folks, but it’s not uncommon for people in power to show disdain for lgbtq people while being one themselves. It’s also not uncommon for folks to experiment with their sexuality in their early adult years, even if he isn’t bi, that doesn’t take blowing someone completely off the table.

  The long and short of it is that I haven’t seen anything that would make me think Trump wouldn’t have blown some guy. It’s not hard to believe that he were willing to blow a guy, especially if it were a one-off thing he was trying in the spur of the moment at an Epstein sex party. It’s honestly a toss-up, and to act like it’s more or less likely to have gone one way or the other seems foolhardy here.

  Also, do you have links to anywhere that Trump has professed to being straight? I couldn’t find any personally, but if you have them then that would make it more likely this email was just a joke. But if you don’t have them I can’t help but feel you are doing the exact thing you claim to be against: spreading misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really do, and you not thinking so is telling of how skewed your view of what common knowledge really is. Where does someone start when building a computer if they don’t know what goes into a computer? How do they pick parts if they don’t know what changes will make their computer better or worse? I love PC part picker, but let’s be real, it’s for people who already know what they are looking for. PC part picker makes things so easy for you and I, but drop any tech-illiterate person into PC part picker, and they won’t actually get anywhere. Plus, I’ve had it get the dimensions of a GPU wrong before, and without verifying through a different website, I would have bought a card that didn’t fit in the case I was using. Even the gold standard sources of information make mistakes.

  As for the pre-built argument, to someone like my brother who knows nothing about computers, but regularly games on his PS5, the steam machine and a prebuilt are essentially the same. He wouldn’t know how to fix the computer without sending it off to the company, which is how he’d fix the steam machine as well. He also wouldn’t see the PC as something that could be upgraded. If a game wasn’t running well, he certainly wouldn’t know what part would need upgrading in his machine to make his experience better. In that sense, the pre-built is effectly non-upgradable. He might know to adjust the in-game settings, but wouldn’t know what settings to change. On a prebuilt, this would be an issue. On a device that millions of people use, all with the exact same specs, this information is readily available. Think of the steam deck, you could look up “<game name> steam deck settings” and get the best loadout for your exact hardware. Hell, a bunch of modern games have a “Steam Deck” settings loadout built in. With a prebuilt, that’s not possible. And finally, the steam machine is considerably smaller than any mini itx prebuilt I’ve seen on the market. Hell, a mini it’s motherboard couldn’t even fit in the steam machine’s case. To a lot of people, not having a big box in their living room matters. I’ve had a hard time convincing my partner to let me have a PC in a Fractal Design Terra case in the living room, and that’s a case that is small and clean looking.