CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on This is to the Admins. How far behind are you guys and gals? I submitted a ticket like about a month ago and got an answer yesterday? Do you guys and gals need help? 3 days ago:
Yes, they are aware. Hence the “do you guys and halfgals need help?” offer.
They’re acknowledging that people are busy, and instead of being demanding they’re offering help.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 week ago:
That’s your clapback? K
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 week ago:
I suggest you to not play proprietary junk that belongs to evil corporations.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, and frankly you sound like a psycho.
Companies like EA make up a small fraction of the available games. Most of them are small studios with people who have a passion for making games.
So do other evil corporations like microsoft and google.
Which proves my point that FOSS can’t exist in a vacuum. I hope your using the Hurd kernel, otherwise you’re still benefiting from and using the work of evil corporations!
Valve ceo owns more megayachts than bezos or elon musk
He owns a shipyard. It’s a side passion of his. And most of his vessels serve a scientific purpose, like marine research.
He seems a bit like James Cameron in that sense. Cameron’s first passion was marine research, and he used his earnings from film production to fund his own research stuff.
There is NOTHING wrong with someone who made bank using their money for their passion. It means they keep they money flowing through the economy instead of just sitting in a bank account.
They are just as bad
Then either you are ignorant of the world or have a child’s understand of things.
You are defending a billionare corporation
A bit, ya.
do you have any reputation at all?
Yes, lots of people know me. Therefore I have a reputation.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 week ago:
Both of them.
Between 2003 (the launch of Steam on Windows) and 2013 (the launch of Steam on Linux) Microsoft acquired two game studios. Whereas in 2018 alone (the start of their acquisition spree) they acquired six.
Exactly, don’t use it
Well, I want to use it. There is no better game store with as many good deals, and that supports Linux.
Show me a game store that supports Linux with a good selection of games of modern and major game titles.
Also, Steam directly supports and funds a plethora of open source tools that benefit everyone.
My interests are in free, open source and decentralized platforms. What about yours?
Agreed, which is why I use Linux and support companies that also support Linux.
Making billions is a crime because there is no good way to do it
Billionares and corporations do not simply exist, they are built on the exploitation of others
You’re right about 99.99+% of cases. And I’m not defending Valve as some altruistic company. But lumping in Valve with the likes of Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, Monsanto, Elon Musk, etc, simply on the amount of money they make is desingenous at best, but frankly is insane.
You’re one of those people that have a militant mindset when it comes to FOSS that gives open source a weird and bad reputation.
Open source literally cannot exist without companies using it to make money. The majority of funding for things like development of Linux itself comes directly from donations from for-profit companies.
Say “hi” to Tim Sweeney. Tell him Canada is just fine without him moving here.
Hell, the historically two largest distributions by install count (Ubuntu and Fedora) are developed and maintained by for-profit companies.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 week ago:
Any non profit company who’s products isn’t a proprietary third party software launcher.
You’re being disingenuous. You know full well the context of the argument precludes non-profits.
They have built a semi-monopoly on videogames relying for two decades on closed source products and windows, they are now looking at the linux share because microsoft in the past years made bullish acquisitions in the videogames industry.
You might want to check your math on that. Steam on Windows was originally released in 2003, and released on Linux in 2013.
And the reason for their interest has nothing to do with Microsoft’s game studio acquisitions, and everything to do with Microsoft’s attempts to lock down the Windows ecosystem back in the Windows 8/RT days.
If the client doesn’t matter that much that’s even more reasons to release the source code.
No one said it doesn’t matter. It’s their software/platform/service. They can do whatever they want, and it’s their right to do so. If you don’t want to use their platform, you don’t have to.
companies usually make money, non profit organizations help people
Usually. But the fact that Valve’s interests align with the benefits of its userbase isn’t a bad thing. Making money isn’t a crime, and making money while building a system people like also isn’t a bad thing.
You seem to have a strange hatred towards Valve for simply existing. Are you friends with Tim Sweeney or something?
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 week ago:
Name one other company that’s doing more for open source and open platforms than Valve.
They’ve helped push gaming on Linux from a very niche process to basically having Windows native games work better on Linux than on Windows. They do this via Proton which they upstream into WINE (all open source and free to use by anyone).
They’ve silently funded an x86 to ARM emulator for years and it’s entirely open source (anyone can use it).
The Steam client is a 1st class citizen on Linux. It doesn’t matter that their client is closed source, because all the tools they employ is open source. The client is mostly just the store portion of their stuff. The actual tools that run the games are open source.
They’re also the only major games store that supports Linux natively (itch.io exists, and they’re great, but Steam is so much bigger).
Name a company that does even half of that. Just one company.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
I’m just not an idiot with prioritizing
Ok, that’s good. You had me worried there for a bit.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
8gb works fine for most games at 1080p.
Nobody buying this is doing it to play competitive FPS games on a 4k 144hz monitor.
I’m running a 12gb card and I haven’t found a game yet that completely saturates the GPU’s memory. But then I don’t play most games with maxed out settings. And I have a system with 16 cores on the Zen5 arch and 96gb of RAM.
All you’re doing here is being an elitist and ignorant chud.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
I literally said “it has to be more than a 10% price difference”. And if you’re bad at math, that’s more than $100.
And that extra $100 gets you warranty from Valve, a sleek compact form factor, and a ready-to-go system.
The price from GN is less than a $100 difference. And their point was basically to show that you can’t get much cheaper than Valve’s price, and that it is actually competitive.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
Yes, you absolutely would pay more for less. I saw on the comment thread you linked to a 4th gen Intel as an example. What a joke.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
i suck at picking parts and never know if they’ll fit my build
Just use pcpartpicker.com
It’s very good at telling you if parts aren’t compatible.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
Money grubbing monopolistic shit bags.
Yes, those money grubbers making probably $50 on each unit. How dare they!
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
And pay more?
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
At this latitude?
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
This is overpriced for the hardware.
I challenge you to build out a parts list with comparable performance for cheaper. And it needs to be more than a 10% difference. You can’t just show a savings of $50 and claim victory, because there’s a lot you get in convenience and guarantees when you buy hardware from Valve.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 2 months ago:
Ya, there’s no way Apple would allow it in their app store
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 2 months ago:
If you’re on mobile, check out the Greyjay app. It’s promoted (sponsored?) by Louise Rossman
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 3 months ago:
Yup, and it was a shameless money grab.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 months ago:
Is that the show with the liars and thieves?
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 months ago:
Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more?
Steam Machine?
- Comment on Trill Symbiont Lifespans 6 months ago:
Some of us like moldy bread
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Wait, what happened? And which game?
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 7 months ago:
PCGamer is officially off my reading list now.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 7 months ago:
Not sure what to tell you, but a Mac is the last platform to go to for gaming. Apple has zero interest in gaming and have made the platform virtually hostile to gaming development.
Steam regularly has sales (really good sales, like under $5) for fairly modern games (within the last 10 years).
Wait for a sale on something like an AMD Beelink and use that.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It wanted me to make an Embark Studios account. And yes that is a big deal.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
You are aware that you see beforehand whether the game requires a separate account (at least on Steam)?
No, because as I indicated in my post, I didn’t buy it. I installed it from someone else’s account within my family group.
Also, how else would you enable crossplay/crosssave?
I don’t know, but not my concern.
And you don’t even need to use separate credentials. You can log in with Steam just fine.
Not according to the prompt I was shown.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I installed Arc Raiders from my family sharing group, fired it up then closed it and uninstalled it as soon as it says I need to create YET ANOTHER account just to play this game.
I’m done creating an account for every single game.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 8 months ago:
I had a hairdresser once that told me about her young daughter getting scratched by a raccoon. I asked if she took her to get the shots and she said “no, she’s fine”. We’re all doomed.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 8 months ago:
Even that case is highly contested as to what happened. It’s often debated that she might not have had rabies to begin with.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 8 months ago:
What? Did I miss something?