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- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
“Value for money”!
You’re right! E.g. some story-heavy games with great mechanics and immersion might be worth spending more on; it’s just a general rule of thumb I have!
(maybe it takes a bit more time for me to familiarize myself with the characters, controls, mechanics etc, so I don’t prefer a game to be too expensive or too short; and in general I consider it a bonus if a game has huge replayability, support for mods, and procedural generation for example)
But in any case, I still find the ratio to be a useful tool!:
- A game that seems pretty fun, at €1/hour it’s a no-brainer to buy!
- A game that seems kind of interesting but I’m not quite sure I’m going to like, at €3/hour I’m going to wishlish it and maybe check it out in the future
- A very short game that I’m not quite sure I’m going to like but it’s from a small developer, €2/hour I’m going to be a little hesitant but may think "hmm it’s not too expensive, why not try it out and worst case I just supported a small developer who might make something I like even more in the future"
- A game that seems beautiful with excellent gameplay, new and interesting mechanics, not released from a AAA company, at €4/hour it might be worth it
So the per-hour ratio is more about putting the prices of the games in some context between eachother, in order to be able to decide if
<feature you value>is worth paying<X%>more than other games you buy; Every player and the genre of games they choose are different, so it makes sense for anyone to set a different amount as a baseline! 😊 - Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
- I’m playing on a PC because it’s a more open platform.
- I avoid buying games that first came out as exclusives: if they didn’t want my money when the game first came out, I’m not going to give it to them later either 🤷
- I generally prefer buying from smaller companies and indie studios
- There are millions of other games from developers who do want my money, are cheaper, the money goes to developers and artists who need it instead of a huge corporation that lay off people all the time etc
- Games are a form of art, and there are so many developers and artists that take the leap to try new things instead of pouring the same type of content in the same safe thing that appeals to more people and just sell more copies
- Smaller games usually have way better VfM (I tend to prefer ~€0.5-€1 per hour of gameplay, but if it’s a small studio I’m okay with paying a little bit more, given that steam+taxes take a little over 50% 🫠)
- I’m playing on a PC because it’s a more open platform.
- Comment on YouTube now 1 month ago:
Depends on the system! Even for anonymous polls, you still need to have unique links to ensure that people don’t take it multiple times and bias the results. Even if it can track who has (not) answered the poll, it doesn’t mean that the answers are traced back to you!
If they want they still can track you though, so this is why we need tools that we can verify how they work, e.g. open source services, maybe hosted on a external trusted provider etc
- Comment on HD 137010 b 5 months ago:
Source: www.unisq.edu.au/news/2026/01/earth-meets-mars
(Nice!)
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 5 months ago:
Oh sure, I used to use Tree Style Tab, but now I’ve migrated to sidebery!
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 5 months ago:
- Articles: I save them to my wallabag instance
- Videos: I use metube to download them so I can see them later
- Interesting sites: bookmark them using tags so I can easily find them later; sync them to linkwarden so they’re also archived and searcheable
- The rest are more or less leftovers from tasks I’ve probably stopped working on, so I try to close them (btw tree tabs helps detect such groups of tabs)
- (I still end up with many tabs, but at least it’s not as bad as before I did the above 😅)
- Comment on Just checked and all the components are here 6 months ago:
After building it, we realized we should have checked the dimensions on the website more carefully
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 6 months ago:
Reminder of this:
poolp.org/…/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-b…
And that mailu.io (and other similar projects) makes self-hosting email almost trivial 😁 (at least for people that can run a pre-configured
docker-compose.ymland buy their domain etc) - Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 7 months ago:
not some smelly euro village either
??
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 8 months ago:
I’ve been wondering about this for a while, what do people recommend for FOSS imgur alternatives (or just simple image hosting)? 🤔
(Of course the UK should just allow free access to information, but I would still prefer to be able to use something FOSS anyway)
- Comment on Big small doesn't want you to know that 10 months ago:
Buy less of small’s less; less is more, but small less is less more than regular less
- Comment on I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator 10 months ago:
Thanks for posting, it would be great if you could publish it on GOG as well! 🩵
- Comment on My Humble Indie Game Is On Sale If You Want It 1 year ago:
Looks cool! Any plans to publish on GOG or other similar platform? 😁 (DRM-free, StopKillingGames, etc)
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 year ago:
Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)
Usually I see usernames written in the form
@user@lemmy.zip, while communities!InterestingSubject@lemmy.zip - Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 year ago:
Welcome to the platform!
- You signed up for the lemmy.zip server (=“lemmy instance”), but you can see posts, post comments, and talk to users from any other server. Just like you can send email from your personal email to your work email, it’s still just email! Other than the fact that usernames have a i.e. “@lemmy.zip” part, you shouldn’t really need to think about it 😅 (But when you want to login to your account, you can’t login to another server, you need to login on lemmy.zip)
- No need to learn much more to get started, you just participate in any discussions you want etc 😊
- You can find some communities to subscribe to at sub.rehab and lemmyverse.net/communities . To subscribe to a community, you can search for the community’s full name on your server, lemmy.zip
- Here you can find a mobile app to download: join-lemmy.org/apps/ . You can download whichever you want! You can just try them and pick the one you like the most, and you can have a couple of them at the same time and they still access the same content
- Lemmy.zip also has a list in the sidebar, “Useful links”, these four are just alternative websites you can use to access the same thing; again you can just pick whichever you like the most!
- Comment on this is controllable now: guy has moving robot messing with stuff in his house and blabbering TTS under internet control 1 year ago:
Thank you for posting this, this is fun! 😊
