MortUS
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- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Nice - I didn’t realize that the GoG installer was portable.
I wish their settings had custom connections. Like, If I could have a portable version that connects to my NAS and downloads/installs my offline/saved GoG games; that’d be the sweet spot. If anyone has suggestions for a setup like this lemme know!
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Yeah, I could see this too. I see a lot of other devs / indie devs doing Design Works for their games and GoG offering something like this could be cool.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Ugh, I would love a portable/offline launcher/installer for my GoG game files.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
GoG already does this though, so presumably it would just be the consumers choice. Some folx just like bookcases and collectibles.
- Comment on Nope 5 weeks ago:
Huh, that really makes the only livable planet in our entire galaxy just that much more important.
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 2 months ago:
I’m lowkey glad Andrew has found his ride. Seemed like accusations were coming out of the woodwork after the Alex Jones interview and Jan 6th. Now though, after he got the Ground News spot, he’s just been running it. Biden Interview, Ireland Trip, expose on Crypto, expose on looksmaxing.
I think we’ll see a lot more of him in the coming years.
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 2 months ago:
“holy shit, I can actually get people to do literally anything.”
And for some, mostly the young, ignorant, and unfortunate, this is true!
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 2 months ago:
Thiel is one of reddits early investors, but that has flown under the radar. Nobody talks about that.
I mean, is he still an investor? I feel like rich folx invest in a lot of things, but the thing they invest in doesn’t necessarily mean they own, control, or even that that thing is necessarily bad.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
Big outs to The Bloodhound Gang
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I think those points are valid, but do you really think having better UI/UX is going to win them over customers when compared to Steam? Like, Steam is such a behemoth. Hypothetical, but if I was still a kid, and my brother had his whole library on Steam, where do you think I’d end up buying most my games? I think good UI/UX is only half the battle in this kind of competition.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Maybe, but EGS is also the driving force behind Unreal Engine 5, which despite everyone hating it really is a good engine.
Valve doesn’t even lease it’s engine out to other devs. I don’t even know if they’re developing their game engine.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
You’re describing how you would compete in a normal competition, but Steam has already had a decade to lock in it’s following. The competition is/was over.
I say that as a Steam user, there’s absolutely nothing a competitor can do to convince me to start buying / keeping my games on a platform outside Steam. Steam just has it all AND that’s where all my existing games already are. No amount of UI/UX improvements will convince me. No amount of sales will convince me because Steam will have the same game. Better cuts to developers doesn’t bring in repeat customers.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The argument here is not that Steam is, in the current flawed legal American sense, a monopoly, but that it is a monopoly in the sense that it has cornered enough of the gaming market that it could do very serious harm.
Note that “they’re not currently doing harm” is not a great counterargument here. When my neighbor buys a bazooka, I won’t be satisfied by “don’t worry I’m not currently using it”.
Absolutely this. I’m glad you were able to convey it in a way people understand.
Steam is a blackhole for PC gaming/gamers from a marketing perspective. They’ve capitalized on so much of the market, that once a person buys a game on Steam they are unlikely to buy the same game and/or even future games from a different but similar platform. It is in a sense, locking the consumer in and so many consumers are locked in. Nobody competed with Steam in the PC gaming market for an eternity and it’s not Steams fault at all.
Even if Steam went to absolute shit in the next 20 odd years they’ve pretty much guaranteed that I’ll be coming back to play all the games I’ve ever bought on there. Even if EGS or GoG improves their interface to compete with Steam, I’ve no reason to buy elsewhere (though do support GoG please).
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
For just $2,000 USD we can buy extraprivacy.com from GoDaddy and make a killing!
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 5 months ago:
it just comes across like a trollish comment on the internet, a random attack from a stranger who might not only not be doing it for your best interest but even to be hurtful for their own amusement.
And Only time and repetition will be able to tell if it’s in good faith or bad faith.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 5 months ago:
Does it matter when he can just pay the judges?
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
I don’t think he cares if it backfires.
Right, him and his won’t be affected.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
Tell that to pretty much every rights movement in the history of our species. Apes strong together.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
I personally believe he’s doing so to try and get better USMCA trade agreements, but I believe it’s just going to backfire, which could also just as well be the goal.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
Many of those same people simply weren’t equipped for the media blitz of the 21st century. Commerical Social Media has most of them on a string.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 year ago:
I think the nice thing about a protest is that it’s a show of power, strength, and unity. It sends a message to those on the outside that there is a number of people who believe in a common goal. And really, the message is one all Americans can pretty much agree on and that’s trickle down isn’t tricking and corporate profits are on the rise.
The longer the protests, the worse taxes become from tariffs, the more cuts they make to social services, the more people could snowball this into a movement.
The power of protests are People.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
Right now, the National Debt is ~125% of the GDP and is estimated to climb - we’ll know more March 27th when the quarterly report is published.
I had to do some research on this one because I wasn’t too familiar with how much weight the ratio factors in. For example, Japan is over 200%, but they’re well off due to societal/governmental factors such as low interest rates, high sovereign savings, and keeping a portion of the debt local to the nation itself. On the other hand, Greece is ~160% due to their last recession. They had worker strikes in 2024 due to stagnating wages, but they’re a come back with economic growth projected to hit ~2% and debt ratio to be at ~145% by the end of the year so it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
That being said, the U.S. is in quite a different situation economically. From what I can tell, it’s not great, but not catastrophic either. If our economic growth continues it’s upward trend, maybe we can balance it out. But, if our National Debt continues to grow, or if our GDP starts to taper off, the % gap may widen and we may see a slow and steady downturn in QoL. The economists I ran across seemed to agree that it could be a growing issue and something to keep an eye on how it’s handled. I thought this blogpost was a good read - it doesn’t get into all the nuance but is a decent summary / overlook. For an official overlook you can read the House Summary.
Finally, this is from the House snippet doc, if you trust that, it is primarily Republican-run, but it says:
In fiscal year 2024, interest on the debt became the government’s third largest budget line item, following only Social Security and Medicare.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
Maybe I have bought into the propaganda, but am willing to learn more. If we’re pouring Trillions from our National Budget into paying down the ever-growing Federal Debt, where’s the tipping point for the dollars value?
This debt has been ever-growing, by the +5 trillion pretty much every administration, and American prosperity has been on a decline (maybe not for you, but the city I’m sitting in feels it). If we’re not going to tax Billionaires (which we fucking should, by a lot) then what’s the next best thing to bring better prosperity to the American Working Class?
Finally, what do you feel is America’s primary economic concern?
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
You keep trying to make this a party issue, when it’s not. Biden also increased the National Debt by a similar amount. You’re right, 1 Billion dollars in a pool of Trillions really is a drop in the bucket. I don’t think we need to get anything from Ukraine in return of our support. They’re fighting a foreign offender, they deserved much more than throwing money at the problem, but here we are. Everything we send out of the U.S. that’s not accounted for in the U.S. budget goes into debt; as the National Debt climbed, the U.S. needs to find ways to pay that down, and they’re trying to do that without offending the Billionaire Class buying politicians. So, from Trumps perspective, Ukraine is an easy cut, regardless if we think he’s Putins Puppet, it’s clear Trump doesn’t care for what’s happening in Ukraine.
I support funds for Ukraine over funds for Isreal any day of the week, but that’s just not going to happen under this administration.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
I don’t even understand the point you’re trying to make with this one. I guess if you’re referring to me as a trumpoloid you could dumb this response down a bit so I can maybe process it and reply. On a side note, I don’t understand why we (as a Nation) support Israels genocide, but I personally don’t support it so there’s that I guess.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
Every president has. It’s been a growing problem through multiple different administrations now. This isn’t a party issue, it’s a “Eat the Rich” issue. The Billionaire class has taking but not putting back in, and they’re expecting regular working people to foot the bill. That’s why the 22 Billion dollar cut on Social Services through HHS instead of taxing the 400+ Billionaires in America.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
So do Democrats, it’s been on a hot run for the last decade or so. Through Obama, through Trump, through Biden, and now back to Trump. This is a multi-party issue and the solution is to tax Billionaires.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
The National Debt has been on a steady growth since Obama, through Trump, through Biden. Like, it’s an issue that spans multiple presidencies and parties. The U.S. dollars is a global reserve note. So, not only do we need to account for paying it down in our National Budget, but we also can’t just print more money at the problem either. I fully support Ukraine. Russia should not have invaded them, and either we or the EU should have had a stronger opposition than just throwing money at the problem. If we want to continue to support Ukraine, if we want to pay down our National Debt, if we want to continue supporting our Nations social services we need to fucking tax Billionaires and their Trillion dollar companies. Like, corporations buying politicians is a problem.
That National Debt isn’t some invisible barrier, it affects our every day lives, our future, what programs we can support, and the global economy. I don’t know, unless you can explain to me me why the National Debt doesn’t matter, and how we can continue to support Ukraine. I’m here for a discussion.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
It’s a bit more complicated than that. We’re not just sending missiles, some of it is logistical, funding, training - some of it doesn’t just come back into our economy, and not in full. For example, there is a fund in the billions for Ukraine and allies to buy weapons from us on a need by basis - but like not immediately. It has been years, it could be years.
More importantly though a good portion of these funds were out of bounds of the National Budget causing National Debt to grow. Now, I’m not saying Ukraine is the sole reason the National Debt is out of control, it’s been a long time coming, but we’re peaking. We print more money, the value of the dollar drops, things get more expensive not just national but worldwide since the dollar is an international currency reserve.
So, while I understand your angst it is a bit more nuanced.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 year ago:
You right, I think there’s always going to be a need for industrial and mechanics. Like, we’re for sure always going to need transport, lumber, steel, infrastructure, logistics, more. When I wrote that I was mostly thinking Steel as we really just don’t have as much a need for it as we used to. Like, sure we need to keep up with infrastructure and national security, etc. but we’re not at war, we’re not expanding as a nation (like big cities) anymore so it’ll never recover to times before NAFTA.
That being said, I really do think we should be making automobiles in house which could bring more Steel back, but on the other hand, do we really want more automobiles? Like, drive by any dealership and there always seem to just be an abundance.