imetators
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- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
We got a vegan Margherita for us 3hrn my vegan friend was visiting. Couldn’t notice a difference to a normal cheese pizza.
- Comment on Shots fired 1 week ago:
Wild Civvie reference? 🤔
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Chinesium
- 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 2 weeks ago:
There is no argument in your message. Whole comment section sees you as an cry baby. Chill :)
- 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 2 weeks ago:
So, choosing what’s good and losing visibility would en me up as a non-visible altruist.
Nobody would buy a book from a guy on a street. They’d go to a book store that is owned by a business man who offers books in exchange for money that he pays for the rent of the book store, for the salary of the staff and for himself.
You can, of course, sell on the street. But how much do you think you would sell just in the street compared to a publisher or just a random book store that asked you to pay for them to take some bookshelf space?
Money is where people are. Nobody goes on the streets to buy books. Peoole go to a book store to have variety of choices and to find something that they are interested in. Imagine you’re interested in sci-fi and you’d have to run around the city to find a street book vendor that wrote his sci-fi novel just fo sind out his novel is crap?
You’d go to a book store 99.99%of the time.
Now change “book” to “game”. See the point?
And, if we talk about decentralized. That might as well mean “free”. If the community holds all the games, devs are paid but community is left aside?
Lemmy doesn’t earn money. Maybe only donations. If we sell games based on donations to the service, who decides which dev gets paid and how much? In other words, this would be close to “free to play, ingame purchases” than to an actual game store.
BTW, some devs already locked their games to their own stores so here is this “street book vendor” type devs (more like publishers) that sell their games only there. But their service is crap, and everyone wants to buy in steam. 🤷
- 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 2 weeks ago:
At a current year’s rate it is around 66 games released A DAY. Nobody has time for that. Nor money. And FUCKING CERTAINLY no will to play asset flips and Ai slop.
If any of those 66 games would be good…
- 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 2 weeks ago:
So, like on music industry. Millions of songs are released each year and yet only top artists get the listens.
Or, like movie/series industry where the top movies that got advertised gets viewed and art-house ones getting buried in the black hole of unknown.
And yet, some weird days artists and bands, directors and their weird movies sieve through and become hit sensation. Who knows why? (hint: they’re good)
- 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 2 weeks ago:
Dude, cmon. At least these ads are gaming ads and not some crap Ai bullshit or milfs nearby ads. That is a game store where games are to be sold. It is a no brainer to see ads for games there…
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 weeks ago:
Once my sister showed me this, it has been baked into my brain every time I hear Bicycle song.
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 weeks ago:
Brian wrote lyrics for Fat Bottomed Girls. I was always wondering how was it for Freddie to sing it.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 month ago:
Nobody mentioned Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. That’s pretty much kh1/2 off ps2 except on a handheld. Super cool and replayable game.
- Comment on I agree with don 1 month ago:
Maybe. If only my urethra would mimick those fancy handmade Japanese tea pots.
- Comment on I agree with don 1 month ago:
AOE/Splash damage 🤷
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 1 month ago:
Their actions look like a typical monopoly. Buy competition to destroy it later so you’re the only one in business.
- Comment on national anthem 1 month ago:
Yes! Exactly on point but for me The Black Mirror was worse to digest. Great comparison!
- Comment on national anthem 1 month ago:
I love me good series. Heard tons of good reviews about The Black Mirror.
I have only managed to get to episode 3. Couldn’t do it after. Way too disturbing. Would 1000% recommend to watch. I just couldn’t 😭
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Bro. GrapheneOS is only for Google phones that you still have to buy if you don’t own one already. Motorola got support but so far 0 phones have GrapheneOS form their lineup.
Not to mention, most android phones are either Samsung or Chinese brands from which none will ever have support from GrapheneOS. Best you can do is get lineageOS or something and be lucky that these custom Roms have support for your device.
- Comment on ...and then suggest something totally unrelated... 2 months ago:
That doesn’t happen on Seerr 🤷
- Comment on Loosing my religion 2 months ago:
Fake/gay analysis: true and straight. Source: dated religious girl who’s mother was a religious lunatic. Super fucking likely to happen
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 2 months ago:
Don’t forget the size of this thing. SM should be compared to minipcs, not ATX towers.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 months ago:
Greetings from most EU countries.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
It is just impossible to get anything near this specs at this size with this price. And it hasn’t been like this for a long time. Speaking as an owner of HX99g.
There are minis that are more powerful than Steam Machine, but they would start at $1200-$1500 and go as high as $2500. These machines wont run everything 4k@60 but due to how Valve manages their hardware, Steam Machine very likely will for a while.
As an example, there are better gaming handhelds on the market judging by specs. They do be running games at better settings and fps. But Steam Deck is still is at the top of the list for its price and is still a benchmark in how it should be done.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
It could or should have been around 700-800. We must be thankful AI companies that it is how it is now.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
Oni - a certified classic/hidden gem. Bungie cooked there. Just not with the level design and plot of the game.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
I had a beta. And all I remember is that on easy game is truly easy. But once you up difficulty by 1, game becomes terribly difficult. Makes it impossible to play with bots and even with real people and voice chat it was quite a challenge.
Card system should be better and they shouldn’t nerf all the fun cards. They shoul’ve taken inspiration from Dead by Daylight. But again, for a PvE game, nerfing fun stuff to the ground is dumb and a way to distance from the community.
As a 1k hours L4D2 veteran, I really wanted to like B4B. Not sure how could they fumble the formula that they participated in creation of. Sad to see it fail.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 2 months ago:
Worms 3D sits at 70 score on metacritic. I see lots of people mention that this is the worst Worms title.
I still have original double-cd game and it holds a special corner in my nostalgia box.
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 2 months ago:
I will try to be as short as possible.
I had this situation where I would struggle to fall asleep, then fall asleep after like 40 mins just to wake up 15 mins later with a feeling that I can run a marathon. Constant fear of checking time and realizing that I barely slept would add to the experience.
7 years ago I had this job where it is pretty loud all the time. Loud as in static white noise from compressed air. 8 hours in a row, non-stop. After I have left the job and moved to another country, I have found out that extensive exposure to a constant noise levels above 45+db (I do not remember exact numbers, but it was around 45db) would raise anxiety in humans. Turns out that was it. But the damage was done and I couldn’t sleep even after leaving this job.
I am trying to find an article from WHO about noise influence on the human body that I read 6 years ago. Only found this.
During my study I did fall asleep with phone playing some long and boring things. But then I got my girlfriend, and when she would be at my place, I did not play anything on my phone falling asleep. I did notice that if the thing is at bare minimum requires some attention, it would keep me awake for longer. So I have stopped doing this even when she was not around. It had an effect and I began to fall asleep naturally, albeit not in an instant.
My girlfriend also complained that she has troubles falling asleep. She did use melatonin pills and melatonin spray when we met. But since she also would not use phone in bed, she quickly began to fall asleep in under 5 minutes. When she was at her place, she would scroll insta and tiktok and would not get a good night sleep. So I began tell her to drop her phone before bed. Now since we are married, she does not scroll though the night and falls asleep much faster than me.
Today I sleep way better. I do most of the things I have mentioned in my comment. No coffee, no scrolling, reduced blue light on PC and phone, no bright light from ceiling lamps, more water during the day, seeing sun set. The only thing I am struggling with is food before bed. But it is night and day to how my sleep used to be.
Sidenote: maybe, instead of an engaging content, streams or any video where human voice is audible, smooth jazz, lo-fi or a rain noise track would work better. Basically, you need your brain to wind down naturally. It won’t happen if it would keep accepting information from sound and/or screen
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 months ago:
It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.
- Comment on Funni video 2 months ago:
Not sure why, but I did watch though this without even blinking. Maybe it is a really good ad against gambling. Also, sad that guy got into a spiral due to some people liking to watch people destroy themselves. He has great parents and a good brother. He deserves much more than this.
Also, this vid is incredible and I couldn’t stop watching. Maybe long content is really that good, or maybe my attention span is in a good shape (for something interesting. I am easily bored if it is not interesting to me)
- Comment on I can't use heated seats on my BMW unless I pay a monthly subscription 2 months ago:
Tough to do for hardcore B~roken~M~oney~W~aster~ fans.