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- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 9 hours ago:
Prepaid cards have to be loaded with a specific currency and usually are part of a pre-existing payment processor (VISA/Matercard in the US).
Valve’s steam gift cards are sold in the same currency as well, and are usually usable for accounts in the same country of origin (read the back fine print)
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 12 hours ago:
As a Californian, I feel the same way. Some of my friends live in states where prices aren’t as affordable to them, so I try to gift games from time to time.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 12 hours ago:
Steam pre-empts that by tracking payment methods and using all known connection locations to try and prevent VPN hopping (If you are using a VPN to Argentina, you better have a card from an Argentine bank and hope your VPN never drops).
Places like the Eurozone simply are screwed because of the legal circumstances. If people are using payment methods other than cryptocurrency (which is not accepted on steam), it is relatively easy to find their location and charge appropriately.
As for the partial form of identity thing, it is hard to create a system that would not be subject to abuse. I believe that Valve’s current telemetry practices are not unreasonable given the lack of restraint for the user. The only expectation is that attempting financial shenanigans will have consequences, and shall be traced from that data. That’s fine.
- Comment on Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is? 1 week ago:
I’m in a similar boat with my own ripped media, and the answer is there’s no simple automated way (that’s why it’s easier to “acquire” from a source that already has things labelled and organized on the internet rather than do things yourself). Your best luck is to check the index of episodes on the back of the box and try to use the thumbnails to line up titles with the episodes manually.
- Comment on Got gifted an XBOX360 S. What now? 1 week ago:
Plutonium Launcher fixes the BO1 PC port, it works great now.
- Comment on Cave Story+ gets surprise update with mod support, console improvements ported to PC 1 week ago:
Can’t believe I didn’t think about this until now, but I think Steam Workshop support (or the potential for more streamlined mod distribution), would probably go a long way.
- Comment on Cave Story+ gets surprise update with mod support, console improvements ported to PC 1 week ago:
We take those, I suppose. Sweet!
- Comment on Cats: I Don't Know Nuffin' 2 weeks ago:
Considering the east german border patrol dogs were adopted into loving homes after the wall fell, I think so.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a question that doesn’t have a simple answer (even with publicly available data), but for the individual, it wouldn’t be much if the service was decentralized and the burden of hosting is placed on the user or a small community (think about how most game servers work that can host tens or hundreds of players by community members out of a surplus PC or cheap VPS, or something like a forum for a small website), but the issue is once we factor in scale to the equation.
If Youtube became a paid subscription, a majority of the userbase would cease using the platform overnight (and single-pay is outright unsustainable due to the costs of being a hosting platform for video content), and it’s more than likely that users would turn to piracy or sharing accounts rather than paying the fee directly.
Windows does have a one time license fee, but their issue is less about monetization and more about monopolistic enshittification. The only cure for that is owning what you buy and not having centralized control, which is only seen in open source/free software platforms such as Linux Distros.
Facebook has the same issue as Youtube to a degree, and largely is sustainable purely due to the network effect brought by the low entry cost of $0 to the user (despite being able to make plenty of money off them through telemetry and ads). A price tag of any sort would break their model as well, along with any other social media platform such as Snapchat.
tl;dr: the only reason the current incumbent platforms are profiting to begin with is because they have a “free but at a hidden cost” as their entire business model, so any price above $0 erase their userbase and relevance, along with being unsustainable.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 2 weeks ago:
It depends on the area, but it’s not uncommon to drive more than 30 or 40 miles a day for a work commute in California (especially if you’re trying to live in a cheaper area away from where the jobs are located).
- Comment on Now meeting... 3 weeks ago:
AI slop? In my shitpost comm?
- Comment on real 3 weeks ago:
Wait, that’s weezer.
- Comment on What to do with a box of Baofengs? 3 weeks ago:
Makeshift Repeaters would be an obvious solution :)
- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 4 weeks ago:
Well written comment, but I think all of it is absolutely wishful thinking. Bethesda will not replace the creation engine in any future releases for games to solve their games issues with stability and performance (and let’s be honest with ourselves, that is the only way they will be fixed), they will do the absolute bare minimum for curating any content or general bug testing (Fallout 76, need I say more), and to expect a public company with every incentive in the world to enshittify to provide a better user experience for user created content than the unofficial alternatives for the long term is hilarious.
For another example of a Microsoft owned property that has the same divide of community vs. official avenues of distributing and managing modded content, compare modded Minecraft Java Edition to Bedrock (sorry, Bugrock). I would not consider moving Bethesda’s modding scene closer to the Bugrock model to be “desireable”.
- Comment on rue 5 weeks ago:
“Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.”
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 weeks ago:
Using “nearby glasses” set to 20m to detect the glasses’ Bluetooth signature (plan on making that a module I can attach to the front doorframe), I can easily detect the presence of your classes. Then, you shall have two options after I speak to you. Surrender the glasses, or speak to my personal attorney. Or if I’m not at home, my drone, which will ram into your face to destroy the glasses.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 weeks ago:
A clear violation of the social contract deserves a swift response. Those glasses come off your face, and onto the pavement.
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 5 weeks ago:
Not someone who has that kind of money, but people who have enough money to want it perpetually invested and growing (so they can periodically withdraw from it without impacting the base fund), throw it into an index or money market fund like those provided by the big 3 (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street).
Although you will still need a bank regardless in your life for things like checking and credit cards.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
waitaminute… this is like event 5 or so in the Fallout timeline.
Damn, did Christopher Taylor know the whole time?
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 month ago:
I’d say it’s more of a dedicated following that just isn’t viral. Keep in mind crossplay means that the steam charts aren’t an accurate barometer by themselves.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 month ago:
Most of the devs from the Bad Company era left EA to form Embark Studios - maybe check out their games like The Finals?
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 1 month ago:
A lot more armored vests and helmets that can stop a .22LR have been widely adopted though.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 1 month ago:
Not really, especially if you are willing to build one yourself.
- Comment on Ali got the Wiki "was" 1 month ago:
NonCredibleDefense seems to be faster than the news communities sometimes. The shitposts must flow.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 1 month ago:
DS generations are probably the last ones worth playing - although hard to emulate on a phone with comfortable controls, I’d imagine.
- Comment on Day 590 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Emudeck is pretty easy to work with (although be careful where you get your “switch dependencies”).
- Comment on spending 2 months ago:
From a databroker (legitimate or not) statistically, your entire identity goes for less than 5 bucks in a bundle.
- Comment on New protogen art 2 months ago:
Can you give a display headpats? Or does that just leave smudges all over the screen?
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 2 months ago:
Actually it’s not because there are third party clients available that you can use without any interactions with google services. I’m using Clerotri on GrapheneOS right now.
- Comment on Welp straight to the bin 2 months ago:
I wonder if that’s because of the microplastic contamination more than the actual salt lol