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- Comment on Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan 2 days ago:
Accuracy is about thr abilty to hit a specific target, Precision is about being able to repeat it.
- Comment on No fear! 2 days ago:
Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but in neither time did I hit my head.
You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground.
- Comment on "The $60 Billion Gaming Scam Nobody Talks About" by mrixrt 4 days ago:
I just copy/pasted the summary, as I hate click bait title videos.
- Comment on "The $60 Billion Gaming Scam Nobody Talks About" by mrixrt 4 days ago:
Why are successful gaming studios closing despite making hit games? This investigation reveals the $60 billion platform tax crisis destroying the gaming industry from within. When Hi-Fi Rush became a breakout hit for Tango Gameworks, Microsoft still shut down the studio sixteen months later. This isn’t an isolated tragedy, it’s the inevitable result of a 30% platform tax that’s been quietly reshaping gaming since 2007.
Every time you buy a $70 game on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, or mobile platforms, $21 vanishes instantly to platform holders before developers see a penny. PayPal processes actual financial transactions for 3%, yet gaming platforms charge 10 times more just to host a download. This documentary traces the complete transformation of gaming from the premium mobile era through Epic’s lawsuit against Apple, revealing leaked court documents that show Apple’s App Store operates at a 78% profit margin while developers struggle to break even on $200 million budgets.
The math is brutal because modern AAA games need to sell 4 to 8 million copies just to survive, turning every release into a lottery where even winning tickets might not pay out. Meanwhile, Chinese developers using WeChat’s 5% fee system are thriving, proving the 30% tax was never necessary. The resistance is already working since Epic’s victory forced Apple to allow external payments, and developers switching to alternatives are seeing 14% to 16% revenue increases overnight.
This investigation uses Epic vs Apple court testimonies, Sony financial leaks, Steam internal documents, and industry insider interviews to expose how platform monopolies transformed gaming from art into extraction, and why the revolution to save gaming’s creative future is already underway. Sponsored by Xsolla, who want developers to know payment processing alternatives exist.
- Comment on Fake News 1 week ago:
Its effectivly an empathy test just like voight-kampff but less obscure, so I see where you’re coming from.
- Comment on Fake News 1 week ago:
Wrll, you aint gonna win them all, but sokething like the above tends to work well when people talk about how “some people” should die or go somewhere else. Bringing it back from “somebody” to “you and everyone you know” tends to shock that talk out of them.
- Comment on Fake News 1 week ago:
That why a rhetorical tool that personalizes death may work.
Something like “okay, your mother is now dead. And now your wife, and auntie and even your old highschool girlfriend. You watch them all die, bewildered and distraught, but you do nothing until your son dies in front of you, choking on a resporrator, pleading in his eyes until the very end.”
“You can stop the rest of your family dying right now right now, right way. Do you still refuse?”
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 weeks ago:
They are at best neutral, on the way q hurricane or volcano is neutral.
They destroy all in their path in a way that seems indescriminate, but no one knows what the hive mind thinks. They may be evil beyond all knowing.
- Comment on Genius. 3 weeks ago:
Cost one side of the middle slice in butter, the other side in honey.
Now youre there.
- Comment on Game over 1 month ago:
Mexicans.
- Comment on ICE Arrests Beloved Fighting Game Community Member Ludovic 1 month ago:
If he came inti the US as child in 2002 and signed a “voluntary” removal order in 2005, it sure seems like ICE conned a child into giving up their rights, something they continue to do today.
People opting not to enforce that despicable act for 21 years is luadable. The fact that Trumps ICE are instead enforcing it should have been mentioned, along with a roaring condemnation of how we treat vulberable children in this country.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 month ago:
Similiar reason cheddar is orange. Cheesemakere used to die it to cover inconsistences in quality or rot.
At this point, cheddar is almost perfectly safe, but people expect it to be orange, so its orange.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 1 month ago:
This is always why its generally better to turn your wifi signal power down to a low or middle power as long as all your devices can still connect.
Less range, less overlap, less competition for shared bandwidth between different APs.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 month ago:
As I recall, they didnt follow WARN at all, just firing thousands people left and right, and only after the fact when they started getting sued did they say “well your severance worked out to 60 days, so that counts.”
I do remember that one of the sale conditions was that all previous employee perks were retained, which twitter had very good severance, like 1 months/pay per year at the company. Some of the lawsuits were about that not being honored.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 month ago:
Just a heads up mate, you used a different username in you story than your current one. Might want to change it to orevent linking identities.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 month ago:
WARN Only kicks in at a 100 people or more laid off, and it only goves you 60 days notice, not any extra pay or benefits.
Its basically the least they can do, and the 100 person threshold gives lots of Orgs plently of room to skirt it by doing small, and steady layoffs instead.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And Microslop as well!
- Comment on Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours 1 month ago:
Super cool. Hopefully they bonus out the rest of the team that worked on this.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
Thats not 100% correct. This didnt use to be an option, nor is pdf the default printing “format” used by printers. Thats more PCL.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
This is as much linguistic tomfoolery for humans as it is a con for computers.
I dont know the history, but the most likely case is some microsoft engineer implemented the “print as pdf” option to get around an adobe restriction in the far past, and now we have this weird convention where you “print” to only 1 filetype to “save” it.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 2 months ago:
Was the beet from a can? They often carry over a metallic taste that is not good.
Non canned Beets are delicious. Very earthy and savory, with a hidden sweetness. They are great in salads, but really sing in soup. We make a vegatarian bousch with Beets, potato, carrot and serrano that I could literally eat every day.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 2 months ago:
I think the harder versions add a lot of variabilty to the fight. The “default” Scylla fight is almost an afterthought after your first dozen times, but the harder version is immensly more complicated. Same goes for prometheous + spoiler, etc.
I think with a hundred more runs, these would also get old hat, but thats true with hades 1 as well. If you run the bosses 112 times there, the occasional “suprise” boss isnt really that intersting, esoecially if you’ve seen them 35 times. Seeing ol “muurrder…” was novel, but only to a point.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 2 months ago:
Hades 2 lets you amp up the difficulty to vary the bosses. By the 1000th attempt, you would likely be playing with them on their hardest and most intersting mode.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 2 months ago:
Yes and no. Up to 2 years ago my company was still manually requesting criminal background checks. A 3rd party company did them, but HR had to open a case each time. Now that is automatic, but tons of processss at tons of companies are still antiquated for various reasons.
Its entirely possible vetting is minimium because of cost and labor involved.
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 months ago:
In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 months ago:
Hes a bucket of shit that was and out and proud “race realist” until he got popular and backpedalled his earlier articles.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
Go to costco.
Extra cluster fuck challenge: go when they jave samples.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 3 months ago:
They dont effect your mammalian estrogen levels, but they do have an effect on you like every chemical you ingest.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 3 months ago:
Theones in the article had a fridge, microwave and kettle. No sink, countertop or actual plumbing, which is a pretty core part of a kitchen. At least the above looks like a barely functional kitchnet.
The UK landlords just slapped cheap, non permanant appliances in the room and called it a kitchen.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 months ago:
The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.
The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.
Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.