9point6
@9point6@lemmy.world
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 1 day ago:
My desktop with 64gb sat idling with a web browser open:
You got 32gb to play with chimp
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 day ago:
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 day ago:
Looks like cherry coke zero.
Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 day ago:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- Comment on Sweet pic 2 days ago:
Fujifilm’s Velvia color film that saturated green and blue colors.
Photography has never been an objective art.
Today’s “enhancement” is yesterday’s “choice of film”
Velvia is a banging film tho
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 days ago:
Potentially related: velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-b…
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 days ago:
Unless they made fake fibreglass installation just for this, his hands will be in permanent pain.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 days ago:
I see .uk
Based on my experience, yes they probably should.
- Comment on Thats a polar bear 2 days ago:
And it’s clearly a manatee
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 days ago:
Either asbestos hands or maybe AI generated category images?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I can pretend I love to be that guy if it makes you feel any better.
Either way, all discussion that needed to happen is in the link
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I really fucking hate to be this guy, but here’s me less than 48h ago
- Comment on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material 4 days ago:
What does this tell us of the teeth that your average escargot enjoyer has?
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 4 days ago:
AAA games are made by companies that have boomers and early gen x in charge
Indie games are more likely to be made by people actually doing the development, i.e. millennials & early gen Z currently
Indie games have been having a great decade, AAA keeps getting worse
Thanks for attending my TED talk
- Comment on Modern day Exodia 5 days ago:
I also used to quite enjoy the mustachioed man with plasticine on his neck
- Comment on Half Life 3 5 days ago:
Sure but that’s like calling Vice City GTA4. It’s not named that by the people that make it
- Comment on Half Life 3 5 days ago:
IIRC valve outright said it wasn’t HL3
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 6 days ago:
Surely the sales are an equivalent there? Both ultimately mean the total price goes down and the store’s cut goes down accordingly.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely profiting these days. $11bn is a massive amount of revenue* for a company with the number of staff they do. But Steam are going to have disproportionately high datacenter costs compared to most other companies. As a rough comparison: Watching an hour of netflix at HD quality is about 1GB of transfer or so, Call of Duty is something like a quarter of a terabyte. Someone who downloads call of duty once would have to watch 250h of netflix to cost them the same.
Then remember they’re likely paying their staff very well, I would not be surprised at all if well over half of their revenue just goes to operational costs before any reinvestment.
*Checked the figure was revenue and not profit.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 6 days ago:
I’d argue it makes more sense for digital distribution, once the sale has been made in a physical store, there’s no ongoing cost for them.
A digital storefront has the ongoing cost of downloads and updates, as well as the distributed storage costs (Steam many copies of games all over the world to mean downloads are quick)
Data transfer costs back in the mid 00s mean that every install of a game like HL2 cost them a dollar or two. If a user ever uninstalled and reinstalled more than a couple of times (a lot more common back then with the limited storage everyone had), couple that with ongoing update transfer costs and most of the profit from a full price sale could be gone. If they never made any profit from the sales, Steam never makes it past its awkward years.
Data transfer is definitely cheaper these days, but then games are bigger and they probably spend a lot more on datacenter space than back in the day
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 6 days ago:
30% has been industry standard across any digital storefront until Epic found out they couldn’t beat steam by just paying for exclusivity deals. Then they decided to go down this race to the bottom strategy.
Steam is good because of that 30%.
Firstly, data transfer and storage isn’t free and is an ongoing cost for Steam even after purchase. How many times can you think that you installed a game, then deleted it and ultimately downloaded it again—Steam doesn’t get any more money, but that costs them. They could have done all the limited number of downloads or transfer speed limiting shit that used to be more common.
The profit they make on top goes straight back into Valve. They are a private company without shareholders to please and pay dividends to. This has allowed them to keep reinvesting into Steam and making it the best experience for the consumer they can—they’ve been rewarded with a load of goodwill and market share following that. You can guarantee that we wouldn’t have proton or the steam deck without the money valve made from steam sales.
Epic doing this is just another attempt to try and tempt developers to choose their store and not list on Steam. They have no interest in actually improving their offering, their only strategy is to try and find ways to put Steam users at a disadvantage and hope that people go “well I guess I’ll go for it on epic if I have to”. They don’t have any problem getting companies to list their games on Epic, this is 100% about manipulating developers to not list on Steam.
GoG is the alternative to Steam, and offers something that benefits consumers to compete with Steam in DRM free games.
Friends don’t let friends reward Epic for anti-consumer business practices.
- Comment on Still haven't adapted 6 days ago:
Reminds me of this: ssoready.com/…/truths-programmers-timezones/
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 6 days ago:
TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. That’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 6 days ago:
I mean it’s the logical conclusion of “everything the right says is projection”
If a right winger wants to ban something you can find as a category on pornhub, that’s what they’ve been clicking.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 6 days ago:
No, not at all, generally not a good sign at all. I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.
The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?
Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, I guess I’m maybe looking for one
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 6 days ago:
Hmm, had to look up who these guys were
Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit
I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 6 days ago:
Oh that’s actually pretty sad to hear—I did not realise they had new owners
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 week ago:
More oats per oats
I have dairy in my diet, but when it comes to porridge, oat milk only please
- Comment on Still haven't adapted 1 week ago:
As an engineer in the UK it’s particularly infuriating that half the year the local time is the same as UTC (server time) and the other half it’s not. So, I have to second guess the time every time I read it because my brain doesn’t like the lack of consistency
- Comment on Redditors shocked to learn they’re arguing with AI bots | Fireship [4:12] 1 week ago:
Welcome new lemmings
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 week ago:
I cannot wrap my head around why the game industry hasn’t already unionised massively—I hear horror story after horror story and everyone working in the industry seems to have convinced themselves they’re special and it won’t happen to them
