halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5 1 day ago:
Not really. They can see how many people play on Game Pass. 100% chance they’re just taking downloads from Game Pass accounts and multiplying it by the retail price though, which isn’t a perfect comparison, but good enough for this type of general estimate.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 4 days ago:
This is one of the weird aspects of games that seems to make no sense because of archaic laws that never entered the 20th century, nevermind the 21st. It seems to be about manufacturing new copies of the already made game, not selling them. So it only affects digital sales, I would assume because of their “creation” on a new sale, every physical game copy was already manufactured and out there, nothing changes there.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 5 days ago:
There’s a difference between having guests that are politicians, and politically charged monologues.
- Comment on My (incredibly divisive) dessert choice 5 days ago:
Latest target, because Trump groups all late night shows together. Despite Fallon avoiding politics as much as possible, and not going after him at all.
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 1 week ago:
It could, but realistically not much in most cases. Only if you’re on the very edge of losing a signal entirely.
The specific network chip and device antenna design could play a significant part on reception, but realistically there won’t be much of a difference in the real world, lots of research and development has already gone into the technologies we use now.
Higher end phones will often support more frequency bands, and thus support more signals, but no carrier uses all of them. Just make sure the phone you pick supports the bands your carrier uses.
Now when new technologies come out, that’s when you can see real world significant differences between devices because there isn’t as much real world experience with a new technology yet, but everything out now and in the near future has already gone through that phase.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 1 week ago:
His videos answer the questions I’ve never thought to ask, but desperately want the answer to once it is brought up.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Discovery is fine. It takes some weird turns, sort of a necessity since they chose to make it a prequel with a unique propulsion system. And it is not like the 90s shows. And there’s a vocal group of fans that hate it just because it’s different, it was the first show coming back from the long show hiatus, and many are simply incapable of admitting that.
Picard’s seasons are all weird in their own way and with their own flaws, totally separate from Disco.
Watch the first season and make your own decision. Star Trek fans are some of the worst for having outsized online hatred of shit that doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 1 week ago:
Those were the days. The idiotic crackpots were kept separate. They didn’t know there were others like them. They couldn’t discuss and coordinate their insane theories together easily.
The Internet allowed them to find each other, and recruit others to their cause one by one, bringing people down to their insane level of stupidity until they found their way into politics.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
We could. But think of the shareholders.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Give you one guess.
- Comment on Poor pugs 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 3 weeks ago:
You seem to misunderstand. We don’t negotiate. We supply them because they’re killing people we want killed, or we blow them up.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 3 weeks ago:
Political violence is of course bad… but as soon as you call for it, especially indirectly, you deserve whatever comes to you. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism, and there’s not a lot more American than the fact we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
- Comment on Behind bars and erased, Banksy's art speaks louder than ever 3 weeks ago:
The initial attempt to scrub away the Banksy left behind a clear outline of the original that still made the original intent perfectly clear
It is very likely that was intentional and a planned part of the art in the first place given we’re talking about Banksy here. Knowing how they would try to remove it, and planning for that to further the art would totally be part of a Banksy piece.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 weeks ago:
And that includes the firmware required for you to load your software.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 5 weeks ago:
Except that 9 months took place on a space station. There were regular cargo missions to the station. And they could have been brought back at any nearly any point if necessary. Other astronauts literally went up and came back from the Station in that 9 months.
The timeframe being so long was almost entirely about the Starliner itself and what they were going to do with a known defective and potentially unusable spacecraft, where the only trained pilots were those astronauts, not anything with the astronauts themselves.
If the station wasn’t an option for whatever reason (despite it literally being part of the planned mission), then other contingencies would have been available or at least planned already. This wasn’t an Apollo 13 situation where not making it back was a serious concern.
- Comment on ICE chief vows to ‘flood’ Boston with agents after Dem mayor vows to resist 1 month ago:
So they’re going to invade? Aren’t they the ones complaining about invasions by “unwanted” people?
I know it’s all bullshit, but I still have to point out the hypocrisy whenever and wherever they do it.
- Comment on Lil Nas X arrested for battery of a police officer | CNN 1 month ago:
To the LAPD, being black and walking towards them is “charging a police officer”.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 1 month ago:
Mandatory school advertising on your children. And people say advertising in the US is out of control…
- Comment on I fast-forward through the songs... 1 month ago:
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 1 month ago:
I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 1 month ago:
This is one of the few games I keep installed and jump back to just as a chill game that requires no intense planning or strategy. The mechanics are simple, well executed, and easy to pick back up after not playing for a while. So many games have tons of complex mechanics that are fine when you’re playing it, but hard to remember if you haven’t touched it in a while.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 1 month ago:
More like 2 with the proper amount of cream cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I see you’ve never heard of any big guys nicknames being Tiny?
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 month ago:
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 2 months ago:
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
It is intentionally vague, because companies want to be able to weasel out of any and all accountability whenever possible.
But Mastercard isn’t off the hook either way even if we accept the rules as they are currently. Before this incident, Mastercard has been starting to censor adult content in general with rules changes. To the point where there was already a petition on the ACLU site about this exact type of censorship.
…aclu.org/…/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unj…
Mastercard is trying to weasel their way out of this particular instance because they didn’t directly have a hand in this video game situation, even though they clearly would agree with it based on other recent changes. They’re trying to play both sides by assuming that people didn’t know they were already doing these things.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.
Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 months ago:
That’s almost surely a result of how Valve works internally for approving projects. They operate with a flat management structure. With no bosses or managers, the employees themselves choose which projects to work on. The philosophy is that Valve only hires the best, and they should operate at their best doing what they enjoy instead of simply being told what to do.
Every employee at Valve is given the freedom to join whatever project they choose, or to create a new one. They are encouraged to work on what they feel if the most important project to the company and what will have the highest direct impact on their customers.
If the Valve employees wanted to make Half Life 3, they would. At this point the joke is that Valve simply can’t count to three. Half Life 1 and 2, them Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal 1 and Portal 2, Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike 2. Several of these have had other interim releases, especially Counter-Strike, but those were always based on the previous game and not a totally new game from scratch, much like the Half Life Episodes.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 months ago:
Steam can 100% enter any market they want, especially something entirely digital like online payment processing. That’s pretty closely related to what they do already. They just have to have a reason to want to do so.
Steam makes a reported $3.5 million per employee from commissions alone. Possibly as much at $19 million per head across the board. To put that into perspective, Facebook, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, averages a net income of $780,000 per employee, and Apple at $476,000 per employee.
pcgamer.com/…/valves-reported-profit-per-head-fro…
Steam may not be as large as those companies, but they’re so effectively streamlined. So much of their profits come from existing systems that only need minimal maintenance as opposed to needing to constantly develop new products. It is a well-oiled money printing machine at this point. And nothing they do is based on any sort of speculation bubble threatening to burst at any point.
