Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 day ago:
Except for the whole shitload of jet fuel part.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
The amount of man hours, time, etc etc to make a game? Fuck that
And 30% of the purchase price doesn’t go to those people. It goes to Gabe’s yacht.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Using those services or run their own?
If they could have still images and text on the Steam store and a link to their external site for everything else, it’d by far be running their own.
It’s the exposure that Steam has an effective monopoly on.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I’m not gonna say Steam sucks. It’s a nice organizational tool that enforces some standards.
I’d rather have a drm free game that’s 20% cheaper though. The devs can pocket the other 10%.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Honestly not that much. The biggest thing Valve brings to the table is advertising and access to customers.
Hosting doesn’t cost that much. If you were that desperate for bandwidth (no one is), torrents exist as an option. Blizzard used to have torrents built into their downloader.
The infrastructure is a nice afterthought.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Do You have any idea what the hosting infrastructure, steam works, and traffic costs?
Yeah, not 30% of all PC games. It’s how they turn out absurd profit.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Any of those places charging 30% on a product they’re only publishing electronically is using walled gardens and monopolistic practices to do so.
I’d rather they go after Steam last, but Steam belongs in that group with Apple, Google, and Microsoft. It’s extraordinarily difficult to sell your PC game without Steam. A few large studios can do it, but not many others.
Still notas egregious as Apple, and now Android with their restrictions on side loading.
- Comment on "Summer 2026 is going to be amazing".. World Leaders: 5 days ago:
I call them “Left Behind Christians”.
- Comment on "Summer 2026 is going to be amazing".. World Leaders: 5 days ago:
The people bringing it about believe they’ll be rewarded with the second coming of Christ and heaven.
They’re no different from the jihadists and their “virgins” that they mock and claim to hate.
Religious extremism is the biggest threat to humanity.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 6 days ago:
This is going to be more and more common as the US elections near.
Bots and agents will be attempting to push their agendas, drowning out anything else and trying to make their point seem like the mainstream opinions.
- Comment on Trump in 2029 after removing the 22nd Amendment, watching Obama run again 1 week ago:
Dude, this is already their attempt to change the Constitution to install a despot. You need more cheating than that?
- Comment on Trump in 2029 after removing the 22nd Amendment, watching Obama run again 1 week ago:
They already have a solution for that. They want to change it to say "no more than two consecutive terms.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also, she’s an actress. What she/they want to show on TV might be a slightly different standard.
- Comment on Hold on one sec baby Delores might fucking win this one. 1 week ago:
They do some of this too with the timing.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 weeks ago:
You know I replaced that with a static image years ago, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Generally it’s hidden, but there are a number of caveats as JRaccoon says.
It’d be good to know which instances proxy images and which don’t. It’d also be nice if some of this was controlled by your client if using an app.
It’s also fairly easy to end up on another instance. And any articles you click on will take you to a domain that collects your IP.
- Comment on request to restore mod c/ TakeYourTimeBack and TakeOurTimeBack 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google is Destroying Android 3 weeks ago:
Can’t come at a worse time. People are just learning to make things through vibe coding, and they’re gonna want to put their own apps on their phones and their friend’s phones.
If Google embraced their side loading, it could become an even bigger selling point.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Omnissa is a registered trademark of VMWare. They’ll be around to collect royalties shortly.
- Comment on /c/Pics mod is going crazy removing posts for no good reason. Why? 4 weeks ago:
The rules very clearly say “no pics of politicians”, and certainly pics of a politician’s parents are in line with that.
It’s also possible that they’re just spam or reposts. I’ve seen the mural before.
- Comment on bold words 4 weeks ago:
You buy 5 bitcoins for $450 each in 2016. It’s what you can afford. You sell them for $10,000 each in 2018, timing it decently just before a bigger drop.
Congrats on your $48k.
- Comment on oh no 5 weeks ago:
It’s perfectly logical. The Sun is loud as shit. Or it would be if there was air to transmit the sound.
- Comment on Was there a way to see English speaking communities only? 1 month ago:
Afaik it has never worked right. If you properly set your post to English, it would hide your post from everyone who didn’t have a language set (so everyone).
The way it should work is if you don’t have languages set in your profile it should show you all languages. If you do have a language set, it should show you those languages AND undefined.
Then you’d be free to specify the language of your post without hiding your post from 99.9% of users.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
“find an actual progressive” aka 3rd party
lol no. You don’t get to strawman and then be a rude piece of shit about it.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
I mean, I generally agree with you, but like most things this isn’t black and white. It’s a nuanced thing that needs to be handled with care. I get it; Large movements are terrible at nuance.
While we’re two years out from the start of the campaign, we can certainly encourage the Dems to find an actual progressive.
Hillary was better than Newsom. It’s funny that California Dems are blasted as the most liberal, when they might be the most conservative Dems outside of West Virginia.
Yes, anything is better than fascism. That point was more important 18 months ago, and might be more important again 12 months from now.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
On the other hand, this is a fine time for this conversation. We do have roughly a year to find a candidate that’s not fucking Newsom just because he could meme for a minute.
I don’t mind a few memes in our politics, but I do want there to be some kind of substance under the memes. And not the substance Magats have found under theirs, 💩.
- Comment on Welp straight to the bin 1 month ago:
It blows my mind that with all our technological progress, it’s so easy now to make the world a better place, and yet…
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 1 month ago:
He made a statement. That’s enough.
If we were all as brave and principled as this kid, this shit would be done right now.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 1 month ago:
Granted. They weren’t giving out participation trophies for 12th though, sorry.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 month ago:
I was slightly interested in getting into it. Youtube had some 15 minute sample of Sunday Ticket. So I figured I’d catch the end of the Bears game. Why not.
13 of the 15 minutes were ads and the demo ran out. Iirc it was exorbitantly priced to continue, and you wouldn’t get everything.
