mnemonicmonkeys
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- Comment on [[TheGamer]] Valve Fremont, The Rumored Steam Console, Appears On Geekbench 1 hour ago:
You’re ignoring my main point: Valve is in a similar boat as Nintendo in that their business model differs from Playstation and XBox.
The reason XBox and Playstation have been competing in in console wars the past 20 years is that they’re trying to offer the exact same thing.
Valve doesn’t need to compete over hardware or exclusives. A lot of people that buy consoles despite already having PC libraries are because they want to play on their couch instead of a desk and because they just want something that is plug-and play. They could stream to their TV with a Steam Link or Raspberry Pi, but that’s extra setup and a less clean experience. If Valve offers a standardized, prebuilt HTPC to fill that role, that target audience has less reason to buy a console.
And since you’re harping on power: Playstation isn’t likely to significantly change their hardware specifications in a few months. They can make some adjustments, but development takes time so there’s not going to be groundbreaking changes just to respond to Valve. Not only that, there’s precedent of more powerful and capable consoles losing to their competition due to other factors, an notable example being the Sega Saturn. You can’t distill sales down into one single defining metric. That’s a take I would expect from a child.
And to expand on competing market space: Valve doesn’t have to restrict their products to just console competitors. They build PCs. Remember Intel NUC’s? From the leaks and rumors, I’m expecting Valve’s product to be structurally similar to those, opening up another market space. And even if Valve doesn’t sell all the units, if the NUC-style form factor overall expands more in terms of units and usage for gaming, Steam still wins since they’re expanding the PC gaming market. We saw the same thing with the Steam Deck, where competitors started popping up, but Valve was making money on those as well since people mainly buy PC games via Steam.
- Comment on [[TheGamer]] Valve Fremont, The Rumored Steam Console, Appears On Geekbench 20 hours ago:
Nintendo continually releases underpowered consoles and sells similar numbers to Sony without issues.
Steam (and PC gaming in general) have access to significantly more games and exist on an open ecosystem, which are already big selling points.
Not only that, the biggest things keeping people from buying into the PC ecosystem are cost and complexity. They don’t want to pay >$1k to play games and they don’t want to have to futz around with a desktop. Valve has already demonstrated they can do both with the Steam Deck.
Who cares if the PS6 ends up having slightly more performance? There’s more factors than raw performance. And those who are obsessed with performance but unwilling to put up the cash for a decent PC can just lock themselves away in the PS ecosystem. Their loss.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 day ago:
Waiting to see Silksong suck on release and their fanbase getting really pissed off about it.
HK fans are really toxic to anything but absolute praise for the franchise
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 day ago:
Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 day ago:
That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all
- Comment on Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23 3 days ago:
Nice, I’ve had this on my wishlist for ages
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 3 days ago:
The fanbase will lose their shit with anger and I’ll be there with popcorn laughing at them
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 days ago:
How dare you
- Comment on All I Want 6 days ago:
SPAESH!
I love watching that clip because you can easily tell he had a lot of fun recording it
- Comment on Me too. 6 days ago:
There’s no biological structure the creates consciousness to the ppint where you can say “if you have x, you’re conscious”, to the point where saying “humans are conscious” or even “only humans are conscious” aren’t always true. Many elephants are conscious. Some dogs are consciohs. Some humans aren’t. And no, the split between humans are/aren’t conscious ARE NOT CORRELATED WITH DEMOGRAPHIC (fuck Nazis and racists), nor is it easy to draw a line in the sand because it’s a spectrum.
It comes from having a brain that’s complex enough. Decision making process start interacting together in unexpenced ways, with subtle variations caused by genetics and history. Literally just read the wikipedia page the previous person posted and apply that same logic to brains and minds.
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
Fine. You can add the repository to FDroid
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
I’m using Futo keyboard on my phone. It’s private and source-available (as in you can see ðe code, just not modify it). It’s available on FDroid, Google Play, and as an apk
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised. Apparently he had a dick lengthening surgery done, and because it was botched he doesn’t feel anything from it anymore
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
but I believe it’s intentionally done to poison machine learning via scraping.
I’ve used it on occasion, and not for poisoning machine learning. I’m just a nerd for history and linguistics and þink it’s neat
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
To be honest, ðis meme is used correctly most of ðe time I see it. It just takes bit of þinking to get it
- Comment on Anon gets a new jacket. 1 week ago:
And fitness. Nowadays the man’s torso doesn’t even look like it belongs to a human
- Comment on Dimensional Desert Breach 1 week ago:
Human face? Bitch, that’s a dog
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 3 weeks ago:
You’ve apparently never played or seen Call of Duty: Vanguard. There were so many inaccuracies it became a complete joke to the community.
- Comment on Bird 3 weeks ago:
which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds
Well, duh. Birds aren’t real, they’re drones made by the government. But who in the hell would make a duck-shaped drone? That’s absolutely absurd
- Comment on Bird 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Rice expands when it absorbs water
- Comment on wtf is ur problem 3 weeks ago:
And I never understood sports fascination of some people
- Comment on wtf is ur problem 3 weeks ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
then read the paragraph immediately below it that could have suggested the opposite,
Your second paragraph did not suggest the opposite
You claim you were deliberately being vague, then get mad at someone allegedly misinterpreting what you said? The solution is to not be vague, not to gaslight people by claiming you didn’t say something you absolutely did. Grow up.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
The second
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
It would be much more effective to curb crime by meeting everyone’s basic needs than giving everyone a gun.
If crime is reduced by meeting everyone’s needs, then it shouldn’t matter whether people have guns or not. So let’s have strong social safety nets and quit pissing people off by taking away their hobbies and property.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
I mean if someone makes death threats
This is a clear suggestion that Anon was making death threats. Don’t be a liar
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you got to see their comments before they were deleted, but I recall their comment being a bit weirder than that. Things like “someones my family forgets to pick their wet towels off the floor. What happens if you add a gun to that?”.
As the second part of your comment, yeah I see your point. That being said, the rules of gun safety aren’t as huge of a hurdle as people seem to think they are. I think it’s more that some people are repelled by any form of friction when starting a new activity.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 3 weeks ago:
Given how nonsensical your first comment was, I don’t think you had a point
- Comment on Anon breaks up 4 weeks ago:
I mean if someone makes death threats to someone else they should absolutely have their guns taken away.
The thing is, this isn’t shown in the original post. Also, making death threats on its own is illegal, red flag laws aren’t required if the person making the report has proof.
Said victim could even get a restraining order if they were worried about violence, which won’t completely assure safety but will go down a process that actually uses due process and doesn’t violate anyone’s rights.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 4 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how you justify in your head adding guns into any of those situations you listed.
If you own guns, you’re supposed to have a secure way to store them. Especially if you have kids. While some people do leave guns sitting around the house, that is strongly discouraged.
You’re supposed to keep guns inside a safe unless you’re about to use it such as going to a range or hunting. And best practice is to keep ammo secured in a separate safe as an extra measure. And when you are handling a gun, you always check if it’s loaded and follow the 4 rules of gun safety