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- Comment on 3 days ago:
Sorry, you are correct. I didnt mean to say gog is straight up better than steam, though it does sound like thats what i meant. Writing a thoughtful rant on the toilet is difficult.
But in some ways, gog is better. Not all ways. Also the competition in this space has forced steam to do better. The retun policy was really only implemented due to competition for example.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Steam has had monopolistic policies. There just so benign compared to other monopolies of the current time, that they seem pedestrian.
Im not anti steam, but i try to never be pro any company.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Digital markets are naturally monopolistic. If there are no other barriers in a market, a single solution will rise to the top. Once it has gained enough market share, the “network effect” and incumbancy are often enough to keep it in power, even if the product degrades. Leaving steam is difficult, even when a better solution exists ( like gog) due to separated game libraries and friend groups.
See the following examples: Amazon, facebook, youtube, google, instagram, X
Amazon has many examples of enshitification. Higher prices, worse search, paid promotion of products etc.
Facebook adds, social experimentation and propaganda machine.
Youtube removes the dislike button, more advertisements and recommendation algorithm pushing conspiracy theories.
Hell. Here we are, a small group of people who left reddit because of their anti consumer policies. But lemmy is still no competition, and getting smaller by the day.
Markets are not the solution to monopoly, they are the creator. Its the natural end state of competition.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Its freak in the sheets… its supposed to ryme… this broke me today.
“No pain, no increase”
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 3 weeks ago:
If more than 50% of the people in the us keep voting for war mongers, its not really “overwhelmingly unpopular”. Its just full of people who say they dont like it, but vote for it anyway. So they are either cognitive idiots, or hypocrites.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
I have a 5 digit steam ID, made on the 3rd day steam existed. Back when we all hated thebconcept.
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 1 month ago:
There was a company that did hybrid tips. Memory foam but with silicone outer shell. This made them stay clean, while also blocking sound and great fit. But the ones I bought are no longer available and I have not yet found a replacement.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 1 year ago:
I do t consider bonds or CDs as gambling. They are guaranteed unless the entire financial institution dies, in which case your investment in ammo matters more than money.
- Comment on Hades II - Early Access Patch 2 Notes 1 year ago:
Im doing the same… but its so tempting…
- Comment on Ubisoft think gamers need to get comfortable with not owning games 2 years ago:
Pretty on the nose, since one of my fav games, ubisoft created, turned off the servers and apparently lost the source code.
Ghost Recon Online was a great competitive 3rd person team shooter. Ubisoft did everything they could to ruin the game though. Predatory ftp, no advertising etc.
- Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024 2 years ago:
Sorry, i just assumed we were at a point where no one other than the 2 of us would be reading this deep.
Yes that is how generations work. But generations in general is a very loose term. If somone in my grandparents’ generation didnt have kids, they would still be the last generation.
But it really doesnt matter. The point is that humanity has only had this ability in the last 100 years or so
- Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024 2 years ago:
No one from the 30’s is still alive?? I better go check on my grandparents.
- Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024 2 years ago:
I mean… kinda? If i do the math in my head… if there is a 1 in a million chance every day for something to happen. It seems like it wont happen.
But a million days is just about 2,700 years. The human race has been around maybe 100 thousand? Its a bunch of probabilities stacked on top of each other, in a way that reminds me alot of the Fermi paradox.
And we keep inventing new ways to do it and making the current ways easier. There are also plenty of non self inflicted ways it could happen. Commet or meteor, gamma ray bust, supervolcano, etc.
It really isnt a question of if, but when. Before or after, we become interplanetary or better intersolar-system species. My hope at this point is just not in my lifetime would be nice.
- Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024 2 years ago:
Ya, by 1st time, i meant in the last generation of humans. Starting in the 30s or so when people started seeing the invention of the things listed above.
I didnt mean like just now in the 2023. Or last decade.
- Comment on Newspaper in 25th march 1924 writing to historians in 2024 2 years ago:
This is also the 1st time in history we could fuck up bad enough that it wont be recoverable. Climate change, nuclear war, biological experimentation, AI… it seems inevitable that we will erase humanity from the galaxy.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 2 years ago:
Two is one, one is none.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 2 years ago:
I worked for a company that desighed home security devices for a few years… Pretty much everyone i talked to agreed there is only 1 actually good security device that is an effective deterrent. Its called “Large Scar Dog”. Every other device is there just to notify you that all your shit is soon to be or already gone