chemical_cutthroat
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- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 2 weeks ago:
I’d like it kinda like the PlayStation controller with the pad in the center.
- Comment on Caption this 1 month ago:
Sidetalkin’™ 2
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
You could very well be right, I haven’t read the full suit or done a lot of research on it, so I’m just going off the scraps I’ve read. I did check out isthereanydeal to look at price differences between Steam and Epic on some major titles, and all of them had even pricing. I don’t have a huge sample size, so if you want to look for some that have different prices, I’d be interested to see how much difference there is, and if, say, the lowest price on Epic has had a Steam sale after it where the game was priced higher on Steam.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
I think that’s part of the argument. It isn’t just for Steam keys, it’s for alternate storefronts like GOG, Ubi, EA, Epic, etc. If you want to sell on Steam, you have to keep it the same price as anywhere else. It seems a bit harsh, but I am tentatively siding with Steam on this one. I’ve never had a company be as consumer friendly as Valve has been over their lifetime, and they’ve earned some brand loyalty. It’ll quickly dissolve if they start fucking people over, but for now, as far as I’m concerned, they get the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
Yeah, on the other hand, I’m also an idiot, and I could be completely off with what I’m talking about. IANAL, so we’ll have to wait and see.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t make them available to more people, it would make deeper sales available to certain storefronts. Right now, Valve says that if you want to do business with them, and you offer a discount on another storefront, that same discount must be reflected in the Steam price when it sold for a discount on Steam. What the lawsuit says is that Publishers should be allowed to publish whatever discount they want on whatever site they want. That sounds like a better deal to consumers, but what it does is open the door for anti-competitive loss-leaders. It’s the same strategy that companies like Wal-Mart have employed to gain marketshare. They come in, sell everything at a loss to drive out competition, and then raise the prices to the same price the competition was charging. They haven’t given the consumers a better option, they’ve only ensured that they don’t have another choice. If you look at Valve and you look at Epic, you can easily see who has the deeper pockets: Valve is worth a little over $3 Billion from what I can tell, while Epic is worth over $40 Billion. If Epic wants to sell at a loss to drive Steam out of business, they can, easily. As a matter of fact, they’ve already tried this by offering the free weekly games that they do. I’d wager that if this goes through and Steam loses, we’ll see that free weekly game go away, and then large doorbuster sales of everything on the site just to undercut every steam sale as it happens. Where are you gonna buy that new game at? Steam where it’s full price, or Epic where it’s half price? What about the Steam Winter Sale? Will you buy the game for 80% off, or go over to Epic offering it at 90% off with a $10 coupon for another game on the site? Pretty soon you’ll only be shopping on Epic, and once Steam is gone, Epic can charge whatever they want. It’s the long game. They don’t need to be profitable today. They just need to show their shareholders the path.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
It’s actually kinda the opposite. It’s claiming that Valve makes deals with publishers that use Steam forcing them to maintain price parity with other storefronts. So, if you want to discount a game on something like Fanatical, you’d have to run the same discount on Steam, you can’t just have one or the other. I don’t want to put on the ol’ tin foil hat, but it reeks of Epic. Epic wants to run cheap sales through their storefront that Steam won’t get, so they can pull users away from Steam. If they both have the same discounts, then Epic can’t get the upper hand. That is complete conjecture on my part, but it fits with Epic’s shit strategies. Instead of making something that brings people to them, they want to kill off the competition through anti-competitive practices. It’s the same thing they are doing by signing exclusivity contracts with third-party developers.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2's next expansion is about a Control agent investigating a spooky painting - and it's out next month 1 month ago:
I wish this would come to Steam. I’m never going to give you my money for your shit storefront, epic.
- Comment on Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option 2 months ago:
And how about… And how about… And how about…
- Comment on Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option 2 months ago:
My friends and family are apparently saints or something, because they ask. As a matter of fact, my mother’s birthday was Sunday, and I went to visit. My sister took my picture while I was sitting with her kids and asked if it was OK to share on Facebook. I don’t know, maybe have a talk with people you are close to and set some boundaries. I’ll keep it a buck with you, I never had to bring it up with anyone, it’s just common courtesy.
- Comment on Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option 2 months ago:
Scraping the bottom of the barrel there, aren’t you. Where are these photos coming from? Who is posting them?
- Comment on Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option 2 months ago:
At this point, I have to assume if you are using social media to post photos of yourself, or share thoughts on life, you don’t care what happens to your data. AI being trained on your photos isn’t the first straw in social media malfeasance. Facebook isn’t free, but it doesn’t cost money.
- Comment on Valve gives developers some big reasons to add a demo on Steam 3 months ago:
Great. Can I have my coconut monkey back now?
- Comment on Google's environmental report pointedly avoids AI's actual energy cost 4 months ago:
God damnit what a worthless fucking article. Pure conjecture and fear mongering. I’m not saying that AI doesn’t use a lot of resources, but putting out an article about how Google won’t say how much it’s using, and then not coming with any information of your own is just yellow journalism. That’s like going to a restaurant and asking what kind of oil they fry with, and when the person is like, I’m not sure, you run out to the dining hall and tell everyone in the restaurant that the restaurant could be frying your food in motor oil. This is a bad article, and shit like this only stokes the flames of poor discourse.
- Comment on Pokémon Co. Is Now DMCAing Years Old Videos Showing Pokémon Modded Into Other Games 8 months ago:
If they fuck with Jrose11 I’ll riot.
- Comment on Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites’ content 8 months ago:
That’s like fining me $8.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 16’s PC release sounds pretty close, with a demo first so you can test its “somewhat high” specs 8 months ago:
The only thing I’m really concerned about is whether it will be an Epic exclusive for the first year. I really hate that shit.
- Comment on Google now wants to limit the AI-powered search spam it helped create 8 months ago:
Are they selling a “Verified” badge for your site, yet?
- Comment on ‘Foundation’: Tim Southam To Replace David S. Goyer As Season 3 Director 8 months ago:
Hollywood isn’t as “elite” as they make themselves out to be. It’s full of “that guy who makes the shitty subway sandwich but shows up on time so they don’t fire him”. Goyer is that guy. He’s probably likable, at least by Hollywood standards, and comes in at or under budget. Hollywood isn’t full of Chris Nolans and Martin Scorseses, there are plenty of Goyers that get work. It just so happens that Goyer is a nerd, and he keeps fucking up the nerd footlongs.
- Comment on ‘Foundation’: Tim Southam To Replace David S. Goyer As Season 3 Director 8 months ago:
Welp, 50/50 on this show going forward. The first two seasons were dog shit.
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 8 months ago:
I love sci-fi, I love dystopia, I love cyberpunk. I strongly dislike neuromancer. I don’t like Gibson’s writing style. He’s horrible with characters, dialogue, and action. I understand he built an incredible world, I just don’t like what he filled it with. All that being said, I hope the fans enjoy this iteration, but after what Apple did to Foundation, I wouldn’t be surprised to see werewolves pop up in the fucking show. Good luck, fans.
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 8 months ago:
“You killed my child.”
“No, I killed someone else’s kid, they just had your kid’s name.”
“So we agree you killed a child?”
Also, people that say that Foundation was unfilmable are just parroting what others have said. If it had been done by someone with any talent, it would have been just fine. Instead they gave it to a milquetoast superhero writer/director. Dune is a great example of a property that really should only work as a book, but it’s directed by someone who gives a shit and has vision.
- Comment on ‘John Wick’ Spinoff ‘Ballerina’ Delayed a Year to Film Additional Action Scenes 8 months ago:
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
- Comment on ‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court” 8 months ago:
Not a million a year of HBOs money. Of his OWN FUCKING MONEY. Oliver is a maniac, and I love him to death. He could set up a gofundme for this and I would gladly contribute.
- Comment on Top Gun 3 takes flight as Tom Cruise plans a ton more movies 10 months ago:
Gotta keep the church of scientology fed.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't allow podcast ratings unless you use the mobile app 11 months ago:
If all the hub-bub about Chrome getting less secure scared you, wait until you find out about how secure all the apps on your phone are…
- Comment on Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ 1 year ago:
The goddamn system is only a year and a half old, and is finally seeing a wider adoption. If they added a new SKU into the market, it would only confuse and piss off the people who already bought one. These stories about Steam Deck “refreshes” and “upgrades” are fucking stupid, and I hope the shithouses that put them out don’t get any review units when the real one finally does hit the market.
- Comment on Steam Deck and Dock Are On Sale for Steam's 20th Anniversary 1 year ago:
Yeah, should work fine.
- Comment on Steam Deck and Dock Are On Sale for Steam's 20th Anniversary 1 year ago:
8bitdo makes some of the best controllers out there, or you can go with an Xbox controller, though they are much more expensive.
- Comment on Steam Deck and Dock Are On Sale for Steam's 20th Anniversary 1 year ago:
Yeah, 100%. It only has one USB-C port, so you can only use one plugged in without a dock, but it has bluetooth, so you can use a keyboard and mouse that way, too.