owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
- Comment on Universal Music partners with AI company building an ‘ethical’ music generator 3 weeks ago:
Downvoted because of the nightmare thumbnail.
- Comment on Gone Home studio Fullbright are now making games about horrible toilet spiders 5 weeks ago:
Thanks I hate it
- Comment on Daily Dungeon gives you a fresh dungeon-puzzle every day inspired by Wordle 5 weeks ago:
Also check out Rogule
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October 2 months ago:
All shall be sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value
- Comment on No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve 5 months ago:
Buying physical media is another option. But yeah, I’m not aware of others either.
- Comment on No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve 5 months ago:
GOG has always been big on non-DRM and giving you direct access to the installers. They do have a launcher, which likely has similar terms as Steam, but there’s no way to enforce the way people use installers.
So it’s more similar to physical media–there’s still legislation, but I don’t believe “passing on” a game would be any more illegal than passing on a physical disk.
And GOG has always been in favor of this model, to my knowledge.
- Comment on No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve 5 months ago:
I’m also on Linux. There are plenty of games that run natively. I still use Steam for those I can’t get on GOG, but there are plenty you can.
- Comment on No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve 5 months ago:
Hopefully more people shift to companies like GOG. Can’t get everything on there, but I’ve got quite a bit.
- Comment on Athenian Rhapsody is a rather unhinged Undertale-like and stupidly funny 6 months ago:
Black and Decker makes an excellent ToastVGA card.
- Comment on Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away 6 months ago:
What people don’t understand is that this is exactly what C-level management wants.
Senior talent costs senior pay. On paper, a junior employee looks much the same as a senior one, and costs significantly less. Cutting salary costs by 20 or 30% is a higher-up’s wet dream.
It also means that those remaining are the ones not questioning or pushing back against management (or at least not as much). Whether from a “manager” mindset, apathy, or dependence on the paycheck, the remaining employees are more likely to accept further enshittification (such as not backfilling the now-empty senior roles and having existing employees take on the extra work for no extra pay).
Executives aren’t stupid, they’re just working toward completely different goals than the people doing the actual work. And RTO mandates are directly in line with their goal: pump up short-term profits (at the expense of long-term stability and growth).
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
You know how everyone wishes they had a different physical device for each app? That’s this!
- Comment on X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says 7 months ago:
Legal stuff is often complicated because life is complicated. That being said, there are some people who benefit from legal stuff being complicated, and I suspect they do what they can to make it as complicated as possible.
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 8 months ago:
- Comment on We are jobless communist spreading jewery apparently. 11 months ago:
If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoe.
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 11 months ago:
Breath of the Wild, during one of the memories.
Also Undertale. Left me with a large mess of feelings at the end.
- Comment on It's that time of year again. 11 months ago:
so MUCH more
