Grimy
@Grimy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 3 weeks ago:
Now do Musk and Bezos!!
All billionaire wealth is stolen wealth. All billionaires are bad. If you stopped bootlicking for a second, you would realize defending Gaben is defending the system. The fact that he can legally exploit it to steal from consumers and developers doesn’t absolve him from doing it.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 4 weeks ago:
Geo blocking is anti-consumer. It was a 16 million euro fine if I remember well.
BBB giving them an F (granted, this one is old) : kotaku.com/valve-is-not-psyched-they-got-an-f-in-…
Billion dollar yatch fleet and maintenance : luxurylaunches.com/…/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.ph…
80 employees (only came out because of an other lawsuit against them) : lavegagames.com/steam-is-run-by-fewer-than-80-sta…
Gaben isn’t your friend and probably mocks you during his high seas coke parties.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 4 weeks ago:
Steam makes a shit load of money. The server fees are basically a joke and they have 80 employees in the steam division.
The only things that is being invested in is Gabens fleet of mega yatchs, worth an estimated 1 billion, and costing between 75 and 100 million annually to maintain.
Valve has been fined in the EU for anti-consumer practices and received an F from the better business bureau. They are currently in the middle of an other lawsuit.
30% is way too high and it’s a joke to see actual consumers defend it.
- Comment on After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings 1 year ago:
I’m pretty sure you could just have it stop recording when it got full. There is in any case a big difference between auto delete to make space and deleting on a timer base regardless of what the user wants or the space involved. My family had series we kept for years on it and would rewatch whenever.
Don’t know what defendable about this. Its clearly skeevy, weird thing to bootlick about.
- Comment on After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings 1 year ago:
They were first advertised with hard drives that didn’t auto delete anything
- Comment on Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR ruling should doom NYT’s OpenAI lawsuit 1 year ago:
Generating new content based and influenced by someone else is not plagiarism
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 1 year ago:
Offermans character was deep in the closet and his future husband had to break down some heavy emotional walls. It was his first relationship with a man.
Being gay was very much part of the theme and wasn’t just some offhand detail about them imo.
There was a lot to the episode but pretending their sexuality had no impact on how the story was told or its impact is silly. I don’t think it would have been as touching without it.
Some of you really need a rewatch.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 1 year ago:
The most common option is always left out. We say Thai food or Chinese food but no one says “Lets have some American food tonight” when living in the US, because it’s implied if no other type is mentioned.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with calling it a gay love story or just a love story, one just offers more information.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 1 year ago:
It’s okay to clarify and specify when something is gay.
Its clearly its own sub genre, Netflix has specific categories for it and Asian culture has a specific acronym (BL for boy love). Many people prefer it over the rest, even without being gay themselves.
Acknowledging a difference isn’t necessarily an insult.
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching? 1 year ago:
I recently rewatched season 1, such a great show
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching? 1 year ago:
Fargo has been great even though the season finale could have been better
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 1 year ago:
The consumer would benefit from a higher quality of games, since they would become more lucrative to make and the available budget after a successful title would be higher.
There’s also the indie scene that would benefit from every dollar. A 30% middleman tax can affect a lot more than just the price.
Cutting ceo pay is a good idea too but one problem doesn’t forgive another and regulating soft monopolies would be a first step in that direction anyways.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 1 year ago:
30% fees are insane. Those cost are passed down to us the consumer. We get shittier game because a third of the profit goes to these marketplaces.
I get the epic hate bandwagon but what the fuck is up with the constant bootlicking? Google sucks for doing this and all the other platforms as well. They ALL employ monopolistic tactics to keep their moats, stop defending them because the algo tell you too.
- Comment on Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert 1 year ago:
I don’t understand why a wage is legal if it traps people into poverty? Shouldn’t minimum wage be brought up across the board? I expect if they are doing it, thousands of other businesses are doing it as well.
We literally have a minimum wage for a reason, why are we expecting corporations to self regulate instead?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If it’s enough content, an AI can learn any language naturally just by training on it.
Only solution is an encrypted airgapped computer that cannot physically connect to anything. But the set up makes you suspicious enough to get in trouble just for having it probably.
There was an encryption software a while back that would open two different partitions depending on the password you put in so if someone forces you to open it under duress, they get the drive filled with naked ladyboys instead of the one with your revolution plans.