If only all the streaming services bundled all the services into one service and started selling it for a better price than whatever’s currently being offered :D

History repeats itself and all that

In my native language there’s no such thing as “condiment”, it’s all sauce. Packaging at the shops even say “Mayo sauce”.

No mayo? I love mayo

For the $80 games I kinda get it, it’s cheaper to rent the service, finish it in less than a month and then cancel. With indie games though? Most of them are priced around the $10-$30 mark. Renting them is criminal, they’re not asking for a lot.

They just aren’t making money from them like they used to. You can’t expect to port a game to PC 2 years after it releases, spend $0 on advertising and then say “mhmm, this pc thing isn’t working out, no one’s buying our games”. Check the Steam charts for their last few ports, they’re resembling a flat line. If they dropped the game on PC day 1 they would’ve made more money on PC sales, which is a terrible precedent for them, as it means that the age of the console has come to an end. Luckily, some of Sony’s biggest partners already realized that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-09-25/capcom-targets-smartphone-gamers

I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated

It’s actually insane how much reach JKR lawyers have… if you have been around certain pirating communities there are usually two very important rules: don’t upload Tolkien and don’t upload JKR. Those vermin reach anyone and everyone

Minecraft released when Steam was not dominant yet. We still got physical releases when Minecraft first went on sale. Nowadays? Good luck

Most devs who shared their thoughts online say that not being able to sell on Steam means a death sentence for their game. There was a case recently about a game who Steam banned from selling and without the media coverage they would’ve never made it, because itch.io sales represent a very small portion.

SEC? In this day and age? Yeah… right…

You can donate to private trackers with it, they already figure out how to convert it to fiat and take care of hosting

Commercial VPNs are businesses too :)

Somehow yeah, because the character you build can change gender when you leave goodsprings

It’s not a folder it’s a directory

The internet is just a way to get a message across. Overall, Gen Z (and further ones) are fucked in pretty much every aspect. No money, no housing and generally no real future. That leads to desperation and as a result you start asking yourself questions why up until the 1970s everyone had it better than the previous generations and now we’re constantly getting fucked. Then come the “saviors” of the internet that blame it on illegal aliens, women having rights etc because according to their logic we had it good in the 70s so we must reverse everything back to the way it was in 70s. If young people get some breathing room the trend will reverse itself in my opinion. But seeing as no one is coming to save young people, it will only get worse.

I have a lot more respect for people who say they support genocide right in my face than lie but then go tell someone else that they support genocide. At least the former I can believe when they say what their personal beliefs are.

Sadly Newsom is most likely going to the democrat presidential candidate this cycle and it’s gonna really suck.

This is the most stupid bypass, I’m surprised this works and no one noticed. Lol

I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise firewalls nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.

I’m not aware of any web server that’s still maintained and has wide adoption (so no web servers written by a teenager in Haskell to just fuck around and figure out how web servers work) that doesn’t support the ACME protocol. I highly doubt Manjaro doesn’t use something mainline like nginx.

The renew failing should’ve sent someone a warning that manual intervention is required. This happens from time to time but the fact this went longer than a few minutes unfortunately says a lot about the project.

jfc this can’t be real