ashok36 @ ashok36 @lemmy.world

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Biden never even said he was incapable of running for or being president. He just said "it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down". That's it.

They're just straight up lying about Biden's statement but what's new in that regard...?

Good enough for me.

No. Based on the fundraising today, a preference cascade is occurring and she'll have the entire party behind her by mid week.

I stopped donating after the debate. I sent a donation today for 3x my usual. If they only respond to money, then withholding it is the only way to make them listen.

Lemmy, as opposed to reddit, has seemed to be very much on the Keep Biden train for some reason.

I for one will be happy with any candidate that can do two to three campaign appearances per day for the next four months and doesn't have the Genocide Joe baggage. Everything else is gravy.

I do too but I'm old and my wrist can't handle more than 15-20 minutes of mouse aiming anymore.

Gyro controls usually bridge the gap for me but my first attempt didn't go well. I'll give it another try in a while. I just saw neon white and curse of the golden idol just got added to gamepass so I'll be playing those for the next week or two probably.

I've just tried to play again on pc with a dual sense controller. It feels like I'm fighting the game the whole time. Maybe I need to try something other than the default configuration.

Props to hello games though. It has probably the most complete support for steam input actions and action sets that I've ever seen. Better than portal even.

I can't read the link but if we just gauge the health of the indie game portion of the industry by how many games are released, I think the only conclusion you can make is that it's quite healthy. In no small part due to steam which provides discoverability for smaller titles and handles a lot of the technical stuff (downloads, multi-player, even drm) so indie devs don't have to.

You just seem to have a chip on your shoulder in this department and it's not clear why other than "billionaires are bad".

I really hope if for no other reason that I spent a fair bit of time in 2020 telling my friends that Biden wouldn't make it all the way to the end of his term. I wish the guy well but I love being right.

Well, that sure took a turn I wasn't expecting.

Provide one example if it's so ubiquitous. I have been following the EGS discourse for years and never seen anyone complain about the free games.

Maybe complaints about how the games aren't worth it because you have to use EGS, sure. I've made that joke myself. That's a different complaint though.

Go ask any indie developer if they think the 30% cut valve takes from sales through steam means they're "getting fucked". I can assure you, the vast majority do not.

Serving files, absorbing the costs of credit card payments and charge backs, and maintaining community forums is worth the 30% alone. Hell, just being able to list your product on the most popular store is worth it for some people.

In my industry, physical stores won't even consider stocking your product for less than 40pts of margin and the big guys expect you to absorb the freight costs as well.

30% on storefront sales and you can sell your own keys for 100% profit on your own site is more than fair.

I'm sure you came up with that 5% number after careful research and didn't just pull some low round number out of your ass.

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Nobody shit on epic for giving away free games. You can't just make a completely false statement like that.

People don't like epic because they bought games and made them exclusive to their store.

I'm not saying we shouldn't. I'm saying sentiment has changed after this weekend. Trumps reelection seems more likely than not to them. I hope they are wrong.

You're supposed to isolate until you don't have symptoms,however long that takes.

I'd argue they're both incumbents though. Trump, shitty as he is, is a known quantity as much as Biden is. More so, maybe.

This is just an anecdote but word came down from the c suite today to start getting all our ducks in a row and make plans for huge tariff increases next year.

I work in a fairly liberal leaning industry too. The bosses see the writing on the wall for Biden. The last time this happened we upped our prices on everything regardless of country of origin. Market segmentation and pricing strategy is a thing and this will affect prices for all goods.

I was born in 81 and definitely knew who Reagan was growing up. I distinctly remember his TV address after challenger exploded.

The Democrat party has had an influx of never Trump centrists and even milquetoast conservatives. The dems will be moving right ward to accommodate those new pick ups until the Maga crowd fizzles out and conservatives go back to the GOP.

Or we have a complete realignment and the parties flip. It's happened before.