stardust @ stardust @lemmy.ca

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Is American supposed to mean anything when the Republicans are indoctrinated into Russian disinformation and salivating over a Putin 2.0?

American might as well mean Russian shill, and is being a woman supposed to mean anything? What does you gender have to do with your political affiliations.

Reason why fuck Americans is valid thing to say. He got voted in because most Americans wanted him or were apathetic about him. Americans made this possible. It's not a small number that is in support.

Yeah even apple is talking about potentially introducing ads into maps when their whole positioning of premium price has meant premium product and experience.

But the pressure of continual stock increases means company has to keep chasing exponential growth as opposed to being content with sustainable growth.

GOG codes are the absolute best.

Mods sometimes another person's save if playing the final ending requires bunch of collecting I don't want to do like Arkham Knight.

Yeah it is strange. I have bought mp3s on Amazon and downloaded the DRM free mp3 to listen to on my preferred player of choice. But, why is the stance on books different?

Yeah they won at capitalism. But it's so crazy that because of stock price expectations even they won't ever come to the finish line. It's never good enough no matter how much they make. The ceiling just keeps going up and up and up.

I might have more faith in them if they weren't a publicly traded company always having the expectation of exponential growth.

When has a company ever shown itself to show restraint once it heads down the monetization train? And isn't Apple's premium price point that it isn't ad infested like Android or Microsoft?

Nintendo DS games that are entirely stylus base have been fantastic for playing on the phone since it translates really well to smartphones. Like Kirby Canvas Curse.

How much of that was Fortnite was what I immediately wondered, since that's just a Fortnite launcher for most people.

Turns out it really is archiving when government decides to go renegade and start deleting everything they disagree with or wipe from history. Archive away beautiful data horders.

Seems like they are getting close and closer to admitting to the love affair they have with Russia and getting married.

US is not an ally of the west.

That was a fun educational watch seeing the thought process that goes into trying to figure how to interpret the data to make an extension.

Even before Elon went crazy I thought it was publicly known it was a terrible place to work for with bad work life balance, and people worked at to get on their resume then move on to another company.

That people even have to try and justify ownership of existing Tesla shows that situation has gotten to a state where potential buyers are less likely to get them.

Stocks are based on future sales projections and a brand going toxic is not a great situation. A car suddenly turning from a regular vehicle to one that is now turning into political affiliation is not great for the average person who "wants to stay out of politics."

Yeah that's the thing that stands out so much. That almost everything mainstream is either US or China. Come on rest of the world step up.

They try to sell this image of being open platform suing Apple and Android, but then refuse to actually properly support something like Linux. And then remain quiet about cuts when it comes to Xbox and Playstation.

Epic made headlines when Metro Exodus that was set for a steam launch and even had physical copies with the steam logo, abruptly decided to pull their launch after entering into a deal with Epic.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/aqyjac/physical_copy_of_metro_exodus_for_pc_has_a/

Then came the contracts to not release on Steam. And from the DARQ dev turned out that also included GOG too.

I was contacted by the Epic Store, proposing that I enter into an exclusivity agreement with them instead of releasing DARQ on Steam. They made it clear that releasing DARQ non-exclusively is not an option. I rejected their offer before we had a chance to talk about money.

https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7

Free games are nice, but that doesn't guarantee affection when it comes to paying customers. It wasn't like this was some small indie company but another billion dollar company trying to pull a Walmart, so some people just weren't won over by the free games into being happy with the exclusivity deals. Those people weren't happy having choice forced away.

I still haven't spent money on epic but I do claim the free games. Yet I will probably never spend money there even though I've spent money at GOG, uplay, bnet, and origin because the first impression and approach they took rubbed me the wrong way. So even people who don't only buy from steam were turned off with the strategy they took.

Now some people don't care and will buy from there, so this just the point of view of people who dislike Epic.