RIP Mandy

It’s only too high if they demand exclusivity.

And they don’t.

They are providing PLENTY of value to anyone who is listing their games there.

Would I like to see them do more now for small and independent outfits? I would! but 30% isn’t that much comparatively to the old days of buying physically distributed things in a brick and mortar store.

I remember buying final fantasy 2 (4) on snes and it cost 95$ US this was 1988 or 1989

Which was about 129 CAD (the exchange rate is between usd then and now is about the same conveniently for this tidbit)

Today after years of inflation it would cost about 250-260 USD or 340-355 CAD

I don’t fucking miss those days at all. And while there are multiple factors here in play, this is entirely fair to charge silksong 6 dollars ish per sale on a 20 dollar sale whilst the failing AAA games 30 dollars on a 90 dollar sale. There is a cost involved and it is because of steam, specifically steam, that made digital distribution what it is today. And by that I mean they have set the standard for what is a healthy location to sell your digital goods.

And to give an example of what garbage (yes you Tim Sweeney you giant whiny fecal faced fuck) digital distribution for games would look like if steam didnt actually do a great job, look at books.

Buying books on through amazon you pay more for them then you used to for a physical copy of the book itself.

Time to get on your knees

Much appreciated

I remember a video of Linus from LTT going to check out the Sennheiser factory and their high end electro static ($ 19,000 at the time) headset had like a 40% quality fail. Because only the best would be branded as their high end devices.

Most of the ones that didn’t pass were still absolutely fine, just not hitting all the frequencies correctly so they went in the $8000 bin.

Exact same product just some were slightly less performing but still more than useful as a lesser quality product.

Which iirc Linus commented on after initial surprise to see such a high failure rate.

Now that’s a good brand that cares about quality, lesser manufacturers…

Planned obsolescence or engineered obsolescence if you prefer.

It’s like light bulbs. They had a cartel form that drove DOWN the hours of use so that they would expire after only about 1000 hours of use instead of multiple times longer that some bulbs were getting.

Afaik it’s one of the earliest big scams for that

Then why not just use email? Sounds like you just want an email…

so unless the proposed attacker is the United States,

Now you are getting it

Costco was selling fruit trees with multiple different fruits in it a few years ago. One cherry tree has 4 different cherries in it.

If I had a hard i would have bought one and put it in my yard

Rubio isn’t an idiot, he’s just okay with doing the things he’s asked to do

Heyo not sure where you are from, but if you find these things worth looking into, you may also be interested in Canada’s residential school atrocities. There was some unearthed history recently(ish) brought up about our governments history, similar to some of those historical events

I don’t have any kicks to share but I remember there being some decent actual old school journalism responding.

I’ve got some bad news for you. The only reason he isn’t our prime minister is because Trump happened.

An UNcomfortable amount of your fellow Canadians actual support that guy

I would but no one is offering enough money for me to do that job

Scumfuck needs to hit his trillion dollar payout somehow

I’m only half joking when I tell people the current state of the world is because Queen Elizabeth the Second actually died

Huh? How you figure?