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  • Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will "wind down operations" after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam

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  • From my perspective, this is another reason it’s a bad idea to have an American company (even a somewhat user-focused one like Valve) be a steward of modern digital services. Local culture puts too much emphasis on the theatrical elements of morality.

    Yeah, I hear you. It should be based in a sane country like Australia or the United Kingdom or China or Japan.

    Point is, making this an 'America bad' problem is just ignoring that it could be so much worse if it was based elsewhere.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • This was from 2021, so prior to the Steam Deck... that was really their break-out moment, I think, with regards to hardware. The Steam Link and Steam Controller were neat but didn't really capture their respective markets, and the Index was widely considered one of the best VR headsets on the market but that's a relatively small market, and it priced out all but the enthusiast tier consumers. The Steam Deck on the other hand had mass appeal and basically ushered in a golden age of handheld PC gaming... not to mention the immense hype around their recent hardware announcements. Could be that their hardware team is making more now.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • Sure, but the point I'm making is, it's not Steam's fault; they're simply doing a better job than their competitors of making their storefront attractive to consumers. Rather than blaming Steam, you should be blaming the other storefronts for not being able to capture market share.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • It would really help if the would-be competitors focused on consumer-facing features rather than... whatever it is they're doing. GoG is doing a great job of this, but EGS is still missing even the most basic features years later, because they keep trying to get market share through buying exclusives and giving away free games and that's sadly never going to work out. They just don't understand what the consumers in the industry they're trying to operate in want.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • This actually seems like not a terrible spread. The average for the top earners is a little more than 10x the average for the lowest earners... Obviously outliers could be skewing that data (there could be one hardware developer making 30 million while the others work for poverty wages) but from the data we have, this isn't nearly as wide a gap as I would have expected.

  • If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term?

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  • Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, the specific server is more important than the software they're running; it doesn't matter if the software is being developed long-term if the server shuts down in the short-term... your community will go down with it.

  • How close have you ever been to a lightning strike, or related situation caused by a lightning strike?

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  • Couple years ago, lightning struck a tree on our neighbor's property across the street. We didn't see the strike, but we heard it; the tree basically exploded. Some of the branches fell onto the power lines and started an electrical fire, so it was a whole big thing. Bunch of people standing out on their driveways watching the police and fire department trying to deal with it.

  • oregano bitch

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  • No, oregano is an herb commonly used in Italian and Greek cuisine. Orgasm is the west-coast US state located between Washington and California.

  • Announcing Guild Wars Reforged! – GuildWars2.com

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  • It's a price reduction. It's cheaper than it has been for the past 20 years. For a quality MMO with no subscription fee or microtransactions that they've been running servers for for 20 years. I'd say it's quite fair.

  • Announcing Guild Wars Reforged! – GuildWars2.com

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  • Calling it "abandoned" is a little silly when you're replying to a post literally about the game being worked on, isn't it?

    Not only that, this is free if you previously bought any of the 3 expansions. If you didn't, and don't want to now, this announcement really isn't for you, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  • a Landscape of Knowledge Games

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  • Well, thanks for bringing Epigraph to my attention!

  • What super powers when used together create an infinite glitch?

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    What's the difference between a Schizophrenic person thinking they are in a different persons body and a T thinking they are a different gender?

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  • Okay, be honest - you're doing some sort of lemmy ban speedrun challenge, aren't you.

  • Does anyone have experience cutting their own hair? Should I cut my own hair?

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  • If you want a buzz cut (something you can do with clippers and a single length attachment), doing it yourself is really no problem at all. If you want something more complex, you probably want to see a professional.

  • Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved

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  • Which competition are you referring to?

  • If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.

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  • An even scarier thought is that the Bible could actually be making them seem way better than they are in reality.

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    Steam Censorship

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  • This seems... so completely not worth getting upset over. What image was supposedly censored?

  • Does anyone actually have home safes or does everyone just use bank safes? (or do you hide stuff under your mattress?)

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  • That was our feeling, too - if we did lose everything, we have digital backups of those documents. The chances are obviously low of having a fire, but that's not really the point... the intent is to plan for the "what if" scenario. If you want 100% fire safety, you store things off-site, but this was an acceptable level of risk for the cost, for us. You mention floods; these boxes are rated for much longer in water, so they might be applicable to your use-case.

  • Does anyone actually have home safes or does everyone just use bank safes? (or do you hide stuff under your mattress?)

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  • We have a fireproof / waterproof safe box we store documents like that in (essentially this). It's not going to keep an intruder from getting the documents if they wanted to (they could just take the box with them and smash it open, it's certainly not good as an anti-theft device) but it's waterproof and fireproof and that's more what we were concerned with.

    It's worth noting that these aren't rated to protect documents from a prolonged intense fire; if your house burns to the ground, it's probably not going to help.

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    Hot Take: Lemmy communities should function similar to hashtags on Mastodon.

  • Furry Technologists @pawb.social
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    'Gay furry hackers' claim second NATO cyber-break-in

    www.theregister.com /2023/10/04/nato_data_attack/
  • Furry Technologists @pawb.social
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    Google's Generative AI Tools Now Turn Text Into Online Worlds

    decrypt.co /154510/google-generative-ai-tools-turn-text-online-worlds
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    I made this.

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    There's always that one friend that blinks for the group selfie

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

    Per-User Community Groups?