Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...
“You’re only doing it for the money” to a game dev is the same as being asked in a job interview to show all the git repos you worked on in your spare time.
People develop skills, and they often choose to use those skills to make money. We expect game devs to only break even now? F off with that shit.
It’s a 5 dollar game (being generous) that was already overpriced at $6.
Facts and opinions are different things.
If you don’t like the game, or think it’s overpriced, don’t buy it. The dev should continue to price it as they see fit.
When AAA publishers price games at $70, the solution is not to buy it. It’s not different here, except that $6 > $8 is not a difference most people (except the dev, due to volume) will care about.
I’ve noticed that ads are absolutely everywhere, and wanted to post this to disillusion some of the places we see ads but don’t realize. It would be harder to make a list of places you don’t see ads....
It’s important to differentiate advertising from sharing information, generally. SponsorBlock is not a corporate product, so mentioning it is not an ad. If the idea is not to share information, then the entire internet should be avoided, but advertisements specifically are aimed at some party making money.
I do actively try and avoid ads wherever possible, mostly through the use of open-source approaches. I don’t have them on my phone because of heavy modification (except technically robocalls). I don’t have any on my desktop rigs because of a complete reliance on Linux. I get some on my work machine, which is a Mac, but I went with that because IT gave me two choices and Linux wasn’t one of them. I know I’d have more had I gone Windows.
I don’t watch traditional television, but there aren’t many ways to consume corporate content without also consuming ads. I think that is a thread that ties a lot of this together. Basically, if you want to consume corporate content, you have to concede to watching advertising in some capacity, and that is by design.
I would argue that we should be able to avoid it in life generally (e.g. billboards and such, which are a constant annoyance), but aside from that, I always see ads as a tradeoff that I have no option to avoid if I want to consume certain content.
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Basically, if you want to consume corporate content, you have to concede to watching advertising in some capacity
I really, really hope that all of the fragmentation between policies in the EU vs the US (as a result of EU regulation) get noticed by users in the US. Unfortunately, I’m not holding my breath.
I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her...
It’s fantastic. I’ve been 100% Linux for gaming for 2 years now.
A favorite story of mine is the Elden Ring release. On Linux, the PC version didn’t have the microstutters it had on Windows, and it was entirely due to shader precaching on Steam/Proton. There are other times where performance is better on Linux also (and this is for Windows versions of games), not the least of which being lower overhead.
Mind you, nvidia does still lead to some driver issues for some. AMD is kind of where you want to be for easy Linux gaming.
The wallpaper is one of the standard XBM images included with the X11 distribution (in OpenBSD, it’s at /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/mensetmanus)....
And you know… I don’t hate it. I think if I can maintain usability I may actually try theming like this soon. Everything comes back around eventually. Digging the silly “Hackers” vibe.
I had this thought recently watching a video about the Apple Vision Pro. If I saw some corpo in Cyberpjnk 2077 using that exact device, I wouldn’t bat an eyelash.
This. At a governmental level, it isn’t a huge number for an issue of this magnitude. Enough to try and sway opinion (aka marketing), but less so for real change.
People have been used to a lot of private services for a while now. YouTube is so ubiquitous it’s almost like a utility, in that everyone always has access to it and it’s just everywhere, with no real competitor.
But all of these social media services are private, so as much as they feel like public information utilities, once you’re on one, your data isn’t your own. I think that’s the disconnect when people hear that “their data” has been used for AI training. It ceased to be their data as soon as it went on the platform, at least tacitly in the US.
There has traditionally been a public expectation of control that simply isn’t there for any of these services. The industry knows this and capitalizes on it regularly. It’s a key tenet of technofeudalism.
And, the definition of well-off is a moving target. $150k a year now is the equivalent of $80k ish a year in 2000. That was a middle-class income then, but $100k+ now is seen as well-off by a lot of people.
It’s more well-off than many, but it isn’t what well-off used to mean. Outside of the super rich, everyone now gets fucked in their own way.
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
That may be due to other factors. I will be up front that I don’t have a lot of specifics, but I do know this: in retro computing, SD is hard to implement as a replacement for old-school disks because it means a lot of overhead. For that reason, Compact Flash is still the preferred format for a lot of products aimed at that space.
Perhaps that is at play here, because increased overhead should also equal a reduction in battery life (modulo the spinning disk).
Yeah, Trent was the only permanent member of the band. Live shows were different, but he had absolute control in the studio. The plural band name is (maybe intentionally) distracting.
Edit: also, I had the pleasure of seeing Trent Reznor at a Bridge School Benefit concert many years ago. That concert series was famous for, among other things, acoustic performances, and so it was just Trent and a piano. It is one of the best performances I’ve ever seen by any musician to date, so I’m not at all surprised he was able to pull off a lot alone.
TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)
Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...
Where are places you see ads?
I’ve noticed that ads are absolutely everywhere, and wanted to post this to disillusion some of the places we see ads but don’t realize. It would be harder to make a list of places you don’t see ads....
Apple allows music apps to offer payments outside App Store in the EU (www.politico.eu)
Tech giant updates its rules on payment alternatives to align with EU antitrust decision....
My mom uses Linux, btw
I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her...
XXX (sh.itjust.works)
[MWM] It's still 1994 here! (lemmy.sdf.org)
The wallpaper is one of the standard XBM images included with the X11 distribution (in OpenBSD, it’s at /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/mensetmanus)....
Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds (www.livescience.com)
48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone
The 4-day workweek could be here sooner than you think (www.businessinsider.com)
Trudeau announces $600 million in loans, funding to jump-start homebuilding, rentals (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models (www.engadget.com)
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' son accused of sex assault in lawsuit that also names music mogul as defendant (www.nbcnews.com)
A woman alleges she was attacked while working on a yacht in late 2022....
Sen. Bernie Sanders's office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear (apnews.com)
Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system (www.livescience.com)
Fairphone presenting a tablet on 09.04? (no, actually earbuds) (lemmy.ml)
I just got an email from Fairphone that something new is coming on the 09.05 - a whole new category....
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iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery (lemm.ee)
"It serves as a testament to doing what entertains you with no borders." How Trent Reznor created a masterpiece with Nine Inch Nails' timeless The Downward Spiral (www.loudersound.com)