big talk from smoked jaguar!

or a Mad Cat if you are not clanner scum!

He’s Thor, worked for blizzard entertainment, indie dev, has a Ferret sanctuary, knows cyber security. Seems like a cool enough guy i guess, has incorrect opinion on video game preservation.

I mean, is it a joke? Because i have no context other than, after making a bad opinion known, there is a lot of talk about his code being terrible. So i guess this is fabricated then yea?

Would this be a case of modulo saving the day?

Like: If Number modulo 2 = 0, true

This has to be taken out of context

“Who saw that comi… who saw where that came from!”

Still liked emoticons better. The emojis all look cursed. But i am sure someone will misinterpret those too

Who wants to pay to find out?

I got mine from MIRA. Though now i am getting their end of the world news letter…

Yes there is. Because it gives the games companies the ability to sell however they like. What to make the game sellable privately? No problem. What to sell an apple version, go for it.

So what part of the open market covers preventing the consumers from being able to choose which launcher they prefer, if any? Valve didn’t do that. EGS did. You should blame the competitors for failing to meet market standards

When you are upset at Valve for not doing for apple what they did for Linux, who you are really mad at is Apple for having terrible… everything, and game developers who don’t want to put the needed effort in for such a modest return.

You are upset at everyone BUT Valve. Or at least you should be.

Its the “if you build it they will come” type of scenario. I want to switch to Linux really badly, but my driver is for gaming, i don’t want to adopt a pet project of getting my games to run in the first place.

Though i know valves interest in Linux is not completely motivated in philanthropy. They want to be able to separate from the dependence of Microsoft, for the safety of their businesses future. But so far our interests align

I am not aware of any stream agreement with game developers that prevents them from releasing their game using any other method. Your argument about streams “” monopoly “” is 100% due to market forces working as advertised. They offer a service that no other company either can or will match. And that is not the fault of steam and was not achieved by illegal means. There’s dissent even need to be a launcher at all! Game companies can just sell us the game alone without a launcher. What other companies want is market dominance, not a fair market place. Because the fair market place gave steam the current win

What it does make invalid is the argument that valve is enshitifying because they don’t cater to apple users. You can put that blame on apple all day. Valve? Not at all. Its a huge waste of time, and all efforts tword Linux advancement is much better spent.

I am my companies best employee, and am now a manager for the sole reason i know how to concatenate and use find and replace in excel.

Its true, I don’t want to work. I would wager that any person that won the lottery would quit his 9-5 the day of.

I went with lemmy world so i could catch the widest net in content. And up till now i agreed with the reasoning of the other defederating.s But it seems like it won’t take much to provoke more restrictions. Guess i will have to lurk in other shores.

I see the decision you made as the ultimate end to this path you and lemmy world tread. At this rate all federations should defederate each other, or just shut down the whole fediverse. We can go back to individual hyper-specific forums on phbb again.

I mean there is obviously a line between what should federated and what should not. But i feel the reasoning here is fundamentally different then the others chosen in the past.