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Skyrocketed above 5% is an expression I would discourage anyone from using because it's a broken metaphor. Unless the trajectory of that rocket was a few degree
by TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
Skyrocketed above 5% is an expression I would discourage anyone from using because it's a broken metaphor. Unless the trajectory of that rocket was a few degrees from horizontal.
How about grasshopper-ed above 5%?
- KeplerBoy 7mo agoLet's revisit that topic if the FED raises interest to 5%.
- PurpleRamen 7mo agoThe number doubled in the last year. April 2025 it was around 2.3%, and has been jumping around 2-3% for several years. Skyrocking seems justified when looking at a greater picture. Though, it's a longer process, not something that suddenly happened immediately. The combination of Steamdeck, proton, good gaming-distributions and Windows 10 phasing out, while Windows 11 sucks and becoming an AI+Ads-infested mess, seems to have pushed this trend. So let's see how high this sky will be. Edit: Found a good visualization: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
- TurdF3rguson 7mo agoRight but clearly 5% is still much closer to the ground than it is to the sky. Not that ground-rocketed makes any more sense because it doesn't.
- PurpleRamen 7mo agoSkyrocketing in this context is a fast steep rise, moving fast toward the sky; so it's about relative height in a specific timeframe, not absolute height. I mean, nobody would say Windows is skyrocketing, because it already is the sky (here).
- Zhyl 7mo agoThings can skyrocket whilst being relatively small compared to other things.
- TurdF3rguson 7mo agoIt creates semantic dissonance. There's nothing wrong with saying it doubled to 5% which is much more informative anyway.
- Zhyl 7mo agoIt's been an exponential curve since 2022. https://gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker https://gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker