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ReticentVole
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ReticentVole
6y ago
We shouldn't accept Porn being freely available online. Instead, we should require all sites to charge for content, minimum $5/month, with 10% of that being collected as sales tax. Sites that do not comply will be blocked. This wi
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Just get to the LTS release and stay there.
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Its down to the implementation by the developer. The typical developer will do a much worse job than literally the same company who developed the engine. Look at the crashes and performance problems of Industries of Titan on PC, or the visu
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There is another factor to consider which is that the 2017 gold rush when Valve opened up Steam to anyone with $100 is absolutely over. The median game launching on Steam now will make only $1,400 (5 year gross revenue): https://
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Unreal requires C++ and runs poorly on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Unity uses C# and runs pretty well on weaker devices (dev and client side). It also crashes a lot less. Freelancer Unreal Developers are approximately double the cos
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What's to stop you nominating a family member's address as your household address and just physically living in another area?
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What Unity Is Getting Wrong
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I should have been more specific and said 'for traffic generated by the developer', ie. even when they have the Steam widget on their website.
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The problem is with Valve, who charge a 30% commission, even for sales directly from the Developer. In a world of 12% commissions (ie. Epic Games Store) the effort to sell directly wouldn't be worth it and G2A wouldn't exist. Epic
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Americans use a lot of resources, but generate a huge amount of GDP, science, and culture. For example the average American generates 15.7x as much CO2 as the average Pakistani, but generates 591x as much science. https://www.nat
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Hard to imagine how any active system can ever be cheaper than an inactive system - ie. just leave the coal and oil in the ground! Our current CO2 levels rely on events in Earth's history that cannot be recreated for millions of years.
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"Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war"