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by j_4 4y ago
Middle click on a bookmark folder will work as well, opening the tabs in the same window, which is what I want to do most of the time. Shift-click opens them in a new window.
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by j_4 4y ago
There's an obvious economic incentive to put more than just the promised bare necessities behind proprietary lockins tied to the company. I'm absolutely not saying the devs are malicious or greedy or planning to do that, but follo
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by j_4 4y ago
I agree it was overly dramatic. I think I just had a visceral reaction to the dreadful PR speak throughout the announcement. I don't agree it's "only good", there's definitely cause for concern, but I'll try to
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by j_4 4y ago
I understand that there are failsafes in place to protect against the conflict of interests, but it doesn't mean the conflict of interests isn't there, otoh it's extremely blatant. I am almost certain that it will affect thin
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by j_4 4y ago
Cruelty Squad. Probably not the best poster child for engine capabilities on the tech and graphics side, haha. Unarguably successful though. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad/
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by j_4 4y ago
Not Godot.
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by j_4 4y ago
Well, to be perfectly frank I'm wholly negative about this. The corporate gobbledygook in the FAQ doesn't include anything to assuage my fears about the obvious conflict of interests for the core Godot developers. I'm a full
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by j_4 4y ago
Biblaridion - "Alien Biospheres" is a great popsci series about speculative evolution. He also does constructed language stuff, but I haven't gotten around to diving into that. https://www.youtube.com/channel&
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by j_4 4y ago
I wouldn't call these business-first, ethics-be-damned people "indies". Not because no true Scotsman , but because of how they self-identify, which from my experience tends to be temporarily embarassed CEO fatcats.
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by j_4 4y ago
There's enormous disintermediation compared to what it replaced, which is publisher deals with many more hands taking a slice along the way. It's not a direct B2C relation, but it's certainly not "the exact opposite&quot
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by j_4 4y ago
I don't get it. Steam has a near-zero cost of entry and provides massive disintermediation. I'm a small indie dev and they gave me immense value. I'd never be able to make a living with this otherwise. I'd love if they l
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by j_4 4y ago
> Did it have any following before the release? Yeah, the game first released on Steam last year and had a decent following from that, ~15k sales and ~200k activations from a charity bundle. > Is there any backslash from the demo-only
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by j_4 4y ago
Are you interested in games as well? I recently released my first game on Android, very much a commercial endeavor but with a model that I somewhat expected too friendly for its own good - ad-free demo, single IAP for the full game. It made
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by j_4 4y ago
Yeah. Also - it makes perfect sense in retrospect, but I was surprised to learn that wood tends to have decent antimicrobial properties. We had it right 10000 years ago, it's a great material for cutting boards and utensils. https:&#x
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by j_4 4y ago
Wood has a grippier texture which I'd consider the top factor when it comes to practicality of chopsticks.
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by j_4 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but for the purpose of my argument this is splitting hairs. Both audiences are functionally the same from the game design standpoint.
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by j_4 4y ago
To me this "ultra-wealthy" thing has always sounded like a convenient lie whale-game devs tell themselves to sleep soundly at night. These dark pattern black holes are made purely to form an addiction and turn it into profit, they
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by j_4 4y ago
You can already do this for retweets. First option under 3 dots on someone's profile.
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by j_4 5y ago
Then the site mostly agrees with you on that, and I do as well. These things are only dark patterns because they usually interlock with the money sinks. I'd say they still mostly cater to an addictive personality, but it's a very
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by j_4 5y ago
In another comment you've admitted to spending $10k on some games, so clearly the patterns are doing their job. These things are specifically made to create a strong addiction and wring the max possible amount of money out of people wh
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by j_4 5y ago
Original title is moderately clickbaity, this is Ukraine on top of Russia and Belarus.
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Valve reportedly halts Steam payments to developers in Ukraine(nme.com)
1 points by j_4 5y ago|2 comments
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by j_4 5y ago
In Polish we have this short and sweet phrase "dawno i nieprawda" - "a long time ago and not true". In my experience, obligatorily uttered when a friend is sharing an embarassing story about you.
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by j_4 5y ago
Well, I did ctrl+f but this is actually the first time I'm hearing about / for quick search, haha. Thanks!
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by j_4 5y ago
Yep - https://blik.com/en
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by j_4 5y ago
That's a different thing from what OP is saying, they're right that Steam doesn't automatically enforce any DRM. It does provide the mechanisms but it's up to the devs whether they use them or not. In lots of cases you c
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by j_4 5y ago
Froze my browser for a good 10 seconds haha. What a disaster this is going to be
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by j_4 5y ago
While I also consider the fake shutters silly, when it comes to the broader fake = cheap feeling, I used to think the same way but recently got educated and it changed my outlook a lot. Please think of a Greek temple, something that probabl
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by j_4 5y ago
Hey, thanks for your work, love .NET. I guess this is as good of a chance as I'm gonna get - the docs experience in non-anglosphere countries is dreadful, the website keeps pushing a localized version with absolutely garbled machine tr
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by j_4 5y ago
I don't mean the dev tools, just regular day-to-day usage browser features. I barely do webdev at all so can't comment there.

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