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  • That 30% cut is also done on the Xbox and Playstation stores. I would assume Nintendo does the same thing.

    It also sounds like Valve’s price parity agreement only applies to Steam keys. So, if a developer or publisher wanted to provide the game through their own storefront or on another third-party platform then they could charge whatever they wanted.

    As for the 30% cut being excessive, I don’t know if it is or not, but storing data at the scale that Valve does costs a lot of money, not to mention the costs associated with ensuring the data’s integrity and distributing the data to their users all over the world at reasonable speeds. In all likelihood they are running multiple data centers on multiple continents with 100s of petabytes of storage each with some extremely high speed networking within the individual data centers, between the data centers, and out to the wider internet. Data hosting, especially for global availability, is damn expensive.


  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlEcho
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    7 months ago

    I like to be able to sing along to songs when I’m alone in the car, so even if I don’t understand the meaning of the words, I like to know the words.

    I also enjoy word play, and Du Hast has some of that. So knowing the bit of trivia about ‘Hast’ and ‘Hasst’ being homophones in German and meaning ‘have’ and ‘hate’ respectively, and the main portion of the lyrics being wedding vows adds a layer of enjoyment to the song for me.


  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlbe honest
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    8 months ago

    Pennywise kills a handful of people every 27 years and has been doing so for 300 years or so. He probably has kill count under 100.

    Between the kills he gets that are directly shown on screen and the number of casualties you could reasonably assume were the result of his actions, Heath Ledger’s Joker probably killed a few thousand people.

    Ronald McDonald on the other hand, was the main marketing vehicle for a company that sells food products that are incredibly unhealthy and addictive. He is probably indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people.

    Heart disease kills several orders of magnitude more people than extradimensional demons or psychopathic clowns.








  • That’s some awful casting.

    The dialogue sounds like it was written for an MCU movie, with all of the quippy one-liners and poorly timed jokes that that entails.

    And the visual gags are also ripped straight from the MCU, with all of the same predictability and forced humor.

    I know it’s just a teaser trailer, but holy shit it makes the movie look boring. Like a generic action-comedy with a little bit of transformers branding.


  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlsIGmA BeHaiovouR
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    9 months ago

    The game in question is Fallout 4. It’s a single-player game with zero online components.

    Just like with Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, as well as Fallout 3 and New Vegas mod support is an actual feature of the game with officially released tools and documentation for creating mods.

    Given that, the fact that mod support was a major selling point for the game (IMO the only selling point), and the age of the game, it would have been better if Bethesda stopped supporting the game altogether rather than push updates with no meaningful changes that break a feature that for some people is the primary feature of the game.