Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Eh, Cloudflare provides a pretty good service for a very reasonable price.
But yeah, the web doesn’t have a business model in the same way a town square doesn’t, yet you can make a business work in both areas. Make a compelling product and people will pay you for it.
Idk, I have never installed EGS but have claimed hundreds of free games, and played several through Heroic.
Eh, my parents are pretty happy in their 70s. They still go skiing, travel a ton, etc. Stay active and your 70s can be quite pleasant.
Why die before COVID? COVID was honestly kinda okay, if you’re a home body type. I played so many video games, it was glorious.
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with being born after the draft became less used and I’m now old enough to not qualify for the draft anymore. Life is pretty good.
Especially if the parent has a condition that stunts their growth.
Good thing that most publishers don’t pay 30% on Steam, they get a better deal the more they sell. And Valve does a lot to help games sell better, such as not having an awful client.
Despite these inconveniences, Sweeney remains optimistic and predicts that, over time, his strategy will better connect players across different platforms, thus surpassing Steam in the long run.
And what’s that strategy? Bribe users to come to Epic and but exclusive rights to games to force users to come to Epic to play them? Really? How has that been working so far?
This is a massive reason I completely avoid HOAs. I don’t want some busybodies deciding what I can and can’t do with my property, and I’m okay with my neighborhood being less uniform as a result.
I disagree. Yes, there are benefits to a lot of invasions of privacy, but that doesn’t make it okay. If an entity wants my information, they can ask me for it.
One potential exception is for dead people, I think it makes sense for a of information to be released on death and preventing that should be opt in by the estate/survivors, depending on the will.
I’m there with you, and I’d join in a protest to get it.
Yeah, it turns out when you have no serious competition, you can pull shenanigans like that.
Sure, I’m just worried it’ll have similar problems as reddit, just without global admins to fix/enforce things. The creator of a community is rarely the right person make decisions long term. Moderation should be based on trust and merit, not first come first served because moving everyone to a new community is hard.
We had similar problems here on Lemmy when most of the popular communities were on Lemmy.ml and subject to their moderation.
But maybe it’s fine. It’s probably an improvement on Reddit, and maybe an improvement on Lemmy if it actually encourages more diversity in community ownership. I’ll certainly check it out!
Yeah, I’ll check it out. It’s certainly an interesting approach. I’m interested to see how the moderation system ends up working in practice.
Wow, that looks just like old Reddit, awesome!
Sure, it keeps honest people honest, but does little if anything to stop the actual problem.
If you know it’s blocked, you can have the camera ready. This is only going to keep honest people honest.
Anticheat games are notorious for handing out bans if they detect they’re running in a VM.
Both are irrational IMO. Don’t make up reasons to hate a feature, but do attack the features that spy on you.
Eh, I have repurchased some games on Steam after getting them free from Epic. I rarely play them, but sometimes it’s fun to dig through and find something I claimed. It takes like 30 sec on the web, so I do it when I’m in a meeting or something.
Really? I don’t. Maybe that’s why I’ve bothered claiming them nearly every week. I just open the web page, click the free game, then check out.
New games drop every Thursday at 9AM PST, so it’s easy to remember. I WFH Thursday and Friday, so it’s easy to remember to claim it in the morning. But honestly, any day of the week works since it’s one drop per week.
It’s more frequent during their Christmas sale, and I always forget when it starts, and I don’t care enough to figure it out. So around Christmas, I check the next drop date and when it says the next day, I go on every day.