Tarquinn2049

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[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Steam makes millions of dollars for Valve. They can afford to put a lot of work into making it impossible for anyone to ever catch up to them. If you will never use anything else until it has feature parity with steam as well as having other upsides compared to it, you are never going to benefit from the other upsides.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (10 children)

What aspect of GoG did you find sucked?

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

Yeah, like when you buy a physical copy of a gane, it's up to you to make sure you keep that copy somewhere you can find it again, assuming it hasn't started decomposing.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The thing about it is to remember that it's generally one of 5 skits they have had to write and rehearse as much as possible in the course of 6 days at most.

SNL is more about having a good reason to workshop their skills than it is about how good the show is. But in the context of what they are actually accomplishing, it's generally a pretty good live show. But of course, it will never be as funny on average as a pre-written and pre-recorded show that can be edited and fixed up.

Sort of the same thing as going to any live theater shows. They are not as good as recorded and edited stuff, but you have to appreciate the effort given the context. And adjust your expectations of the quality of the results. They might occasionally still make something that happens to compete favourably with other media, but it shouldn't be expected.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Just a heads up, Alterlife likely never got off the ground. They mocked up a demo video with store assets 3 years ago, but were never heard from again. I still have it on my wishlist, but my hopes are not up, lol.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can tell your therapist that you'd prefer to leave medication to a last resort whenever possible. Even in cases where medication is very helpful, there are other options.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Would you say to not play World of Warcraft until it is "finished"? It has huge game changing updates all the time.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Can always go the krobus route, platonic roomates with a friendly shadow monster.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Though, to be fair, have you seen a picture of Vance without the eye liner and facial hair... the look does a lot to help him. He just takes it a little too far. It's not magic. It can only help so much before it starts to look desperate.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

The machines are more easily verifiable than the paper ballots. They just can't find anyone smart enough to verify for the republican side, not that they trust the opinions of experts even on their own payroll.

It's like, to all the people on their side, the machines are some scary, unknowable box that nobody understands what goes on inside them... some sort of devil magic or something. How can anyone know how to make sure the machine hasn't been tampered with?

In actuality, they specifically want paper ballots because the ways to tamper with them are more well known and accessible to them. The machines wouldn't allow for it.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's awesome. Buncha nerds, hehe. I miss when games were made by a handful of friends, sure sometimes it meant they leaned a little too heavily on a mechanic that only played well in their opinion and stuff like that, the upsides were worth it though.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure. People are calling it highlighting, but it doesn't fit any reasonable pattern to have been manually highlighted. Is there some sort of bad automated highlighting? Or just someone still learning what highlighting is even used for. Or is it just some sort of style thing?

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