Personally, for me, I’ve paid attention to it some, but not followed it closely. I think a lot of it is just that I understand it so well and have seen it all before. I love KSP (and KSA is looking great!), and have played it with the real solar system mods. The launch looks better than the game, but everything after the game does better. It can look better (their renders are surprisingly shit still), and I can actually control it.

I love space information and technology, but this is just one more step in it. I can’t follow everything. It’s great that it’s happening, but there’s also a ton more research being done that I don’t even know about. This, while impressive and good, isn’t something new.

I watched the launch after it happened at 2x speed and saw some parts of the descent. My phone wallpaper has been set t9 pictures they took. I’m just not that interested in following it live. I know what to expect, and I’ll hear about it if anything unexpected happens.

There’s absolutely zero doubt there’s some selection bias there. The question is, how much?

No, as the head of the orthodox Christian faith, he gets to define it however he wants. You can disagree, and that’s fine, but, according to Orthodox Christianity, in this moment, he is correct. For the Scotsman example, it’s like the king of Scotland saying anyone outside out their borders is not a Scotsman, which would be correct. It’s not a no true Scotsman fallacy, just as the king of the Scots can define what a Scotsman is, the Pope can define what a Christian is (according to the orthodoxy).

Looks to me more like they just put their computer in The Void. Rent there is surprisingly affordable.

That’s not true! I came here hoping to post basically the exact same comment! Sadly I’m far too late.

I’m willing to bet it’s at least in part to anchor a higher price for the PS6. It’ll “only” be a little more expensive than this, so why not buy it?

I can understand why, but it’s sad that he’s stopped using the song that he always used to use. Everyone else started copying the format and doing the same thing though, so him stopping doing a thing that made him stand out actually makes him stand out now.

Isn’t alcohol and aspirin pretty bad? Maybe in thinking of something else. Anyway, read the medicine bottle first.

IIRC, it’s actually based on donkeys, or something like that. Basically, this is just misleading marketing once again.

Another good example for Unity is Escape from Tarkov. Yes, EfT is a Unity game. It’s hard to believe.

Yeah, I would say the way to make this work would be that you have to promise that it doesn’t use AI tools. If there’s evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that you did, then you lose all copyright, from the past and future. Everything you’ve made becomes public domain.

Yeah… no. That was VE day only. Also, Hitler dying did not end the war. An agreement still had to be made. WWII ended with the surrender of Japan. Some soldiers were actually fighting for many years after, but still, the average one didn’t get the news until after it was done.

Meanwhile, WWI fighting ended with an armistice which, while not a full peace agreement, is a declaration to end hostilities. This did happen in a day also. That wasn’t a temporary ceasefire leading into it.

Again, I’d wager this is how the majority of wars end, especially when communication was slow. The ceasefire seems like mostly a modern thing from my understanding. It’s only really possible with instant communication.

Actually, often, yes. For example, there were people fighting and dying “in WWII” after a peace agreement had been signed. They didn’t stop for a ceasefire and then negotiate a peace agreement. I would wager this is the norm, rather than a ceasefire while peace is agreed to.

The last bit was there to say there’s no reason for this to be a question, except for people who hold that opinion. I agree, it doesn’t really make sense. I would mostly group them in with the bigots.

Yeah, dark in the same meaning as “the dark ages.” It’s referring to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of light. Both these terms have fallen out of favor though.

Well, it is a pretty poor indirect source. Just like the moon lighting things at night by reflecting the sun, Earth does the same.

I find this is a weird question. Everyone is going to be different. If the person is straight, then obviously they’re going to be more attracted to someone who presents on the feminine side. It’s all personal preference though.

As a straight man, I prefer my women to be more towards the tomboy side of things usually. I like really feminine looking women too, but I find the ones I’m most attracted towards look feminine but present more towards the masculine side.

Obviously all these terms are made up though. I would say anyone who isn’t a bigot would date a non-binary person if they match what they want. Genitals are obviously part of this, but presentation is made up. Your presentation just has to be something they like. If they like it then tbey like it. It shouldn’t be more complex than that. Someone being non-binary has nothing to do with that.

All this said, personality is obviously important. Someone can be attracted to you and not like your personality. I guess someone could not like the personality of people who are non-binary?

I’m not expecting a business to always act in the best interest of everyone, that is just completely unreasonable. I’m not even expecting individual people to always act in the best interest of anyone but themselves.

Clearly you aren’t doing the last bit, though you should. If you’re excusing Valve, for acting in their best interest, you should at least have the backbone to ask for your own best interest. You’re giving them your money. Demand the best outcome possible for yourself. Either that’s cheaper games (if they just decrease price by 10% but still take 20% of what they currently do, you save money) or better outcomes for developers, which means more games, and niche games that can afford to make fewer sales.

And the fact that valve has never raised prices…

Steam is a marketplace. They don’t set the prices. They provide a place for games to sell their product at whatever price they want. There are plenty of $70 games, and quite a few much higher than that. What are you even talking about?

never tried to shaft anyone and in general never attempted to extort their presumed “monopoly”…

But they have. You aren’t allowed to sell your game cheaper someone else. If you want to distribute on your own website and sell on Steam, you have to charge the same price, even though you could sell for ~30% less and get the same amount of money. You essentially have to sell on Steam though, or you get far fewer eyeballs. There are also other ways they’ve extorted their market control.

Maybe you heard of don vultaggio, the founder and CEO of arizona ice tea…You’re not going to see me ask him to lower the price because clearly he “can afford it” (his net worth is 6 billion. Not quite gabe, but still extraordinarily wealthy). The man is doing everything I can reasonably expect from a business: Not squeeze consumers, not treat staff shitty and not worsen their product for profit. Valve is doing the same thing, just on a much much larger scale.

Yeah, these aren’t even remotely similar. His tea is priced incredibly low for the market. Yes, he makes a lot of money, but it’s through volume of sale. Their margins aren’t that large. Steam has insane margins. The operating cost of the server infrastructure is pretty cheap (we can’t have specific numbers, as they’re private, but servers aren’t expensive). Their margins are absolutely ridiculous and they have high volume. If we’re going to make the comparison of these totally different markets (selling a product VS providing a service), Valve is incredibly greedy. If you like what Arazona Tea does, you should be asking for far lower margins from Valve.

I just think that, in a realistic world view, while your intentions may be good, your expectations are unreasonable.

Consumers should demand absolutely everything for what they purchase. Expecting to get everything you ask for is not expected, but you won’t even ask. If you actually have this capitalist mindset, where we shouldn’t be asking them to do good, then we should ask them to do whatever we want as consumers. Without us they’re nothing. Demand that they do better. It’s your money.

I very clearly do. Them giving away a bunch of money that isn’t required has nothing to do with their distribution service not making a profit. Valve doesn’t do this, so it obviously is not required to run a games distribution service. That’s the part that’s subsidized by Fortnite, not the distribution. The distribution is pretty cheap. All it requires is having servers that can store the files and an internet connection.