This looks a lot like AI slop to be honest

This is like the shrimp Jesus but actually real, pretty cool

Fritzkola is german

I haven’t quite understood, what LiveKit has to do with video conferencing. Isn’t that just some weird AI thingy?

Then they should push as hard as they can to actually do that, because it won’t be easy

But honestly, Requiem for a Dream was pretty bad in my opinion. It had no real depth, the characters didn’t make much sense, it was just ooh, drugs bad basicly.

That is a really good comeback, I will use in the future.

That’s not how this stuff works. Gamers decide, what stores succeed, not game devs.

Also Valve has policies, that say that you can’t offer your game for cheaper elsewhere, which means, that gamers can never notice the difference between a 30% cut or an 8% cut.

That’s not how the network effect works. If Deva go elsewhere, nobody buys their game. Most people will never even know of the games outside of steam.

What about game devs though? They are clearly hurt already by the insane fees.

Just think about it. When you buy a game for 10€ on steam, steam get’s a flat 3.33€ just for giving you a “buy game” button. The gamedeev get’s maybe half of what you payed (Taxes, engine fees etc.).

Don’t you think, that there is something kind of fucked up about that?

WTF is this comments section here? I don’t give a rat’s fuck (if that is a thing), about what Tim Sweeney thinks about Valve, or if Valve is a good company or not.

Charging 30% of revenue for a digital store is clearly nit justifiable and Valve makes insane amount of profits just by having a near monopoly on PC game sales. They don’t need that much and it’s still just digital feudalism regardless if who does it.

You guys are just stuck in the good guy/ bad guy mentality and honestly, it’s kind of embarrassing to get this defensive over a company.

Servo and Ladybird can’t come fast enough man. I hope, that they are mature before Mozilla inevitabley crashes into the fucking ground.

I actually think servo has a much better chance of making it, because it is better managed, supported by the Linux Foundation and their lead devs don’t give weird right-wing vibes like “Andreas Kling”.

Wow, that’s sweet ;)

Liberapay, Kofi

Yes, I am in Nebula. It’s actually really good. I am only paying 30 euros per year (because oft the creator discount) and it’s a good way to support creators.

Are you joking, or are you actually serious?

What’s the advantage of vhs?

Funnily enough, they all have the correct orientation (look at the little logos at the bottom). I guess, there is just no proper standard in which orientation a movie title is printed on the box.

Yeah, I also found it quite hard to decipher and I am not really sure, I fully understand it either. But basically my read was that it was a critique of societal expectations about dating and dating culture.

In the movie, everyone was forced really hard into the whole relationship / marriage thing, even if it just wasn’t meant to be. And then they get into marriages, that may look perfect and happy from the outside but actually make the people involved miserable (look at the guy, who was limping, he pretended to fit with his wife, had a perfect and beautiful family from the outside, but everything was based on a lie).

It could also maybe be analogous to dating apps, where you get into relationships with people based on pictures and shallow personality traits.

The whole thing about the “resistance-movement” to the culture was maybe about how even they struggled to really imagine a world without the insane and restrictive sociatal standards. Instead of creating a community without any restrictive social standards, they just forced everyone to act according to the opposite standard (of everyone being single).

Neither ideal was really sustainable or healthy and even though a lot of people felt the problem with this system, no one knew how to challenge it.

That was my read anyway.