Dota callouts have some interesting ones.

“I gooed the squirrel a bunch, catch her and let Lion finger her.”

Edit: And considering that Lion’s “Finger of Death” ability is shortened to “fingering”, you can guess what the callout is for its upgraded form, “Fist of Death”.

The disbling of lifesteal on Bristleback’s Bristleback feels like it destroys him as a hero. I have no idea how you’d make a viable core build for him now.

Generally, its because people don’t know its an option, or how to do so. Like, even knowing its a good idea, I have no idea where I’d start looking to buy one and I’m fairly informed around tech.

I was kinda suprised too. I know someone else was saying they’re popular in developing nations, because of better regional pricing, although I can’t confirm that. I also know that they were a popular choice for crypto grifts and similar shady and scammy games, since they had less moderation than Steam, so its possible some of the income also comes from stuff like that.

In comparison, spending on third-party titles declined by 18% to $255 million

Some key context from the article.

Basically, profit from Fortnite increased significantly, although the store itself isn’t doing great.

Given that its $255 million in customer spending, not revenue or profits, and Epic reportedly takes only 12% plus reduced fees on Unreal Engine effectively lowering it further, I can’t imagine its profitable. If we assume 10%, that leaves revenue of $25.5 mil, which doesn’t seem like it’d be anywhere near enough to cover exclusivity deals, and giveaways, nonetheless infrastructure and other factors.

Thanks for your thorough answer. That was my understanding from the research I was doing as well, but I am probably even less of a lawer and was hoping someone with more experience could check my work.

I’m a bit confused as to what you’re asking for? Just like, programming project ideas that benifit the Fediverse? Or specifically something related to promoting Lemmy on Mastrodon?

As I said in the post, I understand the technical side. Its the legal aspect I’m asking about. For example, yes, you can freely download a reuseable launcher from GOG, but as its only granting you a licence to the game, that licence can’t be transfered (without GOG’s permission), resold, ect. and if the licence is revoked, continuing to use the installer would be piracy. I’m asking what happens if any of these stores shut down legally. Would licences be revoked/invalidated, or how would that work?

You’re buying a licence either way. Its not like you can resell your GOG games or anything. If that licence is revoked or invalidated, continuing to play the games is piracy. They say you will have three days to backup your installer, but what happens to the licenses in that case? If they end when GOG or Steam go under, legally, it doesn’t matter what DRM is used.

It might be possible that my standards are just higher regarding that. I left Reddit (relatively) ealry, and when I did use it, I think the War Thunder sub was the biggest I participated in. I know it was worse in the bigger subreddits and got significantly worse over time. Since Lemmy doesn’t have any niche communities, and has fewer users in general I think that can easily push toxic users to the forefront and make it harder to avoid them.

Is least compared to where I spent my time on Reddit before the api was removed, I’ve actually found Lemmy far more hostile. On Reddit, I found discussion fairly light-hearted with even more divisive discussions generally given the benifit of the doubt. On Lemmy, on the other hand, I can make a relatively uncontroversial statement like, “Steam provides useful tools.” and be called a fanboy shill who supports fascists.

I’d agree if not for the fact that TikTok knowingly choses to use an algorithm that promotes stuff like this. In the same way, if someone was putting up bilboards suggesting mixing cleaning chemicals, or if someone was taking out TV ads promoting violence, sure, the responsibility might not only be on them, but they knowingly chose to take part.

Edit: forgot the word mixing

Is there something you mean to tell us?

I’m currently using a model M clone (thats like 40 years old) but the lack of N-key rollover is killer for even simple games.

Ducky One 3 TKL RGB in white is $179 CAD, so even more expensive. That said, I guess its probably worth the extra money compared to the backlight-less version at least.

It isn’t absolute, but its rare for a politician not to be corrupt in some way. Generally to get into power, you have to be willing to put yourself above others or abuse the system. Then, once you’re in power, most systems encourage corruption, or even make it hard to avoid. Generally the more powerful the position, the worse it is. That said, just as you should never underestimate the amount of evil in the world, you shouldn’t underestimate the amount of good. Even if the system is stacked against them, some good people do manage to get through and genuinely do good things for their people.

Well, seeing as your post seemed to be much closer to an excuse to post a news article (and one that is particularly iffy sounding at that) rather than an open ended question, I can see why they would have assumed it’d be an attempt at astroterfing.

The vast majority of those machines are very rigged, with a configurable winrate. I’m guessing that machine was set to just never pay out the large prize.

But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.

I mean, whether f2p would contiue wasn’t really ever in question. Its been a successful model for multiplayer for a decade. The question is more in how abusive monitization can be before players will move to competition or leave. Hopefully this shows that players are eager to jump ship (or at least move to competition) when the monitization is as bad as OW2.

This is why I think saying live service overwatch likes have no space isn’t a fair explanation to why Concord failed.

Or Deadlock for that matter, which is even sillier to declare DoA given that its still an in development, limited access product, and one aimed at more dedicated players. Not that any of thar has stopped people.