Excellent time for the Japanese to drop ideogram/logogram system and have an alphabet like a functional language.

“All I said is that the Japanese do not have a functional language. I don’t understand where people think I was being derogatory about a specific race.”

I did not mention an ethnicity. I mentioned you, specifically.

It’s all gone downhill since

I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system, and imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system

And I think you suck because you are an extremely bad person.

Equivalent statement right?

They could just… wait a decade and win.

Is Putin going to be alive in a decade? He doesn’t give a shit about Russia, he only cares about his own glory. What good is controlling the world after he’s dead? He’d rather control Ukraine now and let the entire country crumble after he’s dead.

Why am I still here?

the lemmy hivemind

A big way Lemmy defers from Reddit: people who unironicly use the word “hive mind” are not to be taken seriously and you can just ignore them.

I don’t understand why these assholes insist on people working more hours. What’s the difference to them between 1 person working 70 hours a week or 2 people working a combined total of 70 hours if they’re both paid the same hourly rate?

But then how would they track their high score?

The popularity is because they are easy to pick up and put down. If I want to go back to an RPG that I haven’t touched on months I need to try to remember where I was going, what my build was doing, and how to deal with the things I was fighting. If I want to go back to FTL that I haven’t played on years I just start a new run anyways, and all my ship unlocks are there if I want them.

It should be classified as a sign of mental illness. If I had half of a billion dollars I wouldn’t work another day in my life and the general public would never hear from me. These fuckers have more money than they could ever spend and still desperately want more.

Where did I say that?

What you aren’t arguing for anywhere in this comment is that every artist be required to do these things. Somehow game developers are exempt from this grace?

Would it be better if every piece of art was accessible like this? Yes.

Same goes for games. That’s what this thread is: it would be better if every game had X

I prefer the 4 circles glyphs that shows the appropriate face button highlighted. It’s device agnostic and helpful when I’m switching between playing on my Switch and playing on my PC with an Xbox controller.

You’ve been saying everyone in the industry knows not being on Steam means your game won’t be successful and it warps the industry around it.

You’ve also been saying that Alan Wake 2 was guaranteed to make a lot of money if they released on Steam.

So given these two arguments you’ve been making, why would a company choose to make less money by not releasing on Steam?

Here’s the funny part: it’s probably fine

Then what have you been going on about all this time? You’ been saying repeatedly that it’s a problem and now you’re saying it’s probably fine? Pick a lane.

If you’re not in this one store, you lose access to most customers.

Customers who want your product can still access it.

That’s a fucking monopoly.

Not by the dictionary definition nor the legal definition you cited.

We need to recognize these situations, before they ruin everything.

But “it’s probably fine.”

And gaming would be better-off if every game was in every storefront

Which most of them are. For a while Epic was refusing games that wasn’t signing exclusivity deals with them, but that ended up not working out for them.
In the past Walmart has refused to sell music of artists with content they disagreed with. Was that Walmart exploiting it’s market share, or a business choosing what they do and do not stock?

instead of one store being a huge fucking deal and the rest being nearly irrelevant.

Again, what should we do about that?

Some of them are convinced to

So not being on Steam isn’t widely known as dooming the game? If everyone knows not being on Steam will force your studio to shut down how could you possibly convince anyone to choose to do so?

So what do you propose? Is there some action Steam is doing that they should be legally stopped from? As far as I am aware Steam has the most customers simply because those customers prefer it.

Valve kills studios by saying ‘no thank you.’

Back to your earlier point: why wasn’t Alan Wake 2 on Steam? Did Steam say ‘no thank you’?

The mere possibility shapes the entire industry.

If it’s such a wide reaching and well known issue, why would any studio choose not to release on Steam? Do you know something they don’t?

Games want to feature nudity and intimacy

They they do. Steam has full on porn games on it.

If only there were words for one company arbitrarily restricting who gets to reach customers.

Freedom of association? Valve is not obligated or required to host everyone’s game if they don’t want to.