This isn't anyone playing anything. This is a story about how people bought $19 billion worth of games and then never played them (which would suggest they likely never downloaded them either). Valve made over $6 billion and used no more resources than serving up the store page and the payment processing.
and this is why Valve is in no rush to pump out games like they used to. Why they have no real burning desire to continue half life. They made enough money to keep the lights on indefinitely by doing no more than simply letting an automatic process run that any first year web developer could set up.
Because until we see it, unedited, we don't really know the truth of what occurred.
Good to see people would rather be ignorant and make assumptions than understand what actually happened in an incident.
B2B contact is generally fine, unless you're going to be a stalker about it. Had one the other day who messaged me on linkedin with her pitch and included the standard 'If you have time and this is interesting feel free to reach out' I saw the e-mail pop up just as I was stepping away to have lunch, as it was the standard lunch time. Before I even got downstairs (work from home) my company's calling me out of the blue to tell me they have a call for me from this person. I declined the call, as we both agreed it was just business spam and after lunch responded and let them know we'd never be interested in their services. 'Feel free to get in touch if you're interested' and 'I'm going to track down your company's phone number and call you 30 seconds after I send this' just don't vibe for me.
I test all scripts as I generate them. I also generate them function by function and test. If I'm not getting the expected output it's easy to catch that. I'm not doing super complicated stuff, but for the few I've had to do, it's worked very well. Just because I don't remember perfect syntax because I use it a couple of times a year doesn't mean I won't catch bugs.
Gen AI is best used with languages that you don't use that much. I might need a python script once a year or once every 6 months. Yeah I learned it ages ago, but don't have much need to keep up on it. Still remember all the concepts so I can take the time to describe to the AI what I need step by step and verify each iteration. This way if it does make a mistake at some point that it can't get itself out of, you've at least got a script complete to that point.
and valve got 30% of that.. for basically doing nothing more than hosting a store page. If you're wondering why we don't have Half-life 10 by now.
are there a lot of new things to say about this after it was posted 4 days ago? https://kbin.run/m/programmer_humor@programming.dev/t/503264/I-Will-Fucking-Piledrive-You-if-You-mention-AI-Again#comments
@Chozo@fedia.io if your post is 'TIL A star system exists' and you can't really tell us an interesting fact or piece of information about it, I'd say.. don't write something to be honest or if you really want to write about that thing, try to find something interesting about it to actually submit. TIL on Reddit also has a rule about titles standing on their own. Yes you can expand on topics inside the submission, but people should get something simply from reading your title. A lot of those titles don't really give you anything at all.
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de These all amount to nothing more than, TIL X exists. The problem with posts like these, is that if you can sit there and write endless posts just like it, it's not really a good post. TIL about fir trees, TIL about car tires, TIL about weed trimmers, TIL about Disney land, etc. etc. etc. etc.
TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders.
This doesn't start with TIL and doesn't really sound like a TIL at all:
We then have topics which are vague and don't really tell us anything.
TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity
This is just presented in non-neutral way, and has been posted dozens or even hundreds of times over at reddit, so much so that it's on their repost list:
TIL this Fun Fact: Unfortunately, Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth
Clickbait style submissions like this:
TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.
In this kind of submission the user is telling us about an event, without actually telling us the outcome of that event. It's unclear exactly what 'fact' it is they've learned, beyond 'an event happened', it's delayed news at best. A much better TIL would be about the outcome of the trial and what legal implications that has.
Topics like this are just written to say LOL These people are stupid:
TIL the US government once banned sliced bread
and are missing crucial context in the title like the fact that it happened during WW2 when there were shortages.
TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine
This is literally related to a current on-going international conflict and politics and seems to be written to support an agenda. There are reasons they have a rule about no news, and no political posts.
At least this place isn't as bad as a TIL I saw on another instance that seems to do little more run a bot to repost submissions from Reddit
@MikeOToxin@lemmy.world no? Magazines should have standards for their posts so that a community can be formed and grow around those principles. The principle of 'just post whatever you want' doesn't encourage much beyond post anything. The only real restrictions on posting in the rules are: no baiting, promoting agendas or self-promotion.
There is nothing there on how you present what it is you've learned beyond 'start it with TIL'. There isn't even a hard requirement that you link to the source, which makes no sense.
Requiring users to actually link to a reliable source to back up what it is they've learned, and to present the knowledge in an objective and readable manner should be a bare minimum.
@Chozo@fedia.io Not just yours. The most recent is just little more beyond 'TIL X exists' a couple before yours is 'TIL X exists, well sort of' so it's not even that vague. There are in fact several like that in recent posts. Some are opinions are just vagueness, or nonsense.
As downhill as TIL on reddit has gone, the rules there are a good foundation but do require active moderators to remove the stuff that doesn't belong.
@IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world content dumping isn't an improvement.
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world This is on the microblog, not the main thread posting area.
I find it great when we have a meeting every other half hour. I get a lot done on those days.
fan works fine. Spent years in Korea where it regularly hits 35-40 during the summer. Big fan, about 2 feet from the bed, pointed directly at you and you sleep on top of the sheets.
https://nightswithalicecooper.com/2020/04/24/flashback-lennon-mccartneys-final-meeting/
The two last spoke on the phone in early 1980.
This was 4 years after they had the chat about SNL.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2830720/FreeInfantry/
Free Infantry. I wouldn't say I'm hooked, but it would be great if this really took off again. Was a great game back in the day. I've completely forgotten how to play it or do anything and mostly fumble around.
I don't think the age of the game is really relevant. If the game is active and you're making money on it, you support it.
For the base game, which I think 30% is still more, I think it certainly makes sense. Because they're providing a complete solution.
For in-app purchases or unlock purchases, whether or not the purchase is in-app, the solution isn't complete, and not worth the 30% they charge on those transactions. It would be trivial for every transaction to have a custom field where you could store an array of what was purchased in in that purchase and have it returned when the transaction was checked. Boom, complete solution. Specifically for in-app purchases if they wanted to take 5% since all they're doing is the job of Stripe and nothing more, then I'd consider that fair.