finderscult

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[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A) they don't double dip on the marketplace, developers (or publishers) get the steam tax on all items sold there.

B) maybe, but they provide unlimited nonrate capped downloads for eternity for your game, including free unlimited downloads and uploads of workshop items. Bandwidth isn't cheap at scale, you could spend >50% of your income as a small dev on distribution, or for 30% you get everything steam provides for eternity for all your players.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Incorrect, steam allows for lower prices and give aways if steam keys you request... As long as it's not the base price. That's how humble bundle works. That's how every dev give away works.

The "devs" in this case want to sell access to the steam version of their game for lower than the steam price, on a permanent basis. Which is against steams rules, because steam provides a service that needs to be paid for, one that is worth far more than the 30% cut.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

It's simply not a part of the fediverse and it's centralized to a single instance. It's not any different than Twitter, except no one interesting uses it.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Expeditions are what you're looking for, for the most part. There's also at least two main story lines now. But yeah there needs to be more

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

It's a common estimate that by 2030 we'll probably have the first blue ocean event, but at the rate we've accelerated fossil fuels use along with the military build up and use promised by Trump it's increasingly likely we'll see it before then, during Trump's term.

So, the entire collapse of the food chain.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Sure, so can spending money, drinking water, or eating anything.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That definitely seems more important than fixing your cost of living crisis or dealing with the two provinces now that are actively rolling back human rights advances.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Australia hopefully has their own home grown social media sites by now. Every other country that decides to wholesale ban all foreign social media tend to have replacements ready when they do it.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's nice, but there is no excuse for higher overhead than the amount of money actually spent on the problem, when the problem objectively can be solved by direct expenditure.

We know how to eliminate homelessness and the causes behind it even in a capitalist society. It doesn't cost a billion per 100 transitional housing units.

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 46 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yes.

Yes, they might use it for drugs or alcohol, that's fine, it's as important as food sometimes.

Non profits and charities are great in theory, but most redirect less than 10% of what they receive towards the homeless look at LA's projects as the most glaring example, it "takes" 10 million+ per single housing unit for temporary housing. Not due to cost, but simply corruption at every level. From the non profits involved to the government itself.

Giving directly to the homeless skips all that.

Or to put it another way, you can't fix the problem or treat symptoms by continuing to give money to the cause of the problem. Giving directly at least treats the symptom.

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