sukhmel

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Narrator: they absolutely did notice

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I eventually found a Wikipedia page about Amazon Game Studios, they still exist and make games, and it looks like they only make mediocre stuff even when they have chances to make something interesting (like King of Meat, that seems to be a well received game, but has awful name, is too pricey, and is almost unknown, making the online too small)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

$40 is now too much for an old but working laptop? That's crazy

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Well, it is an image. Technically

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, not for pointing out

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I had in mind their office they changed every now and then to break compatibility with FOSS office, afaik this is not the only thing they did like that, but support for running old software usually was decent, true

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

A bit ironic when Microsoft struggles because someone else keep breaking compatibility. Although I would prefer it to keep trying because that would have been more choice and competition in the mobile OS land

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

competitor being so unimportant they can't give things away

What?

Besides, I think part of the issue is that you argue with different people as if they were the same people

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Good point, I wonder if elasticity of demand will be affected by the AI bubble bursting (I expect there will be a recession and demand will get less elastic, bit I'm no economist)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still think there is some communication issue, but I re-read your original comment and I am quite lost about what your point was: you say Valve is monopoly BUT it's not evil (from another thread you linked) and you don't propose to dismantle it. So, what should the readers do with the newly acquired knowledge?

If you want to warn, then warn directly, if you want to call to action, do so. If you want people to just think for themselves, you will get nothing except people thinking you fail to make a point and arguing with you because they came up with that result by thinking for themselves

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, I can't answer your question either, because I find it may be either hard or impossible to come up with an answer

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