vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 35 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

This is such a bizarre lawsuit. I had to pull up the actual filing to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Specifically, the PCR contends that Valve has abused its dominant position by:

(a) imposing Platform Parity Obligations (“PPOs”) that prohibit publishers, which market PC Games, from selling Products through other distribution channels on better terms than the same Products are available on Steam

This is only true if you're selling Steam product keys, which I feel just makes good sense. You're still selling something that's on Valve's platform, so you need to adhere to Valve's rules. You can offer a non-steam copy under any terms you like.

(b) restricting the ability of users to purchase Add-on Content for games purchased on Steam through other distribution channels (a ‘tying’ or ‘anti-steering’ infringement)

...is there any platform where this is not the case for paid content? I guess for anything that has additional content available on GoG this is technically true by virtue of it lacking DRM, but where else would you even buy it in that case? Is there some other DRM-free platform from which I can buy Blood and Wine and drop it into my GoG version of Witcher III?

(c) charging publishers unfair and excessive commission rates for distributing the Products (collectively the “Infringing Conduct”).

The question of whether Valve's 30% is "fair" or not has been beaten to death already but it is funny to me how it was basically the industry standard right up until people started gunning for bigger pieces of the PC gaming pie and started undercutting Valve.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.

You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One or the other can be correct, but never both.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I've put Mint on it now and it's actually a nice little machine.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ugh, I've run into this as well.

Several times now I've commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I've run campaigns with. I'm in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI "portfolios" is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I've settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It's insane.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A lot of food preparation techniques of ancient origin come from efforts to store or preserve food. Pickling, smoking, and salting being among the most obvious.

Bread likely shares a similar lineage. Wheat that has been ground to flour is much easier to store, keeps for a long time, and can be reconstituted into more appealing food in small batches as needed.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago
[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I don't really disagree, at least in principle. You're absolutely correct that workflows should be clear and developers often do not make good UI/UX. You just didn't really qualify your original statement with any of that and made it an absolute, but you've clarified now and I'm pretty sure we agree.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu.

That would be a nightmare for any sufficiently complex software. Can you imagine how dense the UI would need to be for something like Blender or even Excel if literally every possible option of "things available to do right now" had to be at most two clicks away?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Judging whether a person is sufficiently distant for it to be acceptable not to hold the door is a classic Eastern Canadian trial.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is bizarre to me in a way I find difficult to articulate that they felt the need to treat a bathroom visit in a Target as if it required full operational kit.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren't owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.

 

I made a post here a few days ago complaining about content all being elsewhere, which was nice to vent, but doesn't really help the situation. Now I've decided to be the change.

Let's actually talk a little. What games do you all play? Tell me what you like about them!

Personally I've always been big into Street Fighter. I enjoy almost any fighting game, but the SF series is the one that I have by far put the most time into. I'm having a blast with SF6, even if I am just a diamond rated scrub. :D

 

Just venting, but if you want to avoid Twitter it means missing out on easily 90% of FGC activity, and the remaining 10% is almost all Discord and Reddit.

RIP SRK.

 

I can't wait.

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