Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn’t sell their game elsewhere.
Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.
That’s exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.
I think a middle ground may be having that requirement for background mic usage, or usage without a specific user prompt that turns on a mic.
Lots of apps have legitimate use for the mic. Apps having legitimate use for the mic while you’re not actively using the app on screen are more limited and need stricter permissions.
I’d also like to have a hardware mic mute switch that physically disconnects the mic, so I can just keep it off unless I want it like I do with the mic and Webcam on my computer.
Epic charges 12%, but they’re somehow the villain.
Acrobat even provides a warning asking if you’d like to sanitize the information specifically to keep that from working.
That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.
For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?
Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?
Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?
Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.
I have an old DV7 dating back to the Bush administration that I should load Linux on.
It did really well from Vista through 7. I haven’t used it in years, but it would probably do fine with Linux.
My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.
Hating on Apple for their 30% cut is popular.
Hating on Google for their 30% cut is popular.
Hating on Microfot, Sony, and Nintendo for their cuts is popular.
But somehow hating on Steam for their 30% cut is going too far.
Athens early episodes of the show they tried to inject some hostility among the main crew that simply wasn’t there in the books and feels very out of place. It took me several years to get through the first half of the first season.
Once they stopped trying to inject the drama into it, it got a lot better, and I really enjoyed it.
Then the asshole actor playing Alex turned out to be a creepy weirdo, and they ended up canceling the show in the aftermath of the controversy.
When we need to unite against a literal fascist, I’ll gladly stand with conservatives with whom I have serious policy disagreements. Telling them to fuck off will just strengthen Trump’s hold.
Once we’ve finished the fight against the MAGA cult, we can debate each other about policy without worrying about anyone getting disappeared.
Nope. When France didn’t join the invasion of Iraq, “Freedom Fries” was a thing.
It was truly stupid.
I’ll buy the Flavor-Aid.
I dread calls at work more than anything in life.
Just send a fucking email.
That would make building a $2500 iPhone in the US even more difficult.
Because of the child laborers making 85 cents an hour?
The ones in my 5yo house do.
Name a job where interrupting a CEO’s presentation in public wouldn’t be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says “If you’ve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the company’s direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there won’t be consequences.”
If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying you’re okay with taking blood money as long as you’re saying it’s bad.
I did like in the Invincible comics that Atom Eve realized that her matter-manipulation powers were better used for things like providing food, shelter, and resources to the world than fighting people in suits.
I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.