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  • That itself is false too with a quick look at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.

    Even the Steam key guidelines don't explicitly state that steam keys can't be sold cheaper.

    It's OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    Key word being comparable which is why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you've likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.

    I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don't look beyond it.

    I am puzzled why people believe Steam keys can't be sold cheaper outside Steam unless they never looked outside the Steam store.

    This is one example of a game that isnt too old is Silent Hill F.

    https://isthereanydeal.com/game/silent-hill-f/info/

    Historical low is $31.49 from Fanatical and Steam low is $41.99

  • Best example is Ubisoft and EA when they took their games off Steam and Epic wasn't around but didn't sell their games any cheaper despite 0% cut. Or Final Fantasy 7 Remake released as an Epic exclusive, but was priced at $70.

    It is weird. Every other product people know that companies want to charge as much as the market will take to maximize profits. Most noticeable examples being GPU prices over the years and now ram and storage.

    But, gamers for some reason think companies want to price things lower as though game companies are so noble they escape the greed of capitalism to seek out exponential profits.

  • Epic approach is the typical venture capitalist run company approach of running at loss then once they get market share start jacking up the prices.

    Can't really trust a company until they are actually profitable with a functioning sustainable business model. We've seen it time and time again where even Facebook launched without ads and look at it now.

  • They do not allow steam keys (free to generate steam licenses of games) to be sold cheaper anywhere else for less than the game is sold for on steam.

    That itself is false too with a quick look at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.

    Even the Steam key guidelines don't explicitly state that steam keys can't be sold cheaper.

    It's OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    Key word being comparable which is why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you've likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.

    I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don't look beyond it.

  • I think it is pc gamers who get the most out of TVs funny enough. Particularly when it comes to framerate, since I was enjoying 60 fps while 2 consoles generations passed with 30 fps being the standard. And when 120 hz came out I was enjoying 120 hz on some titles with freesync before the PS5 came out.

    But, for average tv/movie watchers streaming stuff as well as console gamers prior to PS5 lot of the features of 4k TVs weren't fully utilized.

  • Have you liked the colour? I've started reading some light novels, and that made me wish I could see color for some of the occasional illustrations instead of pulling out my phone for them.

  • I loved Season 1, but now that there is no source material I'll be approaching this cautiously and waiting until it is all out and seeing the reception to it instead of following week by week.

  • It is because there are less roadblocks to completely changing out the OS to be completely degoogled than it is to do the same for an iPhone or iPad. OS is the part that is the most damaging than the hardware itself, and alternate deAppled OS for iPhones and Ipad are pretty much nonexistent.

  • Best thing about ltsc is you only get security patches. All the amazing features people get like copilot and more copilot and yet more copilot is stuff ltsc doesn't get.

  • You can use rufus to bypass whatever hardware requirements there are like tpm if you need to use Windows 11. For ltsc tpm isn't even a requirement and has the copilot crap removed.

  • I think smart phones started going downhill for me in excitement once they started removing hardware features like sd card, audio jack, and user swappable batteries.

    Also, trended with cost of phones going up and companies like Google being seen as more and more untrustworthy so that for some they have a reason to use custom roms again.

  • Even people who don't care about usage of propaganda are affected, since these social media addicted folks have brought up how they are getting more unrelated propaganda content exposed to them even if all they want to see is cats and food recipes as an example.

  • Billionaires are running the most popular social media sites and utilizing the algorithm to attempt to influence their addicted userbase on a large scale, and succeeded on many demographics and even win elections.

    I don't think it is a stretch to call it a moral panic, because its not an unbiased and transparent system that is dictating what is seen and spread. It is a huge black box propganda tool.

  • I think it has gotten better, since we used to not have fediverse as an option from corporate social media. And I'm happy with the level of activity.

  • What is mentioned as pros are cons to me haha. The idea of sharing stuff so people can just catch up on your life without even contacting you just seemed like a creepy concept to me from the beginning.

    I've preferred people just contact me directly or I contact them instead of documenting life events for people to browse through. Then there's facebook having all those photos and messages and personal documentation to have a very strong profile on you that adds to the additional creep factor.

  • Instagram is one of the shittiest social media since it goes out of its way to become unviewable for those that aren't logged in. So its a really shitty platform to use in place of a regular site.

  • I think best approach if you need to use privacy invasive apps like uber and so on is to have a degoogled personal phone, and second stock phone whether it is android or apple for all those other apps that don't play well on custom roms.

    Compartmentalizing is best that can be done if there isn't much choice in not using certain apps, and cuts down on headaches of trying to get them working on custom roms. And that stock phone can just be a cheap crappy budget phone, since its main use will be to just launch those junk apps when needed.

  • It does say a lot though that I've seen comments in this very thread suggesting rednote as a tiktok alternative. So people just doing the same thing all over again even if they use the fediverse.

    I just don't have much expectations of people changing. Better to just be happy that at least those of us that are "weird" due to being fine with being somewhat cut off from rest of mainstream social media have those options now. So not too concerned about numbers increasing, since it was never much an expectation.

    Old school forums didn't need more than a few hundred or maybe a thousand active users to be happy compared to the millions people have come to expect now.

  • I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.

    For the majority, negatives can be things they don't even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.

    I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.