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  • Lemmy engage with you in meaningful conversation

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  • You might enjoy Tildes more than what’s on Threadiverse. Let me know if you want an invite.

  • Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next?

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  • How much money did Valve put in? Where do those 100+ devs come from?

    Improperly redacted documents from the initial Wolfire case — later hidden — indicated that Valve had only 336 staff in 2021, with just 79 of them working on Steam. We’ve remade it using data reported contemporaneously:

  • Is the Fediverse stalling?

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  • Fediverse does everything I require out of social media. Functionality of threadiverse is mostly there and getting better (Piefed will probably replace Lemmy as the go-to eventually), apps are better. Mastodon / microblogging was always good enough for communicating with real people, it’s when you’re an influencer you run into limitations but who cares about that. Maybe there aren’t that many people that are into this and that’s okay because we’re not a corporation that needs to report quarterly growth forever.

  • Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games

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  • Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy?

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  • Apologies for my scatterbrain. In that case I’d go with BotW because it’s shorter/focused (others will say it’s too minimalist) and you’ll get to experience a modern Zelda game. Also, if you don’t own Switch 2 it runs good enough while TotK was just a bit too much for Switch 1.

  • Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy?

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  • TotK is better in every way but BotW is once in a lifetime experience due to how contemplative it can be. You’re not going to play both at the same time and they benefit from playing in order. If you’re low on cash buy some used copy of BotW off someone on Vinted* and sell on Vinted once done, then do TotK.

    or Craiglist or OLX or whatever is used locally where you live

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    Is Europe Missing A Right-Wing, Pro-EU Party?

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  • There are plenty of right wing pro-EU parties in Europe but they call themselves centrist or liberal. They don’t care for vulnerable groups of people but are pro big business and therefore pro-EU.

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    User wiped from existence for posting AI images of Trump.

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  • 4 comments in a minute, with 15 seconds of thought behind them, are spam.

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    User wiped from existence for posting AI images of Trump.

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  • Anything posted 4 times in a minute is spam.

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    User wiped from existence for posting AI images of Trump.

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  • 4 comments in a minute and that’s just what we can see. There is no such thing as spamming fediverse for good or whatever your reasons are.

  • Thousands protest Bulgaria's euro adoption and call for a referendum

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  • It’s very counterproductive to do this. As said, Russian propaganda is clever and doesn’t need to invent new issues, just finds ones that resonate with people. If we start going around saying something people want is wrong because there’s some connection to Russia and leave the issue unresolved, people will start voting for the only alternative they have - pro-Russia parties.

  • Thousands protest Bulgaria's euro adoption and call for a referendum

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  • There are valid arguments against Euro adoption. It might make sense for core/old member states but for everyone else fiscal union without a common budget is just a recipe for disaster like Greece getting strong-armed by Germany into ruinous austerity. So maybe let’s discuss that rather than accusing certain positions being pro-Russia because Russia has a tendency to sow unrest abroad using actual existing issues.

  • Looming Xbox layoffs threaten Microsoft's reputation | Opinion

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  • Gamer seems to be a weird term because most don’t consider someone playing Candy Crush a gamer. Kids playing Nintendo games are a bit of a different breed too if we go by that measure. There’s also loads of older folk that grew with some sort of Nintendo system or started to appreciate what they’re doing later on of course. Among my group of older millennials in a country with very little Nintendo presence it seems like Switch is something you buy for your children primarily.

  • Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

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  • Will start posting Wine news because some people think Proton was wished into existence by Valve ;)

    Please support CodeWeavers who have been funding this for many many years.

  • Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves

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  • While Chrono Trigger and FFVI are among my all time favourites, they’re kind of like an prog rock superbands. They’re a pinnacle of the era, impossible to top in their own categories. But if you know where to look there are probably some guys doing stuff as impressive, if not more, out of their garages. Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes come to mind.

  • Thoughts?

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  • To paraphrase an old meme, vampires don’t hate crucifix explicitly, they’re just allergic to bs.

  • Orbán may lose EU voting rights – Ohryzko

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  • No, he won’t, this is unproductive copium. It requires unanimous decision of other member states. If it didn’t happen by now it won’t happen anytime soon.

  • Looming Xbox layoffs threaten Microsoft's reputation | Opinion

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  • That’s kind of unfair assessment for Microsoft. There’s been more well rated games than HiFi Rush (even if closing Tango is a travesty). We should be applauding that they no longer lock their games to a single platform (despite fanboys crying over it). GP pricing increased but it’s still great value for the money and the best deal around. Their main franchises get new entries consistently and there’s been new IP too in the meantime (Indiana Jones is a joy). I think they ran out of publishers that wanted to participate in backwards compatibility program but I’d be surprised if ActiBlizz catalogue won’t join it sooner or later.

    Honestly, what are the titles that Sony released in the past 5 years that aren’t sequels or remakes? I’m super confused how Sony is getting away with this.

    As to Valve. Why is Microsoft stopping physical sales bad but it’s ok when Valve does it? Valve killed physical sales for the entire platform.Once they got a monopoly sales with deep discounts ended. Can you really trust Valve with backwards compatibility and long term support over Microsoft? One has a history of abandoning stuff when they no longer find it profitable, the other is probably best in class still. When I moved from PS4 to XSX it was because I could sell my physical copies, something not possible on PC. End goal for Valve seems to be Android for games where they exert power over some Linux based platform with their app store - that’s no good for any of us. And that’s without addressing elephant in the room that Valve is no different if not worse than EA when it comes to gambling.

    I don’t have favourites and use what I think is best for me at a given time. I’m deeply confused with what other gamers are choosing for themselves.

  • Looming Xbox layoffs threaten Microsoft's reputation | Opinion

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  • Nintendo gets plenty criticism and rightly so and what we traditionally consider to be gamers opt to use other systems. The thing about Nintendo is that their main customer base aren’t gamers but kids. For now I wouldn’t look too much into sales figures of Switch 2, it’s mostly a measure of huge stock available at launch.