Yep, that’s what happened to mine. The jacket frayed until the wire got out and strangled itself. My 502 is still rocking strong after 5+ years, but here’s hoping your g5 sticks around for a while, that was a great mouse.

I had a G5 for close to a decade and I miss that heavy little bugger. I’ve got a G502 right now and its rather good, but the max weight isn’t as heavy as my old one.

No worries, I don’t know enough about the politics of either past finding them repugnant and inhumane so I probably came off weird.

They’re both piles of shit, I’ve just never bothered to figure out which one is bigger than the other.

I don’t think I implied they weren’t? Just that extremist vs moderate is a somewhat fluid concept based on your yardstick. Someone we consider an extremist can be seen as a moderate if the alternative is so much worse.

Using the US as an example, people see people like Romney or Ryan as a moderate now a days just because the modern republican party has gone absolutely bugfuck.

Allegations of leveraging a dominant market position doesn’t mean its actually happening.

Oh, I know. I got exactly 1 free game from EGS, which I promptly bought on stream myself once I realized that EGS had no offline mode (so the game I had been playing refused to launch during an Internet outage).

And that’s one of the many reasons EGS isn’t able to get a significant market share, because as I said initially, EGS fucking sucks. If they spent half as much on improving the store as they do for timed exclusives and trying to lure people in with free games, they might actually get somewhere.

Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it.

Yes, Into fortnite, not EGS. The eggs spent all their money on timed exclusives instead of a better product, and that’s why they failed to make a steam competitor.

Ok, so then handle all of that yourself at cost. Which will lead to the death of your studio faster?

Seriously though, a $15 game selling just 100k copies is still $1m to you (before taxes) and has no upkeep. You do all that steam does yourself, you’re going to drown in operations costs and upkeep time.

And you’d lose all of that.

Competition isn’t possible? EGS is an active competitor that only takes 12% and they still can’t get fucking anywhere because their store fucking sucks. GoG exists and also takes 30%, their store/launcher are ok, but they don’t offer nearly as much for that 30%, but they make up for that with drm free games. There are other minor players out there, so competition is definitely possible, but not one of them offers a comparable product.

The only way steam would lower their cut is if someone came along and made a game store that actually offered a significant portion of the services steam offered and was about as good but also had a lower cut of sales. But good luck finding someone who can do all of that and also takes less than 30%.

Anyone can seem like a moderate when they’re standing next to someone whose a bigger extremist than themselves.

it’s hard to argue that Steam sales cut is fair

It’s actually pretty easy to argue it’s fair once you look at everything. Steam offers a shit ton of resources for that 30%, including hosting, distribution, patching, workshop, etc. And that’s not even getting into the fact that the dev can get all of that AND get steam keys that they can distribute themselves (meaning valve doesn’t get a cut of that) that still utilizes the same infra.

I wish I could find it, but I recently saw a video of Thor (@piratesoftware, does his own game dev and used to work for Blizzard) talking about this and going into even more detail than I can remember at the moment.

What are the odds that smith isn’t a dip shit conservative?

former columnist and media personality who has been serving as the 19th premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) since October 2022.

Less than 0% lol

Fuck RT and their stupid ratings. Do you have any idea how many highly rated turds and low rated diamonds I’ve watched?

Take ratings under advisement, but don’t base a watch/don’t watch just on that, you’ll miss too many enjoyable movies just because internet mouth breathers didn’t like it.

Mossack was acquitted on Friday along with others after a Panamanian judge found that the evidence against Mossack didn’t comply with the chain of custody

Uh oh, looks like the door to the evidence locker got left open and random people who are totally not related to MF and the people who they hid money for got in and rustled everything up. Looks like we gotta aquit them. Aw shucky dee, we’re really sorry all. Looks like those pesky richers are going to go free with no consequences, no one could see this coming.

Don’t pull a muscle reaching to defend a Russian asset accused of rape. But I’m curious what your next phase of rape apologia will be.

“It didn’t happen”, “it was only investigated and not charged (because he fled the country)”, and now “well your guy was accused too” are all amazing choices lol, too bad they’re paper thin excuses.

Yeah, formatting is the only place that I really enjoy using AI. It’s great at pumping out blocks of stuff and frequently gets the general idea of what I’m going for with successive variables or tasks. But when you ask it to do complex things it wigs out. Like yesterday when it spit out a regex to look for something within multiple encapsulation chars just fine, but telling it to remove one of the chars it was looking for was impossible, apparently. Spent 5 min doing something I figured out in 2 minutes on a regex test site.

My favorite is when it just keeps giving you the exact same answer you keep telling it is wrong

There’s some kind of stock market mini game in there now, so you can play and lose at something in the game, but no overall win conditions im aware of.

Don’t expect any “charitable organization” run by billionaires, they’re basically all there the funnel money from a billionaire to themselves in a way that lets them lower their tax burden and try to control public policy to further enrich themselves.

Keeping to that shithead gates, he pushed common core, admitted it was a failure, and kept pushing it. Billionaires are a pox*, and deserve to get the ol’ French aristocrat treatment.

Let them, just also let them know that any boats that reach the island will be immediately sank and any aircraft will be forced down into the water.

If they live they live, if they starve they’ll starve (or they’ll play weekend at Donner’s).