Hey, if I’ve offended you, I do apologize for that, it truly wasn’t my goal. But I do strongly disagree (which is allowed).

And I think it’s pretty obvious that microtransactions could never, ever, possibly be more lucrative for Valve than selling games. It’s just a numbers thing. I mean, dlc can sometimes make more money than game sales for some titles, that’s a fact. But Valve has what, a dozen games that they could potentially sell dlc for? That’s a pretty hard limit. Whereas they also make money on every title sold in the store, and there are currently over 10,000 titles available from the steam store. That’s just like, a lot more than a dozen…

Um, no?

I guess this must be surprising to hear, but it’s just easier to sell content of actual value than bullshit. Yeah… some people will buy bullshit, and yeah, one can take advantage of those people, but having actual products is still a better business model.

But hey, if you’ve got these things all figured out, totally start your own game studio/global digital distribution system. Go make bank on microtransaction garbage.

I mean, they get a sizable cut from the majority of games sold on PC. I think that’s their business model.

I hear you about loot boxes and skins and stuff. It’s just, that has to be a small part of their total profit.

The picture isn’t great, but I’ll bet the framerate is amazing!

That’s what I’m hearing. Honestly, I think that checks out.

This is the same reason that harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it down is also a stupid fucking idea. It’s politically problematic. Nobody wants anybody to have giant death rays in space, so there’s effectively no way to get the energy down to earth. It looks like we’ll all just have to rely on all the green technologies that already work.

Having played Minecraft and No Man’s Sky, I can say that no world is necessarily too big, because infinite is not too big.

I had some of these bad capacitors blow in my video card, back in the day. I was extremely proud of myself for managing to order some replacement capacitors and soldering them in myself.

The most impressive part might be that I ordered the right items. I knew nothing about electronics repair at the time, I just wanted to be able to play World of Warcraft again.

Honestly, it’s hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start?

Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can’t predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now.

Ok, so let’s say you’re making dinner and you want to watch something at the same time. Perhaps you’re chopping vegetables on the counter. Do you really want to be looking at the front of the fridge while you do that? If the fridge is against the same wall as the counter you need to crane your head back to see anything, and if it’s on a different wall you need to turn your head a totally different direction. Why not use one of those tablet cases with a kick stand and then put the tablet right in front of you, on the counter? Like right in front of the the cutting board you’re using.

I don’t know, I think if you do anything other than putting it right in front of you, you’re gonna and up losing some fingers instead of chopping veggies.

The fridge is also a good location for it, and you’d have to otherwise run a wire across your fridge to power your own tablet.

What? How is the fridge possibly a good location for it? In what world could that ever be true? And do you not have wall outlets in your kitchen? Put your device on the counter!

I mean… what?

But… Do you need the LCD panel? Will the box still get cold without it? Cause I do have a hammer…

Hah! Well played.

Wow, terraria looks really different in that screenshot, must have been a huge update…

Yeah!

New favorite characters, Scylla and the sirens.

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Wow, that’s just incredibly dismissive and rude. And in response to a completely reasonable comment!

Look, forget the whole AI discussion, I don’t care. Here’s the thing, I really like Lemmy. I really like this community and I want to continue using it as a way to have discussions with people about interesting topics. What I don’t want to see is people yelling insults and swearing at any user they disagree with.

Frankly, that behavior is unwelcome. That’s reddit behavior, you can go there if that’s what you want to do.

I’m not talking about how efficient sea shipping is vs flying or driving.

Well I guess that was what made the original statement confusing, because that’s definitely what it sounded like you were saying . I imagine this feels like a frustrating conversation (and I am sorry for that), but it’s probably because of that lack of clarity.

I mean you said traveling by sea was especially inefficient, mentioning the huge waste of resources. I think it’s reasonable to interpret that the way I did.

I mean, yes. It isn’t longer enough to make sea travel anything but the most efficient method to ship something.

I just looked it up, it’s a huge distance between Thailand and Argentina, about 17,000 km if you were flying. Going around the tip of South America adds an extra 1000 km, making the trip 6% longer. Meh.