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Valve is still a private company. If they ever made an IPO then they would be screwed.
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Valve is still a private company. If they ever made an IPO then they would be screwed.
Because they will. They literally will.
Adobe is one of the most awful, insidious, evil corporations in the software space and they have done absolutely nothing to claw back even a tiny shred of good faith.
You’re not wrong! But at least for now I got a decent PS alternative for $45. We’ll see how things go.
Good time to drop a reminder that Affinity’s tools are 50% off right now and are buy-once software.
Doubt it. Call their bluff. They’d lose so much more to legal/court fees than they’d ever get back. X is just looking for a quick cash injection.
The problem isn’t the clarity of the terms.
The problem is that we all know they are lying and don’t believe a word they say.
And so begins “Line must go up” and the inevitable enshittification .
I’ll be watching this curiously from a safe distance for now. I am interested in a new platform without AI, but this stinks of early-stage enshitification.
MacOS is a highly mature, stable, and user-friendly OS that, at least for now, Apple does not meddle with in the same ways that MS has been doing with Windows. It has its problems, yes, but to say “any circumstance” is extreme. I don’t like or agree with everything that Apple has done to MacOS but at least Apple isn’t actively trashing it into the ground with forced bloat, ads, malware, etc like MS is doing.
I use an iPhone and speak from experience. It’s a large, thin, glass-backed slab of… well, glass. It’s already so cumbersome and slippery to hold that I had to put it in a grippy case just so I felt like I had some security when holding the damn thing. Thinner bezels just means even further reduced finger-hold locations.
Why would I want a phone that’s even harder to hold?
Literally enabling genocide.
Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz, Apple Music
This is just flatout theft. This is stealing of customer property. Incredible.
Round #451 of telling people to stop using Spotify and consider one of the many, better alternatives.
On the plus side, the industry is rapidly moving towards locally-run AI models specifically because they don’t want to purchase and run fleets of these absurd things or any other expensive hardware.
With all the studio buyouts, closures, layoffs, etc to pile on top of all the usual greedy macrotransaction crap - it’s really hard to give a shit about games right now. Seriously, the only upcoming game I’m even remotely interested in is Tiny Glade.
Steam needs to pull this from the store and start issuing refunds.
Astarion is particularly annoying in Act 1 for some reason, with 99% of his reactions just being him hating anything that is remotely positive. His reactions (and character in general) in the following acts is a lot more fleshed out and varied.