I’m picturing a toddler seeing a soldier get beheaded by an arrow from horseback, looks over at Dad for emotional support, and Dad looks on with an approving grin, comfortable that he’s made the right choice of early childhood films.

Also, The Matrix/Terminator as a suggestion for a small child is a big lol.

There’s only a handful of games worth playing that a 10 year old mid-range computer can’t play anyway. I don’t see the point of upgrading for Indianna Jones or COD.

Kids want to play what their friends/community are playing.

I’m not disagreeing. Epic’s 12% would still be hugely profitable for Valve.

True that text is small files, but some Skyrim saves are easily in the dozens of MB for example. I’m sure you multiply that by millions and it adds up. Surely them needing to store many copies of the game files themselves is a larger file size footprint for them though.

Lol yep they’re an extremely wealthy company with that 30%. But it seems like almost every other storefront operates under those margins for digital sales (not just in gaming). I do value the cloud saves, I think those would actually add up a bit for their storage requirements as well as hosting all of the game files in presumably many locations globally.

15%, they’d still be a multibillion dollar company

Well, I agree that the writing is really good. But the gameplay hook is what really makes it a great game tome.

I suppose so, but maybe they don’t want to grow too large. Microsoft absolutely devouring studios the last few years has not produced any truly great games. Valve clearly know how to make a good game still, when they want to.

I agree mostly, but Valve employees are reportedly paid an incredible amount of money compared to the market average, so underpaying would probably only refer to the hefty (but industry standard) 30% cut of game sales they take from game publishers.

Also, I’m pretty sure Portal 1 was in development by a studio that was bought by valve when they saw the game prototype. Not exactly “Gabe Newell making Portal”. Though I do think that was a savvy investment (Portal 2 being the better game also).

Howl’s Moving Castle, but really any Hayao Myazaki film.

OpenSUSE TW gang rise up. I also got this black screen issue OP talked about but snapper rollback solved that (for now).

Literally LOL’d when I saw the ad.

I love that they gave him a massive bulge. Found him in a run last night.

For sure, the popular opinion on reddit/Lemmy skews towards absolutely self-hosting everything they can, and multi-trillion dollar tech companies controlling AI skews the opinions of the technology negative. I have a BIL who runs self-hosted AI though (requiring 2 x 4090s in series for his use-case), so it can be done. The tech is only as shit as the user allows it to be (environmental concerns, obviously its pretty objectively shit)

You are going to get downvoted, but you’re right. AI doesn’t need to be used for every part of the entire development process for it to be “made with the help of AI”. There are certain parts of the workflow that I’m sure is already being done regularly with AI, for example commenting code.

Mindlessly feeding prompts into chatgpt for the entirety of the core code or art would be terrible.

For sure. Boogie2988 has had a pretty spectacular fall as well.

He’s also a product of toxic gamer culture, the N word is almost like teenagers calling things gay… doesn’t mean they hate homosexuals.

This is not to advocate for what he said at all.

If only it couldn’t

More challenging climbing, similar vibe. Loved the demo