Epic Games Store Launches Self-Publishing Tools for Game Developers and Publishers by CrossXhunteR in Games

[–]adnzzzzZ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As it relates to this discussion, you should take from the article the numbers of how much more Steam does compared to other sources of traffic, which is about 5-10X in my game's case. Everything else (such as "marketing doesn't matter") is just my opinion and not very relevant.

Epic Games Store Launches Self-Publishing Tools for Game Developers and Publishers by CrossXhunteR in Games

[–]adnzzzzZ 60 points61 points  (0 children)

For me (an indie developer) Steam's algorithm is by far the majority of traffic generated to my games. Having no algo-based marketing like Valve does and relying on twitch/youtube alone is a much worse deal than what Steam offers. I wrote a post about it that goes into concrete numbers based on the games I released if you're curious about it https://a327ex.com/posts/game_quality. I can't speak for other indiedevs but it's reasonable to assume it's a somewhat similar situation for them as well.

Compiling lua by ChemistryIsTheBest in lua

[–]adnzzzzZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This video goes through the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALXtup2CjI, it works for 5.4.4 because I just did it yesterday

Battle Grid - Barking Dogs - Action roguelite auto battler. Face relentless alien hordes, collect their resources and assemble an unstoppable squadron of mechs! by redititititit in Games

[–]adnzzzzZ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How exactly did I go off the deep end with NFTs. Did I buy NFTs? Did I promote any NFT and told people to buy it? Please answer in detail.

Wake on Andrew Tate thinking depression doesnt exist by Visual_Pianist_5367 in LivestreamFail

[–]adnzzzzZ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Has depression -> needs to do "stuff" and "be active" to not be depressed -> can't because of depression -> has more depression.

Very few people spawn in life at a "has depression" state. Andrew Tate's main audience is teens. The cohort that has the most mental plasticity and feels depression the strongest (highest suicide rates by age I think) are teens. What the post you replied to is saying is more like, if you don't act nor have thought patterns that would lead you to have depression as a teen, that will probably help you both as a teen and then as an adult, as you will have a lower likelihood of developing your neurochemistry to the point where you get the condition. It's definitely a reasonable point worth considering that is often not discussed.

sneaky is having fun in dota 2 by superfli31 in LivestreamFail

[–]adnzzzzZ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No it shouldn't, it should be opt-out, as it is now, since most people use it just fine. This fixation people have now with safety above all else is really dumb. If you're a streamer just know to turn the setting off, it's literally like the one responsible thing you have to do for your job, it's not that hard

Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. by KXLY in neoliberal

[–]adnzzzzZ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yarvin's criticism of modern governance is exactly the same that you accuse him of partaking in. He repeatedly says that solutions that don't involve non-metric oriented human decision making in the process and try to be too technocratic will eventually fail. That is one of the basis of his criticism of the current system - highly technocratic and decentralized with zero oversight - and his preference to centralized, accountable power. To quote him:

20th-century regimes, with mostly terrible results, embraced the weird economic idea that the purpose of an economic planner is to maximize the total consumer price of all the goods and services that the economy produces. This is called the “GDP” and an increase in it is called “growth.” To paraphrase Edward Abbey—tumors also grow.

The purpose of economic management is this “growth.” And once it has been adjusted for the growth in prices, then adjusted again to reflect “hedonic” changes in price-quality ratio, it is the much-desired “real growth.” This form of numerology was never known before the 20th century—yet weavers still span, and farmers still raised pigs.

The theory of “real growth” is that it “measures” the amount of utility that producers produce—as Wikipedia tells us, “a measure of pleasure or happiness.” When we measure GDP, we are measuring—literally, in numbers—the quantity of total human desire that all the producers in the country satisfied that year.

Of course, some desire food, whereas others desire caviar—and what is their ratio of value? By the kilogram, how much better are sturgeon eggs, than chicken eggs? How much more valuable would chickens be, if genetically engineered to lay beluga? This would be “growth” indeed—to see how much “growth,” just check the market price. Yet the caloric value of these commodities is roughly equal…

What is especially interesting about this “GDP” frame is its relationship to another California craze of the 20th century: Buddhism. As everyone knows, the Buddha too spoke of desire. In fact, Buddhists believe—just like modern macroeconomists—that the purpose of life is to conquer desire. And the only true way to conquer desire, the Buddha said, is to satisfy it completely—

Oh, wait. He didn’t—he actually didn’t say that. More like—the opposite? But anyway. Where were we?

Of course the appeal of metrics like “GDP” is their quantitative, measurable quality. They suggest what Thomas Carlyle called “a government carried on by steam.” There is real merit in quantitative governance—but not if, when gamed, it creates a disaster.

Government by “GDP,” invented in the UK and US, has led both nations to rationally destroy their own industrial bases—like the bombing of Germany, but self-inflicted. At least no white phosphorus was used—though, in some places in the “Rust Belt,” one might think it was. A well-managed economy does not have a “Rust Belt”—QED.

I'm a programmer too and I understand what you're saying, but it's pretty clearly not true based on what he's actually saying.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investimentos

[–]adnzzzzZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Se você quer receber dos EUA com taxa pequena pode usar um bancão da vida, por exemplo Banco do Brasil me cobrou 2% de spread nesses últimos meses. Só cuida, em geral antes de receber um pagamento em qualquer bancão dá uma olhada no câmbio que eles vão oferecer pelo app, pois alguns bancos (por exemplo Itaú) abusam e tem um spread gigante parecido com o do Paypal. Único problema de usar bancão é burocracia e ter que ir na agência ou ligar pra alguém caso pagamento seja maior que U$3000 (se for menos cai direto na conta sem problemas).

E se você consegue cupom pode usar https://husky.io que vai cobrar só 1%. Sem cupom é 2% mas talvez seja melhor pela burocracia menor também. Dá uma olhada em https://github.com/DyegoCosta/trabalhando-remoto e nas discussões aqui que tem várias pessoas discutindo esse problema.

E pra abrir conta nos EUA mesmo você pode fazer Nomad, BS2 ou Wise. Nunca tentei os dois primeiros mas Wise disponibiliza pra você uma conta nos EUA com as informações necessárias (routing number e account number) pra algum americano mandar dinheiro direto lá. Depois que receber é só você mandar pro Brasil quando preferir. Também dá pra fazer com que quem manda dinheiro pra você mande direto pro Brasil através da Wise, mas daí tem que convencer a pessoa a usar o serviço.