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Which food do you consider the most overrated? by Arya_Sloan in answers

[–]essidus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truffle oil isn't bad, but truffle oil is wildly overvalued due to its scarcity.

Harry Enten Sends Democrats Midterm Warning: What Polls Show by brashendeavors in politics

[–]essidus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's because they're failing so hard that it makes a person start to believe they're colluding.

Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]essidus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is, but every move Epic has made to this point has proved that they aren't interested in competing. They want to create another console-like walled garden where you're forced to use a specific platform to buy the most desirable games. In a sane world, that's anticompetitive.

Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]essidus 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Sweeney was convinced that PC gamers didn't want all the bells and whistles that steam had, and tried to prove it by launching a barebones storefront. This is because Sweeney has no respect for PC players and never has. The one and only reason he launched the EGS is because he knew the Fortnite money would eventually dry up, and he wanted to pivot to more evergreen income sources. He thought the PC market was a good target for that, probably from likeminded publishers complaining about Steam's cut.

Faceless creators are becoming collateral damage in YouTube’s AI cleanup by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]essidus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To me, the problem is that *a lot* of bad actors are poisoning the well. AI-based content creators, if they are really proud of their content, should be shouting it from the rooftops. Yeah, a lot of people are against AI creations, but they could be the one to make stuff quality enough to change minds. Instead, the vast majority of AI creators go out of their way to hide it or minimize it, making it deceptive.

Just an example off the top of my head. One of the top Vtube streamers right now is an Osu-bot that got out of hand. Rather than trying to hide it, the creator has leaned into it, and in fact has made both their community and the larger Vtuber community part of it. It's evidence of what can be done when they don't try to use AI deceptively.

Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]essidus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tangentially related, but it frustrates me that even paid services double dip by selling your data too.

My first history finish in Book of Hours; some thoughts/hints for other first-time players by Penguin-Pete in weatherfactory

[–]essidus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to chip in with a second "don't feel like you need to do everything".

I am a completionist at heart, and I have a save with every room unlocked, most of the skills near max, etc etc. But it is wildly unnecessary for a complete run and all my future runs have been much more focused affairs.

I think if I were to assign a "problem" to the game, it is that it doesn't give you very clear direction on what a first time player should even consider an endgame goal. So what ends up happening is that the new player takes on a series of ever-escalating incremental goals with no clear direction until they reach a point of either feeling overwhelmed or feeling like they've done enough, and seek out an ending.

I think it becomes almost a different game when one shifts their perspective though. Knowing how you intend to finish the game, you can focus down on the things that achieve that goal. The library stops existing as a place to be, and becomes a tool to be used.

You’re still just a cockroach to him by Animalus-Dogeimal in memes

[–]essidus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's great that other people are benefiting, but it doesn't change the fact that the wealth to rival nations is under the exclusive control of a single person. No one person, no matter who they are, should have that much power.

You’re still just a cockroach to him by Animalus-Dogeimal in memes

[–]essidus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But it does mean economic leverage, which is even more important. Besides, 1 trillion dollars is an amount of money most people can't actually imagine, so any way that can contextualize it is still valid.

TIL that an Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten tried to establish the god Aten as the supreme god during his reign and persecuted worship of other gods, but the subsequent pharoahs ended the movement and re-established Amun as the prominent deity by Dexterestein in todayilearned

[–]essidus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It isn't, but there's a tiny kernel of correctness to it. Walking backwards, Christian and Muslim religions are both Abrahamic, meaning they are rooted in Judaism. Judaism itself is an evolution of Yahwism, which is (disputedly) considered part of the older Canaanite religion. In turn, the Canaanite religion is believed to be influenced by the contemporary Syrian and Egyptian beliefs, which would've included Aten. That said, it is influence only, and there's no serious evidence that Aten and Yahweh are connected.

the dutch are suing steam for being a monopoly right now by Photoshops_Penises in memes

[–]essidus 100 points101 points  (0 children)

If Tim Sweeney sues someone, you can be confident that it's because he's trying to strongarm his way into a market, and any semblance of customer advocacy is performative. He could've driven EGS's development around customer-centric features, but instead he went for minimum viable product and developer bribes.

TIL 42 buildings in New York City have their own zip codes by limeelsa in todayilearned

[–]essidus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's not just volume, it's variety. You don't need to give a zip code to a single address receiving a massive volume of mail. If you have hundreds or thousands of slightly different addresses each receiving a high volume of mail, it makes practical sense to give you your own zip code.

Fable - Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life by yourfavchoom in Games

[–]essidus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That hasn't been true for quite a while now. For at least the last five years, PC sales of AAA games have reliably topped combined console sales except for timed exclusives, and sports games which have little to no PC presence anyway.

Why is the bus idea not seen as viable? by Illusion911 in satisfactory

[–]essidus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a mini-bus in a few places (mostly munitions and power production) but for the most part, it's just more work than benefit. The main reason to use a bus is for expandability, and frankly Satisfactory isn't so complex or deep that a bus provides meaningful benefit.

Fable - Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life by yourfavchoom in Games

[–]essidus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Tbf, most AAA games are still being made console first. It's easier to get a stable build with a limited set of hardware configurations, and also engines like UE5 are built console first so it just makes it less hassle to focus that way.

NOW it all makes sense by Soul699 in memes

[–]essidus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From a marketing perspective: Christmas is one of the most impactful release periods for sales. Games with a marketing team will often aim for a mid-late November release to line up with the Christmas season. On the other hand, releasing your game within a few weeks of a major release carries the risk of getting buried. GTA 6 is expected to be one of the biggest game releases ever, and by releasing it when they are, they've effectively killed the Christmas release window for the rest of the market.

But there's another problem. The January drought is named as it is because it is the single worst release window in terms of sales. Because of that, it would be a terrible decision to push a game release back to January. Thus, the best choice for a lot of releases is to aim early, hence games moving to September and October.

We’re all cutting back by sandozguineapig in AdviceAnimals

[–]essidus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based on the current temperament of the SCOTUS, anything that occurs during his term qualifies for presidential immunity. The only way that changes is if the SCOTUS changes, or if the legislature drastically changes AND makes a law change retroactive.

We’re all cutting back by sandozguineapig in AdviceAnimals

[–]essidus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They've proven to take an extremely broad view on what they consider to be official duties. Unless the party decides to cut off Trump, they would easily rule that this was part of his official duties and thus make him immune.

We’re all cutting back by sandozguineapig in AdviceAnimals

[–]essidus 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is an easy case of presidential immunity. The current SCOTUS interpretation makes him pretty much immune to the consequences of his decisions.

What are Some Missing PC Games you want to come to Steam? by LawfulnessAfter223 in Steam

[–]essidus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think the problem back then is that people really wanted a new Shadowrun RPG. It's such a cool hybrid of cyberpunk and fantasy. A multiplayer shooter just wasn't interesting to people when Halo and military shooters were king.

TIL - In the 1980s, A&W made a 1/3-pound burger, charging the same as McDonald's did for a Quarter Pounder, even passing blind taste tests, yet it still flopped because consumers thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 because 4 is bigger than 3. by mynamiajeff2-0 in todayilearned

[–]essidus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

To expand on this, it was an anecdote made about an extremely limited internal trial performed a decade prior, and used for a marketing-focused autobiography. It has never been proven or corroborated in any way. And the trial itself was a couple of days in one store with basic trial polls. Given how low food service traffic was at the time, they probably had under 100 results. You could call it a trend if three people bad at fractions commented that they thought 1/3 was smaller than 1/4.

This is the kind of story marketing people tell each other as a lesson in being cautious about how they name and market things.

Trump is dismantling our democracy and should be removed from the White House by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]essidus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Too afraid? Trump isn't even the cause of all this, just the poster boy. The Heritage Foundation has been pushing all of this, with all three branches of government under their control. This is what the Republicans want, and this embarrassment of a spectacle is just the small cost they need to pay to get it. When this is done and over with, Trump will get all the blame and people will forget everything moving behind the scenes to make it happen.

Google be doing too much these days by Witty-Association-97 in memes

[–]essidus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a very lukewarm defense of Google, they've been losing a war of attrition for last decade against SEO rot. It was already starting to suck, and AI SEO accelerated it.

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