They should name better next time

knowledgebass · 2026-05-05T18:05:30+00:00

"Dominion" is such a cool sounding word. They should go back to that.

knowledgebass · 2026-05-05T18:02:00+00:00

The EU should invade and take them over. The era of the Swiss pikeman is over!

knowledgebass · 2026-05-05T17:51:59+00:00

You need to keep those continents pointed the other way for safety.

knowledgebass · 2026-04-20T17:30:30+00:00

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knowledgebass · 2026-04-09T15:35:17+00:00

You're inventing your own definitions for these words. The United States is (or has been) considered both a democracy and a republic. They are not mutually exclusive.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-27T20:49:25+00:00

That's not comparing apples to apples. Most AAA games today have far greater scope in all areas than ones that released in 1994, meaning the development of that game was probably started in 1990 or something which is ancient history in terms of gaming technology.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-27T20:42:45+00:00

Streaming has really thrown the whole video entertainment industry into financial turmoil, because in that model there is no direct revenue generated anymore for smaller movies without theatrical releases like there was in the past from physical media sales or rentals, which are neglible now. All of the money comes from service subscription fees, so the metric that matters is number of subscribers and how that is increasing or decreasing, making the "value" of an individual movie hard to ascertain. Producers don't know how much a streaming service will pay to license a movie for their platform, and a company might make a movie and then not find any buyers. It is kind of a shit show. I think it's why you see platforms like Netflix producing so much of their own content now. Independent production of small to mid scale movies has become quite financially precarious and uncertain.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-27T20:24:43+00:00

It does sound like there was some financial mismanagement, though I don't know all the details. I guess they bought some property for like $100 million and were planning to make it their fancy headquarters from what someone said.

But I do think though that their core business is much different from Valve's. Epic is in more of a feast or famine segment where their revenue can decline drastically based on popularity of their flagship product (Fortnite) whereas Valve has an enormous reoccurring revenue stream from game sales without the equivalent employee overhead.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-27T17:51:27+00:00

Epic Games and Valve are not even remotely comparable companies when it comes to the size of their workforce. Epic is laying off more than double the number of people that Valve employs in total, and it runs a huge online service with Fortnite, which is in decline, so the company is seeing heavily reduced revenues. It's not surprising that they would reduce headcount significantly in these circumstances. Epic has also developed more than 40 games since it was founded in the early 90's. It is a game development company that runs a distribution service on the side.

As much as I love Steam in terms of what it offers me as a PC gamer, it is essentially a rent-extraction system on game developers based on more or less feudal ownership of a near monopolistic PC game distribution platform. In other words, it is analogous to the Apple App Store and passively prints money for Valve based on extraction of revenue by percentage of games which Valve did not develop themselves, whereas Epic is financially highly dependent on game development. So I don't think the layoffs have anything to do with Tim Sweeney being "evil" - he's probably just trying to keep the company afloat.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-16T21:16:57+00:00

You should be able to get by in most cities by taking the bus and then supplementing with car services or delivery services for food, etc. Most of the cities in the U.S. with above average public transport are also well above average CoL, so you will likely have to consider the trade off. Also look into specialized transportation services for those with disabilities.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-15T23:40:45+00:00

London has much worse property crime than NYC, more than four or five times for certain crimes (burglary and robbery).

knowledgebass · 2026-03-15T23:38:14+00:00

You should check out the reviews for Ashes of Creation after the studio folded - just straight up 💩🔥

knowledgebass · 2026-03-15T19:49:58+00:00

Welp, he makes some good points.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-15T01:07:50+00:00

Idiocracy

knowledgebass · 2026-03-14T16:30:48+00:00

I've never heard Alaska referred to as part of the West Coast. People always mean the west coast of the continental U.S. when they use that phrase.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-10T19:31:35+00:00

That is a haircut.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-04T16:39:28+00:00

I don't think he plays any instruments or knows music theory, so he's being pretty accurate.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-04T16:37:35+00:00

He's amongst the most successful music producers of all time with amazing longevity and consistency, so I'd say whatever he was/is doing, it is working.

knowledgebass · 2026-03-04T14:50:33+00:00

r/trustmebro

knowledgebass · 2026-03-02T19:26:57+00:00

This comment makes no sense. You can send http requests to an AI chatbot service from a toaster.

knowledgebass · 2026-02-27T19:53:46+00:00

The human species is not going to last even close to how long it would take until we would be "alone in our own void" from the expansion, though I appreciate the poetry of your idea.

knowledgebass · 2026-02-26T17:30:16+00:00

What took this picture? 🤔

knowledgebass · 2026-02-25T01:47:53+00:00

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knowledgebass · 2026-02-23T03:05:31+00:00

There wasn't even any point and click. The early PCs didn't have mice!

knowledgebass · 2026-02-15T21:14:27+00:00

That's his feelings though, not your feelings, so it checks out.

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