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Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything

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It costs a LOT to build a global cdn with the uptime steam has. That 30% is totally justified as a platform fee imo

Especially now with cloud storage and software development costs being so high.

I mean I see your point for sure, but I also see why consistency matters too. Why would valve "punish" someone for doing well? Those big titles are also great for revenue on their side too so honestly selling more units would be even more justifiable to lower the revenue split (from a business perspective on valves side)

Idk. Just thinking out loud I guess.

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"It's a mental health problem!"

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Was in a deep depression. I have good Healthcare and tried to make an appt with a psychiatrist to take care of it.

6 month waiting list.... I thought US Healthcare was supposed to be better than this?

Still cost me $300 when I finally got in too since it's a specialist... Fml

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True Story

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Biden was never going to win. He is actively losing his marbles. It was so painfully obvious even Democrats had to accept it.

Yes incumbent advantage is real, but Biden had so many other disadvantages that he'd have never won.

It sucks but it is what it is.

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PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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Your own domain, but you're safer not hosting your own email servers in general. Just wanted to be clear for anyone reading this. If your mail server is down you don't get mail 🫠

I ended up using a service that isn't Google for that with my own domain

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More of a uniform than a costume.

I'm not scared of cities, but there is something to be said about being able to get away from people...

Riding my bike in the city is way more annoying than when I ride on a gravel/dirt road in the countryside with animals and scenery

Also those f150 dudes crack me up. I can count on one hand the number of those I've ever seen hauling anything

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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

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dns level blocking doesn't work nearly as well as ublock. Not sure what newpipe is (checking it out now), but pihole misses a ton of things that ublock can do. Ublock can also hide elements from things like "disable your ad blocker" messages that always pop up.

I'm definitely wanting to swap back to firefox, but idk who the hell decided to remove PWA support from FF... hopefully they bring that back.