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Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text
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And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI for your pirated content.
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Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text
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And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI for your pirated content.
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What is my purpose?
Block head
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No problem
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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
So what? The vast majority of games released on Steam are either hobby or student projects or just first time devs’ shitty pixel platformer. Many are low effort products, Steam will not even give those games “shelve space”. The algorithm will based on pre launch and launch metrics decide if it should push the game in front of customers in the recommendation sections of the store. If a game can’t even move the needle a bit after launch Steam will blackhole the game and basically make it invisible in the store unless a customer searches for it. Because even though it’s a virtual store, “shelve space” aka the recommendation section is still scarce.
The hidden gem games on Steam are rare. Every time I watch a dev’s postmortem on Youtube who talks about how little they sold I’m rarely surprised when I see the game.
Also Steam generates around $10+ Billion in revenue in a year. So the other games generate around $2 Billion. If that is generated by 2000 games that still averages to a million a game.
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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"
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Yeah the Saudi elites are hedonists behind closed doors. The monarchy needs to have the blessing from the clergy to stay in power so they need to be pious in public. Like it’s a open secret that the Saudi elite men fuck western prostitutes on the regular on their yachts in international waters.
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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"
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There’s Paralives now as an alternative
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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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Good chance if your game didn’t do well on Steam that you didn’t make a good game that has high product-market fit in the first place and didn’t promote it properly. We are now in an era where indie devs have become millionaires from their $15 games. And I’m not just talking about Edmund McMillen and Johnathan Blow. Go back to the days of brick and mortar retail and that was nigh impossible when a small studio would earn pennies on the dollar for every sold unit.
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business is business
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Processing won’t do shit to a shitty shot, with terrible composition and lighting.
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Colbert doesn't care. Neither should we.
Then they blame the turd in the soup on the democrats and lefties. Meanwhile the turd brags how people are eating his shit up.
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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'
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Should grow fruits and vegs
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Gran Turismo 7 for me.
it's day 54. I'm going insane. These weird looking anthropomorphic animals. They constantly talk gibberish, yet they can write letters in proper English. A raccoon gave me a tent to sleep in yet there is no toilet, no shower, not even a kitchen, but now I owe him 100k in bells whatever that is. There are no other people here. I tried to leave by train but i keep ending up at a different village that is almost exactly the same as mine, same creepy animals, same houses. There is always one human in each village, but I don't think they have a soul. They don't even talk, they are just dead behind their creepy smiles. Will I end up like them? This owl wants me to find bugs and fossils I think, it's the only thing that is keeping me distracted while I plot my escape.
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Max Verstappen extends Red Bull contract
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Which driver doesn’t whine on the radio when things aren’t going their way? Have you heard Albon’s comms in the last two seasons? Dude is way more disrespectful towards his team then Verstappen.
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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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That data also shows which games never got out of the “limited game status”. Around 16200 of games released in 2025 have the limited games status. Meaning these games were not making enough money or nothing at all and had not enough player engagement to unlock profile features.
If you look at the numbers of games that unlocked profile features the growth is much lower. Those are the numbers that matter anyway. 5000 games made actual money. And if we apply the Pareto principle than a thousand games made the vast majority of the new release revenue that year.
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Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum
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Or UniFi, Hikvision also Akuvox for doorbells/intercom
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
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Couple of weeks of delivering pizza or Uber Eats after school and a teen can afford them.
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Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback
Why Hermen Hulst still hasn’t been fired baffles me. They rather destroy a ton of value and uproot thousands of people’s lives by shutting down these studios than put the architect of their chase of fool’s gold on the chopping block.
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sometimes nature is a tattle tale
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At 19? Teens with kids have a much harder time to climb the socioeconomic ladder and the same is true for the kids with a teenage single mom
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This seems like a bad long-term strategy
Meanwhile Nintendo provides lifetime employment. It's why they can pass down institutional knowledge to the next gen of employees. Hence why every entry in series like Mario and Zelda are almost consistently great.
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Team Car!
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In the Netherlands Fat Bikes are not those mountain bikes with fat tires, they are just electric motorcycles disguised as a bicycle because it has barely functioning pedals. Kids are a menace on those bikes, they go way too fast. Not to mention Dutch kids are getting fatter and unhealthier because they barely exercise and putting kids on motorized vehicles instead of bicycles doesn't help.
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Dutch GP glow in the dark trophies
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Still better than the usual Heineken trophy that has the Heineken star on top.