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  1. Easy Wordle 1,003 3/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Also easy Connections Puzzle #281 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦
  2. Easy Wordle 1,002 3/6* 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Also easy Connections Puzzle #280 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  3. What does "making more than enough money" even mean here? That Zeekerss should be happy he took less money home than he would have if there were actual real competition among store fronts? That's silly. He did more to deserve the money that game brought in than anything Valve contributed. This whole conversation is silly, though. I'll repeat myself. Gamers don't want competition in this space. They're happy with Steam and want nothing else. Epic can throw free money at an indie devs and, even here, you'll find folks upset that came with an exclusivity window instead of being happy for a monetary windfall for some small-time developer. I recall when they paid Ember Labs for Kena Bridge of Spirits and people were upset because they didn't want a second store front installed on their PCs.
  4. The companies making record profits and then laying off a bunch of workers to squeeze their execs a larger bonus are the same ones Apple and Valve give sweetheart deals to where they don't charge their typical 30%. Nobody is talking about them.
  5. Well that took a while Wordle 1,001 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, this one was easy Connections Puzzle #279 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦
  6. It's very unlikely Epic could do anything to move people off Steam. Gamers just need to be honest and admit that even if Epic brought EGS to feature parity with Steam they'd still choose Steam because that's where all their games and friends are. Like I said earlier, this is the same as rooting for AMD to get Nvidia and Intel to lower their prices. Gamers "want competition" only to maybe lower prices and convince their current champions to make better products.
  7. If Valve could get away with it, they'd charge 60%. Of course I understand why they charge 30%. They're raking in money hand over fist. I'd love to double my salary for no additional effort. It's still bullshit for devs. I don't really care what Epic's interest is here. They only care about making money. I only care about the folks making the games I love and I'll do what I can to support them. If that means I buy their game on EGS or even itch.io or directly off their own webpage, that's where I'll go. I don't feel any allegiance to a store front when the important part is the games. The big publishers are a big shrug to me, but there are so many indie devs out there feeling the crunch just as badly as all these gaming companies firing people left and right. Why should anybody go to bat for Epic or Valve or Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or Apple? They're all vultures, but at least the console guys provide more value to devs for their 30% than Valve does. Hell, even Apple provides more value to devs than Valve does; even if that value is artificially inflated due to Apple's overly draconian developer tools and agreements.
  8. Easy Wordle 1,000 πŸŽ‰ 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That works Connections Puzzle #278 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  9. Valve isn't a console manufacturer nor does Valve offer the same level of assistance to game developers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do. There's a reason Valve makes more money per employee than just about any other tech company out there. In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were beingβ€”and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM A well-oiled Steam machine. Either Valve is magic compared to Sony and Microsoft or they run wildly high margins thanks to their 30% cut. The only games company I know of that makes more money per employee than Valve is Nintendo and it is very much because they own the platform while also selling the largest volume of games for said platform. It's the biggest reason why people arguing Nintendo should put their games on PC store fronts like Valve's are crazy. No serious person is going to try to argue that Nintendo makes its off the party game sales, especially when this has been the case for Nintendo since way back on the Wii. Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman WWW.FT.COM
  10. 100%. Valve just has no incentive to unless the publisher is large enough to realistically not need Valve. That's why it would be nice to have more competition, but gamers really are set in their ways. It's like all those folks wanting AMD to succeed but only to force Nvidia to drop their prices. All I want in a store front is cloud saves, easy choices on where games are installed, and some reassurance the store front isn't going to disappear on me a year from now *cough*stadia*cough*.
  11. It's not crazy. However, I will say that for Valve it's a combination of things. They offer those sweetheart deals to keep the bigger publishers specifically to keep them from going their own thing while also being perfectly happy taking the full percentage from mega indie hits like Stardew Valley. Does anyone expect Valve to float a sweetheart deal over at Concerned Ape ahead of Haunted Chocolatier or Team Cherry ahead of Silksong? Sweeney isn't wrong for calling Valve and Apple out for buying publishers this way. The only reason it doesn't bother PC gamers is because so many of them desperately want all their games in one location.
  12. I mean, I'll say it. He's not wrong. Apple and Valve, both, giving some major publishers sweetheart deals and others not is bullshit. Especially when others includes ALL the indie devs.
  13. Easy Wordle 999 3/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oof, this one just didn't click with me today Connections Puzzle #277 🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩
  14. Easy, but too many steps to get there Wordle 998 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not as easy, but not too bad Connections Puzzle #276 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  15. I'll take it again Wordle 997 4/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy, though I had no clue on the purples Connections Puzzle #275 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
  16. The thing is DBZ ended in 1995/96. What's wild is how enduring its story has been. Like if you go back to 1995 you can find Spider-Man games, but they aren't telling the same story the recent Spider-Man games are telling. Go back to 1995 and you can find a game where you can replay the fight with Frieza on the SNES and then fast forward to today and you can replay that exact same fight on the PS5 with DBZ: Kakarot. No changes. No update to the story. No update to the characters. Just the exact same fight with the exact same characters on the exact same planet, just updated with modern graphics for a new generation of players. I can't even think of anything else with such a lasting legacy. The original Star Wars trilogy and then...ummmm... The gathering in Argentina was something else.
  17. I'll take it Wordle 996 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy Connections Puzzle #274 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦
  18. I was just thinking about this. Miura shared his vision for the end of Berserk, so Berserk can be completed. I'm sure Toriyama shared the ending of Dragon Ball Super with Toyotarou. Not that hard to guess, since DBS should end with the start of the 28th Tournament where Goku continues his terrible father streak and takes Uub on as his student. Toriyama also probably shared the conclusion of Dragon Ball Daima with the studio, but that one is easy since it finishes where Dragon Ball Super begins. The real mystery is what happens after Dragon Ball Z. I don't know if Toriyama has ever shared that with anyone.
  19. They actually got into trouble over this, but Mexico didn't really care. Just look at that crowd.
  20. Looking for more short, story-centric games to play and noticed I still had Stray Gods installed. I bought it a while back after playing Mario Wonder because I wanted a musical game that wasn't a rhythm game. Not much in that department. Stray Gods lists itself as an RPG, but it's really a visual novel. I, quite liked it. Good music, good voice acting, an engaging story, and your decisions feel like they matter. Very happy I played this. Now to find my next short game ahead of Horizon Forbidden West hitting PC.
  21. Really thought I had it sooner Wordle 995 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I wasn't wrong with my one miss, but blah Connections Puzzle #273 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨
  22. I know state politicians are already crazy, so their proposed bills should be considered insane and not taken seriously. Still, this is a wild proposal... Missouri bill would convict teachers of felony, put on sex offender list for trans support - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM A new Missouri bill would make it a felony offense for school teachers or counselors to support or contribute to the social transitioning of a transgender...
  23. Easy Wordle 994 4/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That purple category nearly got me Connections Puzzle #272 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
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