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Cake day: 2023年7月22日

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  • Hmm… Do I side with Epic, famous for:

    1. Apple app store lawsuit because they didn’t get enough of the profit
    2. Google play lawsuit, ditto.
    3. Paying publishers to release games exclusively on Epic Games Store, pushing up prices to gamers.
    4. Many allegations by former allegations about toxic work culture, very long working hours, especially “crunch” times leading to burnout and mental health issues.
    5. Aggressive loot boxing and monetization of games specifically targetting children.
    6. Having to settle a lawsuit with the FTC for $275m to escape prosecution for breaching children’s privacy laws and forced to issue a further $245m in refunds to customers who were victims of “dark patterns” employed by Epic.

    Or with Steam?









  • Sure, alone doesn’t == loneliness for some people. Life the life that you want to live, there’s nobody keeping score, everyone’s too busy living their own lives to care much about what you do or don’t do, within reasonable societal norms - just idle judging as you’re doing about them.

    This isn’t some new thing btw, I’m 55 and only had two people I would consider good friends. I married one, and the other died in his 40s. People come into our lives and leave, but I doubt I’ll make more real friends. I’m fine with that, partly because of the reasons you mention.












  • We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

    Translation: We fucked up by creating a lifetime pass but now we can’t get rid of it without being sued by everyone who did what we said they should and bought one. If we honour existing passes and stop selling new ones, we’ll be reviled by everyone else, so we’ll just pick a ridiculous figure out of the air so nobody can say we killed them.