Not saying it will definitely help, but if you’re not even feeling it the caffeine dependency might actually be making you feel worse rather than better

So you don’t know what you’re talking about. Got it.

What misogyny is in those 2 games? Unless you think the sexualized character designs are inherently misogynistic I don’t see it, and you mentioned it separately after listing the character designs so it seems that’s not what you mean?

I mean looking up video game character skirts is harmless anyway. I imagine most people do it at some point or another. It’s the puritanical shame that’s the problem

They didn’t understand the only reason people used it was because it was really cheap before they raised the prices. Most aren’t super hardcore and play games over a few months so it became cheaper to just buy games again. It’s stupid because they had no reason to try to make a sub model except that MBAs are morons and value recurring revenue more than just revenue in general

The people who throw fits about stuff like that don’t play the games in the first place

We can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.

But almost everyone already has a laptop,

You’d be surprised how untrue this is. Additionally a large proportion of people that do have laptops that aren’t really capable of anything more than web browser and office stuff (or macos which can’t run the majority of games).

public company CEO may be incentivised to maximise share price

It’s not even really CEOs that make all the bad decisions. Layoffs for instance are almost always in reality a direct decision by the board, and the board members of public companies are usually even worse people (and in many cases just a direct representative of a bigger company so it bubbles to the same worst people at the top) than the CEOs, as hard as that is to believe

The size of the main binary and all the libraries loaded does determine the starting point of the memory usage, but then doing things like loading files are going to also use memory and there are many strategies for optimizing for speed, memory usage, disk size that have tradeoffs between them. Anyway the point is that the size of the program itself isn’t irrelevant even though it isn’t the only factor in memory usage.

And unreal engine

Link to refutations of this claim in another thread https://programming.dev/post/52898840/24679399

much larger comision

GoG, every console, play store, and Apple store take the same cut. Itch io is strange and takes a smaller cut but only indie games publish there in the first place. Epic and (windows) Microsoft store take 12%, but they fucking suck and you know they’re evil fucks that would definitely fuck you and publishers over as hard as they could if they ever got the market share. I couldn’t immediately find numbers for all the various publisher run stores (I’m not even sure if arbitrary games can sell on them) like the ubisoft one but they also fucking suck and are run by evil fucks.

It would be awesome if steam took a smaller cut, but complaining about it like it’s not the same cut everyone else that has marketshare takes and accounting for the ones that do take less being garbage run by public companies trying to buy marketshare then enshitify is disingenuous.

Yeah the reality is I would have just read (more) books from the library and played fewer video games

Or even just lend it to a friend. When I was a kid everyone in my group would get a different game and share them. We barely would have been able to play anything if we didn’t share

So the android version?