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Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by zipy124 »

trumpdong wrote: post #96
3form wrote: post #64

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The company is very small, and they're doing a lot with what they have. Steam alone is full of arcane features that I keep discovering. There's a lot of backend stuff. They're making games and hardware. Perhaps some of this is contracted, similar to the Linux compat and drivers, but it's still impressive to me, compared to the orgs like Spotify, order of magnitude larger with barely any features at all. (I understand…

The company makes $50,000,000 for every employee each year. It can afford more employees.

But would it actually help. More employees means more communication and overhead. Lean organisations can move much quicker. Part of why valve can do what valve does is how lean it runs.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by etiam »

raincole wrote: post #71
etiam wrote: post #70

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You've been here long enough to understand that would exceed the title character limit.

I just tested it. Copied&pasted the original title into submit form. Nope. Right within the limit.

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Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by NekkoDroid »

philistine wrote: post #37
mhitza wrote: post #23

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My favorite bug family, that somehow to sneak in every time, is how their react frontend (or whatever the store runs) manages to semi-crash and the controller inputs are no longer recognized. I kind of hope at least they'll fix such issues permanently before the steam machine release.

That is the bane of my existence. Steam's UI is so slow to react due to its web roots, that I feel like people must be insane to think that Steam is somehow this great app. It's terrible. I shop on GOG.

> Steam's UI is so slow to react due to its web roots

I actually wouldn't blame the web roots. Battle.net is also a CEF based launcher and it feels so much more snappy compared to Steam. For some reason Steam just feels really slow.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by kotaKat »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #31
gacgacgac wrote: post #19

My unpopular opinion: Valve is basically a parasite or a landlord. They've been so successful it's hard to imagine a world without them, and they say "you gotta give the parasite its due" and we believe them and comply. It's been kept around because they treat their customers ok, but they absolutely exsanguinate their developers. And their engineering culture is... odd. They hire senior people and then let them all f…

I'd question the idea that they treat developers poorly. Epic Games Store exists and Famously beats Steam (and others) over the head by charging only a 12% fee Hell, they even buy timed exclusive access to certain games And yet. Steam persists

> Epic Games Store exists and Famously beats Steam (and others) over the head by charging only a 12% fee

https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-developers-will-soon-...

Unless you're inside Fortnite, where Epic takes a 63% cut of any 'in game item' you sell, and you don't have a choice of storefront inside the game.

Rules for me, but not for thee, so sayeth Timmy Tencent as he collects his next ten cents of revenue from a twelve year old.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by tancop »

babuskov wrote: post #2

The rabbit hole started as a major P2P issue in Israel and possibly other middle east countries and further investigations revealed it seems to be a worldwide problem.

worldwide means israel russia and china so far. all countries that dont exactly like internet freedom and have a long history of spying and censorship. this might be a side effect of some government policy against p2p networks designed to make it harder to bypass censoring isps.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by sammularczyk »

dminik wrote: post #87
koolala wrote: post #55

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What lets you host Monkeyball like that. Are you going to port Xonotic to WASM?

Starting a sustainable steam competitor with piracy sure seems like a great idea!

The background music is ripped from the PS5 home menu too.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by anonymars »

stavros wrote: post #62
rezonant wrote: post #52

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...What? Is this the Linus Sebastian misconception of what the hard R is?

Yeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.

I'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by stavros »

anonymars wrote: post #109
stavros wrote: post #62

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Yeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.

I'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill

Yeah, that's the Linus "hard R" (he thought "hard R" referred to "retard"), but it's just wrong. "Hard R" is "nigger", in opposition to soft r ("nigga"). I don't think there's even a question, that's how hard/soft has always been used. Anything else is just confusion, I think.
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