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  • With my old brother inkjet, it would say it was out of ink in like 2 weeks because it used an optical sensor on the printer looking through a window on the ink cartridge at aimed at a floating piece of black plastic in the tank that would drop when the ink level went down.

    The thing is, the sponge in the cartridge would soak up the ink and cause the floater to drop when there was still like 90% of the ink left.

    So the key was to just put some black electrical tape over the window on the cartridge and keep using it until it actually stopped printing that color.















  • That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.

    For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?

    Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?

    Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?

    Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.