Yeah I agree that steam offers them a decent marketplace and we’re definitely seeing lots of great games from smaller studios or individuals as a result.

I’d prefer if sales were “taxed” lower than 30% up to a given threshold instead of fluffing Gabe’s already massive bank balance though.

Like 10% on your first 50K, sliding scale upwards after that for example. I’m spitballing but you get the idea I hope. He just doesn’t need that level of payout from smaller folks.

I’m as surprised as you but apparently so.

$1.2 billion net worth!

https://www.forbes.com/profile/bruce-springsteen/

I feel most sorry for small developers having to hand over 30% of their entire work’s value to “uncle Gabe” who’s already sitting on over 9 billion. Fuck that noise.

Thank you! They are some wild numbers.

It’s not a contradiction because the way Gabe runs his business is good.

It… Very much is. He runs a business that doesn’t make people piss in bottles. Great, but that’s a low bar.

He runs a business that looks after customers, that’s great but Amazon does that too so I consider it a cost of doing the billions in trade that he does and a cost of effective monopoly maintenance. If they weren’t pro consumer folks might actually leave.

He pays his employees better than others, great, but he’s sitting on 9 billion in wealth so let’s not pretend he couldn’t pay them more or squeeze small developers less than 30% (and he’s probably squeezing them more than big houses).

You can’t have that much money and be ethical. You can be less shitty than other billionaires but again that’s a low, low bar.

He’s a billionaire. There are no good ones. Some are worse than others, but none are good. It’s a disgusting amount of hoarded wealth.

18% of Americans haven’t ever seen a doctor and 40% of Americans haven’t seen one for 5 years.

What the fuck? Have you a source for those numbers because they’re shocking

That’s cool. Those perfectly preserved dead crabs had me wondering if some fossils get created this way.

Legend. Thank you!

I’m only getting results polluted with a spacex sim. Have you a link?

Without seeing your choice I was oscillating between blue and green but settled on green.

I’ve done both. The beans add that extra texture goodness.

Just three for me. I don’t fancy that comedown.

Welcome to Lemmy!

You’ll get past the hurdles pretty quickly. It’s a little confusing at first.

Thanks. Testing…

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@MartianRecon@lemmus.org

There is actually a stunt person who posts on here. I’ll see if I can dig out their username and tag them…

Yep …

/u/MartianRecon@lemmus.org

Edit: oh he hasn’t posted anything in 11 days unfortunately but hopefully he sees the tag.

Cheers.

The context of Hegseth’s remark and the reactions of his co-hosts indicate he was joking.

Important context in there.

I only recently discovered the power of the thumbs down in the car. It is magical.

Your ma wears high heels with tracksuit bottoms.

Is this OC because bra-fucking-vo if so. Great pic regardless.