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Cake day: November 5th, 2023

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  • I like being able to debug stuff.

    Windows nowadays does not provide any meaningful logs, so everyone in their forums and such is just guessing around why things won’t work.

    DirectSound libraries are missing? Install them via a sub menu of a sub menu of a really small text in the settings, wait 20 minutes for a „loading bar” telling you nothing, and guess what problem it had when it just told you no.

    Aside from all the bugs like the menu bar just not opening and preview updates being shown with the same size as regular updates (great because older people will just install those updates too)




  • English Is a bad language for this.

    Julica wakes up would be julica felébred

    Instead, its actually julica wakes up as in julica ébreszt, or „julica weckt” in german.

    Sue wakes up others.

    Also the - does not make sense here, as the „title” is the verb what she is doing in that comic, not a title as an julica - a felébresztés, like these bad German names for movies like alien - the creature from outer space




  • market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games

    Its called an android emulator.

    Those who have the money would rather go for a real retro console

    Those who don’t probably do not have the money to buy all those cartridges with only 1 game on them, and will just use their phone or pick up a cheap android tablet

    And for the retro-modern niche there are emulator handhelds for very cheap

    So, basically the target audience is people who:

    • don’t have the money to buy a real retro console + games
    • have a problem with emulating/ripping the games themselves
    • want to pay full price for retro games (even if you take the price for steam, they are going to cost more due to the hardware
    • don’t want any QoL like with emulator handhelds











  • That is another situation

    Amazon is a seller. Steam is (aside from selling) a service provider with their workshop, forum, etc

    While it would be way better if those were all in a different tier for devs, so for example they can select to get less of a share for those features, what they are basically doing is sidestepping a provider

    Or in the case of photography:

    You go to a Photo shop and lend their camera equipment and services for free, but they take a 20% cut for every copy of that picture sold.

    If you buy a picture, you can download it indefinitely and get some services like changing the color grading on the website. The photo shop hosts the picture for free and only makes a profit through selling licenses. The owner also has an option to get infinite licenses for these services for free.

    What youre allowed to do is host the picture on your own, pay your own cloud provider, and sell the picture that way.

    What youre not allowed to do is generate infinite licenses for free and sell them without ever paying the photo shop for their services, while still using them.