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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • This might be good on Steam Deck for multiple games that have carry-over data. Just mirror the save data folder of one proton directory into that of the follow-up game’s directory. I assume you can go back to the first game to unlock more stuff to carry over, and not have to manually copy-paste the save folder each time. Just run a sync.




  • This is truer than you might think. A lot of slang developed out of a need to express oneself without having the vernacular (or even desire) to clearly articulate. It leads to innovating interesting (and in some cases more practical) new ways to say something in a way others (typically in your in-group) can understand easily.

    I suspect a lot of that crazy Gen Z stuff comes from kids getting into social media well before fully developing their own social skills, so it just started manifesting through terms and phases they picked up from video games and such.


  • I’m not saying any of this is justification for what Trump is doing, just that it’s understandable why people who fled their country might be excited to see change happen. So much so that they would willingly cheer him on. I had an Iranian friend flat out tell me the Americans could take most of the oil and it would still be a huge win for the Iranian people compared to what they have now. They want their freedom. They’re happy to see the guy who kills people getting killed, and I think there’s room to empathize there.

    Does that make sense?








  • Okay just ignore the personal anecdote on how a little bit of piracy actually helped create a long-time paying customer of multiple franchises, I guess.

    (gollumnotlistening.gif)

    But furthermore…

    When Denuvo survives for at least 12 weeks, piracy leads to nearly zero total revenue loss on average. The results suggest that Denuvo does protect legitimate sales to an estimated mean of 15 percent of total revenue and median of 20 percent, but there is little justification to employ Denuvo long-term (i.e. for more than three months), especially given that Denuvo can have negative technical side effects and is generally disliked by users.

    The study itself, linked in the article, states that Denuvo is effective at protecting sales for only about 12 weeks, then it does more long-term harm than good.

    If that’s the case, I wonder how much Denuvo suppresses sales of a game over its lifetime once those 12 weeks are over?