I was involved with an Indie game that was priced at roughly $15. It literally sold for 10 cents in those regions with Steam's recommended pricing, mainly due to the accelerating inflation, and within hours of release, 20% of the sales came from these regions because of people abusing VPN. The pricing was quickly adjusted before that percentage could grow any larger.

When people can just get a freshly released game at a 99.5% discount, you might as well not sell the game at all in those regions.

Relatively speaking, games already were practically free in those countries to begin with, so it's not like piracy would make a difference to the vendors.

Thanks, I fed em all to the hogs:

Sorry, I'll turn the mind control machine off now

“It’s magical. Someone can have all his arms and legs and still not be successful in love, but an amputee can win a heart.”

Pure, distilled cope, holy moly.

"They have got some problems. That's not good because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things,"

Yep, they are.

There's two major factions in today's right wing, one pro, and one anti NATO. In the USA, they are represented by the Bush-Cheney, and Trump conservatives respectively.

I can't even begin to express just how bad of an idea banning the AfD would be at this point. It reeks of desperation, and would instantly galvanize their supporters.

Like, if you really wanted to ban a political party, the correct time to do so would be before they've reached a critical mass of support, ideally when they are at lower than 5% of the votes.

But when they get more than 20% of the vote, becoming the second-largest party with the largest at 26%? Forget it. Not only would they be demonstrating just how little their precious Democracy actually matters to them (thus disspelling the illusion of liberal democracy), it would also tell AfD voters that they are on the right track and should keep holding on to their ideas, as they scare the ruling neoliberals who are currently running the country into the ground.

A coup attempt is practically guaranteed at that point, since you leave them no other option. And it just so happens that Europe is currently aflush with black-market weaponry from a certain conflict to the east...

It really just is another massive neoliberal failure. First you tolerate the far right for more than a decade, then when they suddenly gain massive support, only then do you want to get rid of them? The actual solution in this situation is to abandon neoliberalism and offer the people policies that would actually make them want to vote for you.

Hilariously, that's precisely the event those Quora posts were referencing, pretending it was some kind of huge victory.

Not sure how it is nowadays, but back in 2018 Libreoffice Calc was struggling to handle even a single sheet of data entries, performance-wise, let alone multiple sheets.

I'm not expecting it to have every feature imaginable, but I do expect it to not freeze when processing even a relatively small dataset.

It's gonna be a very, very wet 2024, isn't it?

Fuck Ubuntu. Buggy as shit updates, forced snaps, always had problems whenever I was forced to use it, which I've never had again when I switched to Debian.

Debian >>>>>> Ubuntu

If there were a massive bot problem on Lemmy, you'd be seeing upvotes in the thousands, not the low hundreds.

It's time to sandi mormon imp spy bubblegum, and kick balls...

I remember dozens upon dozens of shitposts on Quora about how Russia was supposedly unable to produce ball bearings because of sanctions. One of the biggest weapons manufacturing powerhouses on the planet.

Every single one of them would end with the phrase: "Sanctions work, just slowly" -- i.e. the usual grift from Neoliberals.

Always claim that the big victories are right around the corner, just in reach, just gotta wait a little while longer!! Meanwhile they make off into the distance with whatever spoils they managed to gain during their grift.

And the ironic part is, if anything, this whole event has only accelerated its demise.

Need to have more good guys with a gun after all.

...those guys with Swastikas tattoos are the good guys right?

Finally he's acting presidential