Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it's all organic consumer demand.
For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there's a decent amount.
The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one's uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.
Website? That's what they are, and I think many people would be more familiar with that than "instance".
And if they follow up with questions about apps you can mention whatever your preference may be.
Got a kick out of this earlier, thought others here probably would too.
Extra bonus if the actors playing the characters are twins or, failing that, lookalikes.
Congrats on the first animation! Making even one helps give a better sense of how much effort animations take to make. It's always cool once you get it to a spot you're happy with and see it moving.
Under this scheme, the equity investor floated cash flow to make the movie. They would recoup their $5 million investment, plus a 20 percent premium — so, $6 million goes to the investor. The sales agent would also take a 10 percent fee from the sale; that’s $700,000. From the $7 million sale, that leaves $300,000 to split between the investor and the filmmakers.
I get why the investor is getting that split at the end that I've emphasized, but put in these terms it reads as such a clear dick move, and this is supposed to be a rosy scenario. Like they recoup their investment with an additional million on top, and they want a cut of what little's left to the creatives? As if they need another $150k when they're out there floating millions for productions. 😒
One can only imagine how much worse the real terms are if this is anything close to okay terms for indie productions.
If you can't resist then I guess a compromise might be buying used where possible, getting cross-platform titles on other platforms.
Personally a couple of my various regrets have been getting Nintendo stuff new in recent years. My lightly used New 3DS d-pad bugged out, I replaced the d-pad for it and barely used it only for it to partly break again.
I got a Switch, new, before they went ballistic with lawsuits and the screen had a dead pixel out of the box. Probably a matter of time before it develops stick drift. The battery also gives the whole device a limited time to work, unless it can still work via the dock without a battery (or with and without charging capacity), but I'm doubtful of that...
The Switch 2 being a similar design carries on that same battery problem as far as I'm aware.
Whenever you like, honestly. It's mostly a nice acknowledgment to the poster that you appreciated their post. Unlike commercial social media it's not sending out anything to your followers that you interacted with it (at least last I checked).
I think many people boost more than favorite because it functions a little similarly in regards to acknowledgment, with the bonus that it helps share the post to others which is even more relevant in federated networks than on centralized platforms.
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If you look around some automotive sections of stores they now have glasses specifically for headlights while night driving. I haven't tried them so I can't speak to their efficacy but worth keeping an eye out for if you want to try them.
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Almost forgot, template for Wizard Pondering Rolypoly:
I should learn to sew. It's the best of both worlds, creative and practical, and some of my pants could use some mending...