Market share is one thing but to call them niche is another. Yeah, there are a fair number of games I would like to get that are only on DRM laden platforms, but I still have a solid library well beyond what’s needed to keep entertained.
It’s stated to be a thing in the works
Are they? I’m at about 300 owned on GOG vs about 2 dozen on steam that where mostly via humble bundle.
Narcissistic grifter cons people to stroke his own ego
I’m other unbelievable news…
Back in ye’old days when you paid for a streaming service and you didn’t have a bunch of commercials…
Before scrolling fully down I thought it was a corn field nearing harvest time… 🙂
They’ll pay in rare pepe cards…
An interesting take and I would like to have the faith that the writer has at humans giving preference to human artists inherently.
My concern would be that should these writing bots become ‘good enough’ where the development and consistency is at least passible, then the fact that the costs of creating it are so negligable becomes a real factor.
If a book by an AI vs a real author, particularly in the fiction realm where facts don’t matter, are not wildly distinguishable but one is produced for a fraction of the cost, it has to have some impact.
The ability to download and keep the installer is why I’ve put more into GOG than any console. You want to shut down the cloud host for everything I bought fine, but send a disk that I can replicate for backups in the mail before you do.
Matters of public health or really any humanitarian issues shouldn’t be seen in the context of ‘their problem’ when the capacity to resolve them is a rounding error on budget designated for killing people.
Who said anything about bombing? Skip buying a plane or two and solve the problem.
Also known as a pocket change amount to the richest or a fraction of a single percent for the US military.
Bot has encountered a critical error and cannot recover…
Not a physics major here, but that would have to be exceptionally weak to be pulled apart as I see it. Even on the surface of earth you can hold a piece of tissue paper up and effectively neutralize the force of gravity without it pulling itself apart.
The bonds holding the molecules together would have to be weaker than the force of gravity pulling them apart, which would essentially make it into a gas I suppose.
Wrapping their tits up in their belt
It’s the curse of the big instance it seems. Either have them open and get the occasional flood of trolls and spammers, or have them limited and spend countless hours hoping to weed out the same.
Self serving dealings from this admin?
Shocking!
Shocking I say!
Safe from who? The fascists that will shoot them if you don’t agree to the bots watching all you do?
After all we wouldn’t want kids to grow up thinking they should accept people different, ot maybe the same as, themselves.
People looking to have society help them maintain a message of hate.
More broadly it’s a term used for to denote something fitting a very specific purpose or suitable to a small subset of people, animals or things.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/niche
GOG is not a system meant specifically for people looking for some specific thing, it’s a general purpose market with a wide variety of offerings that happens to have a smaller user base.
Their main customers might be called a niche market in that they’re largely a specific group looking for DRM free games, but the platform isn’t limited to them.
Anyhow, enough pedantics for one morning…