GhostTheToast

joined 7 months ago
[–] GhostTheToast 2 points 4 days ago

How did you collect/gain access to this data?

[–] GhostTheToast 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank Mr Skeltal

[–] GhostTheToast 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Based take imo. I think many posters fail realize the insane amount of money steam makes Valve. Rough estimates are that Steam sold 400 million games last year. Average cost for a game is ~$15.5. Steam has a platform fee of 30%. That means that, roughly, Steam made Valve ~1.86 billion dollars just through the sell of games. Not considering microtransactions or hardware sells. Reportedly, Valve made 1 billion dollars just off cases from CS2 crate openings. Let's just give Valve the benefit of the doubt and assume they made $5 billion dollars last year.

Impressive, but honestly not that impressive when you consider that Xbox brought in 18 billion and PlayStation brought in 30 billion last year. However, if you factor in that Xbox has a head count of ~$20,100 and Sony has one of ~12,700. While Valve has a head count of about ~400. We see that Xbox and Sony are bringing in about $900K and $2.4M per head respectively. Valve is bring in 12.5M per head. Plus Xbox and PlayStation have multiple studios and campuses. While I believe Valve only has the 1 or 2 campuses and they are their only studio.

My point being that, Valve has a ton of liquid cash for investment and growth opportunities. I'd wager Valve brought in more than 5 Billion last year, but with them being a private company, it's hard to pin down what exactly they could've made.

[–] GhostTheToast 7 points 2 weeks ago

Steam doesn't control the quality of remasters. That's up to publishers. I'm not the most active gamer and might have missed something, but didn't valve release a major revamp to the way the Library and Store were layed out in the past year or two? They also recently expanded family sharing and remote co-op. The only L I can remember in recent memory is the whole "You can't leave your games to another person when you die"

[–] GhostTheToast 1 points 1 month ago

Have you heard about moonlight and sunshine? You might be interested in that

[–] GhostTheToast 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a bit reductionist to boil Obama down to the shit implementation of Obamacare that the GOP killed in the womb. I encourage you to read on it. TL;DR, it was gonna be pretty good, but the GOP threw a fit that it was going to be a win for Dems and tanked it. You're also leaving out the fact that Obama expanded gay rights and got talking about climate change on a policy level. Should both of those things happened sooner? Yes, but that's letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Biden isn't amazing and honestly, I don't care for him much. However, I doubt he letting the genocide in Gaza happen for profits. With the Dem's own party, Israel is a divisive issue and I'm sure he's having to tread carefully so it doesn't shoot in the foot later because politicians are scummy petty people

[–] GhostTheToast 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My only issue with piracy is it doesn't add to the number of streams. So it might cause some studios to cancel shows they don't think are performing well.

[–] GhostTheToast 1 points 1 month ago

Tbh, I don't feel as strong about social studies/history. If I had to pick though, probably yellow because I mostly of dirt roads, roman gold, and the pyramids and those all feel yellow. But History is so subjective on what you take from it that you could probably make an argument for any color

[–] GhostTheToast 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You got science right, but math is blue because it's cold and calculating while English is red because it's full of passion and life

[–] GhostTheToast 1 points 2 months ago

Buy used my brother. Tesla p40s are like $170

[–] GhostTheToast 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Know:

  • Python
  • Matlab
  • Halcon
  • VPM
  • basic
  • C/C++
  • C#
  • JavaScript/Typescript
  • SQL

Want to learn:

  • Rust
  • Go
  • Kotlin
[–] GhostTheToast 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Based take. Seemed we learned nothing from Trump and What-aboutism. Just because Facebook does it and doesn't get in trouble doesn't mean Facebook is in the right. It means you should get mad and demand change from them too.

Also I might have missed this, but didn't everyone get mad at tiktok last or a couple of years ago for circumventing Android and Apple app policies and collecting data they shouldn't? I though Facebook and Twitter obeyed those policies, they just had other means to collect that data.

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submitted 7 months ago by GhostTheToast to c/whippets
 

Well maybe most as a pillow 😅

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