Skatteverkets senaste kontroll av handel med kryptovalutor (bitcoin och ether med mera) visar att det är stora belopp som inte redovisas. Kontrollen har lett till beslut om höjda skatter med 210 miljoner kronor. Det är även fortsatt få som redovisar sin handel. 9 000 personer deklarerade handel med krypto förra året.
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PS4 emulator shadPS4 can run The Order: 1886 for the first time
PS4 emulator shadPS4 can run The Order: 1886 for the first time
For the first time, the best PS4 emulator available on PC, shadPS4, can launch and run teh best-looking PS4 game, The Order: 1886.John Papadopoulos (DSOGaming)
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Jag har nu läst två krönikor om sommarställen skrivna av barn till invandrare. En artikel i Arbetaren av Yasmine Abdullahi och en artikel i DN av Tara Moshizi. Mycket av det som de skriver är korrekt men samtidigt missar de många nyanser. Därför blir de samtidigt lite märkliga. Det finns för det första flera typer av sommarställen.
Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser – „The Whale“ (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es „nur“ drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte Überraschung dominiert. Es war schlicht unglaublich, was Arronofsky und Fraser aus einem Theaterstück extrahiert und auf die Leinwand gebracht haben. (ARD, Wh)
Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser - "The Whale" (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es "nur" drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte Überraschung dominiert.NexxtPress
Staden Baltimore var en av USA:s våldsammaste städer. Men 2020 valdes Brandon Scott till borgamästare i staden, Han införde genast en mängd sociala program för att åtgärda det han kallade ett folkhälsoproblem, dvs brottsligheten. Genom att kalla det folkhälsoproblem så förändrades fokus för arbetet med att minska brottsligheten. Lagföring, fängslanden och gripanden fick mindre betydelse.
Bränderna på Käringön kopplade till ekonomisk tvist i Dubai. Den 9 juni tände någon på altanen och fasaden till en hus på Käringön. Två unga män i 20-årsåldern greps när de vid 18-tiden klev av färjan i Tuvesvik på Orust efter att ha lämnat Käringön.
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Bränderna på Käringön kopplade till ekonomisk tvist i Dubai. Den 9 juni tände någon eld på altanen och fasaden till en hus på Käringön.Anders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
Ett avsnitt i rapporten handlar om felrapportering av fångster från Östersjön. Båtarna rapporterar felaktiga proportioner av sill och skarpsill samt rapporterar troligen också bifångts av skrubba som skarpsill eller sill. Det gör att beståndsbedömningarna kan bli felaktiga.
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Märkligheter i Fishsec-rapport - Svenssons Nyheter - Njord
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Tio förare delgavs misstanke om olaga taxitrafik när polisen nyligen genomförde en riktad insats mot svarttaxiverksamhet i centrala Göteborg.
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AI-generated reviews on Steam are becoming a problem
AI-generated reviews on Steam are becoming a problem | Copyleaks - GamesBeat
Steam reviews are a critical part of feedback gamers get about the best new games. But a report from the Copyleaks research says there’s...Dean Takahashi (GamesBeat)
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i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.
steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.
Steam already does stuff similar to this? Reviews flagged as "suspicious" aren't deleted but aren't included in the overall score instead, and a notice is put next to the overall score when this happens. The same is true for reviews made by people who got the game with a key.
Why not extend this? Like you said, most bots have low play time, valve could exclude (but not delete) reviews with low play time. I agree that doing something like this is a slippery slope towards mobile app store reviews but if it's done right then it is a net positive.
I've recently discovered your review only counts if you bought it through steam on the steam store.
If you get a key off humble bundle or another site, your review means absolutely nothing. There is a little star next to reviews now that tell you this.
I found it a bit disappointing for steam.
Because someone gifted me a game, my review now doesn't mean anything. That doesn't seem very well thought out.
I have a few games with an embarrassing amount of hours on that I'm not allowed to contribute to the score because they were gifted or redeemed through humble bundle.
Why even review at this point?
I don't see an issue with it. There's no good way for Steam to know where the key came from, you could have been gifted the key, got it in a bundle, or stolen it from somewhere. Since they can't tell, they don't know if your review is compromised.
When I'm reading reviews, I don't personally care about that, I just care what the review says, and I'll read 5-10 before making a decision if it's a more expensive or longer game. A lot of reviews are pointless (e.g. "nobody will read this, so I'm gay" or whatever), so I very much appreciate helpful reviews regardless of the source.
Overall reviews: Mostly Positive
Recent Reviews: overwhelmingly negative
Review: this is the worst piece of shit ever made the devs should be hanged!!!
Playtime: 2006 hrs on record
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I predict a not-so-small minority will get tired of bots, AI bullshit, SEO optimisation, AI-written articles peppered with Amazon affiliate links, predatory algorithms, etc. That minority will find smaller, human spaces to interact and socialise in. The majority, ever the fan of convenience, will continue to adapt to the corporate enclave of the internet.
The answer is decentralisation. The more fatigued we get with the traditional way we interact with the internet, the more common it will become to return to (or create) new decentralised spaces. Maybe those spaces won’t be as large as the Fediverse. Perhaps we’ll fragment further to niche forums, group chats, etc. If we can’t keep those spaces small and safe from corporate abuse, maybe that not-so-small minority will begin using the internet only as a utility and instead leave the socialisation and interaction entirely for the real world only. It’s far more personal and meaningful that way.
I mean, aren't we changing things right now, changing the way it goes?
Sorry for all my railing against the mainstream, I can't resist quoting T2.
But yes, I suspect you're right. Really, it's a kind of return to the pre-commercial internet, before corpos started trying to capture, valueize, and monetize all of our freely given interactions on their platforms.
That minority will find smaller, human spaces to interact and socialise in
we're sick of the internet to the point we just go to a farm sometimes. we get bands most fridays now, it's kinda grown.
Fuck, we used to do this in the 90s. Big old farmhouses on land no longer used for farming. Owner of the land charged $2 to park and that was it. Bands would play, people mingled, some people would sell bags of chips and soda out of their trunks.
So much better....before the dark times, before the internet.
See the excerpt from my comment you replied to:
If we can’t keep those spaces small and safe from corporate abuse, maybe that not-so-small minority will begin using the internet only as a utility and instead leave the socialisation and interaction entirely for the real world only. It’s far more personal and meaningful that way.
Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion
Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth?
For almost a decade, live-service features have been de rigeur for most games – but with live-service projects being cancelled or pivoted to single player, it aRob Fahey (GamesIndustry.biz)
There's room in the market for a huge number of regular games, but with live-service games, only a handful of winners can ever really succeed, creating an eye-watering risk profile for any new entrant into the market.
Ehhh. I mean, I agree with the general idea that there have been far too many live-service games chasing too few players, but I think that it's probably possible to create lower-budget, niche-oriented live service games that appeal very strongly to a particular group rather than trying to get the whole world onboard.
That's true of non-live-service games. I like some milsims, like Rule the Waves 3, that are just never going to become a mass market phenomenon. That's fine, because that's not what the publisher is aiming to do with the game, and has budgeted accordingly. They're going after a particular group with specific interests.
But if you want to do that, that means that the interest in your niche by players has to be sufficient to overwhelm the fact that you aren't going to have the playerbase and thus budget that a game with more general appeal would.
Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"
Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"
Valve boss Gabe Newell spends his days scuba diving and hanging out on a boat alongside his work, but is effectively retired at this point.Ed Nightingale (Eurogamer.net)
They could, but why would they when 30% is fair still? You are not entitled to setting other people's asking price, and they are entitled to setting the cost of their own labour.
If anyone is greedy here it's you, demanding to have a say in how much is a fair rate for someone else's time and skill.
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Okay?
Do you even have a point?
Back up that claim. Shouldn't be hard to do.
I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux.
Valve's investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.
unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.
If that's not an issue relating directly to their role I don't know what it.
The only reason they'd wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn't suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.
You literally mentioned iOS above. And my point stands. If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform, much like he’s helped the Linux community and his own business interests.
Him going after Microsoft benefits everybody. Him going after Apple could do the same.
The EU now has a digital wallet payment system in a trail run
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Would be neat if they integrate it
Digital euro
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.European Central Bank
he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale
Was that a cheap shot? If so, I approve.
You literally mentioned iOS above.
It's literally called an analogy. It was not literally the subject of the conversation.
If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform
You're still literally demonstrating that you don't understand the motive of supporting Linux, despite me literally just explaining it.
Gabe literally does not care about the platform, he cares about protecting his revenue stream. Making Linux phones would literally not do that.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.
Not that steam is even publicly traded.
Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they've never played
Whether it’s Diablo 4, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2, our collective Steam pile of shame is worth enough to buy a country.Ed Smith (PCGamesN)
I've known and work with extremely powerful CEOs.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
They hire people to wake up at 3am for them.
valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.
And the goalposts go flying.
Who the fuck cares if valve is cute and cuddly? Who even wants that in a marketplace other than morons who think they can take advantage of someone else's kindness?
Valve is a company, their job is to make money for the people who own it.
- You the customer want the most out of your transaction with them, they know it make it a priority.
- They understand that devs working there making fucktons of money is good because they'll stay and be motivated to work, so they are selective on who they hire and then pay them an insane amount.
- They want to avoid microsoft cutting their nuts off so they pushed linux as a viable alternative.
- They want devs to sell on their platform so they refined a business deal that works well enough that they get several new games on their storefront a day and still make back their operating costs, despite servers that can literally be used to benchmark several gigabit download connections.
- They are the most economically effective company in the world and they achieved it by not enshittifying their platform and not going public.
Selflessness would literally be a downgrade, I want Valve to have every damn cent they earned.
They're not the only game in town, they are the best game in town, and at every turn they make an effort not to become a monopoly, either, because they know the good will of their customer base is more important than attempts at short term spikes in company revenue, which is only possible because they are a privately held company.
So yeah, are they cuddly and nice? No, fuck no, but they are extremely effective while providing a service that puts every other provider in their field to shame, so why the fuck would I want them to change?
it would certainly whip Google and Apple into shape
Probably not anymore than it already does Apple and MS.
I think that in itself is meant to be ironic too.
Also, people appreciate his lack of attention seeking and flashiness.
I think that in itself is meant to be ironic
Trump praise was initially ironic as well. There's a old hilarious episode of John Oliver begging him to run for President because he thought it was just so ridiculous. These things have a way of getting out of hand.
Exactly. I have a few ideas for that, but I'm not nearly to the point of funding them:
- start/join charity to help people get out of debt
- create a game dev studio to make my dream games
- finish building my P2P Reddit alternative
I'm working on the last two in my spare time, but I'm not willing to quit my day job and rely on the those to pay the bills. If I got a windfall, I'd consider it, but of not, I hope to be there in my lifetime 50s. We'll see.
I'm sure many (most?) have something similar.
Nah, I have had nothing but fantastic experiences with steam. Their support is knowledgeable, responsive, and has the power to actually help you. The index controllers are notorious for developing drift on the sticks and they RMAd mine several times no problem. The last one was a year out of warranty and they said that's all I get lol, but that's way more than they technically had to do.
Compare that to meta support where I had to talk to 4 different help desk lackeys who told me my quest was definitely on the way in another package (even after I showed them incontrovertible proof there weren't multiple packages under the same number and I received all the packages) before they finally escalated me to the "specialist" team, who took a FULL DAY PER RESPONSE. Fuck meta, fuck zucc, hail gaben.
- Blatantly untrue, as update visibility rounds are one of several marketing tools Steam gives you that can put your game on the front page for free, regardless of popularity.
- Kitfox Games has published a guide (one among many you can find on the internet) on how to successfully market a game with no advertising budget. While their existing audience definitely helped, and as they mention, it takes a significant amount of time and effort, they do not spend actual money on sponsorships or advertising. This would not be a viable strategy on any other storefront, save maybe Epic, though Epic still gives fewer tools than Steam.
This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It's why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
I'm not saying it isn't insanely hard (actually I mentioned that fact twice), I'm just trying to point out that Steam gives developers more tools for visibility than any storefront that exists, with most storefronts giving no tools whatsoever. Any game with no marketing budget selling enough to support a multiple-person development team, when they have to compete directly with AAA games, is impressive for both the developer and the platform.
If you want to advocate for improvements and change, you can't just ignore the positive things that already exist.
~Also you clearly didn't read the page about the update visibility rounds, because those have nothing to do with popularity and are completely randomized regarding who among the recently-updated games gets a spot on the front page. In fact, your game gets rotated off that spot once you've gotten 1 million impressions.~
Ah yes, paying less is bad. Viva capitalism. /s
Are you daft or dumb? Pick one.
I love communism
And I'm sure you live on one of the many successful communist countries in the world today.
Oh, wait.
and circus performers
Well at least you have high self esteem.
they both bring joy to the masses
The masses*
* the portion of them that is not in a gulag, is not disappeared, doesn't have its rights curtailed due to social credit decline for disagreeing with the regime, wasn't purposefully starved to death during the holodomor, and so forth.
And don't get me started on the evils of the circus performers who propagandise for them from the comfort of their liberal democracies.
There is a reason communism is treated with equal acrimony to nazism in every former soviet satellite state, m8.
Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??
I didn't knew that involved Valve too..
Bethesda veteran Julian LeFay, 'father of The Elder Scrolls', departs game development due to cancer
Bethesda veteran Julian LeFay, 'father of The Elder Scrolls', departs game development due to cancer
Julian LeFay, who oversaw multiple Elder Scrolls titles, is stepping back from game development following cancer diagnosis.Matt Wales (Eurogamer.net)
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Yus indeed, and self-named. Some of the other monikers are fun, too.
Lefay was the lead dev for Arena, Daggerfall, and Battlespire, and laid a lot of the very early conceptual groundwork for Morrowind and Oblivion long before they were concrete projects.
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Donkey Kong Bananza | Critical Consensus
Donkey Kong Bananza | Critical Consensus
Nintendo's first big release since the launch of Switch 2 comes romping home with glowing reviewsLewis Packwood (GamesIndustry.biz)
I watched a stream of this last night. Some of the mechanics seemed neat, but there was nothing there that made me want to play it. It seemed a little too easy to be any real fun. We're talking boss fights that are over in 15 seconds. You can just mash the punch button and tank any hits coming at you, and basically can't lose.
The destructible environments are an interesting concept, but it looked ike a patchwork of testing levels that were ok'ed and slightly upgraded visually.
The chat kept calling it a baby game over and over, and I pretty much agreed with the assessment. From what I saw, it definitely wouldn't be a game for me, but a 7 year old would probably have fun.
the evil dprk and its lessons
when the indoctrination is just right
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Western Freedom vs. DPRK Unity: What If Everything You’ve Been Told Is Backwards? | Explore DPRK
In a world obsessed with self-expression, instant gratification, and personal gain, there is one country that dares to say: you are not alone—you are part of something greater. That country...Editorial (Explore DPRK)
Vänsterpartiet hörs inte och syns inte. De ökar inte i opinionen trots att de rimligen borde ha goda förutsättningar för det. Anledningen är troligen felaktiga prioroteringar från partiledningen.
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Ingen vill rösta på ett parti utan politik. Vänsterpartiet hörs inte och syns inte. De ökar inte i opinionen trots att de rimligen bordeAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
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