Only if they ever offered it at all. Kind of 'once you put it out there, it's out there'

It's not insinuating anything like that. It's stating a simple fact that they got 6 Billion dollars for basically zero effort and resources. All of the things you've described are to allow people to buy more games. They cement valve simply as a store front and platform but not a game developer.

This is the point as to why Half life and most other games were basically dropped. Valve made 6 billion in passive income while trying to build a game selling and delivery platform. Even the best game in the world isn't going to make that kind of income and it's likely to take more effort than what they've done already.

This isn't anyone playing anything. This is a story about how people bought $19 billion worth of games and then never played them (which would suggest they likely never downloaded them either). Valve made over $6 billion and used no more resources than serving up the store page and the payment processing.

and this is why Valve is in no rush to pump out games like they used to. Why they have no real burning desire to continue half life. They made enough money to keep the lights on indefinitely by doing no more than simply letting an automatic process run that any first year web developer could set up.

I test all scripts as I generate them. I also generate them function by function and test. If I'm not getting the expected output it's easy to catch that. I'm not doing super complicated stuff, but for the few I've had to do, it's worked very well. Just because I don't remember perfect syntax because I use it a couple of times a year doesn't mean I won't catch bugs.

@Chozo@fedia.io if your post is 'TIL A star system exists' and you can't really tell us an interesting fact or piece of information about it, I'd say.. don't write something to be honest or if you really want to write about that thing, try to find something interesting about it to actually submit. TIL on Reddit also has a rule about titles standing on their own. Yes you can expand on topics inside the submission, but people should get something simply from reading your title. A lot of those titles don't really give you anything at all.

@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de These all amount to nothing more than, TIL X exists. The problem with posts like these, is that if you can sit there and write endless posts just like it, it's not really a good post. TIL about fir trees, TIL about car tires, TIL about weed trimmers, TIL about Disney land, etc. etc. etc. etc.

TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders.

This doesn't start with TIL and doesn't really sound like a TIL at all:

https://kbin.run/m/til@lemmy.world/t/492996/What-Do-Neural-Networks-Really-Learn-Exploring-the-Brain-of#comments

We then have topics which are vague and don't really tell us anything.

TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity

This is just presented in non-neutral way, and has been posted dozens or even hundreds of times over at reddit, so much so that it's on their repost list:

TIL this Fun Fact: Unfortunately, Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth

Clickbait style submissions like this:

TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.

In this kind of submission the user is telling us about an event, without actually telling us the outcome of that event. It's unclear exactly what 'fact' it is they've learned, beyond 'an event happened', it's delayed news at best. A much better TIL would be about the outcome of the trial and what legal implications that has.

Topics like this are just written to say LOL These people are stupid:

TIL the US government once banned sliced bread

and are missing crucial context in the title like the fact that it happened during WW2 when there were shortages.

TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine

This is literally related to a current on-going international conflict and politics and seems to be written to support an agenda. There are reasons they have a rule about no news, and no political posts.

At least this place isn't as bad as a TIL I saw on another instance that seems to do little more run a bot to repost submissions from Reddit

@MikeOToxin@lemmy.world no? Magazines should have standards for their posts so that a community can be formed and grow around those principles. The principle of 'just post whatever you want' doesn't encourage much beyond post anything. The only real restrictions on posting in the rules are: no baiting, promoting agendas or self-promotion.

There is nothing there on how you present what it is you've learned beyond 'start it with TIL'. There isn't even a hard requirement that you link to the source, which makes no sense.

Requiring users to actually link to a reliable source to back up what it is they've learned, and to present the knowledge in an objective and readable manner should be a bare minimum.

@Chozo@fedia.io Not just yours. The most recent is just little more beyond 'TIL X exists' a couple before yours is 'TIL X exists, well sort of' so it's not even that vague. There are in fact several like that in recent posts. Some are opinions are just vagueness, or nonsense.

As downhill as TIL on reddit has gone, the rules there are a good foundation but do require active moderators to remove the stuff that doesn't belong.

@IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world content dumping isn't an improvement.

fan works fine. Spent years in Korea where it regularly hits 35-40 during the summer. Big fan, about 2 feet from the bed, pointed directly at you and you sleep on top of the sheets.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2830720/FreeInfantry/

Free Infantry. I wouldn't say I'm hooked, but it would be great if this really took off again. Was a great game back in the day. I've completely forgotten how to play it or do anything and mostly fumble around.

For the base game, which I think 30% is still more, I think it certainly makes sense. Because they're providing a complete solution.

For in-app purchases or unlock purchases, whether or not the purchase is in-app, the solution isn't complete, and not worth the 30% they charge on those transactions. It would be trivial for every transaction to have a custom field where you could store an array of what was purchased in in that purchase and have it returned when the transaction was checked. Boom, complete solution. Specifically for in-app purchases if they wanted to take 5% since all they're doing is the job of Stripe and nothing more, then I'd consider that fair.