Aww happy new year to you too man :)

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Thank you SRIM9X, yes, I've been here for some time now. X)

Man, your account is OG!

The whole gaming scene is psychotic to me. Always has been (mid forties early internet nerd here.) Renting out numbers was always a religious exercise by my lights. Like purchasing indulgences from the early church. And the whole thing is based on a sunk costs fallacy to boot.

And yet, people love it. The whole thing. Just stunning. I feel like there's a timeline where gaming is all open source and there's like 90% less games of 90% better quality because there's way less duplicated effort. Where devs live on generous donations similar to twitch streamers and via bounties.

There's exactly one game on steam where the game is free and there's a pure support DLC. I genuinely don't even know if it's legal or TOS compliant to have an open source game on steam.

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