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Colloquially, the "they" in your last sentence is maybe 1 in 20 indie developers, probably fewer. And the ones who really make money are much, much, much fewer.

Manufacturing and distribution was never really in the same ballpark as the actual development costs. That famous image we've all seen from years ago that breaks down where your $60 bucks goes with manufacturing and distribution costing a little over a third of that is after development costs...

It's not the same industry, though. That change in revenue isn't all going to the same companies who are spending on the same number of games at the same amount of cost. First of all, half of it is mobile revenue, and a very significant chunk of the remainder is from Chinese F2P PC games. Then...

Spend your fraction of a bitcoin as steam cash? They accept bitcoin. (Make sure it's actually bitcoin and not bitcoin cash, clashic, or some other).

Lay-person here, but a developer I spoke to blamed it on ad-platform SDKs as well. Since every ad platform uses their own, and a lot of developers work with a bunch of ad platforms to avoid having undelivered impressions, an app can come with a whole mess of advertising SDKs loaded up front...

Man, I had forgotten that regardless of how evil and terrifying a bastard Evil Minmax was, it took one fucking panel for me to utterly loath Warrior Kin. Damn. Also, jeez, Chief has been dead since 2010.

I love the fact that at least 25% of Thor's motivation is

Scary part is, he did it mostly in front of Stuyvesant High. As school was letting out. A friend of mine teaches there, but she seems to be okay, thank God.

The problem really is project bloat & area salaries. A lot of people are hung on the "EA couldn't fit enough lootboxes in!" line, but Visceral (which was in the Bay Area) was working on that game for 4 years at this point, and it would have been 6 years by the time it came out. It was Visceral's...

That's...impressive, considering that Jason Momoa is 6'4", which makes him considerably taller than all the other cast members besides Affleck (who he is likely also just physically larger than).

I mean, we've talked in the previous thread about how iOS tends to be a lot snappier in response. Android flagships tend to catch up when *loading* mobile game assets because they have more RAM (though as someone working in the mobile game space, most developers are very clear to me that...

...hello, "Executive".

...holy shit.

I suggested both (I have a chromebook as a secondary, just-bumming-around-the-house laptop), but my parents don't really like either the concept of the cloud or not being able to install programs they need from other sources.

EVE requires way too much time investment for me to get back in, but damn, I love reading about all the shit that happens.

I get that, but they're still $1000 phones that are competing on their internals, versus the gold Apple Watch edition that was, well, covered in gold.

A $1K phone isn't completely out the question - when I switched to paying for my iPhone 6S via Apple's update program, which had 0% interest (which I believe is still the case?), and kicked my carrier-subsidized plan to the curb in exchange for a pre-pay with the same basic features, I went from...

It's not a bad idea, though it might have to wait until the next time I fly back.

This is basically what I'm worried about. My mom does things like share USB drives with her writing group who are all the same age because they're all working on their own novels or art-series where the files are larger than 25 MBs, and not everyone has Google Drive enabled or uses gmail. My...

My parents are getting new Windows laptops, and while I've been using Avast for years, I hear that it is no longer considered the best. That said, I've also heard that Norton, Kapersky and McAfee are just giant piles of bloatware, and I'm not too familiar with BitDefender or some of the others...