Dirk Darkly

I haven’t seen many public diatribes against Kagi, but the ones I have seem to be like this person. They complain very publicly based on their perception of Vlad, spend their days in Discord fomenting drama (which seems like something only children should be doing) and are so fragile that they think getting measured emails from someone they went after publicly is a form of harrassment. It’s absurd.

I can only hope this was written by a teenager, otherwise it’s a pretty rough way to live as an adult.

Yeah, like it could mean they’ll become furries.

I’m gonna guess entrepreneur.

I hope you can recover.

The link just goes to a comment that links to a screenshot of Discord where someone complains vaguely about moderation to the CEO. I wouldn’t exactly call that evidence. More harboring a personal grudge

The starter tier is only $5/month for 300 searches, which is more than enough for your average user.

I can get not wanting to pay for search, but I wouldn’t call $5 “very pricey”. In fact, I’d be so bold as to call it reasonable.

Did you just equate turning living organisms into a monitor with arranging rocks?

I know this might blow your mind, but different people have different opinions and that’s ok.

Depending on the game, this could open you up to a perma-ban (if found out). Which I think most multiplayer games take a hardline stance against circumventing their rules.

This is a phenomenon I’ve observed across Lemmy. This platform has apparently attracted the attention of a subset of humans who are unfamiliar with the concept of jokes or sarcasm.

How dare you undercut their platitude with reasoning.

It’s only nebulous if you listen to lobbyists and corporations. Many people still know what it actually means to buy something.

It’s crazy that people believe ideas can be owned.

It’s a bit wild how petty Bethesda comes off as. It’s like they’d rather spend a bunch of money to convince people their games are still good instead of, you know, trying to make good games.

And unfortunately many of those still operate as for-profit companies and extract wealth via administrative fees and executive salaries.

It’s hard to do that officially when a big chunk of users are minors. Neither Twitch nor the streamers of this content want to admit that they make money serving softcore porn to kids. Cause that’d be weird.

You could also just try turning it on to see if it has power. I don’t see how the light is actually useful for this.

They’ll pay by charging customers a reasonable licensing fee. Market standards are meaningless in an age of aggressive monetization and consolidation. Of course they’ll try and get away with as much as they can and people have been shown to excuse a lot. However, I would pose that is entirely unreasonable that providing access to tools earns anyone a portion of future sales.

This very clearly goes beyond paying to improve the services and is simply about maximizing profit.

Why does Unity deserve a cut of the profits from games made with their tools? Seems as ridiculous to me as a maker of power tools demanding a cut of profits from contractors using their products.

Seems like the conclusion of the article ends up admitting luck plays a large role. From the article you linked: “It is important to note that this research can not explain why a particular individual does well or poorly financially. Luck, timing, parents, choice of spouse and many other factors play important roles in shaping an individual’s circumstances.”