ShellMonkey

More broadly it’s a term used for to denote something fitting a very specific purpose or suitable to a small subset of people, animals or things.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/niche

GOG is not a system meant specifically for people looking for some specific thing, it’s a general purpose market with a wide variety of offerings that happens to have a smaller user base.

Their main customers might be called a niche market in that they’re largely a specific group looking for DRM free games, but the platform isn’t limited to them.

Anyhow, enough pedantics for one morning…

Market share is one thing but to call them niche is another. Yeah, there are a fair number of games I would like to get that are only on DRM laden platforms, but I still have a solid library well beyond what’s needed to keep entertained.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gog-moves-toward-native-linux-support-major-shift-drm-free-gaming

It’s stated to be a thing in the works

Are they? I’m at about 300 owned on GOG vs about 2 dozen on steam that where mostly via humble bundle.

Before scrolling fully down I thought it was a corn field nearing harvest time… 🙂

An interesting take and I would like to have the faith that the writer has at humans giving preference to human artists inherently.

My concern would be that should these writing bots become ‘good enough’ where the development and consistency is at least passible, then the fact that the costs of creating it are so negligable becomes a real factor.

If a book by an AI vs a real author, particularly in the fiction realm where facts don’t matter, are not wildly distinguishable but one is produced for a fraction of the cost, it has to have some impact.

The ability to download and keep the installer is why I’ve put more into GOG than any console. You want to shut down the cloud host for everything I bought fine, but send a disk that I can replicate for backups in the mail before you do.

Not a physics major here, but that would have to be exceptionally weak to be pulled apart as I see it. Even on the surface of earth you can hold a piece of tissue paper up and effectively neutralize the force of gravity without it pulling itself apart.

The bonds holding the molecules together would have to be weaker than the force of gravity pulling them apart, which would essentially make it into a gas I suppose.

You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

Pretty sure our first console qualifies me as an elder. 😉

You really needed to point that out? 👴

Why are odd jobs infuriating?

Or, novel idea, maybe NOT do that?

I wonder how much of that came from being a time when the ‘parental advisory’ type content was starting to become more common, but people’s content was also still pretty compartmentalized.

Shows for kids where on at certain times on certain days, and these weird paper things called magazines where something you had to buy or subscribe to to view.

Now, barring some kind of active efforts, people see what they want when they want all on the same Internet so advertisers kind of have to pull back to avoid getting attacked for putting the wrong messages out.