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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • quarterly reports of MAU for blizz went from 45mil at OW2 launch to 27mil to 26mil and the last one has 10mil diablo 4 players. It may not be dead but it’s hemorrhaging players like there’s no tomorrow.

    Launch quarter for OW2 also had a wow expansion launch but it sounds like it was mostly bought by the smaller, core fanbase who have kept playing. Either way, adding 10mil MAU in Q2 and not being able to get the number above Q1 via a new game does not speak well of their retention.





  • I would argue that the problem with gaming on android isn’t as much the quality of the games as it is the quality of google play.

    Most games on the platform are not something I’m interested in, and while that goes for any platform google aggressively don’t care about my preferences and would rather use most of the available space for ads instead. Sure, it has an algorithm suggesting stuff to you, but when “no” isn’t an answer the algorithm isn’t really useful to me (which is by design). There’s no search for tags, no way to filter and even searching for the exact title of a game will present you with several other games before the real result shows up.

    It also doesn’t help that the ratings system is terrible. When (almost) every game has a 4.1 rating it isn’t really of much use.





  • “Path of Achra” for a pretty traditional roguelike that focuses on short runs and setting up “broken builds”. Highly rated and pretty cheap.

    “Halls of Torment” It’s vampire survivors x diablo. My favorite of the genre beside the “original”. Not sure how hidden it is though.

    “Stone Story RPG” Not really sure how to describe this one. ASCII art sorta-idle game?

    “Siralim Ultimate” mystery dungeon type monster rearing rpg with some wild synergies and buildcrafting. Tonnes of ways to “break the game”



  • It’s a pretty young distro so there’s some stuff missing or not working. My main issue (beyond struggling to install it due to a wrongly setup usb that would fail at the end of the install for no discernable reason) is window snapping not working properly on monitors in portrait orientation.
    But I’ve had a few times where stuff should work but didn’t with no feedback from the OS. It feels like a beta version that’s almost ready for release.


  • I switched from win11 to pop_os this week. I’ve had a good deal of linux exposure but most of that was in the '00s. As such I don’t have familiarity with any other distro in recent times, but I would not recommend people start out with pop. It feels not quite ready for prime-time yet. It would probably be perfect to try after you’ve had a bit of experience.







  • A crypto coin is only worth as much as the hype surrounding it, so the people holding a lot of crypto needed something beyond “you can use this to buy drugs on the internet” to generate hype.
    It turns out that more than a few people investing in tech don’t really understand what they invest in, but are highly susceptible to FOMO so any tech company wanting a quick cash injection put together a blockchain/nft/play-to-earn/web3 pitch.