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Aeglen

The reason is fun, and no justification is needed. Maybe you've spent too long looking at the world in a purely progress-driven way. EDIT: I've been there before, but imo the point of progress is to have fun in the end anyway
Re:Several Truths Regarding Success on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:55AM (#39175285)
Interesting way of looking at it, although it aught to be clarified this is some sort of "mean average" success for capitalising on an idea, ignoring other definitions of success, non-standard paths to success (which are probably the norm for most), and luck factors etc.

Disagree on the leeches point, just because someone trades their time for resources in a convoluted way doesn't necessarily mean they're leeching.

Check your Stripe exchange rates

Stripe claim that their exchange rate is "generally... the mid-market rate", but recently for USD/GBP we have been getting rates in excess of 1% below this. Support say this is due to the specific timings of sales and there are no hidden fees, but the rates we get are often below even the lowest mid-market rate of the week. This apparently disingenuous practice has been happening consistently...

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Re:Unity plan pricing and packaging updates on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:32AM (#37481922)
Time to switch to Godot for my design-stage mobile game. The fact that they even came up with this, and worded it so poorly, reeks of incompetence.