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Sometimes, when I see a YouTube video I want to save for later, I click on it and let it play for a fraction of a second so it gets added to my watch history. It’s probably very convenient, but I have never gone back to watch anything I’ve saved in this way

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 9d

the giant skeleton in my neighborhood is wearing a t-shirt with a skeleton ribcage on it

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 9d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 12d

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Dec 5

*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 13d

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a popular promotional item

photo of a "Soft Disk Calculator" by Marksman, with a solar-powered calculator in the shape of a 5.25" floppy disk, with a hand-written label that says "Jim Johnson" and accompanying disk sleeve

Dicopac solar-powered 5.25" faux floppy disk calculator with the slogan "It's back... and it's about time"

3.5" floppy disk calculator by PCS Health Systems

Box that says "IBM 2.0 MB 3.5 Diskette Format" and accompanying IBM 3.5" floppy disk calculator in a plastic sleeve

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13d

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 14d

I can’t believe I’m rolling with some of these dipshits in my Pokemon party but sometimes it just takes too long to train up replacement dipshits

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 16d

thinking about the anime uno opening youtu.be/bMO9U00pZ3k

Uno PS1 Game Opening Movie.avi

YouTube video by PSXDatacenter

youtu.be

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 17d

It's good when a video game has a cutscene and in the background you can see a save point or a glittering resource node or something

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 19d

tgif

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 19d

pokemon z-a? more like pokemon z…noblade

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 20d

cursed analogy that will mean nothing to anyone:

Skate : PewDiePie :: iPadOS 26 : Federico Viticci

Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 22d

made pasta tonight because a) I wanted to use up the rest of my jar of minced garlic and b) it’s getting colder and I thought it’d be nice to have that big blast of steam after straining it. I do also like to eat pasta but that was tertiary at best

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 23d

Itoi’s Hobonichi quotes really have an energy all their own

“It occurred to me that I would like to be a gorilla. Not a gorilla in a zoo, but a wild gorilla. I would like to be a gorilla and play with other gorillas, sleep as a gorilla, dream gorilla dreams. I would like to do some thinking in a gorilla way, too.”

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Dan Bruno @danbruno.net · 24d

I bet that particular scorecard box hasn’t shown up before!

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 24d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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