A Meme. The first half shows a screenshot of the game “Banana” on Steam, showing how it weighs 1.89 Gigabytes. The second half shows a couple of native americans talking on a snowy landscape while inspecting footprints on the snow.
Native A: A western game dev has been here. Native B: How can you tell? Native A: It weighs 1.89 Gigabytes.
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The worst offender I’ve ever seen is Ark and that’s a Chinese developer. It’s over 400GB to install Ark.
No banana
My OS is lighter than that btw
… BTW?
He uses Arch Linux BTW.
I keep seeing that. Is BTW a reference to a particular build of Arch, or a particular way of setting up your Arch distro?
By the way, I’m familiar with Linux in general. Just curious about this particular thing.
arch is infamous for being kinda hard to install ESPECIALLY when it first came out (i dont think it’s that bad tbh) and it was a common thing on forums for elitists to say ‘oh i use arch btw’ (btw meaning by the way) to sound better than the other ppl on there
BTW stands for by the way.
So it’s basically a meme of “I use arch, by the way.”
No, no its just a well written joke. Like he can’t talk that he uses arch linux.
OK wtf is with the posts about “western game dev”, as if that has anything at all to do with disk space?
I’m not sure it’s exclusive to Western developers, as I don’t know much about software in other parts of the world, but there does seem to be an unfortunate trend of companies forgoing software optimization because modern computers are usually beefy enough to handle it, and it’s cheaper to ship out inefficient slapdash software than it is to take the time and resources to fix it.
Maybe they are making fun of obesity?
Western countries (USA) often have rich economies, which means that the average person in said countries often has better access to high amounts of storage than people from impoverished countries. This makes it so it’s not a priority for companies targeting that audience to optimize for disk space.
TLDR: Rich countries get beefy PCs, which get unoptimized games
1.9gb is a high amount of storage?
For a banana clicker, yes
That’s bigger than the Fedora ISO
Yes
No, it really isn’t… Not in 2024.
It’s a game where you click bananas.
There is no reason for it to be so large. It is a banana. That you click.
As a person who have 32 GB storage on my mobile device. It is.
It’s not a mobile game though.
Without checking, is it a bitcoin miner?
No, it’s a steam item miner
EDIT: to explain, clicking the banana gives you random “Steam Inventory” items, that players can sell on the marketplace The entire thing is just money laundry
I’ve never understood that weird market… Why the fuck is anyone buying that shit?
Low-fee way to transfer currency out of Russia, China, Iran etc.