Good news: video games are still fucking awesome. Since it costs nothing to make one, weird and smart and cool people from all across the world are trying the craziest stuff. It's true they're purchasable through steam, mostly. But there's spectacularly creative stuff at low or no cost. For example, skimming my steam right now I see:
- Tales From Off Peak City (surrealist walking simulator with a film camera mechanic; 9.99$)
- Baba is You (sokoban puzzler; 14.99$)
- Straftat (brutalist/surrealist competitive shooter set to jungle music focusing on randomized community-map style alternative fps gamemodes; free)
- Untitled Goose Game (light puzzle coop set to dynamically scored classical piano music; 8.99$)
- Norco (prescient pre-gen-ai pixel art VN about AI, faith, and the environment; 5.24$)
- Brazillian Drug Dealer 3: I opened a Portal To Hell In The Favela Trying To Revive Mit Aia I Need to Close It (it's quake; 3.75$)
Unfortunately the gov cannot decide who ultimately pays for the tax, just who ends up needing to put it on their balance sheet. If residential consumers demand is inelastic, relative to the commercial customers, then they will pay the tax. I have zero insight into whether domestic or commercial customers have higher demand elasticity, but it's worth being aware of this general principle [0].
> If there are leftover funds, we’ll donate them to the OpenJS to continue defending civil liberties in the digital space. None of the funds will go to Deno
[0]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20060009084/downloads/20...