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[scriver]

To be fair. Humans are design biased towards right-handedness

[Rolan7]

Definitely unrelated:
Link your hands together, interlocking your fingers (like you're going to make a deal, like the meme).

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Which hand is higher?
Which hand is dominant, or neither?

Right and right, if I understood you correctly.

Which meme though? Crafty finger posturing most often involves touching tips but no interlocking in my mind.

Yeah I remembered the meme wrong, they're "steepled" like you described.

I was just curious because I'm right handed but my left hand is naturally higher when I link my fingers.  It feels weird to link them the other way.  Just a habit, I guess.  I was idly wondering how universal that was.

I totally agree about right-handed bias in design, though I'm not sure there's an easy solution beyond releasing separate left-handed versions.  The bias in building design is interesting though - morally, is it right to design for the convenience of 90% of people 100% of the time?

IIRC Crusader Kings actually gives a combat advantage to left-handed duelists.  I haven't looked into that (other than loving The Princess Bride) but I can imagine it being a thing.  In particular it sounds very useful when assaulting one of those spiral staircases where it's intentionally hard for right-handed attackers to get a clean swing around the center pillar.

[scriver]

I don't know if it's a factoid but iirc I've read that left-handedness is supposed to be boon when fighting, because it turns the positioning of the body on it's mirror-side for the opponent while the leftie will be used to training against right-handed sparring partners.

Which hilariously brings up the question if being left-handed is still an advantage against other left-handed opponents, because left-handed people are also used to sparring against right-handed partners?

(Also I left this out above because I am not a sports guy but isn't left-front-forwards why "south paws" (if I remember the term right are considered tricky opponents in boxing?)

[dragdeler]

In particular it sounds very useful when assaulting one of those spiral staircases where it's intentionally hard for right-handed attackers to get a clean swing around the center pillar.

Impossible. If a lefthander is fighting down, and a righthander is fighting up, or if a lefthander is fighting up and a righthander is fighting down, they both have either the wall on the side of their strong hand, or they both have the pillar on the side of their strong hand, which one depends on wether the staircase goes clockwise or counterclockwise.

[hector13]

Left-handed was confers advantages presumably because people aren’t used to it.

Guardian article on a study

[Egan_BW]

IIRC Crusader Kings actually gives a combat advantage to left-handed duelists.  I haven't looked into that (other than loving The Princess Bride) but I can imagine it being a thing.  In particular it sounds very useful when assaulting one of those spiral staircases where it's intentionally hard for right-handed attackers to get a clean swing around the center pillar.

When I started fencing it was explained to me that lefties have a slight advantage because righties are more common. So the lefty gets a lot of experience fighting right handed people while right handed people don't have much experience fighting left handed people. Also applies to baseball, the pitcher probably has less experience pitching against a left handed batter.

[Uthimienure]

When I started fencing it was explained to me that lefties have a slight advantage because righties are more common. So the lefty gets a lot of experience fighting right handed people while right handed people don't have much experience fighting left handed people.

I found this to be absolutely true during my many years of fencing. Especially with one guy in the club that could beat me only because of his left-handedness. Lefties were typically called "mutants" in my fencing scene.

[Il Palazzo]

Q: Does anyone know what cut of the listed price do the various major game vendors take for themselves? I vaguely recall Steam taking 30% (does it?). What about GoG, Epic, Humble Store? Itch.io?
E.g., if you wanted to leave the developers with the largest chunk of your hard-earned currency, which would you pick?
Or are they all pretty much the same?

[TamerVirus]

‘Industry standard’ is considered to be 30% (steam, GOG) Epic went into distribution specifically to challenge Steam’s cut. Epic’s cut is 12%. Humble says their cut is 25%. Itch is 10% by default but allows the dev to choose the cut percentage

[Il Palazzo]

Excellent. Ta.

[scriver]

Are you having an argument?

[Il Palazzo]

What, me? Only with myself, if that.

[scriver]

I was hoping for spicy reseller platform drama

[MusicMagician]

Have you ever tried to make excuse for something wrong that you know it won't ever be able to be repaired?

[dragdeler]

Don't do that to a fault, even if my name is super easy to clear because I hate the reverse so much.