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could be for good reason, there’s a huge bird flu outbreak in the US right now, plus the US also has really strict egg washing laws, so depending on where these eggs are going, and assuming that it isn’t just eggs, which is likely, it could make sense.

i mean, out of all things a company can do that are bad, underage gambling is probably one of the better ones, and the argument in favor of it is that it’s on games like csgo and cs2, where the age range is obviously higher than an actual child.

Realistically, i think you have to be kind of stupid to get caught in gambling, but it is also definitely predatory, and there’s a reason it’s a heavily regulated industry. There’s definitely a better solution than we currently have, but it’s not as bad as it could be either.

heroic games launcher integrates a pretty solid proton base. Lutris also works but i find it a bit too fiddly for me.

HGL works great though, also provides native integration with EGL and GOG, which is nice.

gabe is a very smart person, if he doesnt have a post death plan for steam i would be immensely surprised.

Remember steam started the business model of not actually owning your games.

GOG exists, go use GOG. Steam is popular because they don’t fuck over buyers, and they run a good business model, people are ok not “owning” things if the service is reasonably well put together.

Gabe has made billions by stealing profit from the workers that actually make games.

steam takes a 30% cut, which isn’t all that high, especially when you consider that they develop things like proton at zero cost to anybody, including developers. You’re also getting the single largest and most widely used publishing platform, period. It’s really hard to beat something of that caliber, so it’s definitely a tradeoff. There are also cases of devs making games that become so popular they pull in millions of dollars worth of revenue.

They host tons of malware and shovelware and outright scam games and even protect them from “”““review bombing””"

in defense of steam, if they specifically curated high quality games people like you would accuse them of gate keeping the platform. Scams are definitely a thing, malware, technically is. I’ve not seen malware ever in my personal experience, and i doubt most people have, and whenever it does happen, steam responds accordingly so i’m not sure its a fair statement.

They pushed “early access” into the mainstream.

there’s nothing necessarily wrong with early access, i actually think it’s a really productive way to provide tons of play testing and development potential for smaller dev teams. Does it also incentivize shovelware? Sure, but it’s a platform you can make money on, that’s not abnormal. And again, it’s usually very well known when games are abandonware.

And because of people like you that would literally suck Gabes dick for the meme, they get away with it.

surprised you didn’t mention gambling, that’s probably the most significant argument against steam right now, they effectively run what can be considered an online casino.

steam is just so based.

I dont think a single more based company has ever existed. It rivals the greats like linux, with a touch of gambling.

this would also be susceptible to magnetic field switching as well, shouldnt be a huge technical limitation, but im not sure accuracy is going to be quite as good.

there’s a significant difference in jamming capability between different frequencies? Are you jamming them from space or something?

That doesn’t really seem like a significant technical limitation to me.

this is just some autistic shit from musk most likely.

technically, originally the GPS system was private, until made public, where it had error obfuscation, until semi recently it was released fully.

It was originally funded by the US government, still is, it’s just publicly accessible now.

(the original usecase being for shit like ICBMs and what not, obviously)

GPS? You mean the technology that we as a country collective maintain? And have continued to maintain since it’s immediate inception?

Yeah, ok.

Call me when you start using glonass.

good shitpost

this is definitely an interesting explanation, although i don’t know how much difference there is between this and my theory of “people are just less involved in politics, and as a result, engage less critically with it, as they do with everything else in their lives these days”

The average person is completely overwhelmed and operating on a low-level fight-or-flight type reasoning.

i think this is sort of accurate? I think the difference is that people are choosing not to invest their time and energy into these things, before engaging with them, leading to a very low quality of work. I.E. bad elections. Just looking at social media seems to confirm this outright.

The only short term solution is immense pain and suffering, any sufficient amount of distress will motivate something to engage in more aggressive and risky behaviors, which is the only way out of this mess in any short order, though it may not be desirable.

The long term answer is solving the media issue, because that’s a huge problem, solving the social media issue, which is 70% of the issue at this point, and forcing people to engage critically with this kind of stuff.

The hard part is finding out how to do this effectively without negating the very benefits derived from engaging in this kind of social restructuring. It may very well be too late for us to do anything to combat it, we might be at the crab bucket point in mr bones wild ride.

People are willing to do anything except for engaging in thought provoking/critical levels of social engagement, even if makes a fool of themselves. Just look at any social media, any hot button political issue. It’s all just fish in a barrel.

man this comment is, one of the comments of all time. I think.

does the DNC even know what the protest vote numbers are? And even if they did, how does anybody know whether or not they’re even significant.

If everyone thought like you did, the DNC would completely ignore the entirety of their base.

??? ok.

They clearly operate from a completely amoral calculation these days. They dont care about much of anything. Not law, not human dignity. Nothing.

Not even a little bit of any of these things? Not a single percentage point of ANY of these things? AT ALL?

i mean, this is less of a property tax issue and more of a social security thing.

Though i am pretty fundamentally against property tax, it’s a physical thing that i can own, i don’t see why i should pay taxes on it. If you want to tax me just hit me with income tax.

i mean, i’m not sure modern social justice is working as intended given the political landscape, but historically small communities do manage to self regulate very effectively, that one is for sure. I will give you that.

The only effective way to mandate something at a societal level is going to be laws, i.e. government, otherwise you’re going to have an extremely disjointed and culturally diverse society, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

all of my arguments have explicitly removed any form of anything closely resembling CSAM to the point of being illegal under existing law, or at the very least, extremely questionable.

The only thing i haven’t excluded is the potential to use an AI trained explicitly on humans, with no children being in the dataset, being used to generate porn of someone “under the age of 18” which it has zero basis of reality on, and cannot functionally do. That would be the only actual argument i can think of where that wouldn’t already be illegal, or at least extremely questionable. Everything else i’ve provided a sufficient exclusion for.

Have fun calling me a pedo for no reason though, i guess.

protest voting is definitely an option, although i wish it listed actual numbers. Kind of ruins the point if it’s just worthless to do.

Losing elections to the republicans? You mean the party that most lefties accuse the dems of being in bed with? Seems like a bold strategy. Do nothing and, when you do end up doing something, make sure it’s something that doesn’t actually do anything.

they have brain damage.