Lem Jukes

Nah you’re good sorry wasn’t implying that.

I cede my point. I knew I was laid off for being a piece of shit, I just knew it.

Sorry, I’m not doing great these days.

This reads like you took in all the words I wrote and then responded to them without actually understanding or comprehending any of the content.

You’re missing the part where they make the vast majority of their money from the gambling, not from the cut they take from sales. They don’t have to run the gambling service. But they do because it’s a money faucet.

Every game company does not operate a gambling system that is the center for a literal whole ecosystem of predatory shady businesses. But that was a halfway decent try at a whataboutism argument /s.

Yes that quote is at the heart of a Simpsons episode. And it’s about people using moral panic crusades as a means of enacting draconian measures of control based on a fear based in falsehood. Valve demonstrably engages in the practices I mentioned so I think your point kind of falls completely on its face. I am glad to see you recognize capitalism as inherently exploitative though.

😂

Correct, no business. That same business will lay you off in a heartbeat if they can. Businesses do not care about you.

I mean not as much anymore since the end of the shuttle program. Huntsville is where a lot of vehicle production but a lot of that is private companies like ULA, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc. with govt contracts and subsidies. There’s only about 7k direct nasa employees at Marshall.

I call this one ”as close as you can get to Bailey’s without ya eyes getting wet”

Wait what exactly is the purpose of buying a steam key from a third party? And how is that profitable and not tos breaking?

This is a somewhat naive view when you consider Gabe’s multiple super-yachts.

Hey both things can be true. I feel like at this point though the only reason they haven’t stopped the whole gambling thing is because it’s basically a money faucet and in a monetary economy who’d ever turn off a money faucet? But that’s the rub, greed is inherently incentivized.

Does everyone just keep glossing over the ‘they enable the abuse of addicts and children” part?

I’m not saying I disagree with your other points I’m just confused.

I thought it was pretty well known Valve is privately owned.

They make money selling off of gamers by selling games. They take advantage of and enable systemic abuse of, I’ll say it again, addicts and children. I’m not saying they aren’t also fair to their customers in most of their dealings and that they aren’t doing good things for the Linux ecosystem. But we’re also talking way more money than I bet you’re thinking. Gabe’s uber rich person kink is super-yachts. Multiple, super-yachts. You can appear and behave with decency and still contribute to the detriment of society at the same time.

Steam may be a very successful business, but they’re still the seed crystal for a whole ecosystem of gambling that preys on addicts and children with the whole CSGO loot box thing. Take a wild guess what forms of addiction have the highest suicide rates?

Fuck Valve. Fuck all Corps. No business has ever nor can ever, genuinely give a shit about anything other than increasing profit.

For any Apple Maps users out there…

I made a guide version of the meme

Couldn’t find a stop for Ass Hill

I’m not making an address called ‘suckmy@doge.gov’ -some tired network admin somewhere

Hanlon didn’t prepare me for malicious morons fuck

I am no longer feeling lucky

I mean, KUbuntu really deserves the credit there