“You don’t need to steal it if it doesn’t happen!”

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Oh, my bad. I meant you should reconsider about her being someone they should listen to because she won’t be releasing a new album. Not because she’s not a piece of shit anymore!

Sorry to tell you but you might want to reconsider about Minaj:

https://www.arise.tv/nicki-minaj-alleges-industry-sabotage-political-conspiracies-and-abuse-in-explosive-social-media-posts/

I have a very simple mindset: hurting others is bad.

That’s it. That’s all.

But…

I think there is an exception to this: hurting a nazi. By letting a nazi alive, you are endangering other people, as the nazi will hurt others if left free. So even if hurting others is bad, hurting a nazi is in fact good beacuse you prevent damage to innocents. So yeah, hurt a nazi, it’s a good thing for you and for others around you.

“These days”…

Or autistic. Most definitely autistic.

What we actually need is for european companxes to drop the safety checks dependant on google play services and start using the phone checks only so alternative roms can function properly without depending on google.

It can be done and would allow people to more freely develop and adopt alternatives like grapheneos without hassle.

I spent the last half an hour just enjoying this one and all the descriptions. I’m sure I could spend hours looking at the rest!!

Hey don’t laugh people! This is serious! They just tanked 400bln when they could have tanked 1 trillion!

Hey now! My 5yo self watched krull several times and liked it!

There is not a single part of me (not even the 5yo one) that would watch Melania.

So the issue is not ICE, but who’s managing ICE.

That’s basically same as saying that the nazis were just following orders.

The issues, Bernie, are both who’s managing ICE and ICE itself. ICE are terrorists, you can’t just say that you will give money to ICE if they remove those two assholes ignoring all the shit each ICE agent has done so far, Bernie.

I wanted to be a paleontologist. Parents worked really hard to avoid that from happenning.

Now I work in OT (operation technologies) on a big company. I mostly tinker with automated proccesses and machines. It’s not at all what I wanted to be but it’s a really good alternative; machines are way easier than people to talk to.

You’ll have to define what do you mean “white male”. I am pretty sure I’m not, given that my skin is not pale-white and my hair is black. And like me, so many south europeans are probably much less white than they think.

At least for humble store, they essentially sell steam keys. Which at least complicates that argument. So it is not really a different distribution channel and the product is available on steam for that price. Just not on the Steam store.

I get this but, for what I know (I might be wrong tho), steam doesn’t get a cut from keys sold externally so they are technically selling them at better conditions elsewhere?

Steam have an effective monopoly here. Even if they have that because all the other platforms are shit. So the argument for just going to another store doesn’t really help as that just causes a massive loss in the market share of who you can sell your game to. Plus if you consider the other requirements of if you sell on steam you cannot make your game cheaper via a different distribution method means that you have to eat that feeling and cannot pass it on to customers. Which does not give game Devs much power to negotiate for a lower fee at all.

I know that but that’s not really steam’s fault? I mean, epic offers lower fees, but they are shit so nobody wants to buy from them; however, that’s not really steam’s fault. You can’t blame steam beacuse the competitors are objectively worse.

EA tried to have a launcher, but they are so bad at it that they’ve come back to steam. That’s… EA’s fault for sucking so bad, not steam fault for being more convenient.

And I say this fully understanding that they have a de-facto monopoly; but the reason is not because they have the only product, it’s because the rest are much wose.

Imposing Platform Parity Obligations (“PPOs”), that prohibit publishers from selling Products through other distribution channels on better terms than the same Products are available on Steam. The PCR alleges that the PPOs are likely to cause, and have in fact caused, restrictions of competition.

Not sure I’m understanding this but… how do you explain when we find in official retailers such as fanatical or humble same games at lower prices?

Imposing anti-steering provisions to the effect that, if a publisher wants consumers playing its Games distributed on Steam to be able to make in-game purchases, all such purchases must be made using the Steam application programming interface, and therefore Valve’s payment processing service. As a result, the payments are subject to Valve’s commission charges. Such anti-steering provisions leverage Valve’s dominant position in the Game Markets so as to enable it to secure a larger share of the Add-on Content Markets, by preventing or restricting the ability of other distribution channels to supply (including self-supply) Add-on Content for Games distributed on Steam.

This is also something I don’t get. I think games like FFXIV which has an online store lets you buy directly from their store (outside steam) their items, if that’s the case, how does this part stand its grounds?

Imposing excessive commission charges which amount to an unfair price which is then passed on to consumers.

This I get, but couldn’t valve simply say: “Go to epic store if you want lower fees”?

And you think magats are smart enough to remember that? They’ll get a guy barely ressembling hogan and call it a day

Let me introduce you to Spanish words “coger” and “concha”, to name just the first two that came to mind.

I want to see him try that. The moment he puts his filthy hands on someone else’s gold, the dollar will collapse. No ifs, no buts, the moment he tries to steal part of the gold he has stored there, everyone will want their gold back and, while at it, they’ll cash any bonds they have.

If you can’t trust that country to mantain such important agreements, you can’t trust it with anything. He’ll bankrupt the country in no time.

E-sim and working everything in the cloud maybe? Knowing apple, they’ll add a subscription and there, an “independent device”:

Sometimes you need a dictator, sometimes you need a blood clot…