Just for the sake of being fair, Steam does do one thing which is anticompetitive; they require publishers don’t sell their games for less than they do on Steam.

If you think about this for a moment you’ll realise it’s in the publisher’s best interest to agree to this.

One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

It’s hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they’re at all comparable

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So, where do they go? Do they evaporate? Or something?

Bold of you to assume I’ll remember to check my shopping list.

I see your olfactory pallette is not very refined, novice stench hunter. Teenage boys who don’t shower often, and rich slaveowning cops have very different scents.

About three years ago I came across a rich slaveowning teenage boy who didn’t shower often.

The overlap created this dangerous aroma which waft over me like an Appalachia Egg Fart. I wish I could have bottled it for my kids.

As a fellow connoisseur of teenage boy odour, I concur.

It’s not technically Isekai

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This happened to me.

On the “Mario Kart Tour” sub, I made a meme during the games “Election” event. I made vague but obvious comparisons to Trump/Mario Vs Biden/Luigi.

Everyone in the comments were having fun, there was no complaining, and the post even reached the homepage.

Then the fucking mods deleted my shit and pissed the community off. I got universal support and the sub was filled with posts requesting the mods to undelete my meme.

In the end, the mods were cunts.

Fucking clowns.

Great episode.

I’m tempted to believe in reality, some kind of “mutually assured destruction” scenario would occur.

If I was to create a simulation, I would add in a recursive condition wherein the detection of another simulation would crash the system.

But the theme the episode really touched on was whether it was right to tell another the truth about reality. Maybe that reality isn’t another layer up, but that God exists, or maybe not.

Assuming you found out we really were in a simulation, what is the right thing to do? Force everyone to learn the truth? Hide your knowledge of it?

If you thought: “I can tell the people who want to know”, you’ve just created a cult.

Personally, I’m convinced we are not in a simulation. But that’s only assuming the level above us is somewhat similar (a universe that started with a big bang and formed stars and planets and evolution etc).

Think of it this way: an advanced society would need to evolve more than us, meaning more filters to pass before achieving this kind of power. This means unlimited power and unlimited processing power.

I fucking hate that I learned what this means a month ago.

Bought myself a ZigBee coordinator and started pairing some devices.

Sweet! That was easy, now all that’s left are the Tuya ceiling fans

Little did I know, what was about to happen would cost me my sanity.

Honestly, just give me a fucking HP printer and ask me to connect it to my computer from the other side of the world.

Most of the American history revolves around how the Japanese treated the Prisoners of War, who were all men.

Ask the Koreans or Chinese what they thought about the Japanese occupation of their countries a hundred years ago.

BINGO!

At the risk of sounding critical of your hobby, to argue the imperfections improve the experience sounds somewhat culty.

I understand there is something akin to “character” which you don’t get from something highly polished. I know when things sound too clean it can feel sterile.

I accept vinyl has a collectors value, but anything claims regarding preference come across as either pretentious or deluded (to me, as someone who probably can’t tell the difference).

They shouldn’t be enduring a hard winter because they shouldn’t be bred by people in the first place.

Dairy cows get abused often on farms. You’re either not seeing news about it, or you’re willingly ignorant.

You haven’t met a vegan farmer? Wow that’s so strange! I’ve never met an atheist Christian before, but I’m sure they’re out there.

I am a city creature, but I’ve chosen not to participate in the exploitation of animals for ethical reasons, what’s wrong with that?

Missing the point.

The fact that the cows are being exploited at an industrial scale is abhorrent.

Typical carnist dickhead trying to justify enslavement.

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I would say they’re “alt-left” in the derogatory sense.

Being unable to drink plant milk doesn’t make drinking cows milk okay.

Just don’t drink cows milk? It isn’t essential for your diet anyway.