I hear that happens when you have no ass to hold it up.

Where did I say it was natural and inevitable? I said that the current conditions feed on themselves, not that it can never change, or that it shouldn’t.

It feels like you’re not really looking for ways to improve the world, just ways to complain about other people not doing enough to improve your life.

So… get rid of the greedy dastardly then?

I mean, obviously it takes more than getting rid of people that seem to prop up the system as it is. The system creates those people as much as it is created by them. Its not like the world would magically transform onto a magical utopia if we suddenly got rid of the capital class. Others would simply seize the opportunity to become the new capital class.

The same would happen if we just did the opposite, get rid of the system. Those same people would still push anything that replaces it into where it was before.

It will take more than a one-liner to effectively change the world.

Is that what you mean?

Like what?

The controversy was that like one person said they were offended then they changed it (from one generic pose showing off her but to a more in character pose showing off her butt) and people took it and ran with it as though they were reacting to that one person instead of making reasonable design choices.

You could use a different word that’s not an attack if you don’t want to attack. Like “reason” or “catalyst” or “schmoople”.

Don’t get bent just because people took your words at face value rather than what you actually meant.

and play your games with friends

Thats part of what “community” is.

Regardless, just because it’s not your reason for using it doesn’t mean it’s not a major factor in why it’s successful in general.

One is a bunch? It also seems as though that particular game wasn’t even on any other storefront, just their own website. Hardly seems comparable.

Itch is also a much different beast, it’s less a storefront and more a platform for developers to promote and sell their games independently. The pages seem designed and run by the devs and not Itch. It would make sense to not have a cart with that kind of decentralized design. You’re not buying from Itch, youre buying from developers themselves.

Im glad to see you only care about your own word battles instead of epics. Weird that they seem so parallel, though…

Valve paid a bunch of publishers to sell their game exclusively on steam and refused to implement basic features (like a shopping cart) in their UI? Then bitched about how everyone more successful than them was evil and wrong?

And yet they still push innovation, both in software and hardware.

Theyre certainly not angels, but they’re far closer than just about anyone else at their level.

Probably because Valve didn’t, some guy who used to work for Valve did.

I mean, imagine all the AI slop game companies that would go out of business cause they couldn’t sell on Steam anymore…

They own a third of it, along with Nintendo and Creatures

Detective Pikachu?

most notably by purchasing a steam deck

Well…

Are they full, or is there a small subsection that has them and we’re giving them undue attention? I rarely come across such things myself, though that’s obviously anecdotal, I feel that at least means there’s plenty of space that isn’t dominated by what you speak of.

They’ll do another raid in FFXIV

Did you hit your head? Do we need to call someone for you?

Almost like social sites arent monolithic, and different people can be outraged by different things!

Why is diversity bad? Shouldn’t we want multiple avenues, as long as competition is fair?

How long did it take them to make a shopping cart, one of the most basic necessities of a modern internet storefront? User experience has never been their priority.

“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”

I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…

No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!

I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”

It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.

She’s basically traumatized up until

I don’t think she ever really does value her appearance like you assume. At most she realizes there’s more to life than survival, whether it’s because of her beau or not. He’s just one aspect she finds in life to make it worth living.

His writing group all but started as a DnD campaign.

Or we could just enjoy them as they are and not try to capitalize on them with low effort garbage.

Unfortunately they also come with scurvy 😔

“Yeah, we’re gonna do this new fangled form of piracy. It’s like the old way, but without the boats and parrots and stuff. We’re just stealing stuff now.”

…Pirate hardware?

Based on what I’ve heard of the internal structure of Valve, there’s a good chance he’s helped foster enough an environment of “doing what you love” that it’d survive him retiring/dying. Maybe not forever, but at least for a long while after he’s gone.

I think I have it on every game system I have, unless they released an N64 version…

By that logic, no media exists (and also always exists) as it occupies a superposition of both being on and not being on physical media.

What the fuck are you talking about? It’s both digital media and physical media. They can not exist without each other. The only difference being that physical media bought in a store is permanently stored on its own medium… and considering we’re talking about permanent storage anyways… what difference would that make?

That’s still physical media, though. Just one you “create” yourself. You could say “This isn’t a hunk of plastic, therefore I’m not contributing to e-waste”… but that only matters if you decide to throw away the game after making a copy.

Drives still fail eventually, just like disks and cards.

Well, apparently in your opinion, money is the only way to have effective change in the world. Any other attempt to do so will fail miserably.

This explains so much why actual voting numbers are so poor in the US…

Such as? Perhaps if you specified on what they’re getting a pass for people could be a little less blind.

As long as that house exclusively uses Linux.

They’ve gotta save that supply to feed the AI bubble, though.

Using AI to maximize his profits without people criticizing him for it.