And yet, no non-Chinese alternative… Isn’t capitalism supposed to be good at filing voids left open? 🤔

“No you see I’m paying the 31 days price and you’re pocketing an extra 7 days every year, so I should be charging you for those days.”

Moar naked cats memes! MOAR!

Just install Bazzite this way you have the actual Linux flexibility and an OS made for PC.

There was no scenario in which this age difference wouldn’t make things awkward, but there’s scenarios where it would make things more awkward!

Had to buy the premium magic remote for my LG in order to have one that I know will keep working long term…

Exactly, I don’t know why people haven’t understood that yet, Grok is just another LLM, it doesn’t know shit, it doesn’t understand shit, it just regurgitates words from the data it’s been trained on and it certainly isn’t an insider at Shitter.

Stop asking Grok what the fuck Elon is doing

IT

DOESN’T

KNOW

Had a colleague that did it as a side gig and no matter how many times I told him to do it, he always refused to do the calculation to figure out how much he was making after expenses.

And then you listen to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (275 time signature changes)

Once a day? Hahahaha

That would save me a lot of time!

Dude, it’s a fucking meme, just read the text.

“Time off denied”

Character already is in the plane

The word “already” tells you everything you need to know, you just decide to overanalyze for some reason.

Look at the image again and work on that reading comprehension.

The OP is exactly that, the boss saying “I can’t accept your time off” and the person already being on the plane. Then I shared my anecdote of someone doing basically the same thing.

Yet I’m sure it doesn’t keep you from buying from Steam when games are only on there, right?

Don’t talk about wanting a free market if that’s not what you want.

How often do you hear about NFTs in games?

How often do you hear about lootboxes?

I’ll defend any alternative to Steam, you guys just like to focus on Epic.

Steam inventing lootboxes and facilitating underage gambling? Bah

Remember that time Valve was accessing people’s DNS cache to check what websites they had visited? Yeah, we don’t talk about that…

How about that 30% cut letting Gabe own a yacht… Collection! Just another friendly billionaire, nothing to worry about.

Who’s cock sucking here exactly? 🤔

Oh so a free market where companies can decide to sign exclusivity contracts isn’t ok but a free market where everything is released on the platform that you like is ok.

Sufficient consumer protection would see Valve being broken apart as a preventive measures because they’re in a position where they can sway the market any way they want and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Funny how you guys never talk about their monopolistic position in the market, right?

BuT tHeIr CrApPy LaUnChEr!

Try to come up with something a bit more original. You don’t give a crap about exclusives as long as they’re on the platform you like, it’s pure hypocrisy.

Piracy vs gifts aren’t the same thing.

That’s the thing though, you can make an excellent game and never recoup your cost just because you didn’t get the luck of the draw.

Do you know how many games released on Steam this year? 18k. How many did you hear about? How many were successful? How many were good but didn’t get the coverage they needed? Hell, sometimes you have indie games that will suddenly become successful years down the road. It’s. Just. Gambling.

Even for a well established company, sometimes one in the hand is worth two in the bush.

We see big studios that made successful games going bankrupt every year, don’t you think a studio like that would have loved to have an income guarantee so they could finish their next project instead of closing their doors?

The analogy I used makes more sense with indie games because I’m talking about having a job (small scale), but the same logic applies to companies.

A company like Lockheed Martin will do R&D to come up with new engines and hope to recoup their cost by selling the technology later on, they’ll also sign governmental contracts with guaranteed payments as the project moves forward. You need a mix of both.