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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any games I missed in the last 21 months?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Megabonk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always wear protection, folks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  WHAT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're going backwards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to Rome with my wife and stayed at an Airbnb thing. The guy who rented it to us looked like a mafia boss and wanted the payment in cash.

  But the apartement was actually really nice, and right in the middle of old Rome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accidental rapture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he also said that everybody can be redeemed if they start believing. Frankly speaking, I’d start believing pretty fucking fast if I saw/experienced direct evidence of their existence.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it seems to me that the nazis are being way better at self-improving their punching. At least here in northern europe, they frequently hold training camps with pretty rough practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To simplify things a bit: companies exist to make money, that’s their prime directive. Governments exist to make and enforce rules.

  If Steam is allowed to operate freely in Russia, the government is not doing its job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss Levis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean those normal jeans are still available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forever young⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real punchline is that that was 8 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forever young⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I tried to play CS, somebody politely (I thought) told me that perhaps I should play with bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. Protectionism was high, government-granted monopolies were typical. The British East India Company was the only company that was allowed trade with India and China from UK, for instance. The Dutch had something similary.

  Perhaps later though in late 1800s it was more like you described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?

  No, more like that actual monopolies are possible only by government coercion. Failure obviously doesn’t require that.

  And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?

  Yeah, that is true at least in the short term. Windows indeed had even larger percentages at some point, but eventually it has been chipped away by competition.

  I’m not calling free markets a magic tool that always works well. Rather a tool that needs to be controlled carefully and as little as possible for the best results. For instance, making Microsoft stop bundling IE with their operating system in the 90s, I’m not sure if that decision had any effect. Then again, EU declaring that mobile operators must adhere to certain rulesets opened up the market a whole lot. So it’s not just about following the best ideology, the details of decisions have to be good as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember that ever happening without government coercion. Can you refresh my memory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to fix it you need a new economic system.

  We could try free markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either not taxed enough or there’s almost no competition in the thing they do. And in a healthy free market, there should definitely be competition in a field that nets that much profits. The logical conclusion is that something is actively preventing the competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when Valve releases a phone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s the size of an iphone 13 mini or smaller, I’ll buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All is console, console is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Valve makes ARM Linux work properly as a gaming/desktop OS, I will uhh hmm.

  I will buy this thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Zero Sievert for anyone interested in the genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile nearly 60% of Windows Gmaes now run on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy 30-year old teenagers, perhaps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy edition:

  Bigger than you = nazis

  Richer than you = first ones against the wall

  Smarter than you = nazis

  Look better = conservatives aka nazis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot speak for anyone else, but a year ago I thought that I’d never buy a chinese laptop due to political reasons and here we are one year later and I have a Lenovo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the amount of publicity they’ve received from all this, I’m inclined to be a bit conspiracy theoretic about this… Did they plan it to unfold exactly like it did?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some are too young to understand ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a pretty bad relationship at one point in my life and I still don’t understand why the fuck anyone would think this shit is even remotely funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some or even most of their goals are good, but there’s what I believe to be a fringe that’s anarchist and anti-capitalist. Those fringes are against civilization essentially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Upselling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, companies like Valve are kinda like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the focus on growth is not the problem. The problem is leadership thinking that the individual has a significant role in how much they can create growth. The environment is much more significant.