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- Comment on Why is Amazon Prime overpriced in the Anglosphere demographic? 12 minutes ago:
You’re not paying for just the video service (at least in the US), prime is primarily their free 2-day shipping plan. The streaming was always just kind of an extra that was included with that
- Comment on Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. 1 day ago:
make much of a difference in their personal wealth
There’d be no use in mentioning it if it was a tiny amount. One doesn’t bemoan the state of the economy and eye transitioning their funds into gold if they’re talking about a single oz…
- Comment on Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. 2 days ago:
Why does this person have enough money in a saving account that buying gold with it instead would make much of a difference in their personal wealth?
They’re losing far more to inflation than they are risking being stolen by some ai chatbot.
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 2 days ago:
The photons from the h must have been delayed due to their mass doubling.
- Comment on Yard Sale 3 days ago:
Seeing signs and being able to read the important part (which is located at the bottom of this sign, so the last thing that gets read)are two different things.
- Comment on Yard Sale 3 days ago:
Relying on your intended audience to reattempt an intersection to read your sign is not a great business plan.
- Comment on Yard Sale 3 days ago:
Funny, but too many words to read while passing it going 35…
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 days ago:
But did you notice because of the smell? Or because your head was on fire?
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 days ago:
I dunno. I’m just having trouble conceptualizing any kind of scenario that could happen with enough frequency to cause this trait to be selected for.
I think it’s more likely that the chemicals in hair just happen to smell bad when burnt. Those chemicals may have been filtered for other reasons.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 days ago:
The premise here was that they noticed in time to not die… So, yes?
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 days ago:
How often were people catching on fire and not noticing that this would cause any kind of selection criteria?
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 6 days ago:
Because they let you say false shit with impunity?
- Comment on Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers 1 week ago:
I cancelled my whole Live sub, which had been uninterrupted since it was in beta.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Literally no one but you has talked about breaking up/destroying the company.
Price fixing is what these lawsuits are all about. 4 of them now, that I’m aware of.
That’s the behavior being pushed against here. You’d have known that of you read the article. Or any of the others in the past few months as these come out. You should be against that. But your playing the ignorant just asking questions game as interference for the perpetrator instead.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
You right here. Blindly defending them.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Defending a company with multiple unrelated entities suing them over the same thing, including non competitors, before they’ve been proven to NOT be doing that thing is very stupid.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
A court case with zero evidence doesn’t last 2 years…
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
They’re still working their way through the courts.
One of them is over two years old, though, so it’s not just a clout chaser blowing hot air based on absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
First, Stopping a monopoly from doing monopolistic things isn’t the same as breaking up the monopoly…
Holding the biggest player accountable for shitty behavior sets a precedent that you’ll keep the rest from doing it, too.
Arguing that any other business would do the same thing in defense of this shitty action, doesn’t help anyone.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Their TOS require non sale price parity with other stores that sell steam keys.
Nothing else. They’ll still threaten to delist your game for seeking it cheaper on sites outside that scenario, hence the multitude of lawsuits.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Limited time sales is not what’s being talked about. Those are allowed.
It’s the regular pricing. A game listed on steam needs to make up for their 30% cut. Some other sites take a smaller cut. But multiple game companies have found that trying to list their games on non-steam key selling websites, for less money (because they don’t have to make up for as big a cut) are getting threatened to have their games removed from Steam for doing so. This is well outside any clause in Steam TOS, and would be illegal even if it was covered.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
They won’t. They’re here to blindly defend a multi billion dollar company despite it actively costing them more money.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Yes, but all the valve fanboys will argue anyone who mentions the multiple price fixing lawsuits (which are not related to using steam key sellers, but they’ll endlessly post that TOS clause anyway) against Valve into oblivion.
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 1 week ago:
Yeah but then you won’t get to experience the bland ass generic as fuck attempt to milk the fable franchise whose dev team apparently never bothered to even look at a picture of the originals
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 1 week ago:
I mean, the whole concept of the standard deduction is based around exactly that. It’s way to low to actually be that, but that’s the intent.
- Comment on A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds 1 week ago:
I’m sure that’s what they told themselves.
- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 1 week ago:
The CEO is an LLM shill. So, none. They’ll pivot to their “ai”, then crash and burn because the mbas don’t understand that the tech they keep pushing doesn’t work
- Comment on Fable - 30 Minute Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life 1 week ago:
Wow, they took an IP with a vibrant recognizable art style, and COMPLETELY ABANDONED that for a generic ass looking bland medieval setting…why?
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT – Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
A Gundam game that looks… Not like shit? Interesting