Alleged though likely cases of just being a real shitty person to workers on stage. People off set have remarked she’s an asshole as well.

Education in one field doesn’t mean so in all. I still do some things that may be considered stupid, it’s just habitual at this point.

Ligma.

We’re fucked, the Earth is still going to be here for billions more years.

The people we wouldn’t like would scurry away from there the second things look bad, so no need to bomb it. Just have to hunt them down with boots on the ground really.

Purposely making code and behind the door deals to exclude any browser development or success for years does, yes.

Steam didn’t destroy ownership of games, scuzzy business practices in the entire industry did. It also affects non-gaming software, movies, most media actually. It wasn’t Valve going “Let’s remove ownership!” In fact it has crept into the physical realm with right to repair and subscription services in cars.

So is Netflix a monopoly then because it wiped out video rental stores? It wasn’t Valve alone again, it was a collusion in the video game industry to go all digital to maximize profit and not have to make concessions to retailers. That’s why they also tried their own platforms.

Edit: You are again mistaking a successful business in a capitalist society with monopoly. Monopoly is again, the manipulation of market forces and regulatory control. Not I just do business better.

Nope on Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v./_Microsoft_Corp. It was restricting the web browser market.

Point two, it’s if they also hamper competition or capabilities to compete. Steam, as shown in this thread and how it operates, hasn’t done that. Now you can give a good thumb of the nose at Epic for their paid exclusives, but that didn’t get them anywhere toward dominating a market. Also, competition exists in various forms as well. It’s not monopolized.

I hate monopolies and no friend of big companies, but come at them with the right cudgel, not made up dross.

Gabe Newell is still a billionaire and thusly a piece of shit. Just that one the list of billionaires he’s on the lower end of ones needing rectifying.

Yep, fair enough.

Don’t fucking scare me like that!

When I think of monopolies, I think more of telecomms, of Wal-Mart and their selling at a lose to kill off competition, Microsoft purposely hindering the ability for competing software, and other examples. Unless I’m missing something, Steam didn’t do that, they were just first in the game and built a better product than the others did. Offering a better service that attracted customers. Now do I think it’s too large and would welcome competition, absolutely. But monopolies typically aren’t though just having larger market share with a better product.

If Steam did something like oh, pay developers/publishers to be exclusive to their platform, then yeah you’d have a good argument there.

What’s it used for? We don’t know! Just that it’s rare and thus valuable!

More for the later myself. Though in the middle of the USA there’s still going to be vehicles and likely fossil fueled ones for a long time. We literally are still developing infrastructure for charging stations.

Not for this shit hole of a country government that has been the USA for a long ass time. I won’t go to jail either for evading it.

There’s your problem! Those things are made by the lowest bidder and offer poor reception. As well try putting his devices on a different wifi channel, too many devices on one channel clogs the channel and slows it down.

Your answer is right in the information you provided. For some further context as well, slavery is still legal in the USA prison system so people realized they could make money with it and private prisons are a thing. They have been found providing kick backs to judges for harsher sentences, especially for minorities.

Add in the USA we don’t believe in rehabilitation but brutality with our prisons. The mentality is punishment, not reintegration. So you go to jail, get brutalized, traumatized further and then dumped with a felony conviction that excludes you from most work. You’re lucky to get a job at McDonald’s because of it.

1. The multifaceted issues isn’t just low levels of gun control, but rising poverty, severity of poverty, and strong instances of institutional racism. That’s the tip of it. This country is inherently hostile to POC which leads onto…
2. If you think this fascist state issue is only Trump then you’re not paying attention and don’t talk to older POC in the USA. Legislation like the Mulford Act is only there to prevent POC from being able arm, protect, and police themselves from the violence of the police.
3. This is what gets me, people like you looking in with only a select view not seeing everything in this country. You see what you want to see and make a half-thought up conclusion. Not being white in this country is to have one inherently hostile for you and that marginalizes you. Realistically as well, most gun control is unevenly used against them as well, again refer to the Mulford Act.

Boy, I bet it’s that simple of a solution and not multifaceted of a problem. Not to mention I don’t think Australia is in the middle of a literal fascist take over, so you know, might as well disarm to be helpless, right? Seriously, the child like mentality of guns being bad when there’s social ills that plague society that results in more violence overall, not just gun violence, is annoying.

Gaming is the thing, I have kept my ear to the ground and gaming is much better than it was but it’s still a bit to go. I have a streaming laptop I no longer use, I may put Ubuntu or something on there. Test it out. I have some familiarity with Linux but my understanding the user experience has gotten a lot better since 10+ years ago.

Wish I could see the down votes for them, I only see favorites.