Ænima

Your own, personal one!

Wow, that title was a rollercoaster!

I mean, people tattoo with phosphorous (I think it was phosphorous) to get glow in the dark tattoos and that shit’s a carcinogen! People gonna people.

It is a 2014 Ford Escape. But this is not the only experience of this sort that I’ve had with Ford.

It’s worse when you consider the state of the world and the warming. They’d have about 20 sq\km of land capable of supporting them and they’d have to share it with those psychos, polar bears.

The worst* make of cars is now hoping to fuck over their consumers even more.

* can’t change the fucking battery unless you take half the fucking engine area apart.

I’ll switch when Windows 10 is no longer supported. Or just before.

Wrong comment, sorry.

The last '20s sucked also. All of this has happened before, and it’ll all happen again, but this time with ads and AI!!

Wonder if the cables replaced by OP were user-made, not commercial cables, that were our together incorrectly.

That’s the same for any digital platform, though. Literally, any gaming store except for GOG won’t let you take your library with you. You don’t own the game as far as any of them are concerned. You’re claiming Steam is some kind of monster because their platform for games you don’t own is better than other platforms for games you don’t own. Because their platform doesn’t sucks, it earns them a lot of business. That’s it. That’s the magic sauce.

With options, if Stream sucked, people would go elsewhere.

If Steam had anything resembling a monopoly they’d do everything they could to remove platforms offering the same games. The number of platforms has only expanded since they started.

If Stream was a monopoly, they’d not only undercut others, they’d pay for exclusivity rights. Steam let’s developers sell their own keys from anywhere the developer wants, while taking no cut when that happens, even though Steam still has to front the bandwidth and storage for the game to be played.

If Steam was a monopoly, they’d buy up smaller firms, buy businesses with similar, but competing services, or take another company’s product, reverse engineer it, and make their own undercutting the original. They’ve done the opposite at every turn.

You really don’t understand monopolistic tactics. You’re not going to understand it, either, since you’ve continues to conflate good business decisions that earn trust and adoption with anti-consumer practices. Steam makes good business decisions, listens to their customers and developers about ways to make the service or products better, and has more business because of it. They have a better product without stooping to the air a in lot of current businesses are pulling.

That’s it. 70% market dominance doesn’t fucking matter. They could have 90% and it still wouldn’t be a monopoly with their current strategy. Other businesses need to suck less.

You’re either a troll, extremely young, naive, and/or uneducated if you think my comment above is in defense of billionaires. I literally have comments in my history to the absolute opposite*. What I’m “defending” is the definition of a monopoly when it comes to business practices; of which Valve has exuded none of the behavior of.

You think any business doing well, providing quality goods and services, not being anti-consumer, and being the most trusted platform for gaming as a result is the definition of a monopoly. Again, you use fallacy to try and argue a point.

Wait… Are you that dickhead from Epic who pays for exclusivity rights, steaks user data from Steam files, or something? I could see that guy being pissed at Steam for seemingly no reason.

* one such comment, if I recall, is about how much I hated Steam when it first came out for killing LAN parties by locking down CD keys.

You really gotta aim your sights higher if that’s the criteria you’re using for a “monopoly”. Valve is a private company, that sells games and other “wants”, not “needs”. If people can’t afford games, without losing their house or struggling to eat, I don’t think that’s a company’s fault.

If Valve was even close to using anti-competitive methods to maintain market dominance, you’d be correct. However, a company having superior quality products and making good business decisions is not a basis or definition of a monopoly. They just make good decisions and provide quality products that people want and enjoy.

Instead of using strawman and false equivalency fallacies, try taking a look at what really constitutes anti-competitive practices.

You joke but I read they may get out of this without issue due to a TOS entry about them not being responsible. They’ll still get dragged from shareholders and the government, but only a handful of large companies may be able to recoup some of those damages from the company itself.

It’s like the Sackler’s and the opioid epidemic from a different industry!

I bet the Onion had an article about Crowdstrike offering the world a pizza party and expired Bed Bath & Beyond coupons to say they’re sorry. Real life might be quicker than satire, it seems!

Email!!!

I’ve heard a lot about Rust. I’ll have to look into it. I hate myself so my preferred language is PowerShell.

In the cat and mouse game, the cat can adjust tactics but the mice eventually figure out an alternative route. I’m sure they will find a way with this. Either that or a lot of people will just stop watching YouTube, I’d imagine.

I’d imagine YouTube subtracts the ad length from posted timestamps when clicking a link containing one. But we are taking about Google, soooooo…