Tepid take: The only people calling Steam a monopoly are the loser competitors who can’t find a more extortive business model that will actually compete in their quest to syphon wealth out of the gaming ecosystem. Also ‘news’ outlets that are being paid to assert this narrative, and dumbshit reactionaries who believe those narratives. Sorry Epic CEO, you can’t cry and shit your pants into forcing a successful company to make room and give you a cut. The market will ony respond to a better product here, and Epic ain’t it. EA learned this lesson with their shit-ass Origin product years ago, brand loyalty takes a long time to build and is a powerful variable, and steam is good at not fucking with the gamers, or at least only within parameters of acceptability, it appears.

Ah but they’re not testing it, they’ve already impletmented it. Not technically a lie! Classic corpospeak.

Cool, but you see how that’s still a deep condemnation of tRump and the Whitehouse admin for letting that happen right? There’s no letting either of those greedy soulless criminals throw the other under the bus, they’re both getting run over or justice isn’t real. This also goes for politicans who have enabled this regime and the corrupt memebers of the US supreme court who made this all possible. This IS a rico case whether people want to admit it or not, the alternative is pretending like it was all this one guy and letting the Republicans slink into the shadows to play nice and bide their time for another 40 years. Prosecution and jail terms are the ONLY way to even pretend to still mantain a representative democracy and justice system.

‘Strains’ Umm, what part of cease is confusing here? They bombed, the fire has definitinally not ceased, this language matters, the deal is broken, not strained; and again, as always, the IDF and Isreali leadership ‘negotiating’ these agreements were the first to violate it. Just say Isreal is not honouring these ceasefires, and never had any intention to, it’s a strategy for them and is more of a “you don’t fight back” treaty.

Let them go, with this leadership having them part of NATO when they ideologically oppse it only gives them power to damage it from within, it is clear tRump is more aligned with Putin, and that makes him an implicit threat to stability. Eject US based on their leadership under existing rules, or create new ones to do it, and tell them they can reapply when they get someone rational in power.

Yeah, furiously shitting their pants and screeching as they destroy the country for optics and glazing pedoligarchs. Media outlets should stop treating these ideological terrorists like a real party, but they’re owned by the same oligarchy. Oh well.

Do the shareholders know? I mean actually though, are they watching? How do these CEOs not get removed for annihilating company futures based on speculative bubbles? Microslop is having the exact same issue with their guy… Can they just not see it somehow? How are they being bamboozled?

I agree with you, I fully support whatever mechanism that can handle and managed to provided the best path to success and exact the most pain and punishment to these companies in the name of restoring the most victims of their ongoing crimes. I assumed that was class action but I’m all for a million separate trials too, however that happens.

CLASS ACTION NOW! Gut these psychotic corporations that are experimenting on our fucking minds in real time, and nationalize their digital infrastructure so it can be run for the betterment of society rather than the profits of shareholders. Make us all the stakeholders in what can be a transformational tool for social good if freed from endless technoligarchical greed.

I appreciate this and we all need to embrace the mentality, and also you can’t always be there to prevent them, they have friends they get exposed regardless, and there has to be something preventing this happening beyond just you, especially given the company has more than enough resources to make their product safer. We are FAR too complicit about this, they enjoy SO much grace it’s absolutely unacceptable, and it’s all by choice, we ought to hate these companies a lot more.

I think there’s blame enough to fall on both neglectful parents and an irresponsible behemoth of a company that absolutely can afford to invest in preventing this shit, but chooses not to because profits, of which there can never be enough, no matter how many children must be fed into the wood chipper.
I’m a bit tired of people completely ignoring the company’s responsibilities in the profit making agreement with societies. We can absolutely make them do better, even if they squeal and whine about losing some tiny fraction of a percentile of infinite growth, which they will, every single time. Regulation has always been this way, cause you can’t always blame the people/users for not knowing better, it won’t stop people from being harmed which at the end of the day is the issue regardless of who is 100% at fault. That’s while ignoring the hundreds of millions of dollars invested by that company specifically into making the product as addictive as imaginably possible, which I’d argue changes the dynamic quite a lot.

Canadian Conservatives keep propping up PP, they can shut the fuck up about what they want.

People have to stop asking me to meet this fictitious bigot, the answer will always be no.

How tf is it detached when it’s showing his smug face? Why it is bad is that you are giving him attention through its use when there’s literally millions of other memes that would actually make you point better, free from the context associated with that guy, why are you defending it so hard? MANY PEOPLE DO know who he is, but you are for some reason only talking about those who don’t? Weird.

I’ll assume you don’t know cause it’s a common format and was very popular for years, but it depicts a guy who made a fortune going to college campuses to demand people change his mind on topics in bad faith so he could berate and harass college students and espouse bigoted viewpoints as an allegedly intellectual adult man. He also was abusive toward his pregnant wife and is a nepo-baby who flaunts his privilege explicitly to troll. If this is someone you knowingly want to bring attention to I advise you reflect on your own beliefs and understanding of what society is because he’s wrong and an asshole.

Always downvote steven crowder.

No, I don’t think I will.

Sure, that’s why so many people are calling it world war epstein right? This article is pure, concentrated cope. The only strategy they have is telling you you aren’t thinking about something, which by the way makes you think about that thing. So… mission accomplished?

Forgive me for not believing one unaccountable analyst. I still see and hear people talking about the files all around me constantly.

“Oh Geeze Bibi…”

“Don -wet belch Don’t be a pussy Donny”

I’m confident that’s exactly how it played out in reality.