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- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 16 hours ago:
ManBearPig
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 day ago:
oh hello Epic
Steam literally did it first.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 days ago:
By striking exclusively deals with publishers for digital distribution and using it for DRM for physical releases.
And now that generation that allowed that say to the next that Steam is the default.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 days ago:
Valve only has a good reputation because for generations of G*mers it’s the default option.
They have been indoctrinated into Steam’s system.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 days ago:
Spent a decade saying refunds weren’t possible until the EU told them to wise up. And even then it’s the bare minimum.
Selling broken and abandoned games.
Entering deals with publishers to force physical copies of the game to use Steam. Making the disc worthless.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 days ago:
And that excuses Valve?
You brainwashed sheep.
All ways got to bring up another company that COPIED Valve as an excuse for glazing Lord GabeN balls.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 4 days ago:
Lol
Greenlight Early access Gambling economy Microtransactions Segmenting games to be sold as parts.
Fuck off with that shit.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 4 days ago:
Are brainwashed G*mers finally going to see Valve for the monopolistic anti-consumer sack of shits they are.
Looks at comments
I guess not.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
Just stick a Valve logo on it.
Call it Steam Vapour or some shit and all the G*mers would eat it up.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
THEY WHY THE FUCK DID YOU FUCKING VOTE FOR HIM THEN
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 3 weeks ago:
Bit of both. More on the indi/hobby side of things though.
- Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 3 weeks ago:
There were several online digital distribution platforms around at the turn of the millennium that shut down because of Valve’s underhanded tactics.
The same ones people bring up when complaining about the epic store
- Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 3 weeks ago:
How dare you mock Lord Gaben. He didn’t monopolise digital distribution and is now trying with hardware for the third time for nothing.
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 3 weeks ago:
Sure as shit ain’t sushi
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 3 weeks ago:
Behold. A toast
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 weeks ago:
I know it’s not the point.
But spitting on Scotland and Northern Ireland like that is a bit harsh.
- Comment on Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"- 4 weeks ago:
G S Dub.
It’s also shorter to write.
- Comment on Karl Pilkington was a mainstream “lolcow” 4 weeks ago:
actor acts
Lemmites: What is this real?
- Comment on If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse. 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t a shower thought. It’s a pizza cutter being all edge and no point.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
G*mers are a joke, yes.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
I am so chill.
You’re the one getting upset.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 weeks ago:
Americans are slowly learning about the rest of the world.
Better late than never.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
That suggests I think of G*mers as people.
I don’t.
Pretty simple really.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 4 weeks ago:
Read the fucking book
Please read the fucking book
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
I’m thinking of them being below me.
Which they are.
troglodytes, the lot of them.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
Because I would rather not degrade myself by thinking of G*mers as people.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
People whose entire personality and identity revolves around gaming.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
That’s not going to stop G*mers trying to act smug while showing how clueless they really are.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
Treating their assumptions about others as facts.
Being Northern Irish I see this a lot. Always about The Troubles, Political Identity, and the modern working of Northern Ireland.
When Michelle O’Neill became First Minister all the plastic Paddy’s came out the woodwork to say that Ireland would be united in 5 years time.
Despite Unionists still holding the majority of seats, the larger share of votes, and British being the most popular political identity.
- Comment on GTA's Ned Luke gets swatted for the 8th time while streaming with Red Dead's Rob Wiethoff: "there's so many douchebags out there, Rob" 4 weeks ago:
Dude. They have to treat it as a serious call. ITS THEIR FUCKING JOB.
They can’t just go “here’s a call about an active shooter. It’s probably just a prank call”
And if they did. YOU WOULD BE RIGHT THERE IN THE COMMENTS FUCKING COMPLAINING THAT THEY DON’T TREAT ALL CALLS AS SERIOUS.
they know it,
Not until they send someone fucking over there they don’t. Unless they started hiring fucking Mystic Meg.
