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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, its just that this was clearly a bullshit case.

  Disney and Nintendo are usually the ones with a bullshit or evil legal action. Valve is usually the target of because they’re very pro-consumer and thus hard to compete with.

  The exception of this is the whole gambling bullshit with CS2 skins, which Valve deserves to be legally scrutinized for. But as far as evil corporate bullshit, Valve is extremely tame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered what’s specifically going on their minds when that happens. I remember getting into shooters and pretty much immediately understanding the two separate axes in Duke Nukem 3D at like age 7-8 (yeah I played violent games when I was young my parents only restricted movies). Maybe that’s why? My brain was just better able to learn at that age? Or is it that I am autistic? Is neurology a factor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although I do miss interesting control schemes, everything is almost homogenous now and quite boring.

  I don’t at all. And I cherish the fact that I can rebind old inputs at will with Steam Input + emulators.

  I rebinded the controls of Armored Core 1 so it played with modern shooter controls. Made it so much better and intuitive and now I wonder if the only reason I sucked at the game back in the day was because of its archaic control scheme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am not mistaken, you have to shoot tannerite to cause it to go off. So unless the owner in this case is shooting guns in their house it seems pretty likely this wont go off and harm them, but someone who’s likely to shoot an armed civilian for not putting their gun down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  6 cancellations and 7 delays? That’s an omen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue isn’t talking to women. The issue is talking to people you are attracted to.

  I’m bi but I’m not attracted everyone. And I can tell you it takes a lot more from me to talk to someone I’m attracted to and I don’t think I could easily just be normal friends with someone I badly want to fuck and just have normal conversations with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People say that about food, music/dancing, and stories because they are the least antagonistic thing they could bring up while boasting about their culture. Its the least likely to get attacked as well, its a non-controversial aspect they can sing the praises of and its something easily shared

  If they bring up their cultural religion, values, politics, philosophy, or social dynamics, suddenly things can become an area of controversy and even ethical debate. Most people are too fragile or cowardly to investigate that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some delicious evil.

• PayPal Removed From Steam in Several Countries Regarding Content Concerns, Says Valve
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only up to a point, fossil fuels getting cheaper will reach a point where it wont be worth extraction outside of for niche customers.

  If renewables become plentiful and cheap enough globally fossil fuels will more or less die off in use, even if right now they're going upward in use its temporary. The problem is we're stuck with severe consequences even if they do eventually largely stop. We're stuck with severe consequences if they stop this very instant in fact.

  What we really want is renewable energy to become so cheap and plentiful that not only do fossil fuels stop being used but carbon capture technology's high energy cost becomes null and it just becomes a net good. ATM the technology is useless because the high energy cost ends up just putting more co2 into the air anyway than is removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working Overtime at the Disease Factory⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be way too curious to do that. How does someone that stupid even function? Lets find out.