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I can be controversial or annoying because I always require proof and facts for whatever people are saying/claiming. This has gotten me into a lot of heated debates, even got myself banned from "YouShouldKnow" for saying I need more proof of Israeli's genocide (that was long ago, got more proof and changed my mind). If I do not agree on some subjectively obvious topic, please do not assume I'm being unfriendly, evil or a troll. I do try my best to approach any subject with neutral and open mind. Just call me autistic with OCD

  • They are the worst

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  • I've always found this awkward because I stare at tits but they assume I'm reading their shirt

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    Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Alleges Altman Showed ‘Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life’

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  • Funny because I implied it's the oligarchs doing this. As they were visiting China, OpenAI was fighting lawsuits from that group.

    Now, ask yourself - Why Florida?

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  • I mean, there is only other platform that functions like steam (Epic store) because GoG focuses on DRM-free games, which is better than Steam pushing for DRMs.

    That being said, Epic lowered the fees and showed steam what's a reasonable tax (I'm sure you've heard about Epic v Apple). Sure, they're not as feature rich as they're quite new, but you cannot deny the fact that both GoG and Epic does some things that are great for us, customers.

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  • They chose to sue the most mild AI company out there instead of the ones literally generating child porn and suggesting to poison yourself? Interesting, but I smell Elon's influence in this suit as he's been trying hard to ruin OpenAI

    EDIT: Please don't tell me we have Elon's defenders here

  • Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

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  • No, from unaffordable to unavailable. I'm increasingly having a harder time to find anything in stock. The SSD market is becoming a Sahara desert. Most GPUs aren't even in stock even with the ridiculous prices. AMD is currently re-viving 5800x3d, can't even find one where I live.

    EDIT: Note that I'm talking about my own location and stores, which were always stocked of everything (somewhere in Baltics), now everything seems to be running dry

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  • Correction: Steam has the largest market share because for majority of it's existence, it had no competition. It already became a standart before others appeared. That being said, Valve has increasingly become evil during the past decade. I was fully on board with supporting valve, but not fixing fees, supporting and defending gambling, inventing subscription passes, supporting in-app purchases, abandoning games and not using their ridiculous money to develop things people want like Half-Life 3 (don't even get me started on TF2 mess, almost entire community holds grudge against Valve for enshittifying it like a corporation that only cares about profits). Sure, Valve also does some things that are great for gamers, but I feel like it's our duty as a society to keep these companies in check, otherwise it's a slippery slope where if they're no longer being held accountable for shitty things they do, it will become a normality.

    I'm seeing some parallels to Elon Musk where everyone was praising him as an anti-corporate dude who's going to save everyone from oil or whatever, while few guys were screaming about red flags they're seeing, but everyone ridiculed them

  • The Taliban Is Offering Internships in Germany

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  • Why Germany? Seems like Germans are getting really tired of everything-Islam and immigrants. This is why far-right is winning. Why not France or UK?

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  • You're probably the first person I've heard say Steam has bad customer support.

    Steam customer support was a fucking meme back in my day. You also got oceans of videos like these: https://youtu.be/kE0QtkTNUqk

    How do they in any way dictate prices? Ubisoft are free to sell their game for half the price on their store front if they want to.

    I.. are we speaking English? Do you simply refuse to read and get new information? I mean, sure, they can, but they will get angry emails from Valve Corporation and threats of suspended sales, no pre-orders, etc., because that's what a near monopoly does to further cement their position on the market, and I don't even want to think about the future with different CEO and valve having basically grown into the next google or microsoft with Gabe long gone

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  • I don't think you understand what this is about.

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    Uplay featured a $15 USD Rainbow Six Siege Starter Pack, but this version was not available on Steam, making the cheapest option on Valve's platform much more expensive. It's claimed Valve insisted Ubisoft swiftly remedy the discrepancy, giving the publisher "until the end of day tomorrow" to change that.

    This isn't about keys and devs abusing the system, but competition and monopoly.

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  • Generous refund policy

    Added it after a lawsuit regarding steam not wanting to properly process refunds. Epic has it better automated and GOG processes refunds regardless of your hours if you have technical difficulties, so in my eyes Steam is in the last place.

    Unparalleled customer support

    Steam support is commonly regarded as non-existing. The only times I needed it, I got automated replies and my issue was not solved.

    Actively working towards wider support and accessibility, i.e. SteamOS, Steam Deck, and their runnable-verification markings.

    Making your product accessible is just business. I don't really use any of that stuff since I'm only on PC.

    Definition of Monopoly according to Merriam-Webster:

    This is one of those words where definitions vary, but generally if a company has such a large market share/power that they can dictate prices and set rules that affect other platforms/competition, then that's monopoly/near monopolies. Valve Corporation does this.

    all they're guilty of is setting policies in favor of the consumer.

    Riiight, because ripping off gamers and devs with 30% cut (a cut that stayed from physical discs and times when 100gb HDD costed 5000eur) is so in favor of the users. The whole gambling thing and mystery boxes was also done to promote ethics to children, right?

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  • Please read the article.

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  • nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5

    And Valve didn't create PC. What a bizzare argument.

    we're talking gaming, of which pc is a niche

    What a bizzare argument. Nearly half is "niche"? Shrinking?

    You people become weird when defending corporations.

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  • Are we not talking about PC market? Steam is a PC platform. What are you even talking about then? Steam market share on PS5?

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  • There are many buyers or sellers, but one actor has enough market share to dictate prices (near monopolies)

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  • It's 75-79.5% depending on what data you use. Quite a big mistake on your part.

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  • Valve allegedly threatened to delist all editions of Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft offered a cheaper option on its Uplay store.

    Yeah.

    Because it violates their policy.

    And that policy only exists because monopoly enables them to set anti-trust/anti-competitive practices and further cement their position by ruining competition's chances.

    Imagine there's a huge fuel station that's so big they essentially set rules towards suppliers that they can't offer their gas to other stations at a cheaper price otherwise they can't sell it in their station with 95% market share.

    If you don't see a problem with this as a customer, then don't forget to support your local billionaire by paying a 30% fee for each game purchase (and that 30% cut also exists due to no one being able to take on steam, ridiculous amount of money).

    I'm slowly getting tired of gamers defending Gabe like he's Jesus when in reality valve is a corporation doing corporation things.

    EDIT: Billionaires have became rich in 100% ethical ways, they do not overcharge, they do not abuse their market position, they most definitely don't bribe Microsoft and other entities, etc. Now give upvotes, redditors

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  • Step 1) Declare war upon your "enemy" (friend, like Putin)

    Step 2) Say the war is unsustainable

    Step 3) Officially pay Russia billions of billions of dollars

    And y'all said he's stupid

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  • Programming.dev instance only

  • The walls have ears

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  • I have, repeatedly, because it's not the first time I hear of this, only once did something similar to what I was saying appeared. Sounds like a coincidence to me.