Yeah, you’re completely missing the point.

I don’t care what you believe, but you seem to be completely missing the point.

I’ve been there already. Surviving without all that for years. You can thank 2008 for that.

There are negative events in the world that have significant impact on people’s lives, with worsening effects the longer it is ignored.

The pill you’re proposing would probably get massively endorsed by the wrong people, as it would make whole populations into happy complacent little workers for those at the top.

It would be something… Violent. Can’t change the system to be better by using the system. Gotta destroy it first, and there will be… so much resistance against that.

But to make life better for the majority, action will have to be covert. None of that terrorist shit with shock, awe, destruction of public spaces, and the loss of civilian life. No names, no titles, no spotlight, no ego.

Making life better for the majority will also be a lifetime career, and the resulting world that will hopefully be built from such action would not be for me to live in, but future generations.

I say all this as some random guy on the Internet, but… One can dream. For now I’ll settle with my job as an active trade unionist.

“Bug fixes” can have a double meaning here…

Just did a cursory search on what goth culture is, what it stands for, and so far only found explanations that are incredibly vague/none-conclusive, or like Wikipedia focus entirely on metrics, but not on what it means.

So… Uh… Good luck to anyone else trying to learn what “goth” actually is outside of the established tropes or those cool guys that sacked Rome.

That’s so weird, because Trump essentially cut funding to NASA and now the Artemis Program is completely in jeopardy. But even have to be cancelled altogether.

Buzz Aldrin voted for that.

Americans still don’t know what communism is.

Yay, yet another once in a lifetime financial crisis.

Nobody at the company probably ever used one of those pens. They broke or got stuck way more easily than just a regular pen. Which… Is honestly a pretty apt comparison for AI.

It’s fine to do your own thing if it effects nobody else.

I already have Total War Warhammer III. Etrian Odyssey is not the kind of RPG I like. The Dino farming game seems very… Juvenile.

You know, out of all of these I might only have a use or be interested in, the crab Dark Souls game. Very weak month.

And yet, no one party has all the power. A party is always forced to make a coalition to form a government, and we’ve seen how the right wing is woefully incompetent at doing that.

But Steam isn’t a walled garden, or a monopoly.

Valve has done nothing that monopolistic corporations have done (i.e. Disney or Nintendo). They have kept themselves relatively small, private, and focused on providing one service really well.

Every other competition has only ever tried approaching what Valve does with Steam with shortcuts and quick money grabs.

It’s all fine and dandy to cry and complain about monopolies, but nobody even really tried. Epic’s store was, and still is, a laughing stock. That is what Valve is up against.

You put value in a like-dislike ratio and you think you can educate me?

You haven’t proven me wrong, you’re just another brainlet preaching to a choir of people who seem to be adamant at painting Valve as having a monopoly.

I mean, everyone has their preferred little dillusions, I guess, but an argument of popularity fallacy doesn’t make you right.

Very smart. You learned how to repeat words written in books. You’re probably very proud of yourself.

You still don’t know what a monopoly is, however, considering this is a discussion about Valve and Steam.

But keep trying.

You do not understand what a monopoly is.

It’s a free market, right? Customers choosing what they prefer and all that? And then eventually the one that provides the best price-for-service ratio comes out on top? Something like that, right?

If you want to stop Steam from being so ubiquitous with PC gaming, then create some proper competition. The only one that comes close in my eyes is GOG.

There is no open world that is too big. They can only be too small.

However, the quality of an open world is not predicated on the size of the open world, but rather what is actually in it.

And this doesn’t mean that open worlds must be drowning in content, as the quality of the content itself also matters, and certain worlds that are large and empty can still be interesting due to its traversal being good, or the sandbox nature of a large empty world.

Some of the worst examples of open worlds are the kind that are just filled with isolated little fetch quests; busywork that’s all marked on the map with no element of organic exploration. Or the kinds of open worlds where nothing actually happens “organically” without the player starting it.

The best kinds of open worlds are the ones that emphasise exploration and/or have background systems governing the world in some way (i.e. factions that interact with each other without the explicit involvement of the player).