Just for the sake of being fair, Steam does do one thing which is anticompetitive; they require publishers don’t sell their games for less than they do on Steam.

If you think about this for a moment you’ll realise it’s in the publisher’s best interest to agree to this.

One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

Looks like Please, Don’t Touch Anything on steroids

It’s hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they’re at all comparable

Games are art. I have full respect for an artist who does not compromise their vision for someone who refuses to engage with the art, on the artists terms.

A lot of people played The Witcher 3 and thought the combat was boring, but never spent time preparing for battle by considering which oils and potions to use - because they didn’t need to. They were playing on easy or normal.

These people robbed themselves of the experience of immersing themselves in the role of a Witcher, and turned each encounter into a button masher.

Imagine being a developer and seeing people shit on your game for ‘unengaging combat’.

Now, sure, you can make the argument that that’s just one element of The Witcher 3, and some people are playing for the story - and fair enough.

But there isn’t anything analogous in the Souls franchise. The gameplay IS bashing your head against a wall for ten hours. You don’t get to just turn down the difficulty, breeze through every boss on the first try, and claim the game is boring.

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Where’s my upstream explicit sync lads

“The veals”

I think they’re called calf’s until they leave the abattoir.

That’s why I use a microscope, since it’s so small.

Discharge though. Ew.

Paragraphs are your friends

While I agree with you, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it.

For what it’s worth, both sides of the vaccine debate need to make some concessions.

While the vaccines should have been taken by every healthy person to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, they didn’t deliver the promise of reducing transmission, only lowered the severity of illness (obviously still a good thing).

Also, the listed side effects, while being mild compared to the fullblown effects of covid, were not well understood and many people had symptoms like myocarditis after getting the Pfizer vaccine.

The other side, however, has a lot more concessions to make. The vaccines were nowhere near as dangerous as they claimed.

The claim that they were “experimental” is kind of interesting. It’s technically not true because they did have clinical trials. However, mRNA based vaccines were approved for the first time in many countries to immunise against COVID.

Many of these health regulators didn’t have the luxury of auditing these new styles of vaccine with their own establish policies and timelines.

My takeaway is this: Virologists say there will be another pandemic eventually, and COVID was a dress reversal.

As deadly as COVID was, it is very mild compared to some of the natural viruses we are aware of and could potentially hop species.

If we are to prepare for that, we need to iron this shit out before then. We cannot be bickering about whether it is against “muh freedom”. We need to be considerate of others, even at the expense of our comfort.

I meant in the event that you cannot cut the ring because it’s too strong.

At the risk of sounding like I have no idea what I’m talking about (because I don’t).

Couldn’t you perform a surgery to clamp the main vein, and then drain the blood out of the cock?

One of the mods banned be because of a disagreement. Don’t be surprised if I don’t reply after this (means I got banned again) So I’m replying here:

I guess we’re just talking past one another.

I am not talking about how represented Islamic terrorism is, at all - whether it is reported in the news or not, it’s besides any point I’m making.

It simply is a fact that murdering due to drawing cartoons is not a life or death matter for any other religious group (or any other claims, like Muhammad being a paedophile).

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For the uninitiated, my man wants to hide the paper clip inside their erect urethra

I mean… The child never saw who gave birth to them, so there’s that…

In my opinion, the best Godzilla movie was Shin Godzilla (I’ve heard Godzilla Minus One is GOAT but I haven’t seen it yet).

What made Godzilla interesting was the subtext.

Godzilla outside of Japan doesn’t make a lot of sense. Godzilla is explicitly a walking nuclear bomb.

In Shin Godzilla, Godzilla is defeated by a competent government, a fantasy we can all enjoy.