Cethin

There’s a lot of types of sex. Every one of them has a name. Even the “default” of PIV sex has a name.

I’ve had a long-winded discussion about that a few days ago. Yes, 12% would be great for devs, but guess what, 0% would be even better.

Yes, 0% would be better. What’s your point? Valve is charging 30%. That’s worse than 12%, correct? It’s better. Why do people like you always have to defend what a company does all the time?

Steam takes care of the entire e-commerce and distribution side, which is very expensive. Just look up what publishers used to take back in the day for taking over game distribution, that was like 70%. Not exactly a time you want to go back to as indie dev.

No one is saying we want to go back to that. Them being better than that does not make them good. Hitler killed a smaller percentage of the population than Genghis Khan, but that doesn’t make Hitler not evil, right?

If you think a 12% cut would be viable, idk. However, epic just recently laid off 1000 people so idk how financially successful that company currently is.

They make an incredible amount of money. Their employees are extremely generously rewarded. This means the 30% is well over what is required. I can’t give a number of what they need, and neither can you. Notably, the Epic layoff was for Fortnite, because of a reduction in players, not the Epic store team. It has nothing to do with distribution or engine development. Even still, Fortnite was profitable. It was just less profitable.

Why do we have to defend every action Valve takes? Why can’t we criticize them? Why does anyone still have loyalty to any corporation in the modern day? That was a fairy tale that I thought people here were over.

I’m a Linux gamer. I appreciate what they’ve done. I’ve been on Steam for I don’t even know how long at this point. That sure as hell doesn’t mean I’m not going to point out what they do that’s wrong. If anything, it should be the opposite. I don’t want them to become bad, so I need to call out when they’re doing the wrong thing.

You can agree that this is great without being stupid. 12% would be great for developers. This is great for consumers. They’re different things. It’d be nice for Steam to take less of the developer’s money. I hope you can agree with that.

Because you disagree you think I have no idea. You didn’t engage with my argument. You just assume you’re correct and tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. Based on your logic, why shouldn’t we mark posts with swear words as NSFW?

Again, and this will be the last time I try to draw such a map for you, the whole point of the NSFW label is to communicate to people in all possible workplaces that certain content might be risky to view in said workplace

And this is my point. All possible workplaces means we have to mark everything NSFW. To use the example again, swear words can be seen as bad by some people. Any post with them we should mark NSFW by your logic. No, NSFW is not for all possible workplaces. It’s for the average one. The average one is not going to take umbrage with this.

Well, their religion is centered around a Jew. If you want to do as Jesus would have done then you celebrate the Jewish traditions.

A word of advice to anyone, this one isn’t happening unless he dies (which isn’t that unlikely). If the midterms go well, he’ll be gone, but not that soon.

I still don’t agree that it should be NSFW. What workplace would have an issue if you had an anatomy textbook on your desk, for example? You see this as being vulgar, at the same level as watching someone get hit by a car, as an example. I fundamentally disagree. This is purely scientific. Even for entertainment, I don’t think we should NSFW art with nudity, for example. That’s absurd. Porn? Sure. Equating all nudity with porn is the same as equating this with extreme gore.

Even that, a dedicated player can capture it. If it has to be rendered on the device then they have access to the assets.

Because it’s roughly in the same class as extreme gore, even if produced for a very different, educational purpose. I think there are likely plenty of workplaces where having the equivalent of extreme gore visible on your device would be a problem.

I can somewhat understand not wanting to see it, but it literally is not gore. There is zero gore in image. Gore specifically refers to blood.

I don’t think this should be marked NSFW though. There’s a lot of things people can argue they don’t want to see. Some might not want to see swear words, for example. It doesn’t mean we need to censor everything for them. This is tame and should not really be upsetting for an adult. It’s no worse than what you’d see in an anatomy book. It’s not reveling in this person death, or anything like that. It’s just organs.

Although that still never totally protects it. I’ve seen a fair few number of passionate game communities bring online-only games back from the dead by reverse engineering the server architecture. It’s a lot of work, but if you know how the software is supposed to function then you can write the other half of the software that gives the response to make that work.

With an impact like this, it’s probably more correct to say that the impact of Thea and Earth formed two bodies, that we now call Earth and Luna (the moon). Earth has a lot fo Thea and the thing formerly known as Thea has a lot of Earth. They basically become two liquids impacting and swirling around. The cores are largely the same, but the sarfaces are a bit of a mix.

That’s not how that works. An order can be legal whether these attacks are legal, extra-legal, or illegal (they’re extra-legal or legal). Congress has given the president power to perform some military actions without their approval. Their approval is needed to declare war, and they’re required to be notified of the president taking certain actions (which they weren’t at the start, making what the president did illegal, but not the soldiers).

This isn’t defending the actions. This is only a statement of fact, letting you and others know you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about when you use this saying. Yes, they can (in fact, they must) refuse illegal orders, but that doesn’t mean what you’re implying.

Great name for the Halo jeep thing. Horrible name for a jet.

There is a reason, if it’s just some guy in a hoodie. If it’s a known cracker with a reputation for good cracks, it’s probably fine. Some random person? I’d avoid it. I’d probably avoid it either way, but I agree there’s no reason to trust the company either. Just don’t trust either.

That’s assuming they’re just pirates, not state actors or hackers taking advantage of it. Still though, Denuvo is possibly assisting state actors too, so 🤷. The ideal solutions is just don’t play games with Denuvo. It’s not that difficult.

Just curious, does the crack work on Linux? Presumably you wouldn’t have to do the same things, assuming it works at all.

You can have horizontal hierarchy, where no one has a position above others. People need to agree to certain rules. There are structures that allow for this, such as direct democracy. There will always be a need for some structure, so people know what is and isn’t allowed. Anarchism is not anarchy, as media portrays it. It’s not total chaos. It’s organization that removes vertical hierarchies.

https://anarwiki.org/wiki/Category:Concepts

Yeah, anarchism I guess could be fine, but the political thought should be a capital A. Little a I would associate more with people who just want lawlessness/anti-governance. Big A Anarchism essentially requires laws and a government, in some form. Depending on the context, it’s probably fine though.