“Checkers”

“I think you mean checkmate, dumbass”

Makes sense, as I live in the americas

not once in my life do i recall seeing this, having been in countless bedrooms

Most rooms I’ve seen have the light switch right next the door, most bedrooms don’t also keep their bed right next to the door. I’m assuming most people also don’t want to run wire through the walls wherever they’re renting/living.

Nah, Amazon and airbndn do not remotely have comparable service to steam, I’ve personally had shitty experiences with both and know many others who have as well. I have many personal gripes with numerous of their business models, and they honestly deserve the hate they recieve. I’ve never personally had any negative experience with steam, nor has any singular person I know or have met and talked to steam about. I use the service daily, along with all of my friends, and its has been nothing but amazing, and has provided stellar service to me and all my friends for over a decade. The second a better service comes along, I’d be willing to switch, but as it stands every single other online gaming service is straight shit compared to steam, even Gog is going down the drain. I owe the ability to even play a third of the games I own to the work steam has done with proton. Everything I know and have seen about their work flow is also incredibly respectable, it seems to be an incredibly healthy Democratic work environment that promotes innovation and quality of content over pumping out bullshit. So far, the only reasoning I’ve seen you give as to why steam is bad is that they’re a monopoly, which not only is false, but the accusations have only come on because of how massively successful they are due to having an objectively better service than anything else out there.

I defend it because I love the service, and have used it for over a decade. I again will wait until the results of these lawsuits, as steam has won every other monopoly lawsuit in the past, and I personally believe for good reason as described in my comment above.

Idk, I think 30% is perfectly fair considering what a massive market steam is and the huge amount of publicity you get from putting it on steam. I’ll agree that by certain definitions steam is a monopoly, but they aren’t committing any anti competition practices, and this is further proven by them taking the standard 30% if they wanted to they could only take 10%, and that would probably be seen as anti competition by quite a few countries, as many other companies couldn’t deal with trying to make their percentage lower. Steam is essentially being the standard here, and if any other service wanted to take a smaller cut they could, and developers would turn to it more often. For instance, itch.io. if steam were a true monopoly, you could be certain that itch.io wouldn’t exist anymore. Ill change my mind on this when steam loses a SINGLE monopoly lawsuit, and until then you guys need to do more research on actual monopolies.

What are the examples of steam “taking advantage just as much as the other players?”

Oh no, I guess my one spelling error means my entire point now means nothing, oh dang

This is a really bad representation lmao, you’re giving an example of Finland in like mid winter comparing it to the reaction of someone who literally never sees winter. My state has had around -30°c for the last 2 weeks, been chilling, I’ve definitely preferred when it’s been getting closer to -20 to -10 which has been funny, actually enjoying temperatures under freezing, but I don’t get what your comments trying to say. It’s not like Finland is that temperature all year lol, the climate of my city is surprisingly similar to a lot of Finland and I gotta say being in the cold still sucks.

No, it’s just in response to the countless number of non Americans who constantly insult Americans because we have a slightly different measurement system that doesn’t affect the insulter in the slightest. It doesn’t help that anyone in the sciences in America do know metric, like fully, no one has a problem using it here and I know plenty of people even outside of the sciences that know enough metric to get by fine, you guys really need to get over your strange obsession with our measurement system.

See your mistake was starting with advanced calculus when they don’t even know basic calculus yet

I mean, I personally was never taught to put a subject while writing a letter, only for emails. I figure if it’s important enough to be put in a letter you should just read the whole thing, and the first couple lines should Include the reason for sending a letter anyways. Aside from that I haven’t written a letter in over a decade, and have only written about 5 emails. Any communication I do in person, over text, or over call, with an emphasis on in person. On top of the notion that I wouldn’t ever write a letter to one of my neighbors, let alone interact with them in general. If I saw one of them getting burgled, I’d call the police and then mind my own business. So to answer your question, “these people” wouldn’t write a letter to their neighbor, most people don’t really do that anymore.

Would you like recommendations on how to roll? Or is this some sort of joke I’m too autistic to recognize?

but the real issue here is Marathon’s use of BattlEye anti-cheat. While this can work in harmony with SteamOS – Gaming on Linux have a handy game compatibility list – it currently doesn’t on Bungie’s Destiny 2, so Marathon is likely off the table as well.

Yay, another extraction shooter I likely won’t be able to play, why did I even bother reading this article.

Nah, from personal experience of hundreds upon hundreds of trips your come up time doesn’t have any noticable time increase or decrease depending on where you keep the tab. The only thing I’ve ever had change the speed of the come up, was potency of the tab, aka quantity of LSD, not the location of it. Sure, if you took it intravenously it would likely go noticably faster, but otherwise any time difference would be practically negligible between consistent doses.

While most of this is true, calling an illustration of their logo not a logo is nitpicking to an absurd degree

Sure sure, but I know for a fact that every single parent I’ve met that has that sticker, absolutely did not get it for that reason, and just thought it was “cute”

Mspaint or equivalent

My friend is convinced that rust is actually backdoored somehow, and that’s why so many massive corporations like Amazon, Microsoft, and the White House(yes I’m calling the US government a corporation) are pushing for most things to be written in rust,