I think we’d be foolish to not. From what I can find Blizzard gets over 25 million monthly users really consistently and that’s not including the rest of the store. Toss in Minecraft and Microsoft Store and I honestly would be shocked if Microsoft doesn’t hold more monthly users than Epic Game Store.

If Steam was as monopolistic as it is claimed by Sweeny, having exclusivity away from Steam would be a death sentence for a game.

Microsoft also owns Battlenet now

They don’t just want to look down on someone, they’re so propagandized to by the ultra wealthy they do it for free.

Ultimately getting people to vote against their best interest is quite common, maybe even more common that voting in their best interest because of all the compromise with capitalists stuff. Wanting to address affordability but not addressing capitalism is like bargaining with a virus.

I want to defend the toilet paper for keeping shit off your hands while TPUSA is the literal shit

Wait the Democrats respond to public shaming? At this point I thought they got off on it. He was doing his job but, he was kissing fascist ass just like Google, Microsoft, and Apple have not lobbying for privacy.

Just revoke the trademark in Europe

Honestly I’d be less worried about my car spying on me than my phone but we import those from China almost exclusively.

I think Coslop rolls off the tongue better

People with the intelligence and empathy to disobey orders don’t generally join the military.

Tbf, that millionaire just like in piracy isn’t getting paid for the copy.

I’m going to be splitting hairs here so feel free to disregard I just wanted to be precise.

Stab wounds and other immediately life threatening treatment is about as good as can be expected and emergency rooms can’t turn you down for finance/insurance reasons. You’ll get a massive bill but they can’t really deny you healthcare in this instance.

Now, where you get really fucked over is the years and years of preventative healthcare that would normally prevent/treat the worst outcome as well as the refusal to seek help for what should be concerning enough to warrant a hospital visit otherwise over cost. Torn rotator cuff? Take 1000mg of over-the-counter ibuprofen and hope it goes away.

It’s just natural, ignore how many things we do as a species that aren’t natural, the suffering must be protected.

Entertainment value is value, my dog has value to me but is nothing but a monetary cost. It is in how I enjoy having my dog so much that I will pay the monetary cost because he is that valuable to me.

Someone downloading and using an app isn’t indicative to that app having much value to the end user.

Of those 800 million, how many are paying? That number could be easily over-represented by people doing things without real value to them. I also don’t know how many of those users need professional help whether it be severe social anxiety or the people who find intimacy in a chatbot.

Like, you’re right there has to be some value to it but I just can’t see trillions of USD in value.

The english-using internet is predominantly American men so it’s a sampling bias unless you were to switch languages.

It’s pretty ironic we’re talking about being confidently incorrect, with confidence, and based on anecdote with no research.

It’s roughly the same for BG3, technically an independent indie studio but also one of the most massive production teams on any game.

IMO indie studios aren’t studios without a publisher anymore, if anything a lot of studios with publishers are more indie than many studios without. Reminds me of decades ago and people calling Blizzard an indie studio before the Activision merger.

People are nuanced, billionaires aren’t just people, they’re a distillate of oppression. The amount of wealth and power people like Gates have is perverse, obscene, and unsustainable. With power comes responsibility, if that responsibility feels unfair, give up the power, he could decide to drop everything and feed the hungry.

Lemmy is dogmatic yes, and sometimes that’s really fucking annoying but billionaires aren’t people like you and me, they are disgustingly greedy to the point it is abusive to not just individuals but millions of people.

I think there’s more to it as well as every tool or technology has had an impact on human labor. A lot of the complaints against AI I have found are complaints about capitalism.

But on topic of the post I think noting when AI is used is good just like I’d like to know when it’s a picture of a painting or an actual painting being sold.

Idk, staying inside a space that is safe enough to play video games is likely much more safe than leaving. If you can run something to play video games you likely also have food and such and without mass electricity there are a lot of hours in the day you just wait.

I guess that explains the love of crude oil