Steam enabling racism? What else is new?

Do they ban any tankie communities or is Stalinism any more acceptable than Zionism?

Where in my comment do I say anything about it being better? The comment I replied to says GOG is doing better than the other stores except Steam, but even if you don’t trust Sweeney, look at any independent data relating to game revenue or Fortnite’s player counts. That alone will show you GOG isn’t even in the ballpark.

Ukraine’s clothing was too revealing.

A case like this takes money and years of efforts. I don’t think any indie dev would be willing to spend that much, especially knowing Valve can afford incredible lawyers. The evidence would have to be really convincing for this to even be worth risking. Those messages not being accurate could also make the plaintiffs liable for lying under oath.

One developer? The Wolfire case contains dozens of those messages to various developers, irrespective of Steam key use. See page 160 here. The way Valve goes about it is also not contradicted by you pointing out there are lower prices. For one, they say they expect price parity soon, not immediately. Secondly, they don’t and can’t enforce that rule automatically, so there are always instances they don’t see. As seen in those messages from court, sometimes their response is to restrict the games’ visibility on the store, which is not something a platform like ITAD can track.

I’d say GOG’s position only proves the point of Epic and the ongoing class action lawsuits against Valve. Steam is deeply entrenched in the market and uses shady tactics like telling developers not to sell games for less outside Steam. You’d think offering good features and better practices would help, but it has not. Gamers are overwhelmingly positive about GOG, but most feel tied to Steam, and only a handful buy from GOG. It’s no wonder Epic prioritized exclusives.

A while back, Tim Sweeney said the market share of the Epic store was 15%, while GOG’s was around 0.5 to 1%, which isn’t implausible. The players count of the Epic store has been significantly boosted by Fortnite, exclusives, and high-profile game giveaways.

I always wonder if those rules are from the code of conduct rather than the sidebar. Rule 2 in the code of conduct basically makes every other rule redundant by saying the admins can remove anything for any reason, as they do: “Remarks that moderators find inappropriate, whether listed in the code of conduct or not, are also not allowed.”

Mozilla told PCMag it’s going to be opt-in.

Is the author a tankie or something? What’s wrong with Company of Heroes 2? I enjoyed it, and the main complaints I saw were from Russians unhappy with the game taking a shot at the Soviets and bringing up things like Order 227. Even so, the game didn’t even portray the Soviets as the bad guys.

Edit: And it’s not just me. The game is currently rated Very Positive on Steam.

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nightreaper2 is free to claim as well.

B12 deficiency is hardly a vegan issue, considering vegans constitute less than 10% from country to country, while the percentage of people deficient in B12 is way above that, up to 40% in the West and more in the developing world. If the study is to be believed though, keeping it below 400 pg/mL in the blood ensures there’s no increased risk of mortality.

Its absorption drops significantly past a certain point, hence the really high dosages needed to get anything at all. The only reliable measure if this study is to be believed is how much is actually in your blood.

Can’t speak specifically to Cuba, but at least some of the countries glorified by tankies are nice only for a privileged foreigner on a short vacation. It’s not like they’d protest against the government there to get arrested, and if they do, their country will be very focused on getting them out. They likely won’t speak the language to understand what’s being said in the media day to day. They also wouldn’t live the life of the average citizen able to feel the weight of lower incomes and other quality of life issues associated with the government taking too much for itself and leaving little for the people. If they’re a minority and they can keep it to themselves, they probably will “out of respect”, thus no consequences. It also doesn’t help when they’re a tankie who thinks there’s no problem with China or Russia isolating themselves from the rest of the internet for example, but even so, it’s relatively easy when it’s brief, not something you inescapably put up with every year.

Edit: I’m also reminded of Hasan visiting China but then comically asking “can I be out with this Chinese flag?” or something like that, as if his subconscious was telling him that even something as trivial in the West could get him in trouble there. It’s evident he was being very careful, if not self-censoring.

Precisely. Even when he didn’t appear to be full-on MAGA yet around 2022 or whenever he first tweeted about Ukraine, it was a pro-Russia take.

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Are you saying someone could keep their account even if their ATProto instance goes down? On Mastodon, you’d still get to keep the migrated followers, right? The instance maintainer would just have to announce closure in advance.

I liked the Tux!