Valve hasn’t changed anything, I’m tired of people just bandwagoning every thing they don’t like. Valve isn’t like other companies. They are still a for profit venture but they aren’t doing anything problematic.

I personally don’t feel the terms they offer to provide the amazing service they provide is anti competitive, and like ive mentioned I have had this argument before. I don’t see how it’s anti competitive to say I’ll sell your shit and host it and distribute it and manage your upgrades, but I don’t want you listing it less elsewhere than your are willing to on my platform.

I’m not just out here licking Gabe’s ballsack, you aren’t offering any rationale for them being uncompetitive other than someone is suing them. Which is what I was responding to mainly. Just because Ubisoft, like Epic before then, even EA too, failed to create a product that people actually want to use, doesn’t make Valve uncompetitive.

If this is such a bastardly term, why is it only now that those big firms are failing to launch, that the policies that are almost 20 years old now suddenly anticompetitive.

Can you offer one argument about why price parity is a bad thing?

I’m aware and it’s a bullshit lawsuit because people are jealous of steams success. Its not anti competitive to say I will distribute your games for you, but you can’t turn around a out sell it for cheaper once it becomes successful.

they aren’t stopping others from selling their games for cheaper, only saying you can’t also sell the same thing for cheaper elsewhere to make us look like assholes.

It’s entirely fair and transparent. They are free to delist their games from steam if they don’t want to sell it for the same price as the steam store.

And also there are multiple ways to get steam keys for cheaper than steam sells the games yet valve still accommodates those purchases inspite of the way the TOC is stated about selling games cheaper elsewhere.

It’s Ubisoft suing them and they are just bitter and jealous.

Marketing at its best…

Ive had this argument with people multiple times and it ALWAYS boils down to, Steam is too successful and no one else wants to compete with what steam is actually doing right.

Deep fried California rolls are quite common in Vancouver as well.

Various other deep-fried rolls show up as well, usually with the moniker crazy or crunch before added to some other roll

Hey guga did a ketchup dry aged steak and got a decent experience out of it

Are you unaware that punching down is generally frowned upon these days?

Yes I do. It is and it is.

Looks like something from a grocery store and not a sushi restaurant, judging by that particular soy sauce packet and the packaging.

Because that’s what is it’s been called for generations. How the hell do you not know this before commenting? Are you one of those piece of shit Americans who thinks everything needs to be done the way you expect it?

Punching down is generally not a good way to go about comedy.

They do actually seem like someone who prefers people be less judgmental and would be likely fun to hang with

My wind2012 plan so going strong

Thanks I enjoy dark and gritty much of the time, sounds good.

I’m not sure if you can it find it but there is what would now be a podcast from the early aughts, called Tales From the Afternow by Sean Kennedy. I don’t know if anyone really knows about it outside of my area and it might be impossible to find, but it’s great at worldbuiiding too and the author is the one who narrates it.

There was comic a fan did for a single episode that you might be able to find. I think it was originally broadcast on RantRadio

Edit ooh found something!

Little Rocks

Sounds like a different version whatever rules the Epstein class would have had to put in place.

I’m excited to check out that web serial though, it sounds excellent

I’m.confused. please help me understand. You say they can just alter stuff to win I’m sure a law firm with enough money can add still make a case and I have some ideas on how that would work.

I thought this is what Discovery is for. But IANAL

However, I might be willing to give you a small interest free loan to get as much evidence, tampered or not from them. If you win millions I would really like a modest apartment each for me and my brother. Send me a DM if interested. I don’t have much but I would love to contribute to anything that may help you and everyone else have at least waste Amazon’s time in court, and also just for the record show that people have to continually fight for their rights if they work for Amazon. The more cases against them, win or fail, the more there is on the record, and evidence already used in a court available for everyone else to utilize. And it’s only a matter of time before they get caught manipulating evidence, if you don’t win now, you may be able to reopen the case in 20 years when new practices to detect altered documents exists.

This is long term planning, and if it’s only a cost that is keeping you from dragging them to court for your rights then I would love to help pull these fuckers down. I don’t care if it’s a rediculously small chance to do real consequences to Amazon now or in 20 years. That’s how you fight immortal Jotun, over time or just get lucky

I don’t follow where you are going with this. The premise is Google recording images and having a naked child in them, which is no different than named children appearing in movies without it being CP… Somehow.

And what your response to my comment doesn’t seem to address or explain is why those movies got to be allowed when they have naked children in them. At least it’s not obvious

So what is it that makes recording naked kids permissible and what doesn’t.

Google doesn’t make movies doesn’t answer or explain anything that I can figure out

Perhaps I didn’t remember correctly. I’m curious how movies have gotten away with it

Iirc child nudity isn’t enough for something to be considered porn. It has to be gratuitous. Not sure if that is the same for transmitting online or not.

It’s fakin weird by today’s standards though and is probably handled very differently from one place to another

In your life time, have you seen anyone other than an LPC or Conservative Party as Prim toe minister? Because I haven’t and I’m 45 years old.

Oh wait you haven’t

literally Robert Borden formed the Unionist party because he needed support for Conscription in 1917.

It was a party of both Conservatives and Pro Conscription Liberals.

That was literally more than a century ago.