The irony is prisons often have better health care than you can afford outside of prison(this assumes that are run the way they are supposed to be, but we all know how often that actually happens in the USA)

For how many people does free food and board for 25 years look like a viable way to retire?

Okay… And?

Tech is NOT a salvation. We need people who think. Aren’t afraid to be challenged. Anf challenge others in turn. Unfortunately we have never figured these things out at scale. It only takes a small group to corrupt anything too large

I think an example beds to be made. Ideally that’s a great result. These are not reaaonal or rational people that sought out Epstein’s service to be able to fuck kids and whatever else they got up to. They have caused unfathomable harm in the last few years alone. It’s too late.

It’s time for something akin to the Nuremberg trials, only without rampant face saving and blatant opportunism of offering a place for the “useful” monsters that took part in this. There is nothing they can learn if they don’t understand by this point. What is there to save? They fucked up waaaay beyond forgiveness and don’t deserve any further empathy. It’s a weakness to many of them anyway by their own admission if not actions. The weekend will be better off without them and that is justice for those they have killed abused assaulted tortured.

These are the worst of us. A cancer that should be removed. But we need honest justice and not mob justice. I don’t know who that is. The world is cooked

You sound vengeful. I just want it to stop. We are not the same

I’m so tired of this shit. People need to hang for these decisions

If you didn’t read it how would you know if its a dumb take or not. Dumbest opinion ever

But if that’s the policy that built steam, it isn’t abusing their position if they have been consistent from the before times. I’m don’t know if that’s the case but I don’t recall any particular discussion about it changing and we definately would have heard about people complaining of so.

A long standing policy that built this “monopoly” simply because no one else wanted to and were happy to hand over the reigns to steam for so long, you dont get to cry foul now if they aren’t actually using this supposed monopoly to punish people.

I think 30% is a lot, but it hasn’t been problematic till some big garbage company is upset about it? Ubisoft can go eat a bag of dicks. They had every chance to do something about this a decade ago. They shit the bed. Too bad for them. Flush. Move on imho

Flesh eating screw worms are the new maggots or so I hear

valve is a game company, did so good at helping others sell their games that you people call them anticompetitive. That’s just fucking laughable and I will never understand why so many of you seem to miss that. They didn’t go out and give a different deal to anyone else. But Ubisoft broke the terms they agreed to because they wanted to use VALVES service to hawk their wares. Well they have to pay the Piper, and they don’t get to cry foul if they try to fuck over the hand that fed them.

You can’t succeed without Valve is a dumb argument.

Blizzard had no problem with battlenet until they pissed in their customers faces.

Good old games is alive and kicking

Humble bundle now has a storefront

Greenman games is doing just fine.

And if you don’t like it then just stop using it and do the hard work yourself but NOOO that’s too hard to have to figure out how to actually sell your product.

God I hope valve just shuts steam down some day and says fuck you to everyone who complains like this

That’s entirely on the companies that made the game if they can’t convince people to type ubisoft.com into their browser and buy the game they want just because it’s not on steam.

Boycott steam if you don’t like this boilerplate deal steam has with everyone else

As I understand it that’s the price everyone pays to use steam. Dont fucking use it if you dont like it. Why is this a problem? Because steam is too good is the only thing I’m hearing and that’s not steams fault. Everyone else has to do the same thing. Valve didn’t hide this. Also note that they didn’t in fact delist it. They merely considered it.

This is the same problem/argument I had when microtransactions in games started. Everyone jumped on board and now we have a gaming industry that because users can’t fucking say no they bitch and complain when they don’t get what they want.

Cry me a fucking river. Go sell your game everywhere else but Steam. Too fucking bad.

Also I have bought literally hundreds of games from other places, cheaper than steam. Many of them I needed steam to download the games…

Steam isnt doing anything wrong just because they are handsdown the goat of digital distribution. It’s about as anti competitive as Wayne Gretzky was at his best

Then Ubisoft is a failed company if they can’t make a product that people want to buy. I have 0 empathy for them.

But if Ubisoft agreed to the terms then I don’t understand the problem with Valve taking action

They agreed to valves terms when they listed their game. Then they aren’t following the deal, and Valve responds. I don’t see your problem. Valve takes 30%. If the game is less than they are selling it on steam else where and the deal was we will sell your game for you, but you can’t sell it cheaper elsewhere then that’s fair as I see it. “But Steam is Very good so we have to sell it there!” Is not a good argument if that’s being made

Why is this any different than any other supplier/retail relationship? Hey you are giving a deal to another store, we want a better price. No? Okay then we won’t carry your product if you can give us a better price but don’t want to.

Explain to me why that’s a problem with Valve, and not every other business ever.

I’m assuming I’m not understanding something correctly and hoping you can explain what I’m missing

That his name was released kinda ruined the whole previous Banksy motif anyways

It happens with any people that are heavily bound to religious practices, routines and rituals. Some places are much less religious than others, but that’s been my experience working with about a a hundred different people that aren’t from where I was born

I think this is far more normalized in the US to bring god into everything.

Not at all. I work with a lot of immigrants and wherever religion is heavily involved in the culture they come from, god or gods always get the credit. Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Ganesha, Buddha, Holy Spirit, it doesn’t matter. It’s all the same different rules.