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They tought us about imaginary numbers in A levels (16-17) here, do they not even teach them in undergrad in the US??? I struggle to believe that.

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It’s hard to imagine having a worse take than this lol.

Well you could always be writing paragraphs and paragraphs defending a billionaire from mild and valid criticism on the internet.

No. With physical media you owned it and pre steam you couldnt have a licence arbitrarily revoked.

Betas are not early access.

Yes it’s bad for consumers, to release unfinished products, just look at KSP2

Oh yeah steam was just a poor tiny multi billion dollar company and by far the biggest disturber of pc games before 2015. And they weren’t against refunds, hence why they fought tooth and nail against the lawsuit and every individual refund before then.

Cool, the cut record labels take is pretty standard. That doesn’t mean it isn’t predatory.

Tell the TF2 community they support their service games

Abd that makes steams licencing bullshit ok?

This is what I mean, you give any criticism of lord Gaben and people will act like I’m saying steam is “literally satan”

The big ones being the popularisation of the licence model for video games, so you don’t actually own your games and they can pull your licence at any time.

Loot boxes and child gambling, they basically started that with CS.

They’re the ones that popularised early access as a format.

Had to be sued into having a refund policy

Gabe newall is a biollaire that owns a yatch company and a fleet of super yacht, all that money has been skimmed from actual hard working Devs, many smaller ones also have been squeezed into participating in steam sales when they don’t want to just to get steam to promote their game. Even thought they will happily push asset flips slop.

They have also put in place system to protect Devs from “review bombing” when those Devs screw over their olayerbase, then will also allow “legitimate” reviews after a human has reviewed them, that are just culture war stuff that has nothing to do with the game.

Valve layoffs on the internet I can only see that they laid off 13 people back in 2019

Because steam has very few employees and basically doesn’t make games anymore.

You never owned your own games, you just never read the documentation that came with your discs and cartridges before.

??? You think Nintendo was going door to door to pull nes cartridges away from people for violating their tos???

AI meme

Helping the gaming community by popularising not owning your games, lootboxes and child gambling, early access and asset flips as well as being the first to cave when visa and MasterCard started pressuring companies to stop selling certain games?

Can we stop the steam/gabe glazing?

They are responsible for some of the worst practices in modern video games and are generally not a consumer focused company but you’re doing PR for them for free

Saw this meme while on the bog absolutely fighting for my life, and honestly I would take that.

You’re average user is not using separate kbm for a laptop, and if they are they using Bluetooth ones. And there definitely not using a game controller, and even then they’re Bluetooth too. Printers are wireless. So only thing is thumb drive which in my experience most people would rather use cloud storage or airdrop

That’s not a thong

I work in a company that’s a couple thousand people, and the vast majority of them don’t plug anything into their laptops other than power and a phone charger.

If by “the actual victims” you mean “US-funded cult Falun Gong”

And what are you basing that off? Do you have any independent journalistic sources for this that aren’t linked to CCP propaganda, or biased testimonies, or individual politicians, or AI, or fake witness testimonials?

Eh, you’re average user doesn’t need many ports on their device honestly.

Power users sure, but you’re average customer doesn’t give a shit.

Lmao, so nothing from the main victims, nothing from individuals, nothing from big news agencies, nothing from the last 5 years (or anything you could just baselessly claim is AI)

So as I expected you’re already aware of the evidence that’s available of this, but just refuse to believe it and then backfill whatever random excuse you want in order to justify ignoring the evidence. And pretty much the only evidence you would accept is a statement from the CCP themselves.

Surprised you’re not a .ml user to be honest.

Okay, since I’m more than used to people arguing with me in bad faith in the internet.

Tell me, what evidence would I need to show you in order to change your mind?