Depends on how it’s used.

Right now it’s used to replace skilled workers, be them artists, actors, or programmers.

I can certainly think of a few good uses for AI in games, but to a Corpo CEO “good use” = wider profit margins at the cost of humanity. And so we need to be informed about such things when we spend money on something that is by all rights an artform.

To add to the post title:

Devs actively support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fuck them.

Other parts of the world already had women as presidents and prime ministers for decades. Some countries have had queens as the primary ruler for centuries.

Then there is America.

Fans bothered making a custom server? All one of them?

Im not the ones ignoring definitions, and calling Valve a monoply is bad faith in the first place.

You mean those same “comprehensive” definitions that failed with my argument?

Um… Yeah. Microsoft absolutely doesn’t have an OS monopoly, as much as they’re trying.

That’s not my definition. That’s just the definition. And you’re using a corporation that is actively monopolising the logistics market, even so far as breaking the law to kill any competition, as an example. Nicely done.

“Comodity controlled by one party”. Except it’s not controlled by one party.

Outsized market power, what left out are the actions taken to make such an outsized market power. Monopolies are not a passive that form all by themselves. They are created through expansion acquisition, and aggressive crushing of competition. Disney and Nintendo do these actions. Valve does basically… Nothing.

A single dominant seller, but again leaving out all the rest I have written above.

There is nothing Valve can stop doing to be less “a monopoly”. All they’ve done is provide a pretty decent service, and nobody else can be arsed to top that, even companies with the resources to do so.

That’s not a monopoly.

Oh look, yet another person who doesn’t understand what monopoly means.

No, that’s pretty wrong. There absolutely were exclusive store releases, or temporary releases where one store would get a certain game a whole month early.

But Steam isn’t a walled garden, or a monopoly.

Valve has done nothing that monopolistic corporations have done (i.e. Disney or Nintendo). They have kept themselves relatively small, private, and focused on providing one service really well.

Every other competition has only ever tried approaching what Valve does with Steam with shortcuts and quick money grabs.

It’s all fine and dandy to cry and complain about monopolies, but nobody even really tried. Epic’s store was, and still is, a laughing stock. That is what Valve is up against.

It’s a free market, right? Customers choosing what they prefer and all that? And then eventually the one that provides the best price-for-service ratio comes out on top? Something like that, right?

If you want to stop Steam from being so ubiquitous with PC gaming, then create some proper competition. The only one that comes close in my eyes is GOG.

Margrete Thatcher naked on a cold beach! Margrete Thatcher naked on a cold beach! Margrete Thatcher naked on a cold beach! Margrete Thatcher naked on a cold beach!

I don’t want to sink time into a kind of game that is one step above a point and click adventure game but with the constant need of repeating tasks like they’re house chores.

Wrong. First thing you do is turn off TAA, DLSS, Frame generation, upscaling, Lumin, and if possible; anything related to sub-pixel geometry.

Ir better yet; don’t play UE5 where most of these things are forced upon you.

How?

I bought Hollow Knight way back on GOG. Of course I’m going to buy Silksong there too.

I’ll take all this more seriously once tech YouTubers start sharing benchmark results.

There’s basically no difference between Reddit and Lemmy as far as quality is concerned.

There are still dumb takes and braindead moderators on here.

What sets Lemmy apart is that the platform itself isn’t enshittified with NFTs and ridiculous API prices.