you could try answering, but conceding works just as well

and why would gamers not buy their game elsewhere?

sounds like YOU don’t know what a monopoly is

if it’s not justifiable, then the game devs can go elsewere.

that seems like an issue that the makers of games can decide. they are not under any gun to choose steam. if the devs don’t see value in steam then they can go elsewhere. for me as a buyer it’s steam, or it’s the developers own website. i will not buy from another store front

asshole’s been asleep

from what i gather that means you reach for the 9mm when you don’t know how to say please?

i can only imagine the horrors of what button combination i need to save and close and get my terminal back on the next one…

i could not get them to play nice with the hardware, pipewire, or each other. and they don’t like being messed with

i switched over to Bazzite about a week ago, and it has been super frustrating. though it’s not in where you think. the game my group is playing (Arc Raiders) worked without a hitch.

• but my speaker system, and microphone forced me to learn a whole lot about USB hand shakes,
• ghost usb profiles,
• usb cable choice,
• what a flatpac is and why people hate it,
• nano eccentricities (including how to save and quit, just labeling ctrl-o as save and not overwrite would stop so much bs),
• sink states,
• device name resolution,
• pipewire,
• pipe plumber,
• pipe wire holding devices hostage,
• usb power flapping because i plugged my speakers and my mic to close to each other causing the os to just give up on the both of them.
• the timing of when the os asks for usb identifiers, verses when the usb devices are given power
• out dated guides relying on depreciated methods and acceptable code used in modifiers to os procedure.

my experience and days of trouble shooting the “easy” replacement os for gaming has frightened my friend group far away from linux.

no they can’t, the FBI stole all the evidence

the US military hasn’t won against an insurgency since that one was squashed in 1950 and before that was 1902. that is considering the us has untouchable industrial military complex, unbroken supply lines, and a monopoly on advanced tech.

an uprising IN THE CONTINENTAL US would be absolutely DEVASTATING. where all our infestructure is protected by a civil agreement not to destroy them… and with a nation as large as ours and armed as ours… arguments that the military just can’t be beat because of weaponry is laughable

a week late.

oh look, something they vow to stop.

surprised it took him so long. in his first term. sacking a bunch of park rangers was the first thing he did

two separate incidences, one involving acyst in my jaw, one slicing my hand in a food processor, and a constant fight with the auto correct, and bad spelling

well because 3 times the premium cost is still far below the cost of surgery. i am currently recovering from the removal of a cyst in my jaw that ate half my jaw leaving bone barely 3 playing cards thick in some areas. there was nothing i could have done to avoid it. the surgery too make the marsupilisation to drain the area alone was $3500, with only pain numbing. still awaiting the final surgery cost, but the anastegeologist is $1500 that i have to pay. and the stitches from my mandolin accident costs me an additional $1500.

this is ALL what i have to pay, while i have silver level coverage

yes. YES!

feet first

9/11 two, the elevening

nah, let’s do 1999, the matrix was peak humanity.