Oh so you’re just another one of the people for whom if it’s Valve don’t it then it’s ok, funny how your principles go out the window for this one company.

Gabe is multi billionaire buddy, Valve also made billions exploiting people’s weaknesses, the only difference is that it ends up in one guy’s pockets instead of the multiple people invested in the company like in Epic’s case.

So you’re not giving Valve money either, right? Want some hats?

Heroic

From what I understand it’s transported in liquid form over long distances (across the ocean for example) but then it’s transported/stores in gaseous form.

The only place hydrogen fuel makes sense is where it needs as little transportation as possible. Industrial use or as a replacement for fossil fuel for trains and ships that can fill up at their destination (where it needs to be produced n the premises).

Did you notice they mentioned pretty huge bands that bring in tens of thousands of people? Yeah, these groups don’t do shows where the tickets are 15-20$, but what’s fucked up is that they did back in the 90s when they pulled in even bigger crowds. So what has changed for their tickets to be 10x (or more) as expensive as 30 years ago? Ticketmaster.

So you don’t see value in studios getting guaranteed financing in exchange for timed exclusivity instead of having to rely on the lottery that comes with releasing on all/other platforms?

It’s not as if the studios were obligated to sign with Epic either, they just look at the offers on the table and they figure that “Hey, we’ve got financial obligations to meet, including paying our employees, maybe it’s not such a bad idea to get some money upfront.”

It’s the same as choosing between a salaried job vs one where you’re working 100% for commission…

Also your argument would work if you and others were boycotting games that only release on Steam because they end up having a ton of exclusives, the only difference is that they have them because of the size of their user base, they don’t need to give anything in exchange for it, just the hope that the game will sell more is enough to make devs and publishers ignore the other platforms and if their games don’t sell enough on Steam only then too bad, they don’t have anything to back themselves with.

So the thing that you want is something that is available on Epic.

Yay monopoly!

And Hillary is a Clinton through marriage so technically it shouldn’t count.

Not all black people think that using the n-word is ok and many will tell you that no matter who is using it, the word has a racist undertone.

When you work for an employer that makes it a point to embrace multiculturalism it’s not the kind of language you can use while you’re working.

The government hired so many employees in the last few years including tons of positions where they didn’t care about distance from an office until December 2022 (and that are now exempted from RTO)… I don’t think that argument has too much weight to it, people complain without trying to leave their current job, that’s why office workers don’t see as much gains but I can guarantee you, gains at the federal level has make impacts in the private sector and outside of the GOC in the Ottawa-Gatineau region because employers need to compete (a receptionist position for a small town paying 30$/h???). Make the public service as open to WFH as possible and now it’s employers from all over Canada that will need to compete with it for office jobs and those in the private sector should realize that!

I was happy to see the recent coverage by Radio-Canada/CBC about the TBS communications regarding the RTO options!

Passport applications that were processed by people that were working from the office and by teams that has been cut to the minimum number of employees possible by shipping people to other departments that were actually necessary during the peak of the pandemic!

All unions keep saying it, a gain for union jobs puts pressure on non union employers.

Also it’s the population’s money and time that’s being wasted by pushing for RTO, traffic in the Ottawa-Gatineau region increased so much since September 9th that public servants with other obligations aren’t able to work their regular schedule when they go to the office.

I’ve realized I get some pretty bad cramps in my right hand if I play games that requires the track pad to replace a mouse, I wish the Deck’s side would be more angled (see Xbox controller)

Have you seen the summer of discontent from the federal government employees over RTO?

Yeah, me neither

But… https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/02/28/valve-steam-keys-guidelines-updated-rules

They’re not making enough profit on Epic because people prefer feeding Steam’s monopoly and would rather wait for the game to come to that platform than purchase it on a platform where the devs would get a bigger share of the sale. It’s not that they don’t make enough profit per copy on Epic, it’s that the number of customers isn’t high enough to compensate.

The social stuff is bloat, you need the platform to purchase and launch your games, that’s it, they already have all essentials like being able to automatically join friends in multiplayer games, why do they need crap like cards or forums (which are better as a third party administered by people who don’t have a financial incentive to hide complaints).

No matter how much they make their platform similar to Steam, you’ll find another reason not to buy on it, people are still complaining about shit they fixed years ago like not having a cart or achievements.

It’s very funny to see people on Lemmy (of all places) pushing for centralization.

Maybe if you appreciate the studio and their work you should buy the game where they will make the most profit from the sale.

On a virtual meeting a guy unknowingly had his mic on and shouted to his kid “N…r sit your ass down!”