AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

@ AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works

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I am not a velociraptor

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works 1d ago

2026 took away from us the wrong star from Home Alone 2...

2d ago

hehehehe

Hey don't laugh people! This is serious! They just tanked 400bln when they could have tanked 1 trillion!

2d ago

Mycology

As the great Pratchett wrote: All mushrooms are edible. Some just once.

I guess Gemini used that as base for its answer.

2d ago

Amazon’s Spending on ‘Melania’ Is a Barely Concealed Bribe

Hey now! My 5yo self watched krull several times and liked it!

There is not a single part of me (not even the 5yo one) that would watch Melania.

2d ago

Senator demands answers after Trump accepted Rolex and gold bar before slashing tariffs on Switzerland

Look, you don't need to demand answers to the turd:

It's a bribe. That's it. Your prez took a bribe to cut tariffs to a country.

3d ago

Sanders says ‘not another penny’ for ICE until Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller are gone

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

So the issue is not ICE, but who's managing ICE.

That's basically same as saying that the nazis were just following orders.

The issues, Bernie, are both who's managing ICE and ICE itself. ICE are terrorists, you can't just say that you will give money to ICE if they remove those two assholes ignoring all the shit each ICE agent has done so far, Bernie.

3d ago

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

I wanted to be a paleontologist. Parents worked really hard to avoid that from happenning.

Now I work in OT (operation technologies) on a big company. I mostly tinker with automated proccesses and machines. It's not at all what I wanted to be but it's a really good alternative; machines are way easier than people to talk to.

4d ago

Germany issues formal travel advisory for US

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

You'll have to define what do you mean "white male". I am pretty sure I'm not, given that my skin is not pale-white and my hair is black. And like me, so many south europeans are probably much less white than they think.

5d ago

UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages

At least for humble store, they essentially sell steam keys. Which at least complicates that argument. So it is not really a different distribution channel and the product is available on steam for that price. Just not on the Steam store.

I get this but, for what I know (I might be wrong tho), steam doesn't get a cut from keys sold externally so they are technically selling them at better conditions elsewhere?

Steam have an effective monopoly here. Even if they have that because all the other platforms are shit. So the argument for just going to another store doesn't really help as that just causes a massive loss in the market share of who you can sell your game to. Plus if you consider the other requirements of if you sell on steam you cannot make your game cheaper via a different distribution method means that you have to eat that feeling and cannot pass it on to customers. Which does not give game Devs much power to negotiate for a lower fee at all.

I know that but that's not really steam's fault? I mean, epic offers lower fees, but they are shit so nobody wants to buy from them; however, that's not really steam's fault. You can't blame steam beacuse the competitors are objectively worse.

EA tried to have a launcher, but they are so bad at it that they've come back to steam. That's... EA's fault for sucking so bad, not steam fault for being more convenient.

And I say this fully understanding that they have a de-facto monopoly; but the reason is not because they have the only product, it's because the rest are much wose.

5d ago

UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages

Imposing Platform Parity Obligations (“PPOs”), that prohibit publishers from selling Products through other distribution channels on better terms than the same Products are available on Steam. The PCR alleges that the PPOs are likely to cause, and have in fact caused, restrictions of competition.

Not sure I'm understanding this but... how do you explain when we find in official retailers such as fanatical or humble same games at lower prices?

Imposing anti-steering provisions to the effect that, if a publisher wants consumers playing its Games distributed on Steam to be able to make in-game purchases, all such purchases must be made using the Steam application programming interface, and therefore Valve’s payment processing service. As a result, the payments are subject to Valve’s commission charges. Such anti-steering provisions leverage Valve’s dominant position in the Game Markets so as to enable it to secure a larger share of the Add-on Content Markets, by preventing or restricting the ability of other distribution channels to supply (including self-supply) Add-on Content for Games distributed on Steam.

This is also something I don't get. I think games like FFXIV which has an online store lets you buy directly from their store (outside steam) their items, if that's the case, how does this part stand its grounds?

Imposing excessive commission charges which amount to an unfair price which is then passed on to consumers.

This I get, but couldn't valve simply say: "Go to epic store if you want lower fees"?

5d ago

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say

I'm seriously expecting these ICE assholes will kill at least one or two riders (most of them are less than "pure-white") with italian nationality to, soon after, see the assholes in charge justify it somehow.

5d ago

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say

Imagine being a fucking fascist who loves the taste of trump's ass.

That's more like it.

5d ago

Turning Point USA Is Hosting Its Own Halftime Show Because the Super Bowl Is Too Gay

And you think magats are smart enough to remember that? They'll get a guy barely ressembling hogan and call it a day

6d ago

TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

Let me introduce you to Spanish words "coger" and "concha", to name just the first two that came to mind.

1w ago

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

I want to see him try that. The moment he puts his filthy hands on someone else's gold, the dollar will collapse. No ifs, no buts, the moment he tries to steal part of the gold he has stored there, everyone will want their gold back and, while at it, they'll cash any bonds they have.

If you can't trust that country to mantain such important agreements, you can't trust it with anything. He'll bankrupt the country in no time.

1w ago

Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras

E-sim and working everything in the cloud maybe? Knowing apple, they'll add a subscription and there, an "independent device":

1w ago

Anus Tangerinus

You don't make bullies stop with the power of friendship(TM).

Especially when the bully is not a teenager (who we can argue can be somewhat re-educated) but an 80 years old narcissist with imperialist deliriums, desires of becoming a dictator and the biggest military (which, among the things, he said he's ready to send against "enemies" in his own country).

Against this kind of bully, you need to fight for your life. And you don't fight for your life with the power of friendship(TM). You do it by hitting your enemy where it can hurt most, because it's him or us.

1w ago

Anus Tangerinus