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  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Sorry if I took it the wrong way. I can see some common ground in Steam vs others and Apple vs others since both focused on the user experience against really poor competition in that area, though Apple has a helluva stronger walled garden.

    I do think fanboying a for profit company is silly, but a lot of this is also driven by hate for Epic's CEO. Epic's just another business that wants to make money and that alone isn't the reason people keep backing Steam on these threads. People shit on them because their CEO is an asshole who spends a lot of time bitching about other storefronts while their own still sucks 7 years after release despite the company raking in billions. Guy tries to act like he's some underdog despite Unreal engine having a greater stranglehold over game development.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Epic doesn’t do a single thing that doesn’t directly result in profits. Features are only added off they can derive income from them. Lawsuits are filed so they can take a larger percentage of profits. Even his twitter posts are mainly about him getting a larger cut, when he isn’t defending AI child porn.

    Valve is very old school in their ‘keep improving your offering and it will work out’ way. Usually companies like that get bought out and their name run into the ground. It sadly happens in all industries, from Samsonite luggage to BioWare games and even service companies.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Apple directly makes money off iOS apps and in most of the world you can only buy via their store. On the other hand, I can and do buy games from GoG and run them just fine on my Steam deck and can still benefit from proton.

    The only reason I buy most of my games from Steam is they make things even easier than buying from GoG.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.

    Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.

  • Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

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  • Where did you go skiing that it required training, licenses or insurance? I’ve never heard of any of that being required.

    In fact I’ve spoken to insurance agents that specifically will not insure heavy skiers because of their increased risk.

  • Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

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  • Kinda ignored that part about the skateboards since they can get going just as fast downhill.

    The reason I'm against the licensing is that ebikes are a great way for teenagers to get around town if you're in an area that's bike friendly. The hardware is already going to cap the assistance at 20mph, but it makes going up hills or extremely windy days a heckuva lot easier and then they aren't stuck at home waiting for a ride.

  • Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

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  • It’s heavy and requires me to pedal it. The only way I break 20mph, something doable on flat ground on a normal bike, is by starting on a good hill.

    You can do the same on a skateboard or skis. Going to require licensing and insurance for those too?

    You seem to be confusing class 1 and 3 e-bikes with electric motorcycles.

  • Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

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  • Most ebikes sold now are least in the 2000 watt range and they exceed the minimum power of the current laws on gas engines.

    Where the heck are you finding those? Mine is 850w and it's a heavy duty ebike that can carry 2-3 people. The ones at the local shop look like they're under 500w. If someone's putting a 2000w motor in one and trying to pass it off as a bike, then they're breaking laws that already exist.

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  • Plenty of offers come through Linkedin if you do consulting or contract work. Most of the jobs or contracts I've had over the past decade came through there.

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    Judge blocks Colorado law requiring health warning on gas stoves. He says there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues

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  • It really is amazing how stupid those "vents" are. Why the hell would I care about moving smoke from directly above the stove to blowing against my ceiling?

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    White House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarily

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  • The replacement is the same height as the twin towers.

  • The 2025 Steam Awards Winners

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  • Huh I still don’t remember ever getting an open ended choice.

  • The 2025 Steam Awards Winners

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  • No because we can’t add our own picks. You choose from a limited selection.

  • YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake

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  • Would love this for sofas. Last one I got was crap and I find myself regretting not continuing to fix up our old 80s era leather sofa. That thing was built to survive the Cold War.

  • What content filters are you using to clean up your Lemmy feed?

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  • I block subjects containing the names Trump or Musk. They’ve slowed down, but even with the filters I still get plenty about them. For a while it seemed like they were half my feed.

  • Tough economic times ahead

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  • Attractive or actually want to date? I’m guessing porn stars are all around that age, but I have trouble believing the average 40 year old guy wants to date a 20 year old. Or maybe they only quizzed the older guys who like to hang out in bars?

    I’m over 40 and imagine even 10 years younger would be hard to deal with.

  • Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI

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  • What is a hallucination if not AI being confidently mistaken by making up something that is not true?

  • Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI

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  • Either you’re using them rarely or just not noticing the issues. I mainly use them for looking up documentation and recently had Google’s AI screw up how sets work in JavaScript. If it makes mistakes on something that well documented, how is it doing on other items?

  • Millions of Californians gain access to in vitro fertilization under new law

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  • Queue more complaints about insurance costs. This seems like a crazy thing to require. I’m all for single payer but insurance should be for the health care you need to live.