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HailSeitan

@ HailSeitan @lemmy.world

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  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • Do you know what monopoly means?

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • The number of people in this thread claiming that Steam is not a monopoly is too damn high. If actually you’re interested in the evidence, the Organized Money podcast recently had a great interview with pair of lawyers whose full time job is suing Valve as a monopolist on antitrust grounds, and winning over and over on behalf of their clients.

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • Developers aren’t forced to exclusively ship on Steam or not at all.

    That’s just not true in practical terms. If you want your game to be discovered and you don’t have a massive advertising budget, it’s not a serious option to try to forego selling on Steam while staying in business as a game developer. That’s like saying Amazon isn’t an ecommerce monopoly because you’re not “forced” to sell there, even though that would mean bankruptcy and irrelevance for most sellers.

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • By this logic Google isn’t a search monopoly because DuckDuckGo exists, despite Google buying default placement in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc to make sure no other search provider can compete, with their bribe to Apple alone totaling $20 billion a year to maintain their search dominance. What do you think monopoly power is if not that?

  • 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study

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  • This “most favored nation” clause in contracts is huge! It means that even if another store takes half of Steam’s cut (say, 15% vs 30%), the game can’t be sold for less, meaning other rival stores can never compete on price. In other words, Steam drives up prices for games economy-wide. Amazon does something similar, and this was part of the basis the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against them.

  • any current AI model that isn't Machiavellian?

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  • Ignore OP’s weird question, the book looks really cool

  • What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

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  • The national debt is at a record high. What happens if it keeps going?

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  • The Treasury will put more numbers on a spreadsheet, because the US is a sovereign currency issuer

  • Powell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’

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  • Those things are not mutually exclusive, JP!

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    Something odd happened on Reddit today..

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  • Hanlon’s Razor seems much more apt, suggesting OP’s incompetence rather than malice

  • Republican party right now

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  • Go home, grammar Nazi, your ignorance of how linguistic usage determines meaning is showing

  • Today I learned that the top 10% of earners in the US account for almost 50% of consumption

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  • The last few years maybe, at least since agriculture enabled standing armies, but not for most of human history, which has frequently been egalitarian and communal

  • men aren't men anymore

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  • SS style lightning bolt "N⚡S" on an ICE agents helmet

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  • "It's just a few mice! It's for the greater good!"

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  • This seems like a “Captialism requires profit growth” problem more than anything, and as morally admirable as it might be vegan food isn’t a growth industry right now

  • Propaganda

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  • Yeah! Let’s deny structural problems exist and pretend everything is the fault of the individual! Shit, this meme is neoliberal propaganda.

  • Do you use a song for your alarm clock?

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  • “Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

  • true

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  • Radical Reconstruction doesn’t sound so bad, eh?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/oct/13/chat-control-child-abuse-internet-privacy
  • Music @lemmy.world
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    ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

  • Are there any social anarchist economists?

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  • This is the best answer. She used real-world examples (“natural experiments” in economist speak) to disprove the tragedy of the commons.

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developers

    www.theguardian.com /games/2025/oct/09/igda-the-non-profit-helping-people-from-all-over-the-world-to-become-successful-game-developers
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

    www.theguardian.com /world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead
  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    FanDuel Betting Material To Be Integrated Into Amazon Prime Video NBA Games

    sports.yahoo.com /article/fanduel-betting-material-integrated-amazon-150411913.html
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/oct/05/best-palestinian-films
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

    www.theguardian.com /world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/gaza-palestine-israel-trump-peace-plan
  • Enshittification @lemmy.world
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    Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Life imitates art

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.world
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    The Persistent Push to Depict Luigi Mangione and His Supporters as Terrorists

    theintercept.com /2025/09/25/luigi-mangione-supporters-health-insurance/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    How Ruby Went Off the Rails

    www.404media.co /how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    ‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/sep/26/how-copenhagen-gave-cyclists-a-green-wave
  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Texas now restricts Chinese nationals from buying property. Is it alien land laws all over again?

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/15/texas-real-estate-chinese-nationals
  • Anarchism @lemmy.ml
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    Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich
  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
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    Buy it for life | This versatile Japanese chef’s knife has lasted longer than some of my relationships

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2025/sep/06/global-classic-japanese-chef-knife-review
  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Ghislaine meeting with the DOJ today for a chat

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Try replacing "ai" with "cocaine" in all the posts you read about it.

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live

    www.theguardian.com /world/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/a-street-in-gaza-a-map-of-dreams-and-the-people-desperate-to-live