Watch the anti plastic straw movement have been a comparative-trivialization by big-pollution. Give us shitty paper straws, and suddenly everybody wants plastic everything again.
Like a demented orobouros. I've found that many people project themselves upon the world, in order to explain it. As I've grown up, I've wanted to say that that has lessened, but it absolutely doesn't seem to have done anything but gotten clearer and more obvious. Maybe that, itself, is me projecting.
As an aside, there is really something magical about late night diners. Something timeless and almost invigorating about how mundane and dreamlike those experiences always are.
One time, my dad, fully serious, said to me that homosexuality didn't exist in nature outside of humans.
It was like finding out that you have a below average penis.
My stomach dropped in shame when I was so starkly faced with the mental faculties of one of my biological guardians I had been raised by. Was I staring at my limit?
What about those other kids, whose parents are educated and empathetic and who will ask real probing questions and can answer them? Will my facilities slow to a crawl soon, to keep pace with my genetic fate?
Are these fears so average that I should bow my head in the river, afraid to even express them, lest I be confronted by the entire history of humanity?
Maybe biological nature isn't everything, maybe fate isn't real and change is truly in our hands, ready to be molded, potentially even into chaos.
"Better stupid than dead", huh? It's staring right back at me, blankly, waiting for me.
All three pictures in the right column go higher by going down the page/list, even the examples, themselves. It's the exact same. Numerically (count) higher and down on the page.
I haven't played wow in like 15 years, so I don't know either.
I do know that many other games have this system, some worse. I get the issue where you can get your money back out being actually a draw for people who could see it at profitable, that's a helllllla dark pattern.
I don't think Valve runs any of the third party platforms though. They only run the Steam marketplace, to my knowledge. I refuse to gamble on CS2 skins though, it goes against my values.
Being able to launder assets into money, while potentially being a draw ("wow, if I spend $20, I could make $1,000,000!"), seems really fucking obtuse as soon as you realize that it's through buying sold out steam decks or valve indexes. If that is happening though, I wish it wouldn't, because that encourages scalping.
I proposed a system for cs2 in a different thread:
You only get so many crates per week or hour played or whatever, and those crates are free to open and random. But, you can buy keys for specific crates where you can manually choose what you get out of said crate. The profits for that crate is split between the different skins in that crate, with more percentage going to the skin maker of the skin you chose.
The implications and nuances of this lawsuit are so incredibly deep and ripple so far, that anybody on here or anywhere else that says they strongly feel one way or the other is either completely full of shit, has an ulterior motive, or has a personal stake somehow.
This lawsuit, when deeply thought about, is the opposite of simple. The more you know, the messier it gets.
Can't push them, but you can sure as hell push their cart out of the way