"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?
but that is ok because i read ayn rand and if they didn't actually deserved it they would have squandered it all and she is a really smart and totally honest woman who wouldnt go on social security and if she did her situation is different you dont get it
yeah, i was confused as aparently milei has decided that argentina should just be the us and israel's lapdog, so i was confused and surprised that we would have voted in favor of human rights. it being in 2021 makes it make sense
I am definitely not on epic side here, but the reason they had to pay for exclusivity for games is because valve doesn't allow any games on steam to be sold cheaper elsewhere. Which developers follow because steam brings in a lot of revenue.
Without that, epic could try to compete with steam (and its extra features) by offering lower prices, and letting the consumer make the choice of features vs price.
But valve policies effectively make it impossible for any new marketplace to compete.
I don't know if valve are or aren't abusing their monopolistic position. I am not a lawyer and i don't have a horse in the race.
I was just answering to someone who said "if you don't like valve policies, dont publish your games there", which would be true for a normal business, but specifically not true of a monopoly, which steam is, unquestionably
Epic can do things much more freely, because they dont hold a monopoly on pc games
There are laws that say that abusing a monopoly is illegal. Steam is objectively a monopoly in pc games. Sure, you don't have to use it, but it is basically impossible for indie developers to make a living without it.
Now, the question is if valve's actions are actually abusing the monopoly, or normal business practices.
I think your timing is wrong. AI exploded after the staying at home was over.
ChatGPT was released on Nov 30, 2022, and that is the point when AI came into mainstream (even if gpt 3 or midjourney had been available already). By that point, stay at home restrictions had been gone by about a year, if not a bit more. For reference, the fifa world cup, with full attendance, started 10 days before
Yeah, if you keep saying "no matter how much you hurt me, i am still going to keep voting you into power", then you shouldn't be surprised that they hurt you as much as they can.
Having a limit on something that you see as a deal breaker is necessary and good, yet these people see that as a weakness
"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?