No. it is called rent seeking

This is a problem with capitalism, but wage theft is an other, different, specific problem with capitalism.

Great, i always struggled playing YYZ, but the new version of “… … …” makes it so much more manageable

so you don’t only dislike common mushrooms (fair, you eat what you want) but now the whole Fungi kingdom is garbage?

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

that is exactly what it does

the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself

and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human

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

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Differently types of risks. Giving a 3rd party access to your full cloud storage has massive privacy concerns that he is right to want to avoid.

I fully expect that they will release ai-doctored body cam footage

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

funnily, the same as -40 C

It is because Obama got it before. It is not that deep

ironically, she is right. ICE is domestic terrorism

While Hades, Hollow Knight, and Celeste being both owned and published by the same company are not indie.

if your definiton of inide exclude Hades, Hollow Knight and Celeste because they are independent i have to say that it is a very bad definiton of what an indie game is.

personally, if a game has enough budget to hire Charlie Cox or Andy Serkins, it probably should not be in an indie award ceremony