OK yeah but every major “news” channel is like this

That’s literally “whataboutism”.

That’s the problem of the monopoly (or large dominant market share) - Steam doesn’t have to compete for us with anyone.

Proton

I stand corrected

But they implement policies for gamers in mind, not money

• sucky currency conversion rates they refuse to update
• they take 30% cut
• they are banning games on behest of Mastercard and Visa

So, no. It’s enshittification.

Nobody hates on Steam being a monopoly

That’s the problem imho. Right now they are “benevolent monopoly” for most of it’s users, except:

• currency conversions (famously Poland has the highest game prices on Steam in the world because Steam does not want to update the currency rates).
• innovation (Steam does not innovate Steam, they r&d othe products)
• accessibility (no way to make fonts bigger) (Those are my issues with it, there’s definitely more)

We know since at least 70’s, that when a company hits 4% market share, it stops innovating and competing with other companies, because buying the competition out and increasing the market share is safer and higher return (every 5% increase was 10% increase in profit, because they have to compete less).

Then I’m confused what is your point on Halting Problem vis-a-vis hallucinations being un-mitigable qualities of LLMs? Did I misunderstood you proposed “return undecided (somehow magically, bypassing Halting Problem)” to be the solution?

How would token prediction machine arrive at undecidable? I mean would you just add a percentage threshold? Static or calculated? How would you calculate it?

(Why jfc? Because two people downvoted you? Dood, grow some.)

Relevant Betty White skit:

https://youtu.be/fbI1eJ_zAB8

Me:

30% markup

Them:

everyone only talks about the 30 since thats all they hear about. Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point

You:

He didn’t. He said people who parrot it are [Epic Games apologist]

Confused noises.

Semperverus said anyone who says that 30% is too much is an Epic Game apologists, whatever that is.

Semperverus is insinuating anyone who says that 30% is amount taken by Steam is wrong, and saying that is parroting, and should be instead thought as “Poor Steam is forced to take 30% because this is industry standard”, but Valve, and I quote here, “goes out of its way to make exceptions to this rule”.

And no; realistically, if you lose Visa and Mastercard, you can close shop. Obviously it’s for profit, because a 99% reduction in turnover means all employees out of work.

Doesn’t change the fact that bending over backwards for Visa and Mastercard and banning some content because of their whims is enshittification. The service is worse than it was before, in the name of profit.

Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point.

Why are you trying to offend me? I didn’t call you names, why are you doing that?

but ultimately it wasn’t for profits so much as it was survival.

Visa and Mastercard aren’t the only available payment options in Steam. Yielding to them was for profit.

Survival? Steam has enough profit to create it’s own payment processor and make it popular.

Ad hominem, ad personam, who cares. The point is that calling your interlocutor “dumb fuck” does not enrich the discussion, nor the readers.

To be a devil’s advocate, during WW2, Polish insurgency forces were also sponsored by the USA (fighting first against the Nazi occupiers, then Soviet occupiers), UK and few other nations.

What’s the difference? Is there a difference?

Steam

30% markup. Predatory currency conversion policies. Recent scandals with Steam censoring games on behest of Australian Right nuts groups.

“Supremacist” might be a better word

Cucumbers. You can pickle it, eat it raw, semi-pickle it (google Polish 2 day dill pickles). Or try raddishes if you want stronger flavours.

Side note:

gooey and seedy

That’s not a tomato. A proper tomato is firm and sweet and not uniform in shape or colour. Source: am eating some right now, took me forever to find seeds.

The shit we are sold as tomatoes are bulldogs of tomato family. Crossbred damaged line created to maximise profit and decrease production cost, by sacrificing quality and taste.

Nordic retirement funds famously don’t invest in shitty companies or housing property… directly. In Nordic countries.

They do own a sizeable chunk of middleman and own a lot of empty estates as well as renting agencies, e.g. in London UK, Gdansk Poland (and I forgot all other places)

The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.

Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior

As you can see it’s rather lackluster in presenting it’s findings.

derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

So… She called (an imaginary?) slut “slut” and had to apologize for it?

I’m talking that US massacring people doesn’t suddenly make the genocided place fun to be.

And claiming that North Korea is a good place to live, and not seeing that it’s turning people AWAY from Communist support is either blind or stupid - truly worthy of a false flag operation.

Middle East and the spread of Islam.

Zimbabwe and Ghurukundi (I made a typo here somewhere).

Shaka and Mfecane.

Rwanda and Tutsi.

Just adding a few because you clearly need more thorough education if you can’t name one in Africa by Africans.