GAH! Unless you personally disinfected them and wiped them clean of disinfectant, GAH! Know how many people play footsie with those?

Well, the Appalachia cryptids are going to be feasting it seems…

At this point myself I don’t think it can be resolved and locking them up, taking all their assets, then letting them wither to death is the NICE thing we can do.

It’s a mental disease. I hoard newspapers and it takes all my place’s room, I have a problem. Replace that with money and items of value, I’m successful.

Epic Game Store.

Retailers demanded a piece to put games in their stores as well. There has always been a price paid for going to market using someone else for it.

Thank you. Some people don’t realize part of being a monopoly is regulation capture and in some instances market collusion. That being big makes you a monopoly when that’s not all of it. Could Steam become one, possibly. Is it one currently, no.

If Steam is a monopoly, then explain how alternatives or competitors still exist. This entire “Steam is a monopoly” is bullshit because competition did and still does exist.

Dark Tide, Space Marine and Space Marine 2, Boltgun, Gladius: Relics of War for a civ style game, and “Shootas, Blood & Teef.”

It must be so easy being a liberal. You can just ignore reality on command if someone calls you out.

They do share a fair amount in common with MAGA at this point to me. Just they haven’t found their cult yet.

Also, I’m talking the political stances of liberalism, not the misused descriptor for liberal meaning left. Liberalism is not left.

Oh, thank you for the clarification. I ultimately believe though there shouldn’t be parties, it’s all ranked choice voting for candidates not party systems. I wish to plant that tree.

Nope, again, how my state does elections. To be in the GQP primary have to be registered for them, for Dems a democrat. If you independent you get the wonderful not able to vote for anyone’s party line in the primaries.

Because they don’t realize the USA has been imperialist from the beginning and still easy. That it’s corporate imperialism mostly with a lot of defense companies running it.

A lot of the problems other countries are facing are because of US!

It took me too long to get this, but man when I did, I was fuming. People like to point the positive of what Dems may do but I point out what negatives they OFTEN do. Biden was pro police, bipartisan, even said we NEEDED republicans. “Both sides” he called it. I’m done compromising my morals for fetid waste that is the Democrat party. Does the vote blaming carry over through most of Lemmy because if so, I have about 6 accounts I haven’t blocked I need to report.

I vote every year, local, state, and national as well as primaries. In my state, you have to be associated with a party to vote in their primaries though so it ensures one party will not represent you essentially.

The amount of neo-liberals/liberals on Lemmy actually surprises me. Like, most of these communities are apparent in their disdain for them and that’s putting it mildly. I’m personally tired of all the apologia they get from people on here. Less harm is still harm, lesser evil is still evil, less fascist is fascist.

Satire in text form isn’t as simple to pull off as in visual media. Body language and tone matter a lot. As well Poe’s Law is in full effect anymore and someone having this view is actually not rare.

I do. I think of the big ones going through a wood chipper.

GOOD. The AAA gaming industry deserves to be destroyed, the main thing is they’re happy to be considered art but don’t treat it that way at all.