This is such a weird straw man argument. Yes those are all anticompetitve that they FORCE them not to release the game for other platforms.

Valve buying all the modding properties? What does this refer to? Also valve released their games on consoles too, I remember fondly playing the orange box (which BTW was like 5 games in one a fantastic value).

People did complain about console exclusives back then too, it wasn’t as common because before it was understandable as it was prohibitively expensive or time consuming to port to other consoles, that’s virtually not the case anymore (except Nintendo because their consoles always suck) and now it’s just exclusive for exclusives sake.

Name one of the developers and early adopters of a non-scam crypto like bitcoin (debatable at this point with lightning network being shoehorned in) or ethereum that is a grifter. Scammers making scam coins doesn’t mean all crypto or people who are for crypto are scammers.

Crypto didn’t spawn out of a vacuum, it came from earlier technologies like hashcash that was intended to prevent spam due to requiring a cost (PoW) in order to send the email. For bitcoin, go read the bitcoin white paper to see what the initial intention was.

Regular banking requires more people to manage those funds, think about how many skyscrapers for banks or other financial institutions you’ve seen, a lot of those jobs (and all the electricity requirement that goes into doing their jobs in that office) wouldn’t be necessary due to how crypto functions. If you were to take away all those jobs at once with a crypto solution, I believe it would be a net negative in energy usage, or at the very least not an increase.

That’s entirely speculation but one I don’t see many people entertain at all, they just see the energy usage for PoW coins (which ETH isn’t anymore BTW) and without any reasonable frame of reference (besides small countries because that’s shocking) come to the conclusion that crypto bad because it uses energy.

Bad actors do bad actions, that doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad, there’s been a lot of real development in this space in the 14 or so years I’ve been following it that you completely undercut out of ignorance and preconceptions.

There’s no fundamental difference, a tool is a tool, and people will find ways to abuse those tools, all we can reasonably do is attempt to prevent that to a reasonable extent (again going back to the glass example, we physically can’t yet make a glass that can’t be broken) and depend on external enforcement mechanisms like government.

Doesn’t help our current govt in the US is coopted by a fascist mafia Don who’s actively scamming with his own garbage coin.

Edit: I figure you might latch into my point about financial industry jobs and figured I’d point out my opinion on that concept https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17763409

They actually are that open, there’s nothing forcing it to be used only as a currency that’s why NFTs are a thing, it’s just code.

Alright on break so it’s gonna be shorter but feel free to reply if you want to continue later.

The first aspect of your reply was conflating developers of crypto and especially the initial intent with bad actors who’ve latched on and USED IT for scams, gifts, etc… I don’t see how that’s a crypto specific critique at all, people scam and grift with essentially any form of ownership or commerce, seemingly that’s just shitty human nature.

I work in the financial industry (blech but it pays the bills) and you see the same shit happen here even with the huge amounts of regulation that are applied, plus all the regulation came AFTER. Which is what I am assuming will happen with crypto as well as it continues to mature.

It’s really not all that complicated to understand/use but it’s certainly not as easy currently as just swiping a debit card, with that said though how many people do you know actually understand how their card functionally transmits money? Likely very few because you don’t really need to if it works.

The electricity usage argument is partially fair, however I would love to see how much energy is required to run the already existing non-crypto payment methods, I have never once seen a single attempt at a comparison but I would wager it’s likely extremely close.

Everything is politics because politics and the policies that come from it dictate our lives, there’s nothing more inherently political about crypto though then any other form of payment could be when put under the microscope.

On the point if “accountability is for the people who design build maintain use and moderate a program” I’d ask you to apply that logic to other things in your life.

If you had a glass cup, broke it and used the edge to cut someone, is that the fault of the glass cup designer for not making an indestructible glass cup that couldn’t possibly be used as a weapon? No right, because it’s not possible to completely control what someone else does with a product, you can build in safety guardrails all you want but someone will find a way to missus it, which is where laws come in.

On the point of forking out transactions they don’t like, that’s where you lost me entirely, that’s simply not how it works and it’d be a huge undertaking to explain why that doesn’t make sense.

Then going back to accountability you use CP as an example, do you think the users web browser should prevent them from posting CP? How could that possibly be accomplished? Goes back to my point about enforcement mechanisms outside of the system being our only real option in a ton of already existing technology, but by your logic they’re all just vehicles for misuse.

I am working so I can’t right now, but sure later I’ll give more specific critiques.

They actually improved this recently however you need a second account and add it to your family, prior it would work just like this with one account, only one user can use a game attached to a library. However now as long as it’s not the same game, it let’s you play whatever on the second account.

You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

Kind of odd to actively dislike them, the reality is everyone feels a bit different, one person’s story doesn’t invalidate others and vice versa.

Right, immediately made me think of TempleOS, where were the articles then claiming people are losing loved ones to programming fueled spiritual fantasies.

Meanwhile for centuries we’ve had religion but that’s a fine delusion for people to have according to the majority of the population.

Ironic the image is of a switch, like Nintendo has been on the cutting edge at all in the last 20+ years

Ha yeah, that’s how I got the elites functional again, took it apart and did it directly at the button, so far so good after several months.

The Xbox one/core controllers though it was usually part of the thin plastic bit that connects the bumpers (it’s all one piece for some reason…)

I blame Skyrim/Fallout and Dark Souls/ER, so much bumper pressing in those games.

I also use them A LOT, even being a PC gamer lol if it supports controller, that’s how I’m playing it.

I do think where I comfortably press it probably has to do with it.

If you think I’m like throwing them around or doing crazy stuff like that, I don’t haha.

Edit: If you look online, it’s very common for the bumpers to fail

Lol in what way are they “putting the squeeze” on developers aside from the 30% cut?

Also your prior comment that valve does nothing else is hilarious, the steam deck, steamOS, Proton, the valve index.

They do SO MUCH more.

Automatic save cloud syncing, steam remote play, steam link, the community forums, steam workshop.

Get your head out of your ass, no other platform comes close to feature parity and putting back into improving pc gaming.

Also steam DRM is laughably easy to circumvent and they haven’t shown any interest in over a decade of doing anything about it.

Wish I could agree, but the consistently broken bumpers really irritate me.

I have gone through probably 20ish Xbox controllers, the 360 controllers were the most durable (except the stick rubber bit) whereas the core and series controllers and even my elite 2 controllers have all had the bumpers break or otherwise stop functioning.

I replaces the bumpers several times manually, then with the elite 2 they changed the design but now it breaks at the actual button instead of the flimsy plastic piece like on the core/series controllers.

Luckily putting some ISO on the button and throughly cleaning it along with sticking a small piece of paper near the actuator seems to have fixed it for several months.

I would love a solid controller with Xbox style layout (particularly the thumbsticks) replaceable sticks and 4 back paddles. I think the Playstation TouchPad would also be a welcome addition for PC navigation or steam input mapping.

Lol it’s fine, their comment can be taken many ways, I just wanted to be sarcastic :p

Then use a desktop app instead, this is absolutely useful for me to host on my homelab, I can convert from any web connected device.

Yuck, thank you

But I want to trust randos with my file conversions! 😡

Who is “they”? What proof/evidence do you have this?

I literally just pointed out the only places talking like that I’ve ever seen are oddly Russian outlets, which is what was used to justify invading Ukraine in the first place.

I literally said nothing in support of Nazis, simply questioned your evidence (and am still doing so)