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Tim’s strategy seems to be “Whatever Valve drops, we take because we feel Valve is missing out on something BIG! It’ll make US look great!”

And while the sad truth of the matter could very well be a maybe, depending on how the pure-epic userbase are over there towards it, it still pales to everything Steam has been built to be.

Oh are they finally running out of that oil money they’re known for?

If so, good, stop throwing your damn weight around and contaminate whatever you touch.

When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.

You’re on the money with this one.

ADHD, Depression and Anxiety is stupid common for this very reason. People self-diagnose themselves all of the time, too afraid to go to therapists because maybe there’s a good chance that the therapist might tell them that they’re wrong and over-blowing themselves about what they think they have.

I sympathize with actual mental health sufferers, who have had their care stalled and stagnated, because a lot of these self-diagnosing types are blurring the lines.

Then when you try educating the fakers, out come the accusations that you “hate people who suffer mentally” and that “you don’t understand.”

Oh we do, we’re waiting for you to finally come around!

I really wish this was the norm. I never understood why the lights have to be so damn bright, why the music has to be loud and repetitive and just general noise. I remember having gone to Wal-Mart when they once were 24/7 and going in at 2 in the morning to shop was pure damn bliss. Much better than the times I’ve gone in and people are stupid, noisy and in your way all of the time.

Despite Chuck Berry predating them by 2 years. Elvis, Buddy Holly and several others making their crafts.

It was exactly the same case for metal music. Black Sabbath is hailed as the founders of Metal music, but there had already been seeds planted for the genre to blossom anyways before they were a thing.

The thing about inventions is that, a fair amount of them will have a name tied to it who you’ve never ever heard before. But you’ll most likely believe the name that is tied to it but should be more credited with refining the invention to what it would be. And one poster clearly explained that.

There will always be someone somewhere inventing something, but there’s also opportunists out there ready to pounce, take up the invention, patent it before someone else does and run away with the credit.

Man, look at most of these well-off parents splurging on their kids. Are you sure the economy is in the sinker? /s

Roblox’s problem is that it is lead by the wrong people.

I noticed a fair bit of anime adaptations borrow that mechanic, that being one of them.

Berserk: Band of the Hawk is another.

How about Chromebooks in general just die?

Except people are going to still buy those games, still complain for something to be done and when the potential resolution is there, they’ll go “I DON’T WANT IT!” and just cycle through.

Fuck sakes, some people…

As long as moral constraint is prominent, there will always be an eternal struggle with peace and violence.

Someone who wants to do good, will fear of doing what’s necessary, even if it includes violence.

And authority is another constraint, we can’t just simply dispose of those who we absolutely know for certain, are irredeemable that resolves things through violence. Because justice, due process, yadda yadda

Make disposable e-mails.

I have two.

1. The Culture

I do not claim to be a ‘gamer’. I prefer to be best described as someone who plays games, but not nearly as often as one branded a ‘gamer’ would play games by. But I’ve been partly turned off from video games because of the culture surrounding them. The streamers who play games, the RGB droolers, the tech-junkies, the whales, the hype-train types, the multi-hour essay level of delivering an opinion on a game .etc

Not to mention, all of the gamer-branded merchandise from chairs to even drinks. It just turns me off and I do not ever associate with that crowd and it’s a damn shame there is so much gullibility with the culture that it is difficult to avoid.

2. Game-Padding

Side-quest after side-quest does a game not make. That kind of thing is what you’d find in an MMO that needs to find things for you to do. Not in a more constrained container of a game that has a fixed story, a fixed completion rate and everything. All it tells me is that the developers did not think of or have had any faith in what they were making.

I wanted to love Monster Hunter World, but jesus, I could not skip anything on it.

Sorry Valve, but you are delusional here. This is going to bite you in the ass like Artifact did.

I don’t see the angle of the argument where people are saying that Valve is just going to eat the loss per sale of this machine. My question is - why bother? Because they’re going to just bank on the goodwill built up with the Steam userbase and rely on them to buy games to make up the losses, which by the way the prices on even Steam’s holiday sales have been quite underwhelming these past few years. So I don’t get why they would bank on that when it is again underwhelming.

The freaking device is 40% fan, lol.