Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

If you sell your game through Steam, you cannot have it cheaper anywhere else. Even DRM free version on your website. Even temporary sales.

I don’t see anything about this in their docs. The closest is “You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.”

That seems reasonable. If you’re selling DRM-free, you don’t generate steam keys, and valve has no stake in it.

I recently knew two people who came to the US recently.

One was from India, and he came for the money. He has a low six figure job as a “product manager” and the CEO’s toady. He’s quite ignorant of US politics and history, so he’s not really concerned.

The other came from canada, but also has EU residency (or citizenship? unclear). He said he makes more money here. He’s making mid six figures as a software engineer at a startup, with poor work/life balance. He can always leave, since his parents own a house in germany.

Neither were coming here like an old timey tale of immigrants trying to find a better life.

I sincerely believe that being rich is bad some kinds of intelligence You don’t have to deal with problems. You just brute force your way through with money. You don’t have to practice restraint and delayed gratification. You can just buy the thing now.

I’ve never heard of this person before but he sounds like a trash bag.

The people who really want racist/sexist/etc comics are free to make their own instance or community. This is the fediverse. There’s no government with guns or CEO to lock it down.

If that stuff makes for a better community, it will do just fine. I expect it won’t.

One of the things right-wingers push for is the idea that they’re normal and healthy, and everyone else is deficient. Like everything else from the right, it’s projection.

I had a really good DND group during the pandemic. Probably the best game I ever ran. But it was online, and when the pandemic called down they all just drifted away. Very sad about it, honestly.

“wearing all black doesn’t make you cool, but it probably doesn’t hurt and I think you’re kind of cool anyway” - no men:
https://no-men.bandcamp.com/track/w-a-b-d-m-y-c

My cat hasn’t done hairballs during intimate times lately, but he has done “HIGH SPEED LAPS” that include jumping onto the bed as part of his circuit.

I remember when the internet was new, I’d make friends with random people I’d “meet”. Like, I’d play Diablo with some rando on battle.net and then we’d stay in touch. Now it seems more ephemeral. Maybe it’s just because I’m older.

That isn’t how this works.

It doesn’t start with the most vile filth. It starts with slightly edgy jokes, employs irony, and works slowly towards getting you to believe whatever racist slop they’re selling. “The alt right playbook” was a youtube series from like a decade ago that covers some of this. I don’t usually like youtube videos, but that one I make an exception for.

Republicans value in-group loyalty more than anything else. That usually is part of conservatism.

Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you’re being robbed.

They’re porting it to a movie before PC, huh.

People don’t understand things but that doesn’t stop them feeling ways about it.

Also the US tax system seems complicated and error prone.

Even if it was dirt cheap, I don’t want to give microsoft my money. I don’t want to rent games or get stuck with a subscription.

Make a new space with your own rules

That’s what’s happening here and you’re whining about it. Follow your own advice.

My big problem with censorship is that it dulls the mind. Safe spaces do the same thing. If your thoughts and beliefs are never questioned, you can never grow as a person. Echo chambers are breeding grounds for ignorance. Our world is not tolerant of ignorance. Being unable to react appropriately to emotionally inflammatory bait makes us all weaker on an emotional level.

Also this is nonsense. Some topics don’t need to be relitigated. No one benefits from giving “maybe {racist trope} is real” a platform and legitimacy.

Furthermore, allowing stuff like Nazi ideas is corrosive to the community. Like the anecdote about the Nazi bar posted elsewhere, if you let that stuff in then you end up with all the other people leaving.

You are wrong and your ideas are counter productive for maintaining a vibrant community. Many left wing spaces ban Nazi apologia, and have no shortage of debate and competing thought.

Claiming your opponents are just emotionally weak is also laughable. You sound like a real sad sack neo-nazi incel projecting his own shortcomings.

So the individuals running a forum cannot moderate the forum. It must be open to any and all content. Otherwise that is censorship, and bad.

Well, I infer from your tone you think censorship is always bad. Maybe you’re just splitting a hair about how in a sense content moderation is censorship.

because the community can’t regulate their own emotions is censorship.

The biggest eyeroll

If it was that easy to get to trump, I assume someone would have door-dash’d him something lethal already.

I don’t think it matters. It’s like sports. They might have a particular manager or player but they still love the team.