No, now you have two more people inspired to shoot Israeli soldiers and civilians. It’s like you don’t even understand how people’s minds actually work.

This is how Russia and China stack the deck against the West. If we want to defeat the world from shitty governments we have to start with our own.

This is just another parameter that will now be built into future chat software; no high level control over channels or groups by any central authority. The Internet will route around all obstacles.

This is the fascist playbook.

Wait until they discover Hamas is funded by Netanjahu. Then the investigation will quietly sputter out.

Much of this is also likely to be disappearing before it even reaches the military; there have been gripes about it on Twitter many months ago already.

The concept of desiring continuous economic growth needs to die.

Or in the USA. Remember Jimmy Carter claiming the USA is just a collection of oligopolies? Ya.

Correct. In fact, this applies wage pressure upward because employees no longer feel the necessity to stick with a shit-paying job.

Those prices were going to go up anyway. They’ve been doing so for years before and after that credit.

This is a reflection of big budgets for games growing over time. Customers demand more, costs go up.

History has proven time and time again that this is the worst possible way to do that. Israel is either stupid or is acting intentionally with another purpose.

Just a reminder that unsustainable world population growth is bad. Fewer people is good for everyone and our planet.

If you don’t understand why someone is offended you can’t possibly explain why what you did wasn’t acceptable.

This is actually a huge joke on the film and television industry. Back when Napster blew up the music industry was in a full panic that their industry would die while film and TV were cozy because the media was too large to mass-pirate compared to music.

The music guys figured it out. Cheap subscriptions with massive catalogues that don’t disappear.

Movie and TV still hasn’t figured this out.

Regarding gambling, it’s not quite so simple. Valve doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Many rich people see what goes on in that ecosystem and they lobby their governments to make it easier for themselves to do even more audacious things. Valve can lead by example instead of opening the door

If you didn’t sample 4chan in that time you missed out on a lot of Internet culture. Not everyone posting on there was. It was really entertaining to watch the shitshow.

Do you think any indie developer has the means to achieve a lower cost to distribution and promotion if they try to sell and support the game themselves?

Valve solves many problems for developers and these problems aren’t imaginary and free to resolve.

Not saying 30% is justified for all games, but if you want a quality title it’s going to cost more than just development. Since the Unity debacle we’ve seen some developers even say openly that costs of promotion and support dwarf costs of development.

Yes.

That may have been true if this resulted from the operation of a non corrupt free market, but this is instead China.