Guess OP should just go homeless lol

Imagine reading the post before leaving a judgemental comment

I see 0 reason to buy a used game over pirating it so I don’t really see what was lost. In both cases the devs get nothing, and buying from someone else is a hassle, and having large physical media instead of just some files is also annoying.

If we didn’t have steam we’d instead have the fucking epic games store or EA origin (or whatever they renamed it to). Just because valve isn’t perfect doesn’t mean any publically traded company wouldn’t have been so much worse. And they also did plenty of actual positives with SteamOS, Steam Deck, being the first to push consumer VR with the Vive…

Valve said they’re actively working with nvidia to support their gpus. While I’m sure valve hardware will always be the primary concern, they seem to actively pursue the goal of SteamOS being more widely compatible.

100ms more is absolutely enough to be massive because it just subtracts from however long you need to recognize the other player after they become visible. Not to mention that in slower paced shooters, people might just remain stationary near a corner for very long, and you can’t magically know when they start to move. Also in games where you can die with one well placed shot it could be 10ms and still be a significant advantage because you just need to be faster than your opponent.

Afaik valorant does try to not send any info that won’t be needed, that doesn’t mean it’s immune to wallhacks, it just limits their effectiveness.

It died from matchmaking. Skill based MM helps a little but you still get people with different goals in the same game. Back when multiplayer was predominantly player hosted lobbies/servers, it was easy enough to find others that want to play the same way you do. And the same player could easily hop between servers depending on current mood. Now you get matched with some randoms and have to just deal with it.

They cannot if you back it up to a folder outside of the steam directory. Provided of course the game doesn’t use Steam’s DRM.

I don’t think I can think of a software where I find the menu more confusing than in MS office products. But then again I’m probably not using computers like the average person.

Ok, maybe blender, but that also has so many more options that it’s not a fair comparison

Online activation requirements. Physical media going away is really just a symptom, DRM is the actual issue. Games have always been just a license, what changed is that the licenses are no longer transferable and irrevokable. (They might even still be legally irrevokable, not sure, but they can just shut down drm servers and you can’t install).

Ofc DRM-free steam games or GOG games etc. aren’t transferable either, but the main issue for most people is clearly that they might lose access.

Consoles could just include a feature to back up game install files to USB storage or NAS and losing disks becomes irrelevant, but DRM will always fuck the customer in the ass.

Sissy in particular likely stems from the social taboo of not performing to your gender’s role, it’s just a form of humiliation kink. Might be more common in closeted/egg transfems because it’s a somewhat safer way of being feminine in a context, it just happens to be sexual.

And crossdressing is a super wide term anyway but in a sexual context I’d think it’s just roleplay

Yes but the temp mentioned was higher than that, so really we just all agree on this

Reading comprehension, how does it work?

I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money

I don’t disagree entirely but removing clothing stops being an option at some point and if I’m expected to get work done I’ll be far better at it if the temperature isn’t making me miserable

If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.

I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.

My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What’s worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it’s above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.

This might surprise you but people’s perception of temperature varies wildly. 25 degrees for me is fine without clothing, but that’s not really an option in the office. I’ll survive, but it noticably drains my energy and impairs my ability to work.

Conversely I could say anyone should be fine with 15C inside during winter, but a lot of people would disagree with that too I’d imagine.

That still doesn’t excuse that level of wastefulness whatsoever. Oh no, a mild inconvenience!

I just wanna add for humor and to prove the point that I am not voting blue because blue here is the fashos. Because not everywhere is the US, and if that slogan escapes places where everyone expects US-defaultism, things could get very funny.

Statement: “There is no indication that the human brain cannot be modeled as a turing machine”

To disprove this, evidence to the contrary is required. It’s not at all the same as saying “The human brain can be modeled as a turing machine”. In that case they would need to prove that.

We simply do not know. Humans cling to their idea of somehow being “special” very hard with thought experiments like chinese room, and at all points neglect that there is no evidence that a human brain is actually different.

Generally I’d argue that the continuous nature of animal brains makes them quite fundamentally different from the very much discrete states of anything we program, but that still doesn’t mean it’d be impossible to simulate.

Even with an announcement ahead of time it’s so much better imo. Doesn’t penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it’s the middle of the night.

Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it’s so much fairer.

Artificial semination is key to commercial animal agriculture, and that too would be unambiguously rape in human standards. Not to mention the horrific living conditions of most animals farmed for meat.

It’s really just because one has always been normal, and the other hasn’t, aka it’s cultural. It’s not rational. Though there’s also arguably far more benefit in killing for meat vs. having sex with dubious consent, so that can be a consideration that isn’t purely cultural.