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lol @ you for saying they are defending themselves from nothing. There’s no way it would ever be nothing. And on top of this, implying that going exclusive is doing something wrong is ridiculous. 

As reasonable as your arguments are, I can’t help but roll my eyes at people who give that much shit about having to launch a different app to play their games that they’d argue with people on the internet over it. Do people not play Blizzard games because they aren’t on Steam?

Good lord I hate this bullshit about “what has the store done for me, lately?”

i mean, if i gave a shit what people like you thought, i’d have a pretty unsuccessful business

“but I’m not okay with installing a Tencent-owned piece of software on my computer for a whole slew of reasons”

I wouldn’t call that misleading. They tried something 3.5 years ago and seem to have completely re-launched with a much larger push now. Would it have been better to re-launch it with all the same features as Steam? Sure! But I don’t think that had put as much stock into this as they did only recently.

1. What does the store offer that’s better than what’s out now? Why is the store valuable to consumers now?

I didn’t read it as ‘at least we’re not Hitler’, mostly because that’s a strawman you just created, but more of a ‘grow the fuck up, just install another launcher on your PC, it’s not a big deal, stop the incessant whinging’, which I think is pretty reasonable and I respect them for having the stones to say it.

“been on their Discord a long while now”

“[Epic] offered us a minimum guarantee on sales that would match what we’d be wanting to earn if we were just selling Ooblets across all the stores. That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail “ 

This right here is a win for Epic, a win for the…

Good move. Games and their related streamers don’t stay relevant forever. Better cash in on big exclusivity deal while you can.

I discovered Blazing Chrome in the game pass library, and it’s pretty amazing if you like Contra.

Where the fuck is Omar when we really need him?  That’s what I want to know.  Somebody needs to get got.

The most annoying thing is that the press can’t/won’t say “quit lying”. Hell, even a “that’s not remotely true” would be hard push back against Trump. These are the kinda lies that get brown and black kids smacked upside the head.

It’s not about the nipples, it’s about the female boobs.

I mean, TV news anchors also don’t usually drink or eat on the air, but that doesn’t mean such activities should be forbidden on a stream. Breastfeeding is literally milk drinking.

It *can* be tender and intimate, but it is also often a painful, messy, frustrating, utilitarian endeavor that has to happen whether Mom feels up to it or not.

I cannot drink a Slurpee without giving myself an ice cream headache from drinking it too fast. And then when it goes away, I immediately drink it too fast yet again and I get another one. This doesn’t however stop me from getting them. I have the mind of a Labrador Retriever I guess. I must devour it. I just can’t…

Kate, you've described my Slurpee style. For a while, my store had a Cherry Coke flavor, and it was vastly inferior to the Coke/Cherry mix.