Its a common tactic taken by authoritarian organizations.

And they shouldn't care. Crying wolf works for a while, but in a few months time, people will forget nascar ever advertised guns. 

I’m not sure I get where you’re coming from. The games aren’t exclusive to Valve because of any other reason than the publishers want them there. Valve isn’t doing anything to get them there other than 1-being popular and 2- having a lot of infrastructure that helps make some things easier.

I’ve seen the defense of the Epic Game Store. Even if someone wants to say “it’s good to see competition” my reply is, yeah, I’d love to see some. Because Epic isn’t providing any. They’re not using competitive tactics that benefit the consumer in anyway, or even the devs in most instances (just the already too big…

Yes, I’m sure there would have been no outrage whatsoever if Valve hadn’t made that comment. Nobody would have taken issue with a game being pulled from Steam at the last second and placed on an objectively inferior platform. Definitely no cause for anger there.

Valve has nothing to do with third-party exclusives. If a publisher or developer chooses to make their game(s) exclusive to Steam, that’s entirely on them. Unlike Epic, Valve isn’t paying devs/pubs to remove their games from other platforms.

Don’t you fucking gaslight me, you sniveling chickenshit troll. I didn’t move any goalposts and I didn’t take Valve’s side. I directly rebuked your bullshit. Fuck off of here and go be a willfully illiterate moron someplace.

it was simply stating a fact that it was unfair to wait until after the Steam pre-orders had been processed to decide to not fulfill them...in that microcosm it makes sense...but there was also the whole bitchfest in the reviews and comments that maybe they should have considered. However they learn their lesson and…

First of all, one of your links was from before Epic turned heel. The other was Kotaku linking to Polygon’s excellent reporting.

Touche.

Which is why Kotaku’s coverage is so fucking tired on this issue. The accusation that this is Valve’s fault, that it started on Steam and not twitter/reddit/etc., is just garbage.

Is it unique and cool in some way? Sure. Is it remotely reasonable to consider as a reliable, relatively affordable year-round daily driver? Not a chance.

If he just wants a cool hobby car to start conversation and drive to the airport once in a while, great, but that’s not at all what he asked for.

I mean, it’s fun to snark and call people “basic” and whatever, but... it’s a LEGIT spice blend that’s common in many places and not just for sweet desserty things. Ras el hanout, for example, is a North African spice blend that’s delicious on grilled meats, burgers/kebabs, etc. and is basically pumpkin pie spice plus…

I don’t like nutmeg so I can’t get into pumpkin spice. But the hate is so ridiculous.

Let’s see. Husband was seriously injured in a car accident. You’ve been at the hospital with him, probably for a long period of time. You’re heading out, and just want to go home and sleep. And some asshat sticks a microphone in your face.

Immensely. Aside from the usual “right thumb never leaves right thumbstick times” benefits of not having to press any of the face buttons in games that require aiming, I also found it extra-useful in third-person action games like AC Odyssey (where A is to ascend and B is to descend/dodge) and Breath of the Wild. It…

Imagine being able to hit the reload button without having to take your thumb off the right thumbtack (i.e., you can continue aiming / scanning for targets while reloading). Regardless of whether it’s third or first person, that’s still an advantage. Same if it means you can jump or crouch without taking your thumb…