The fact that you seem to think it’s acceptable to introduce sexual content without people’s consent speaks for itself, creep.

No, but people broadcasting their kink into a normal conversation without the consent of those people is. That’s harassment, try to wrap your head around that. Consent is important, even in a conversation, and demanding consent isn’t kinkshaming, you dunce.

My point was that “discretion” means having a conversation in the appropriate climate, not waving your kink flag around in an unrelated or unwanted discussion. Which is very much like harassing women, or men, or whoever else, because they did not consent to hear about your sex life. Which is apparently kink shaming or…

Which is why I stated that discretion is fucking important. Grow up. Accept that there’s fucking nuance.

Heh, glad somebody caught it.

No, it’s not, it’s telling people to not push their kink into unrelated conversations. It’s one thing to be casual and positive about your kink. It’s another to make unsolicited comments towards other people. Sexual harassment is a thing.

There is a difference between having a healthy conversation and inserting your kink into an unrelated conversation. Unless, of course, you support unsolicited lewd comments towards women.

Nothing in that comment was shaming folks for being into Lady D. Just for going on about it endlessly. Keep your kink, just don’t dominate every discussion with it.

There’s a line between having a kink and openly flaunting it at every opportunity. Pushing your personal libido into the forefront of every conversation is what “indiscrete” means. 

There’s a lot of people here getting hung up on the “porn” side of things and missing the point, I think. The Epic store is hosting another app store, just as Epic wants Apple to host the Epic store. That other app store is hosting content in violation of Epic’s own policies, just as the Epic store could with Apple’s…

That’s assuming human proportions, however. There’s a lot of engineering leeway involved there, from the dimensions of the supporting structure to the design of the feet for spreading that mass out, or even the use of more expensive/exotic materials that are lighter and stronger. There’s a lot of basic engineering…

The price of consoles would have to rise considerably to offset the cost of the consoles at that point, so they’d fight that change kicking and screaming the whole way.

It took them until 2019 to add ADVENT, and they still don’t have Zork on there, so there’s that. I don’t think they are really doing any deep cuts into what made the more popular games what they were.

Except that’s not an accurate metaphor. It’s more like MasterCard built the town themselves with their own money, labor, and resources, complete with an HOA which provides security and upkeep, but requires that their services be used by people who buy a home there, and tell them that in advance, so everybody buying…

The argument was that Epic’s policies are “good for developers.” That argument is flat out false. The fact that you can’t stay on topic on the argument and instead want to shift the blame shows how badly you realize that that is a failed argument. Exclusivity contracts do not benefit developers with publishers, and…

As rogueIndy said, the idea that the devs are the ones that benefit is the point being refuted. It doesn’t matter if it’s because of the publishers, that’s who Epic is making deals with. Not the devs. If Epic actually cared about the devs as they claimed, they could put in contractual stipulations that the devs see…

Yeah, you’re not familiar with the publisher/developer relationship. Devs only benefit as far as their contracts, which generally don’t include such things as “Epic bought exclusivity” as part of it. They get set pay, and maybe a bonus if the game sells well. Even that is frequently turned on them. Publishers are only…

That’s a good question, but so far, nobody has actually tried to offer a better product. Valve has been constantly investing in and improving Steam, offering a wide variety of features. Some of them (like library management) still need more work, but nobody has managed to offer anything better yet. Between the Linux…

You don’t read very well, do you. Larger devs. Those with publishers. Which is most developers. Small developers who aren’t currently being published could see some of that money, but other than them, nobody else benefits except publishers. Certainly not consumers.

Yeah, they did have competition, brick and mortar stores, which were the standard at the time. That’s a high barrier to getting started. Fortnite is still one of the most popular games out there, requiring access to the Epic Store alone would have gotten them a starting audience. Spending a billion dollars on…