Musk is being measured against his own standard, and failing to meet it. What anyone else thinks about free speech is irrelevant, he’s being measured against what he thinks. What any other social media platform’s rules are is irrelevant, he’s being measured against the rules he set.

Musk changed the rules when he took over, to align with his opinion on free speech. If he hadn’t, we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place.

The elitist, exclusive blue tick was bad because not everyone could get it and that made some nobodies feel bad, so now the blue tick is available to anyone who wants to pay a monthly subscription for it, and instead there’s a new elitist exclusive grey tick that’s actually really good and not at all the same thing as…

I’m only going to reply to this because you’ve posted the same thing multiple times as though you think you have a point. Here’s why you don’t:

If the replies to Musk’s tweet about it are any indication, the point of the Twitter Blue program is to bilk money from Musk stans too stupid to realise they’re paying for nothing, and MAGA chuds who desperately want a little merit badge next to their name that says “I pay $8 a month to stick it to the libs”.

That’s cute that you think he believes in free speech, a day after he started banning people for jokingly naming themselves after him, and three days after he complained that “activists” using their free speech to persuade companies to use their free speech to pause their advertising was somehow an attack on free…

Maybe so, but if they stuck to just funding and didn’t try to get their fingers where they shouldn’t, I think we’d all be better off.

Not that you were generalising, but I do want to say we Australians have a pretty culturally and ethnically diverse population; the highest among western countries according to some data. It’s just that we also have shitbag racists and a pretty dark colonial past involving attempted genocide and suppression of…

It’s quite possibly the most worthless launcher in existence.

Weird to choose 14.4k modems as the threshold for people being spoiled and not 1200 baud, or computers in the first place, or electricity.

Seems like it’d be easier to have the game detect your native resolution and use that, than make a whole separate program that has to launch first to let you set the resolution manually.

That’s not correct. From day one, Steam’s purpose was digital distribution, automatic patching, and a multiplayer platform replacement for WON. DRM didn’t exist at launch. You could install eg. Half-Life through Steam and then launch it from the executable without loading Steam at all, there was no integration. You…

I wouldn’t call my personal experience atrocious (day two account), but it certainly had launch issues with choked bandwidth and some software bugs. Those were pretty much resolved in the first few months though, except for load issues with the unexpectedly big HL2 launch a year later.

Because it was “better”? (It wasn’t, for years.)

I can’t speak for Luke, but for me it’s “no more launchers” rather than “no launchers”. If you buy on Steam then it should launch directly from Steam, if you buy on EGS then it should launch directly from EGS, etc. Steam gets a pass the same way EGS or GoG does - it’s the publishers that are the problem, not the store.

I sympathise, Steam’s communication has been frustratingly slow at times. I’m just saying if you issue a chargeback they’re going to block your account, as would GoG or anyone else. It’s really not something you should crack out two weeks in to your dispute.

Can’t agree with you on this one. It’s really not uncommon for people to publicly state that the thing released is not the thing they created and was modified in ways they don’t agree with. It happens with film directors and writers all the time, when studios and publishers think they know better.

So you can avoid the pain in future, GOG and most other online vendors will also suspend your account if you issue a chargeback. It’s a last resort for when all else has failed, and they carry monetary penalties for the merchant. Especially since Steam wasn’t at fault for your issue, slugging them with a chargeback…

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That particular spot is especially shallow because it’s a small lake off the main river, that’s only fed by a creek.