Yep, and “vote for X because we can’t let Y win” is pretty much equally as illegitimate.

Adam Baldwin.

It’s also designed to make people overspend, and then spend more in hopes of zeroing out the balance. “Our stuff costs 500 fun points. Do you want to buy some? Our smallest package is 700 fun points” and conveniently the only way to round out to a 500-multiple so you don’t feel like you’ve wasted a few bucks worth of…

Hotz did a stream about a year ago where he was trying to learn React, and it was pretty messy. Not just making “new to React” mistakes, but “new to programming” mistakes.

You could have asked first, instead of declaring the comments hilarious. It kinda undermines your authenticity when that’s how you come out of the gate on an issue you apparently agree you’re not across.

Musk stans sealioning in the greys can stay there, but on the off-chance you’re actually confused as to what’s naive here, imagine saying Trump was just “a man trying to run a country”, or Weinstein  was “just an executive running a company”.

You’re right, comments like yours are hilarious. This level of naivete from you could only be parody.

Seems like Hotz reduced himself to this when he praised Musk’s illegal “hardcore or fired” nonsense and offered to work for three months for no pay.

It isn’t, although obviously some shitbags can use it as a slur the same way they use ‘woke’.

The Assassin’s Creed publisher has confirmed with Kotaku that its future games coming to Steam will still require users to create Ubisoft Connect accounts. It also confirmed players will have to have Ubisoft Connect installed to access and play games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Steam.

Fair enough, but I don’t think that undermines the last part. ‘Addressed’ implies it was somehow resolved, as though his sexism was excusable because he was provoked.

So he claims, but there doesn’t seem to be a clip that would back that up. There’s a comment that “only the white characters can heal” but it’s not clear from the context if that’s racism directed at him or a valid observation of the game’s makeup.

They’re also branded on the front with a “30th edition” set logo.

I mainly wanted to push back on the idea that Valve had intended Steam to be a DRM platform from the start. Believing that to be true casts Valve’s intent in a dimmer light than it deserves; DRM was very much an afterthought for them.

I sympathise with your experience, and I agree Valve’s communication has been terrible in the past. It’s perfectly reasonable for you to be distrustful of the company, and saying this in no way diminishes what happened to you, but I think your experience was somewhat rare. If they were going to reject a refund it was…

Something tells me you’ve never tried to contact Valve directly about anything.

I’ve pointed out the X axis problem with people’s “inverted Y” arguments before, glad to see someone else who understands it. If you’re treating the stick like a thumb on the back of your head or a tripod handle, you have to invert both axes for it to make sense - when you push the tripod stick right, the camera turns…

Couldn’t disagree more, Alyssa. The Hearthstone-style approach (yes, I know they weren’t the first) of limiting message content to preset options has been a breath of fresh air after dealing with spiralling toxicity for over a decade, both as a player and as an admin/community manager in the past trying to deal with…

I was wondering about that. It reads a bit like the people who complain about “those damn anti-fascists”.

I’m aware you didn’t say legal benefit, I did. By ‘legal benefit’ I mean a benefit as defined by the law. Most state criminal impersonation laws I’ve seen require intent to receive benefit, defraud, or conduct another unlawful act. Some jurisdictions (eg. Nebraska) qualify ‘benefit’ as pecuniary only.