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[–] 139 points 1 month ago (57 children)

Steam. Apparently I'm supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin' saints.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yeah, it's one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also.. other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Do other launchers have the workshop functionality to add mods directly from their launcher? That's been something I love about steam

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    All the ones I can think of are for individual games rather than general launchers lol. And third party mod launchers that you have to add your own games obtained elsewhere :p

    For me steam input the big one that pulls me towards steam; seamless proton integration too, but that one I could handle losing, steam input on the other hand I think is one of the best input remappers out there, I even added all my non-steam games to steam to make use of it too haha

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Yeah, I saw an article about Epic's CEO having a gormless rant about Steams AI filtering and how but Steam was for them.

    All I could think was: "well, make a better product then"

    GOG Galaxy is the only launcher / storefront that comes close to competing with Steam, and that is because the one thing they do better:

    DRM-free games.

    The rest is about equal or slightly worse.

    If Epic looked at the customer base and analyzed what people wanted I am sure they could build a better platform than Steam, but with a CEO as unlikable as Epic's and with his trackrecord it would take many years of hard work and effort to even begin to come close to Steam.

    It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.

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    [–] 104 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

    Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn't care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.

    I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald's or any other company with shitty products I don't engage with.

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    [–] 77 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Trans people: I don't care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you're done.

    Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you're trying to make it my business (in which case, I'm flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its "wrong", just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    I have met 4 Trans people in my entire life, and they are just normal kind people. They're not cheating at sports, or being weird in bathrooms, or anything people are fearmongering; they just want to live their life comfortable in their bodies

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    [–] 73 points 1 month ago (21 children)

    Star Trek vs Star Wars. I like both.

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    [–] 71 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    It's more that the internet demands that I'm constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just... don't.

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    [–] 66 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.

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    [–] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Usually anything to do with celebrity drama. While it's not that common on Lemmy, the rest of the pop internet seems infatuated with what actor/musician threw shade or dissed some other, or which diva is being treated SO unfairly...

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    [–] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Cultural appropriation.

    So... You're offended. People are living out of their cars now. I'm more worried about that.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn't do that much problematic shit compared to the others.

    Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.

    I really don't think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.

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    [–] 46 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Sony discontinuing physical media.

    I haven't bought a physical game for any platform in I don't even know how many years and I doubt I ever will again.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It's a little weird people make it about physical games, it's not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It's about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.

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    [–] 42 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    The moral failings of celebrities and creators who've been dead for decades.

    Save your outrage for things that are happening now, that you still have a chance to change.

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    [+] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)
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    [–] 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Pineapple on pizza. I don't even like it that much but holy shit, shut the fuck up about it. You must have zero personality if you think it bring it up

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Stop killing games. I'm not saying it's a bad or wrong stance, just that there are so many other way more important things taking up all my fucks that I'm all out of fucks for that one.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Almost any single thing about movies or shows. I don't consume either and literally could not care less about any of it. Double whammy with superhero stuff.

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    [–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's rare for me to be outraged by anything. I'm capable of not liking things while not being emotionally captured by them.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    "Shitlibs"

    Weird fuckin' american paradigm. I've simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    The trend is dying out but, I never understood the labubu hate. It seems like the people who hate them dont even hate the worst aspect of labubus; blind box gambling. I just couldnt seem to find the rational of visceral reaction to a doll.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don't care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.

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