Right?! Steam is great if you're willing to wait. I basically don't buy games anymore unless they're 80% off or really cheap anyways.

I'd love to see that 30% go to 15 or 10, but this lawsuit is a stretch

NFTs didn't directly need GPUs really. eth did, but that's not really the same thing. NFTs didn't increase demand, the price of eth did. Same in how the price of bitcoin increased demand.

Either way, prices never came down from that, and I suspect they'll never come down from this.

A good point! In London,

1918 – Representation of the People Act This is effectively when universal male suffrage happened. All men aged 21+ could vote

1928 – Equal Franchise Act Full equality: women could vote at 21+, the same as men.

People keep making this a men vs women thing, but that's a distraction. There is no war but the class war. Don't let the owner class further divide the proletariat.

Ok. Everybody can get back to meme'n now.

You're absolutely right, but you also need to accept that most people think ai means transformers (as in, LLMs and generative/image synthesis)

It sucks, but that's how language works unfortunately. How most people use a word ends up defining it.

Recommendation systems, search and ranking algorithms, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, audio noise reduction, predictive analytics, forecasting models, fraud detection, anomaly detection, robotics control systems, self-driving path planning, robot navigation and mapping (SLAM), reinforcement-learning agents, game-playing AI, warehouse optimization, dynamic pricing models, object detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, medical image analysis, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, spam detection, classic machine-translation models, personalization engines, matching algorithms, logistics route optimization, scheduling algorithms, resource allocation models, algorithmic trading bots, risk scoring, market-making AI, healthcare diagnostics, disease-risk prediction, protein-folding models, music analysis, beat detection, autonomous drone navigation, industrial monitoring, and smart-traffic systems.

Valve understands that sometimes less is more

Lots of indie games yes, but not so many of the AAAs

Money, I guess. GabeN needed a new yatch

Zero sympathy for anybody who owns investment properties. Zero sympathy for landlords.

Highly skilled locals, too. Anecdotal, but all of the smartest people I graduated university with have left. It's a lot easier to land 400k salaries outside of Canada.

Like the previous poster, I'm not defending steam. No good billionaires, fight for the proletariat, down with the elite, etc

Not all steam games use steam DRM. It's opt in by the developer. Lots of steam games you can literally just copy out of steam onto a USB key and run it. No DRM at all.

Don't get me wrong they are skeezy in other ways (charging I indie deva 30% and big publishers less) but if you're going to criticize them, then at least criticize them for something real.