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What makes them fascist? I need a detailed breakdown of their economic system 😅

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This is absurd:

it is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence, particularly among young gamers who can become numbed to grave violence before their brains are fully developed.

Quoting this [tired trope from the early 2000](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/video-game-health/201907/blame-game-violent-video-games-do-not-cause-violence)'s is bizarre and ill considered.

Sure, go after loot boxes, they're rotten to the core, mostly. Although as someone has already pointed out, it would be nice to see some consistency - also get rid of Magic the Gathering packs, Pokemon packs, Pannini packs, or anything else that's marketed to kids that is a lottery.

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Nintendo: YOU MUST CONSTRAIN YOURSELF TO *OUR* HARDWARE, IN *OUR* ECOSYSTEM PRISON, ON *OUR* TERMS IF YOU WANT THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAYING OUR GAMES *heavy breathing

PC Gamers: No problem, we'll just port it ourselves

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🍝🏎️🍄🏁

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Quoting: KimyrielleWhile I do agree that lootboxes need to be banhammered out of the gaming industry, I am curious of why they picked Valve of all companies to target first. And not, you know, the studios actually famous for predatory business practices, such as EA or Ubisoft.

It's not the lootboxes, it's the market place. Valve created a system where the contents of loot boxes can be turned back into money. This is why they are banned in The Netherlands and this is why they are the absolute worst in the gaming world. I'm not familiar with a lot of lootbox games, so there might be others, but probably where they can go after them easily.

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Quoting: KimyrielleWhile I do agree that lootboxes need to be banhammered out of the gaming industry, I am curious of why they picked Valve of all companies to target first. And not, you know, the studios actually famous for predatory business practices, such as EA or Ubisoft.

Because you have to start somewhere and AFAIk Valve:s loot box market is probably larger than EAs and Ubisofts combined.

And finally we see a real lawsuit against Valve where they are IMHO actually in the wrong.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraIE was never part of the DMA […]

Then why bring it up if there's no relevance?

That it wasn't part of the DMA doesn't mean that there is no relevance. The relevance is that the IE case was a similar case with the only different that it was under ordinary anti-competition laws since Microsoft have a clear monopoly, meanwhile the DMA is created to address issues where there does not exist a pure monopoly as such (and therefore ordinary anti-competition laws cannot be applied) but where firms/services are large enough to have such a impact that legislation is deemed necessary. The main relevance of the IE case to this discussion was to point out that there can be abuses to these laws even if the service is completely free, something that is in stark contrast with your idea that this is all about a specific cut.

Quoting: poiuzBut the Juncker Commission did not formulate the DMA. The Juncker commission conceived this kind of big tech regulation (& I think even defined the term gate keepers) and very likely in this period rule sets were defined. But the DMA itself was formalised later (2020) & will contain lobbying input from various parties (e.g. said complain from Spotify).

Doesn't change the fact the the roadmap was designed before Spotity was involved and thus again shows that you are wrong in your assumption that the DMA was instigated by Spotify.

Quoting: poiuzYou still fail to explain how the payment processing regulation is not about the cut - when you already said yourself "[they] simply do not want to give Apple any money" (i.e. it's about Apple's cut).

There are no payment procession regulation and "they" are not the legislators ("they" are the Apple customers who decides to distribute their apps on the Apple Appstore but use a different payment option for in-app purchases even if that payment processor takes a higher cut than Apple).

Aka you are confusing end users of Apple:s services here with the EU regulators. I cannot explain something that only exists in your mind, again there exists no such legislation. The legislation that exists is that a gatekeeper cannot use their gatekeeper status in one market (e.g app stores) to gain advantages in another market (e.g payment options).

Everyone who understands anti-competition legislation knows this so the outlier here with the extraordinary claim is you, so it is you that have the burden of proof to show that the DMA contains text that matches your claim (aka that they have a clause about what cut you can take), which if they existed you could do very easily since the entire directive is public. But you cannot since there exists no such text.

edit: FYI here is the text of Article 5(7) of the DMA that covers app store payment options:

7. The gatekeeper shall not require end users to use, or business users to use, to offer, or to interoperate with, an identification service, a web browser engine or a payment service, or technical services that support the provision of payment services, such as payment systems for in-app purchases, of that gatekeeper in the context of services provided by the business users using that gatekeeper’s core platform services.

Note the complete absence of any mentioning of a cut or even a definition of what a cut should or should not be.

[Article 5, Obligations for gatekeepers](https://www.eu-digital-markets-act.com/Digital_Markets_Act_Article_5.html#:~:text=7.%20The%20gatekeeper%20shall%20not%20require%20end,users%20using%20that%20gatekeeper's%20core%20platform%20services.)

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While I do agree that lootboxes need to be banhammered out of the gaming industry, I am curious of why they picked Valve of all companies to target first. And not, you know, the studios actually famous for predatory business practices, such as EA or Ubisoft.

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I really hope they don't encrypt the ROMs like they did in Capcom Arcade Stadium or Konami Arcade Classics.
I want to play my legally owned ROMs on emulators!

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If trump isn't the final boss, I'm not buying.

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Nice! Antifa simulator!

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Interesting, I find you can never have enough guitars 😄

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Quoting: ertuquequeHas anyone tried Stoat (https://stoat.chat/) or Movim (https://movim.eu/) as a replacement for Discord?... I know they are not "feature complete", but they seem to be the most phylosophically close to my ethics options so far.

I tried it, but Fluxer seems far better so far

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I have Stoat installed ... it seems fine. I don't know anyone or any games or etc that's actually using it though ... lol.

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I think I've played through GD ... 4 times? 5 times maybe? I think it's got to be one of my most-played games of all time at nearly 500 hrs. ITS SO GOOD.

About the only complaint I have on it, is that getting the best gear to really make your builds shine requires being on the highest difficulty for the drops. BUT to get to the highest difficulty you have to do the most boring thing ever of all time: slog through the game mindlessly once all the way to the end (because you don't give a shit about items or upgrades) and then after spending countless hours you will unlock the highest difficulties and you can actually start playing. Due to this I've never actually played the highest difficulty, because: aint nobody got time for that shit.

It's still mechanically, build wise, and FUN wise: one of the best arpgs ever made!

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I'll go get the Guillotine's ...!!! LETS GO

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Has anyone tried Stoat (https://stoat.chat/) or Movim (https://movim.eu/) as a replacement for Discord?... I know they are not "feature complete", but they seem to be the most phylosophically close to my ethics options so far.

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Hah, people kept telling me for years that the scalable UI "just isn't possible" every time I brought it up, and now here we are.

I'm not going to say I told you so, but....

Larger stash is also a necessity to a ridiculous degree. They've added literally thousands of items to the game since release.

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Man, it's about time. Feels like they've been on 0.9.9 for years, though I understand the issues they were facing before a big 1.0 update.

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Wish this could happen in real life. Like, right about now in the US would be great.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAll these people talking Swedish, Finnish, EU solutions . . . don't you non-North Americans realize that doing verification without letting Palantir et al. spy on you is socialism?!

I must admit, I laughed. 😁

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What? I refuse to accept that there is any other Mario Kart than the first SNES game!

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Grim Dawn is for me the best H&S from the last years. So it will be even better.

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Legends of Rock for me is Guitar Hero III. But alright I will keep an eye on it.

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Quoting: ItsRainingSomewhereFor the most part it worked fine but I would have issues with certain games failing to install due to the install scripts that get used.

I’ve always had trouble with those scripts. They’re outdated mostly. Just using the .exe installer works best for me. No issues at all.
Gotta say, though, Heroic does feel a lot more polished.

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Insta-wishlist! Anyone remember [Rockstar Ate My Hamster](https://thecodemastersarchive.co.uk/playonline/player.php?core=puae&rom=%2Fplayonline%2Froms%2Famiga%2Fcodemasters%2F18%2B%20Rock%20Star%20Ate%20My%20Hamster.adf&title=18%2B%20Rock%20Star%20Ate%20My%20Hamster&autostart=1)?

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Quoting: Serg86On top of that Bill Gates supposedly sold his shares in Microsoft...

Just transferred to foundation or some equity and investment management agency/company. Look who biggest shareholder MSFT, then look up who have biggest stake in those shareholder... and so on, peel the onion.

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A game more needed than ever.

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I find it interesting that Valve is getting hammered with lawsuits all over the world, just as they are about to come out with more SteamOS devices. Microsoft has had a very rough time lately, Windows marketshare has declined over 20% in the last 10 years alone, Windows 11 is generating bad headlines almost every single day, Linux performance comparison videos have started to reach even mainstream gamers. On top of that Bill Gates supposedly sold his shares in Microsoft... you round it all up and it spells nothing positive for Microsoft, or Windows.

I wouldn't put it past them to use their wealth to create legal headaches for Valve. With what they have pulled in the past this is relatively mild.

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Let's see if they will file the same lawsuit against every company having lootboxes in their games that could be bought for real money (almost every F2P game has something like that) or if it's just targeted against Valve.

But I agree that the market is bad idea and the things shouldn't be even allowed to be sold to somebody else as that really promotes gambling. I knew few people that already are gambling with lootboxes in hope that they will drop something with a big price on Steam Marketplace.

On the other hand I would love to see an ability to sold old games from library on market. That makes much more sense to me.

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