aphonefriend

@aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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That's not what a monopoly is.

Epic had all the money in the world and tons of time (and users) to create a viable alternative. They didn't fail because valve squeezed them out, they failed because they refuse to improve their product. In fact, it could be said that Epic wanted to become the monopoly themselves. If they spent half as much effort on their product as they do on lawsuits and exclusivity deals, they would have been a viable competitor. But they didn't. At the end of the day, it sucks to use. Steam does not.

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If a service ever says discord only when I try to login, that service no longer exists. Find an alternative or make do without it.

Was this case dismissed? Still ongoing? How is there not more on this? This would be prison for anyone else no question.

Opinions aside, that's still not the legal definition of a monopoly.

Monopoly: Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service.

Valve does not have exclusive control of the PC gaming market. The EGS funded lawsuit even says that in the docket. They are only suing on the grounds of the keys issue. I don't disagree with you that when Newell leaves, things COULD change, but you can't base the present on the possible future. At this time, steam is on "top" because the vast majority of users have voted with their wallet and time. Not because they are engaged in sweeping anti-competitive backdoor dealings. You know, like EGS does.

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Played Terraria recently and this concept you speak of shined in it. Almost forgot how fun discovering new things as you play the actual game was.

Isabelle from animal crossing rip and tear when?

Look at this smug assholes face. He knows damn well they won't be doing anything of the sort unless it increases their profit margins. And he also knows damn well the government won't do anything to seriously hinder their margins.

Bread and circuses. This is just another show. You want change? Stop using Microsoft. Period.

Fallout was right.

Keanu Reeves

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What are you talking about? The current congress is incredibly effective. They just have way more important things to focus on then whatever you peasants are yammering about. Like banning tiktok.

Cocaine will do that to you.

Warframe is my go to when I just want to blast tunes and murder everything without too much thought.

End of the world? Sounds like the end of capitalism to me. Where do we sign up?

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Trust us bro. We won't send it anywhere. 🤞

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. I blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. I draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

Some are unaware, but most are actively stupid. Bring this topic up in any helldiver's thread and you'll get down voted to oblivion.

The end can't come soon enough.

Except that we don't hold politicians accountable for Jack shit. So in the end the billionaires would just pay the politicians to pretend the government owns it while getting all the decision making back through bribes lobbying

No more cardboard derivatives.

Come inside for a free consultation.

Not to mention the kernel level anti cheat there too.

That third comment aged like a nice, fine glass of milk.

Have him try deadlock. Valve is a much better option.

If it's outlook you can access it from "webmail.your companydomain.com/edu/org" from any browser. That way you don't need teams on your phone either.

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It's this. They don't care if you, the user, don't like it anymore. That's irrelevant to MSoft. The big corpo dollars are all they pay attention to. And it's really easy to sell a c suite and middle managers on their new click counter 3000 embedded in the next version of teams. Any way to monitor the employees and show useless metrics without having to actually do their jobs.

That's fair. The last gens were pretty "dumb" but your point is still valid.

Chrome cast still works too. Just grab the last gen versions.

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Get friends with better values.