Ænima

Wow, that title was a rollercoaster!

It is a 2014 Ford Escape. But this is not the only experience of this sort that I’ve had with Ford.

This may be different. Protests were not partisan. There was uproar from those without deep pockets across the whole spectrum. While I don’t doubt some dipshits will still do it, it’ll probably be fewer than other, more hyper-partisan issues.

It’s worse when you consider the state of the world and the warming. They’d have about 20 sq\km of land capable of supporting them and they’d have to share it with those psychos, polar bears.

The worst* make of cars is now hoping to fuck over their consumers even more.

* can’t change the fucking battery unless you take half the fucking engine area apart.

I’ll switch when Windows 10 is no longer supported. Or just before.

Man fuck Pelosi. She’s just worried about being unable to insider-trade her privileged position to wealth. If the play’s not broken, why would they change a damn thing. Fuck these ghouls!

Wrong comment, sorry.

You forgot to put “millionaire” in quotes.

The last '20s sucked also. All of this has happened before, and it’ll all happen again, but this time with ads and AI!!

Too bad polio wasn’t a better shot.

Funnier if they meant it as a burn for Elon having a picture where he looks like the “videogame prodigy” from Grandma’s Boy.

Communists?

Wonder if the cables replaced by OP were user-made, not commercial cables, that were our together incorrectly.

Real question. If the vice presidential duty is to ceremoniously sign off on delegate votes, how will that work if Kamala is the VP, but also on the ticket? I could see these MAGA nuts using that to drum up support for a stolen election, they tried it when Pence was VP, and he wasn’t an electee.

That’s crazy! When I was in the guard, we had E-7+ that would squat their position just to retire as that rank. I know he had started his family around then, but wow that’s almost unheard of.

That dude is fucking dedicated to his family. That, right there, should be enough to prove he’s genuine and not just blowing smoke. To give up that pension to dedicate time and safety for family is aspiring! This is what a true Chad looks like.

… or got captured or won a Medal of Honor or didn’t vote for him (probably).

That’s the same for any digital platform, though. Literally, any gaming store except for GOG won’t let you take your library with you. You don’t own the game as far as any of them are concerned. You’re claiming Steam is some kind of monster because their platform for games you don’t own is better than other platforms for games you don’t own. Because their platform doesn’t sucks, it earns them a lot of business. That’s it. That’s the magic sauce.

With options, if Stream sucked, people would go elsewhere.

If Steam had anything resembling a monopoly they’d do everything they could to remove platforms offering the same games. The number of platforms has only expanded since they started.

If Stream was a monopoly, they’d not only undercut others, they’d pay for exclusivity rights. Steam let’s developers sell their own keys from anywhere the developer wants, while taking no cut when that happens, even though Steam still has to front the bandwidth and storage for the game to be played.

If Steam was a monopoly, they’d buy up smaller firms, buy businesses with similar, but competing services, or take another company’s product, reverse engineer it, and make their own undercutting the original. They’ve done the opposite at every turn.

You really don’t understand monopolistic tactics. You’re not going to understand it, either, since you’ve continues to conflate good business decisions that earn trust and adoption with anti-consumer practices. Steam makes good business decisions, listens to their customers and developers about ways to make the service or products better, and has more business because of it. They have a better product without stooping to the air a in lot of current businesses are pulling.

That’s it. 70% market dominance doesn’t fucking matter. They could have 90% and it still wouldn’t be a monopoly with their current strategy. Other businesses need to suck less.

You’re either a troll, extremely young, naive, and/or uneducated if you think my comment above is in defense of billionaires. I literally have comments in my history to the absolute opposite*. What I’m “defending” is the definition of a monopoly when it comes to business practices; of which Valve has exuded none of the behavior of.

You think any business doing well, providing quality goods and services, not being anti-consumer, and being the most trusted platform for gaming as a result is the definition of a monopoly. Again, you use fallacy to try and argue a point.

Wait… Are you that dickhead from Epic who pays for exclusivity rights, steaks user data from Steam files, or something? I could see that guy being pissed at Steam for seemingly no reason.

* one such comment, if I recall, is about how much I hated Steam when it first came out for killing LAN parties by locking down CD keys.