DingoBilly @ DingoBilly @lemmy.world

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Lol. This is a cute idea but we all know it will go through enshittification with time. You are naive if you believe otherwise.

Ahh so you're oblivious and don't realize you're watching ads. Not sure if that's a good thing.

I run ad blockers on everything, at a software and network level and still see ads from time to time. Let alone my friend posting on social media how great a product is they're sponsored to promote which is an ad.

You can block a majority of them but it's impossible to block them all, and you're delirious if you think you have unless you severely restrict your interactions with Internet-connected services or have spent days tinkering/blocking out most content.

Pretty interesting, toilets haven't really changed much for decades but I could see a bunch of ways they could provide useful information to you.

Lol at the bloomers in the other threads though who hate change.

Well you sell the car so it's net the same...

Huh? This is just flat out wrong.

Lol who gives a fuck. If you're a massive influencer being deepfaked then who cares - fuck your brand being damaged, I'd just call it part of the role of having a job like that. If you're a person who buys ads because an influencer is telling you then you're also a moron and you'll be scammed regardless.

It's interesting how companies go through this loop of making a good product, making it even better until they become massive, then productively becoming shit and allowing the next company to come in and take their spot.

At this point Google is becoming more and more of a joke.

What do you mean? Apple is pushing an amazing new patch which will make your battery last longer and outperforms all other phones! And it runs cooler now too! Wow Apple.

Yes unfortunately I've found chromium is just much better than Firefox when it comes to tabs. It's at least a step removed from Chrome.

God I wish the endings were as clever as this bug.

In reality the ending is pretty mediocre, and for some endings it's literally just a few lines of dialogue and that's it. Massive letdown.

You do realize that up until a few decades ago in most counties (and even today in some western countries) homosexuality was seen as immoral and illegal?

So yes, it's very comparable in that it's highly socially and culturally defined.

You are incorrect sorry.

While we are on Lemmy, this Reddit AskHistorians post explains how common it was in Ancient Rome. AskHistorians is highly regarded as a good source of information. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/feeuye/how_was_pedophilia_considered_in_the_roman_empire/

This is the most accurate answer, and the fact it's all cultural/social is quite important as well.

If you were born a few thousand years ago it may be completely reasonable to sleep with a kid. Hell the kid is probably your slave so you could literally do whatever you want with them.

But just as I don't understand certain fetishes or even just people attracted to the same sex, others won't understand why people would be attracted to kids.

What? This sort of sounds like some shit an incel would say.

If you don't have an argument attack the person. I'll take the point cheers.

I don't understand.

Valve is good now so it doesn't need a competitor? And only when it goes bad should another company exist as competitor? This makes no sense... It's just not how the world works. Once you have a monopoly it typically stays a monopoly. Look at any of the current monopolies - many are going to shit like Google but there's no real competition regardless.

You're also discounting the fact the opposite fact - Epic might be terrible now, but change leadership and its now amazing.

You're buying way into a very specific case of looking at where things are at now and making a judgement VS. Thinking of longer term ideas like competition is good.

Also, is steam infinitely better than Epic? That's very debatable, I have no issues with either. To be honest, they're much of a muchness. You may just be too heavily emotionally invested in these companies. Realistically, they are both just trying to make as much money out of you as they can. For instance, Steams use of their market and giving out digital cards to collect and level up is very predatory.

So you're making some false assumptions here:

1. That a new person to Valve would be equal to Epic, as opposed to massively running Steam into the ground in a significantly worse way. It'd be easy for some dumbass to suggest a subscription service is needed for Steam for example, you need to may $10 a month to support it. Whelp, Steam is now shit.
2. You assume I'm helping Epic whatsoever. I get free games, that only costs Epic... So yes, this is helping me and costing Epic. Net win for consumers.
3. If a developer/publisher wants the choice to pay lower fees they can do so via Epic. It's great they have the choice, I support devs being able to do what works best for them.

There's no hypocrisy there - it's just logical that it's a good outcome to have competition.

Perhaps I should turn the argument around - why is a monopoly by Steam a good thing? Long-term it's completely unsustainable and they will do bad things, so why would you support that?

Yeah sure, Epic wants more market share.

But that's ok - this is why competition is good. Devs make some more money, consumers get some free games.

Even if Epic ends up only matching Steam then this is a net win for people.

Asking for a monopoly is just short-sighted. Gabe leaves and then the next person in line is some $-hungry mofo who makes terrible decisions and you end up with a shit system. You need competition to keep things in check.

Why do people just want Steam as one store monopoly vs. Having two companies compete where Steam is one of them.

It's only good for consumers..

Ahh, so you can only have good competitors? It's either a monopoly (which is only as good as the CEO in charge, and with time will go to shit), or competitors which do the same stuff and play nice?

This is reality. And you get good competition, you get bad, but in general it's good for the consumer to have options. Fuck it, I'm actually completely happy using Valve for most things and then getting free games from Epic.

The view that a monopoly is better is just extremely short-sighted and naive. Similar to a "We should just have a dictator! This one guy is really good now, what could go wrong in the future?" type thinking.