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I agree with you, but justifying anything by saying they're successful in a free market is really iffy. There are plenty of large evil companies that are incredibly successful. That said I agree with everything else you've said.

I personally think 30% cut is too much for any app/software store. But if anyone deserves it Steam does

You're welcome <3 You seem like a kind person, and those people are easily taken advantage of. I don't like seeing people lose that kindness because they forget to put themselves first.

This person you're dealing with could have any number of good and valid excuses for their behaviour. But it's still straight up abusive, and could equally stem from a harmful and malicious place. Unless you know for sure, the best you can do is not antagonise them.

An official report would be valid in your situation. But I wouldn't get involved any further. Just save her messages and any evidence you have of her behaviour, on the off chance it does escalate and you or another coworker need to protect yourselves

Whilst I agree with the above, remember to look out for number one. It's important that you prioritise your own mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing over that of a coworker you don't seem to know all that well.

It's important to give the benefit of the doubt and be charitable when you can, but not at any significant expense to yourself

You pay less because you get less. I'm selling a product. The last thing I'm going to cheap out in is sales. I'm not going to see great sales from the EGS because A)Nobody uses it

That's exactly it, Devs have to accept Steam's cut because it's essentially the only place you can sell things. It makes logical sense, but do you not see why this is a disadvantageous position for the Devs to be put in?

It's like trying to sell your hand made Combs. The gas station on the corner is happy to take only 20% of the profit. They're all over the place and accessible. But you really want to sell it at the boutique shops because they have more comb-seeking customers.

This would be a fine analogy, if there weren't a single digit amount of storefronts. Steam and EGS are more equivalent to supermarkets. Sure the odd person is going to go to speciality stores on occasion, but the vast majority of sales are done through supermarkets. Steam is a supermarket competing against speciality stores. The only other real supermarket in town is EGS and as you've discussed, it's such a dumpster fire no one shops there.

I'm not disagreeing that Steam deserves its position, it does for sure. But we live in a world where it has no meaningful competition, and one of the ways it exercises its position is by maintaining their 30% cut. A cut which was established by stores that had to manage the logistics for real physical copies of the games.

My point is that there isn't a reason that Steam has such a high cut, other than it wants more money, and has the market saturation to command more money

Taking a different and hopefully more productive stance than the other guy, I just want to explore people's thoughts.

People already have built these alternatives. Itch.io, EGS, Humble Store, Microsoft Store, GOG. These platforms exist, but they struggle to achieve the full market dominance that Steam has as the "default" platform, meaning Devs are borderline forced to accept the 30% cut if they have any hope of making sales.

As shown by Steam's huge profits, they certainly take a higher cut than they have to, and they can definitely stomach a smaller cut

Oh totally, I agree with you. I just also understand the blind righteous fury that a lot of these guys have

It's these things that really make me worry that Lemmy is too left, or at least too authoritarian-left.

I feel like I couldn't be more left without descending into lunacy, I agree with the spirit of these things, but boy do people really like to take it too far.

There are two wolves inside me, one wants to murder fascist dictators and the other believes that violence is bad. If this metaphor continues any longer I'm sure the 2nd wolf will be shot

I hate that we even have to hope this. Everything is so fucked

This line of logic is a good advice to help politically disengaged women, but isn't going to convince men to abandon Trump.

The ratio of conservative women to men is roughly 50/50. It's not an effective tactic to convince men to stop supporting Trump, when the women they're likely to be dating are Trump supporters anyway.

It's why us Brits complain about 25°C (77°Freedom Units) weather. Being next to the ocean and having so much rain makes it unpleasant, and 35°C (95°F) is just hellish

I get what a lot of you guys are saying about Starmer and the Labour government not being as left wing as Corbyn. I would also like someone who would use this majority to implement some really hardcore leftist policies.

But please can we just take a step back and look at what he wants to do:

• Massive amounts of NHS funding
• Nationalised green energy
• Tax private schools
• Allow regulators to hit company executives with criminal charges
• Nationalise the railways
• Increase the minimum wage to a living wage
• Free school meals

I don't know about you, but that seems at the very least, left of center. Sure, he's not making drastic sweeping changes right off the bat. But this country needs an era of stability, whilst we make small but consistent steps in the right direction, and that's what Starmer will give us

The people who are more likely to retain a PC and not just use a phone, are more likely to be tech literate power users.

This selects against casual windows users, and selects for hardcore Linux users

Thank you for the response.

The problem is that the accommodation and special treatment is in part separating these women from men and perceived masculinity. We would have to start chopping up support groups into trans-inclusive and trans-exclusive. And I don't think sending them to a male/trans therapist is going to be very helpful.

Transphobic (I'm not sure of a better word) trauma victims would want some sort of system in place to ensure these extremely unlikely things don't occur. Trauma can really fuck with your rational thinking like that. I still can't really cope in certain places and environments.

Once again, I'm aware this is an extreme edge case, and basically never going to happen irl

Only because everyone's on edge, give it a few years and they'll need "anonymised" data collection to "help improve their service"

I 100% agree with your post. The issues she raises are nonexistent or extremely rare. In my personal life I believe and practice "trans-women are women" as for all intents and purposes it's true.

I am however concerned that I don't really have a response to anyone who doesn't believe that, particularly women with some sort of past trauma that gives them an instinctual fear response. It feels insensitive to tell them to get over it or go to therapy. Particularly if they've been exposed to one of the extremely rare examples Rowling has presented. But I think going to therapy is probably what needs to happen.

My other conflicting thought is that therapy or condemnation it is what we would say to people being racist, but there seems to be a societal agreement that we need women only spaces. And we don't say "get over it" in regards to men trying to enter a women's shelter, we offer an amount of sympathy and understanding to the women and allow them that space. Which means there is some amount of gender discrimination is desired/needed. This also indicates there there should be a line or set of fuzzy criteria that determines if we treat trans-women as women or not. But this obviously also feels wrong, and I hate it.

Sorry if this was insensitive, I mostly just want to gather thoughts as I'm not confident in my thinking. I don't think these issues deserve the amount of attention transphobes are giving them, but we're here now, so I want to try and figure out a solution or response to more "reasonable" transphobes that I could potentially change the minds of

Totally, the problem is he should be in a home, and a fresh strapping young lad/lass under the age of 70 (lmao) should be doing these debates instead.

Trump needs to be defeated at all costs, I'm just massively disappointed that this is the guy the democrats chose

Yeah, it's a great first few steps. Really hoping LibDem becomes the official opposition and it's just two Left™ parties driving each other leftward.

Current Labour concerns me with how it's moved rightwards, but Daddy Starmer has my vote regardless

Thank you my dude 🙏

Totally, the other thing both of your examples did well is actually integrate the "Woke™" elements into their world in a natural and believable way. None of it unearthed established canon or went out of its way to score rainbow capitalist diversity points

I feel like a lot of "woke" shows are not great, but they get a cult of defenders and haters boosting it's popularity because of some perceived culture war. When it's really just execs trying to make their milk toast milquetoast slop shamelessly appeal to a wider audience.

No one complains about Spiderverse (after it came out) because it was good