Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.
This right here, is the insult you were looking for.
The answers for this kind of fucked up lay in paradoxes.
For example:
If Trump was just 10% better, he would seem far worse.
What do I mean? Every single day is some new shit we need to digest, yet we hadn't even spent the time to fully digest the last ridiculous shit he said. If we actually had time to process everything then he would appear far worse.
Family sharing: nobody asked for it, and it seems like a bad business move - Valve did it anyway.
Index: great piece of tech. Too bad about the price tag though.
Deck: fucking masterpiece. Blows Switch out of the fucking water.
Support staff: fucking legends. I've had multiple interactions where they have breached their own policy to keep me happy,
Privately owned: despite the incentives to cash out and make bank. They have a fucking spine, which makes them dangerous to other platforms.
This guy claims to be a long-time developer and modder, yet suggests Game Pass is better for preservation than Steam. If that’s their industry insight, no wonder nobody at Valve took their feedback seriously.
Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.
But earlier:
I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.
So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it's only DRM?
If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.
In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve... Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.
Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can't patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?
Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think... nobody will ever hold them accountable.
Then:
They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true...
Wait, isn't it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?
Because the Steam client patches itself... their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.
That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it's reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?
Also, is this really a steam-only issue?
Valve's... design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input's initialization.
This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.
If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.
In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.
It simply isnt fair to the rest of society to place people who actively seek harm onto others, back on the street.
I think this is less of a case of 'dont keep them in prison for the rest of their lives' and more of a 'we should improve prison conditions' type of argument.
I remember listening to an episode of hardcore history about capital punishment, it detailed public executions throughout the ages, and the takeaway is this:
You could literally publicly rip people limb from limb with horses and rope, people are still going to steal, assault, and rape.
If seeing someone getting skinned alive isn't enough of a deterrent, I don't know why prison would be.
The classic example is email; Imagine if you could only email people on Outlook, from another Outlook account. It's intuitive how shitty that would be, but for some reason we give social media a free pass for doing exactly this.
The benefits are (analogously):
if you notice Yahoo users send you a lot of spam, you just block all of Yahoo. Sure, you might miss something important, but that's their fault for using Yahoo.
if some dickhead like The Zucc releases a new email service (Threads) then maybe your email service (instance) will do you a favor and block them (defederate).
pedos and bigots look for instances which is known for hosting shady shit, effectively acting as a containment barrier (most instances defederate these by default). Would never see that happen on Twitter (thank you Elon! /s).
if an instance crashes, that sucks. But there are many others hosting federated content, so Lemmy will never be 'down'.
Oh boy, I sure do love the colloquialization of language and how those who were raised on a monostatic definition get upset about their favourite words becoming dynamic.