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The one thing to criticise about steam (and that they're slowly, but surely, losing a EU court case over) is inability for customers to sell their games.

Their marketshare is organic, based on being the choice of store both from the customer and developer POV. As a customer you get the usual painless returns, great interface, community features and whatnot, as a developer you get plenty of store features which make life and customer acquisition and gamedev a lot easier (things like playtesting, next fests) and most of all you get customers because steam has lots of customers and a real, I mean real good, recommendation algorithm. Sure, Epic wants a smaller cut but you're also not going to sell much, there, which is why they had to lure devs in with advances, guaranteed sales, etc. Larger publisher might not like steam so much because they have gigantic marketing budgets in the first place so all the discoverability/recommendation stuff is not as relevant but, well, fuck EA, Ubi, etc IDGAF, I don't want to hear it, cry silently.

As to the "can't sell games for lower prices elsewhere" myth: That applies to when you're selling steam keys in places that are not steam. Which is fair, if you're selling steam keys then that's incurring costs for them (if nothing else, bandwidth) and they don't even get their usual cut when you sell a steam key off-steam, least you can do is not undercut them.

Every time I read news about Trump I always wonder what his end goal is.

Be adulated. Get a nobel peace price because Obama has one (for not inexplicable but inexcusable reasons)

but most of the ultra-wealthy’s money is tied up in the market, too.

The ultra-wealthy have enough of a buffer to buy out all the middling-wealthy when they go bankrupt. They can buy the dip without themselves going bankrupt.

Oracle is not a tech company it's a racket run by an army of lawyers. Obligatory link to Bryan Cantrill's talk.

Berlin currently has a black-red government. I have no idea what your map there is showing. State elections wouldn't show a federal map and the last federal elections don't match, compare e.g. SH's districts (northernmost state).

Berlin is kinda notorious for being a police state, and of the "IDGAF" nature, not "stickler for law" one.

"obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power". Which is far above what being in NATO requires states to do. Which just btw also covers Greenland. Only ones off the hook are Ireland and Austria due to being neutral, the treaty still covers them though.

You can't call a ship a boat. Shippy McShipface would've been a different topic. Or maybe Chipper McShipface?

The going rate is 1:1027 for an NCO.

but Brazil was just not being competitive.

That's quite the understatement: It was so bad Brazilian fans started to cheer for the German team. Which, under usual circumstances, only happens when we're not playing against each other.

All in all it could've been worse for Brazil: It could have been Argentina. And it could have been better for Germany: It could have been the Dutch.

My prof called K&R C "Knall und Rauch C", "bang and smoke C". Also: C lattice fence.

May be the case, we'll probably see when the dust has settled. OTOH, it's still a war crime to abduct non-combatants so my point stands. And no, reservists aren't combatants.

The hostages aren't even particularly valuable because the Israeli government couldn't give less of a fuck about hippies who do things like protecting the Palestinian olive harvest from settler interference. Nab an in-service right-wing IDF commander off the street and you have something much more valuable and it's a legitimate prisoner of war.

Or, differently put: Don't get your strategic and tactical advise from the Russians of all people.

Armed struggle != war crimes. One does not justify the other. The October attacks were like 5% achieving military objectives, the rest mindless slaughter, to the point where one can legitimately question whether the military objectives were not completely incidental. Hamas could have bee-lined for as many IDF outposts as they could, they didn't, they shot up Hippie Kibbutzim of all places. (Which is also why Netanjahu and triply so the Kahanites don't care about the hostages: They're by and large lefties).

Same, of course, goes for the IDF and what they're currently doing. If both sides kept to not even self-defence but only military objectives there might actually be peace in sight.

Because Beijing should be using Chongqing time, yes, then the offset of clock noon to natural noon would be at most something like +-1.5 hours.

UTC all around the world is a completely different thing than UTC (or UTC+1) all over Europe. China also spans just over three natural timezones and they get by just fine with one.

Doesn't occur directly in plants but can be produced by humans from beta carotene. Carrots, kale, spinach, honey melon, others, the list isn't exactly short or expensive.

When talking evolution it's not just humans, and human behaviour. The fasting metabolism, hunger hormone system etc. is shared through pretty much all of the animal kingdom. We had it before we left the seas. Fish don't stockpile food, they store it in adipose tissue with about exactly the same mechanism as we do, there might not be much food around, that means increased competition, that means you need to be active, not lethargic, when hungry, and the level of exertion experienced during that fasting time will be taken by the body as the signal how much to bulk up, that's why growth hormones are highly active at that time. We're dealing with a truly ancient mechanism.

You can trust that I read up on the stuff or you can do it yourself or you can trust an army of gymbros to have done it.

There's not a single nutrient you can't get from plants or fungi, that wasn't the issue. But yes it's literally essential for vegans to know what they need as unlike the rest of us, they are way less covered by simply grabbing something from the supermarket shelf.

And...? What's your point? That Breivik has rizz?