Yeah, it's one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also.. other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p

They've done so much for gaming on Linux I forgive them for having a convenient launcher that launches everything

Yeah, I saw an article about Epic's CEO having a gormless rant about Steams AI filtering and how but Steam was for them.

All I could think was: "well, make a better product then"

GOG Galaxy is the only launcher / storefront that comes close to competing with Steam, and that is because the one thing they do better:

DRM-free games.

The rest is about equal or slightly worse.

If Epic looked at the customer base and analyzed what people wanted I am sure they could build a better platform than Steam, but with a CEO as unlikable as Epic's and with his trackrecord it would take many years of hard work and effort to even begin to come close to Steam.

It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.

They don't have any monopoly. There are plenty alternatives and all are trash.

I buy based on trust, and at this time, steam hasn’t lost it.

They’ve made their drm more lax over the years while Sony and microslop have worsened theirs. Like how you couldn’t easily play your games offline before steam deck.

Still buying my games from GOG first though.

In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.

Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification

Yeah, the only people actually upset at Steam are people who have money tied up in other platforms. Steam is nothing but good for normal consumers.

yeah but they support linux gaming!

and if you don't use a linux PC to game, you're a stupid ignorant complacent fool who is destroying society.

or so I have been told like every other day on lemmy. owning a playstation or a switch is like ragebait to the user base here. apparently if i buy a switch i might as well support blowing up babies in gaza and mass rape as a genocidal tool, according to these folks.

I would argue that is the other way around?

"The internet" in general keep arguing that steam dominant position is not relevant, while they forbid any dev to sell their game on other plataforms for less (don't even mention the steam keys because they are not part of the equation)

"What's something the internet constantly gives a free pass to and simps for but should enrage people" wasn't the question. The internet is overall much more a defender of steam than the opposite.

The downvotes are kind of proving me right lol.

My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.

And it's not that it's from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I've seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.

i just block the people here who just spam content from reddit 50 times a day. and it's always the shittiest ragebait, and if you point it out, they go apeshit on you and harass you and report you and call you a facist/nazi etc.

then tend to be really dumb people who are true believers that post ragebait is 'fighting the good fight'.

Dude, Lemmy is literally Reddit Junior nobody using this website has a leg to stand on complaining about stuff from Reddit making its way here LOL.

This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its "wrong", just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.

I'm with you on this, but I'm also against the opposite: the blind praise and promotion of being trans for some reason. Look, if you have something wired in your brain different that makes you present as another gender, go ahead. Present yourself how you want, I can't imagine why I'd give much of a shit. It's a free country. But why do people have to constantly yap and take over every non right wing chud internet space to make it about being trans or related like talking about how hot femboys are. It's like...I mean honestly? A trend. And something major and life changing like that shouldn't be a trend. I'm sorry but that is dumb. Have your own spaces where you can talk about your own issues, sure. Don't be afraid to mention it in other spaces, sure. I'm cool with that. But maybe don't take over everyone else's spaces and make everything about you. Being annoying on purpose just doesn't work in your favor.

Also related, if psychologists and such agree that the best way to treat gender dysphoria is hormones, that's cool. But like maybe don't push socialized treatment for that so hard when we have literally nothing else socialized in healthcare. Priorities, you know? People are dying, every day, and cosmetic appearance for something a lot of people find weird and off putting is too easy of a target to keep healthcare terrible. I'm not saying it's right, but you have to pick your battles sometimes. Just like if you want to make someone not racist towards black people, maybe show them something like jazz or soul first, not hip hop. Is hip hop art? Absolutely, one of my favorite genres. But it's going to be an immediate turnoff if you jump to bad language and drug dealing and bitches and the other rap tropes. Should you have to cater to someone racist or transphobic? No, but that's the world we live in. Everyone gets to vote. and everyone starts somewhere with understanding people different than themselves.

Trans rights are human rights in the sense that you should be free to look and present how you want and not be harassed about it. But that doesn't mean you get to have everything you want, for free, and everyone has to not only treat and react to you exactly how you imagined it in your head, but also praise you for being different. That's not how the world works, for anything.

My only real interest in this as a controversy, is bringing back single use bathrooms open to all would be nicer for all of us while leaving this outrage nowhere to go

All I really care about is that there's a toilet that aligns with my plumbing when I need to pee

Ill keep this train going. I don't care about sports, much less who is playing them.

It's all a plot to steal my toilet paper! I'm onto you, trans dudes.

Upvote for username

Blasphemy!

Sincerely, someone who does not watch either.

Wait. They are two different things?

yeah but how do you feel about their bastardization in the past decade?

This is the way.

that makes them angry though.

Rage bait is the worst internet trend to date. Yeah yeah, I know trolling always existed, but it was actually funny sometimes, done to bait assholes or uppity people usually, and done for the love of the game. Rage bait is just doing something out if pocket or legitimately bad just to get eyeballs on you which now translates to free money for them because the world is a fucked up place that rewards people with no principles now. My wife just saw a TikTok video where some jackass stuck his hand down his pants and the rubbed his hand on his toddler's face. What the actual fuck are we doing, humanity?

I stopped using Facebook because I got tired of all of that. "You won't believe what [other party] is doing"...

I wonder if Palestinians just want to be chill and happy

I'm glad someone said this. I don't have two fucks to give about Firefox's marketing department marketing their browser.

I had to lol at Firefox today, it wouldn't let me log into my modem because it was DANGEROUS. Awwww. Lucky I have Librefox as well, it lets me play with matches and drink puddle water.

Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

Like ProtonVPN whos ceo once praised the appointement of some judge who had done good things before (anti big corpo something IIRC), but he was appointed by trump.

Yeah, not super duper smart there, but years and years and years of fantastic experience? Worthless I guess.

Yup.

Brave is a better product.

those are the same people who cause all the drama in their own lives.

they love the celebrity stuff because it validates their own misery and poor choices. they view themselves as the poorly treated diva.

A lot of celebrity gossip is rooted in the true crime aspect of it. Like the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama - one of the women was literally throwing metal barstools at her children while fighting with her partner. The outrage stems from people wanting her held accountable in some form. And the networks know that outrage will spur more views.

I don't see it any different than indulging in sports gossip or even Fediverse related gossip (Tesseract incident, anyone?). People like to indulge in some judgment and outrage at others. It can be unhealthy, but mostly I think it's a rather neutral, human thing to do.

Also, the person being offended usually isn't even from the target culture. They're being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.

"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they're wrong? It's like you don't even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor

"her music is not deep" - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels

Was about to downvote, before I looked at the community. This is not an unpopular opinion

I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It's a little weird people make it about physical games, it's not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It's about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.

Same here. In fact I own almost no physical media anymore except for a few rare CD’s and vinyl. All my games are digital.

The argument that this damages the preowned game market is valid to a point. Though anymore any time I shop for preowned games they’re close enough in price to new games that I don’t see the point. And if that level of greed has infiltrated that market, maybe it deserves to die.

I know someone is going to yell at me about that but that’s kinda how I see it.

You don't care because you don't buy physical games. I don't care because I resolved not to give Sony a single red cent ever again some time in about 2005. We are not the same.

Same but it's also about game preservation which is threatened with this decision.

I agree with it in principle, particularly for the people who want that physical copy (my kids are big on nostalgic media) but yeah, I've been going pure digital for a long time.

I think my latest physical purchase was the orange box some 20 years ago. And that was only because I was abroad and it was stupid cheap.

Being interested in celebrity gossip is not mutually exclusive to caring about politics or more meaningful things, but I understand why people don't care about celebrity gossip.

I see this a lot here and it's curious! Because would you say the same about other hobbies? That they're a waste of energy because that could be applied to changing things now?

I'll do you one better.

I like Tolkien, and I like Rings of Power. No its not a perfect adaptation, but its fine. Its better than those god awful Hobbit movies.

My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn't facilitate that. Amazon sucks.

YES.

I wish more people could understand that you can just... not consume something. You not liking it doesn't make it bad and it doesn't make other people inferior for enjoying it.

Just scroll on.

Yes! It's not great, it's not terrible, it really doesn't matter anymore. It was funny 20 years ago. Let it go already.

You gotta admit though, those videos about Italians being scandalised by the sight of it are pretty hilarious

You just brought it up lol

I think it would have been a good first start for other good things to happen. Not necessarily related to games but to digital content in general. It bothers me that something gathered so many signatures to adhere the "official" ways, and yet it was not listened anyway.

What entertainment do you consume if you avoid all movies and shows? I don't watch much myself either, but I still do on occasion

That is a rational and emotionally stable world view. And I hate it. Where's the emotional outrage?! The uncontrollable urge to bash your head against the wall? The yelling at innocent strangers on the internet?! TELL ME!

The more someone throws around words like "socialist" or "lib" as an insult pretty but invariably can't even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.

I don't eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It's because I don't like ham. Pineapple is great

Meh, yet another influencerslop fad advertising to children, with gambling in it? Can sort of see their point, personally.

I had no idea what they were until someone explained it to me. They are fucking ugly as fuck.

I remember many toys had a mystery aspect to them, but i guess they were a bit cheaper too

I never cared enough to inform myself about but I thought they were just overpriced. Good to know that it's worse than I thought.

The Brave one is hilarious because no one bothers to look into it. If they did, they would be embarrassed by how big of a deal they make of it. In like 2009, the current CEO made a one-time, $1000 donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign.

That's it.

No donations to any groups since.

Brave wasn't even a thing when he did it.

He's also the same guy who created JavaScript, yet no one seems to have an issue using that.

Just a giant game of telephone where people hate someone because they were told they should hate them.

ik proprietary shitware and all that stuff but there are good games for playstation. fun to play, no pay to win bs like mobile phone games these days

For me, physical media in general. Modern software is not static. It's too complex. Asking for a bug-free game is basically impossible, so you need a way to update it.

I have long agreed the fight for game preservation and access has been important, but I’ll admit I have a hard time with the stern argument that discs were key to that.

I may be biased towards my Steam usage.

The music she created? I'd be shocked if she wrote even half of it.

I used to not care about iPad kids until I had a long conversation with a school teacher friend who explained the drastic drop in reading, writing and comprehension in the latest batches of kids she teaches. Now I still do not care, but I understand the outrage behind it and why some treat it as child abuse/neglect.

A friend of mine just lost his job as a professor because the iPad kids don't hand in assignments and he gets blamed when they fail their course.

Bashing parents with iPad kids is against the terms of AppleCare.

so, we all agree that the problem is the iPads, and not the kids?

I just talk about climate change as if it is settled fact. Especially when I'm talking to someone who I know is a climate change denier, I just don't even consider their position to be worthy of acknowledgment anymore. Sometimes, I'll try to work in a common climate denial phrase as an example of just abject stupidity in modern society.

Example: the other day I was talking to a dude at a bar who was pretty clearly on the coal will save the world wagon, and AI came up. I said: "we lost the AI race to China back around 2008, when some [r-word], said the words 'clean coal' and people clapped instead of laughing at the idiot". Then I watched the gears turn.

Ironically, most of the gooner stuff showing up in my YT feed is from girl streamers.

“Oh, wow! The new outfit puts her in a microskirt with a thong! Actually, can I move the camera down…? I can!!! This is so pretty!! Don’t judge!!

people can’t separate fiction from reality

They can’t. I’m probably taking a tangent from what you intended but the last decade in the us has clearly demonstrated that people can’t distinguish fiction from reality. That people’s words with a global audience can be very harmful even when easily disproven.

We need to clearly distinguish “news” media from opinion media and hold news to reality. Opinion shows on Fox “News” are a great example of problematic media that needs to be addressed, as is a billionaire owner overriding the news desk of a formerly reputable news service

You might want to get outraged when your drinking water runs out.

However when non skilled people get their hands on it

Two minds on this one.

You wanna buy an overpriced, terrible vehicle that's the brainchild of the mastermind who was too weird even for Jeffrey Epstein. Knock yourself out buddy.

That I have to share the road with these chucklefucks, having seen how feverish they are to let the clankers take over driving said giant piece of shit vehicle? I would be lying if I said I didn't have concerns.

The indifference ends at the point where I'm unable to opt out of participation in their bullshit.

If a sub is a sandwich, a taco is a sandwich.

And there's the votes telling you you're wrong to not hate AI

Come on man, the internet is telling you to hate AI!

/s

Shitty art is so far down the list of reasons that people have to not like AI. You either don't understand the argument against it, or you're intentionally downplaying it.

lots of other problems
i should know <- some kind of robot therian

I mean, Louis CK was whipping his dick out and sexually harassing women. That's a crime, not just "something the Internet doesn't like".

Louis CK and Bill Burr.

Bit of a significant difference between these two to be fair.

I like Burr's comedy but can't defend him doing a comedy show in Saudi Arabia. Louis CK is wildly more problematic. Great that he acknowledged what he was doing wrong after the fact but he always struck me as an intelligent enough comedian to know what he was doing was problematic, to say the least.

Haha I didn't know noise pollution was something people were against for the datacenters... I'm with you on that.

I can't agree. Cheating is inherently a lack of honor and cutting corners. I don't want a doctor that I can't trust and who takes the easiest possible route in my treatment. That's already bad enough as it is, just saying "it'll get better probably, let me know if not. That'll be 5000 dollars". Plus you have to actually know stuff to grt certain jobs. School is not a useless ritualistic song and dance.

Eh I have mixed feelings, in some fields yes I 100% agree I’d say MOST fields I fully agree but there are fields where this would get people hurt or killed, medicine, architecture, civil engineering etc. where I do think cheating can have very serious consequences.

But as a society we should have formal qualifications to make it easy to verify knowledge and streamline basic competency. The idea behind a degree is good the implantation of dogshit degrees being handed out to everyone is the issue.

No, they aren't.

I think giving money to a Nazi is wrong no matter how fine the car is.

Teslas are notorious for having terrible construction. Cybertrucks rust immediately out of the factory and body panels just fall off, for one example.

What are you talking about?

Fine is about all the praise I could give them.

Now they were one of the first electric cars you could buy that was travel viable, and they aren't worth anything to sell. So I can understand why people keep them. I wouldn't buy a new one though.

As a reminder to anyone downvoting, the original Tesla cars were invented by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, genuine engineers and good guys. It’s taken a long time for South African Nazis to poison it, but the Cybertruck is very much the apex of it.

Cope

Why’d you comment? Wanted to take up space?

Outrage is why things change. It's why women can vote. It's why slavery in the US ended. It's why being gay is no longer a crime.

I don’t actually understand what point you’re trying to articulate. Would you give it another go?

Why use commas when you're not going to properly capitalize?

Oh, it's not just Canada

The civilised world sneers at 'Murica for good reason

Mmmm. The smell of fresh exceptionalism. Delicious.

It’s more that the US is going to have to lay in the bed they’ve made, which is not likely to be a comfortable one. But Americans are impressively apathetic and good at blaming others for their own self-made misfortunes, so truly you’re right and your country will never really be sorry. Your government will just point a finger at someone else and insist that they need to be bombed to make life better.

Yes, various groups trying to solve a problem that barely exists by creating problems orders of magnitude worse but gives them more power. But surely there are no nefarious motivations there.

Nah, it's clueless actionism.

What other genocides are currently happening?

i/p is not a psyop but the whirlwind that whipped it into international politics most certainly is as well as the barely masked anti-jew subliminal messaging

and look at your downvotes; it worked

it will fade and disappear at some point at least until the next mass casualty terrorist attack

the people who the most angry about this are the ones who are the most ignorant about it.

but those are the same people who think every American is a Trump supporter stereotype.