Nobody gets a fair wage but at least food service workers in my area get paid the same as everyone else (Seattle $21/h minimum). Tipping is rooted in racist class division and we really should be pushing to end wage exemptions rather than perpetuate a ridiculous sales-commission structure.

People also choose individual lines at the cash registers rather than one shared line that splits into the next available opening. It doesn't matter that it's better on average, human intuition is really bad at statistics.

Nuka-Cola stocks skyrocketing.

Well pandering to their bullshit didn't make them less red so now they must get left behind if any of us want a brighter future.

Ooh nice, some language-based xenophobia sprinkled in!

Everyone wears Crocs because the costume designer thought they were the stupidest thing they'd ever seen.

Your dad sounds like a Level 7 Susceptible.

Insert Murderface "it's all the same!" rant.

The modding has the same problem blacksmithing/enchanting in Skyrim has: You have to invest a lot of advancement in the system to get any benefit out of it. Older Bethesda games let you sidestep that by throwing money at the problem which is a totally valid way to let players have more freedom but all the good stuff is locked behind feats and high stats now. Why can't my character be an emotionally stunted moron with a skilled mechanic on retainer to access the good shit? Instead I am completely reliant on farming raiders of various factions and hoping for good drops. (This is the "looter shooter" thing the other guy brought up but I don't think it's a great version of that either.)

Many of us were taught how to be a functional human being by our parents and/or guardians.

Specifically, they request that any game that is listed on Steam cannot be listed somewhere else for a lower regular price.

Officially this only applies to Steam Keys. Unofficial there are a couple of allegations that they've done this in other contexts. This is not "numerous testimonials proving" nor is it reflective of actual policy. Part of the legal process is determining if the allegations are factual and if they represent actual policy or if they're the actions of individual managers misunderstanding or overstepping policy.

If the allegations are true, yes it's monopolistic behavior. In the meantime you're free to use Epic, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, GOG, itch.io, whatever Microsoft is calling their store these days, Humble, or wherever else people publish their games.

Valve makes it easy to buy and sell, simple to update, and has integrated social features like a friends list and messaging that simply work. They keep margins low by having a small number of employees. They don't need to engage in anti-competitive price bullying to be embarrassingly profitable. Maybe they are anyway. I'm not going to use a worse store for no gain while I wait for those lawsuits to finish. (I do like to buy through GOG or itch.io when it's an option because I'd rather have the software unreliant on a third-party or internet-connected launcher)

"Stole" is a strong word for the very common behavior of naming things after a favored place or person, or aspirationally with something greater. There's a lot of recognizable city names in the Americas because a bunch of Europeans came over all at once, but it happened in Australia too (hence names like Victoria and New South Wales) and all over Africa (There's a Worcester in South Africa, a Sussex in Sierra Leone) but a modern push to decolonize names like that has made them somewhat less common. And there's a million places named after saints or monarchs.

monopolistic

Something being popular because it works better than all its competitors is not a monopoly.

using price fixing

Accused of using price fixing, it's an ongoing legal process.

If you're going to criticize Valve do it by going after the incontrovertible stuff like benefiting massively from loot boxes (gambling, skimming off the secondary market) or providing "community tools" with very little support for moderation or protection from malicious reviews. There's plenty to criticize.

have you been taught how to remove, say, blood stains from clothing?

Yes. Hydrogen peroxide works great but soaking fresh stains in cold water is a good way to start for delicate dyes. And I don't even have a vagina.

More to the point, it's not necessary to remember everything down the smallest detail if you have a foundational understanding of how things work. This isn't rocket science, this is "squares have four sides". Fat melts when it gets hot, contain it in something.

peach paper

You'd probably call it "butcher paper".

Hardcore has always had a shitty culture. Stop throwing elbows in my pit.

Joke's on you, I prefer cheese soup with noodles.

There's a whole spectrum of cravings for Mexican. Sometimes it's Taco Bell, sometimes it's Azteca, sometimes it's that unlicensed al pastor pop-up at the edge of the Winco parking lot at night, and sometimes it's authentic Oaxacan pollo con mole.

in everything but graphics.

And stability. I've recently replayed the main Fallout games and the crashing and bugs in the vanilla New Vegas experience is inexcusable.

FO4: Welcome to Fallout! Here's your nuclear war, here's your vault, here's your wasteland, here's your wacky robots, here's your dog, here's your Good Guy Faction, here's your power armor, here's your first Deathclaw, now either go find your son or fuck off.

It really tried to cram the entire setting into a playable E3 demo, made most builds nonviable, not to mention how half-baked the modding system and settlement construction tools are.