How come they don’t count? They’re figuring out how the machines should work, for money. That’s engineering, right? (I’m an American mechanical engineer)

Brilliant advertising. That could be me!

In which market is Steam a monopoly?

If the developers want to just directly sell me their games old school I’d be cool with that.

I can believe it.

In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

It’s surprising the psychological difference of “net seventeen people think you’re an asshole” vs “twenty people think you’re an asshole, but three people get you”.

It’s not just you. My new year’s resolution was to go down from double shots to single shots.

Here you go my friend

Back in my day it was called “Last Man Standing”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

In hindsight it’s sad how very right he was. Now when I think “I want to send Alice a message”, I just go to the app I know will work, instead of trying to remember if Alice still uses Signal too.

Corkyskog’s suggestion would make it actually brag-worthy. Just being rich in real life doesn’t necessarily require effort. I’m way more impressed by a full endgame set in Diablo II.

Well, I guess as long as it’s good for the economy.

Omg I’ve been destroyed

If they’re already okay with IP in general, then it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. The whole thing is imaginary, arbitrary, and couldn’t exist without the King’s government.

Why do you want to steal from the king? :-P

That doesn’t make sense to me either, how so many people were heartbroken when all they had to do was simply load an auto save. I can’t confirm because I just didn’t give them money until it worked properly.

I haven’t researched that game so I don’t know its frequency or severity.

A bunch of less lucky people did exactly that and then lost 100+ hours of progress.

It’s an essential feature of the game. Literally. Unplayable.

It did have a “literally unplayable” save deletion bug on Xbox until recently. I just waited for them to fix it before spending my money.

Isn’t that just when they make it worse when it already has a lot of users?