Ooof, this hit me right in the childhood.
This is one of those chapter-turning public figure deaths for me. The last one was Betty White, and before that was Robin Williams — almost mythical figures whose names and faces I’d known since before I can remember, who it almost felt like would just always be around.
RIP, Bob. You’ve earned it.
Fully functional.
Are we doing “whoooosh”, or leaving that behind?
Good. Fuck landlords. They’re ghouls, every single one of them.
If that’s your experience, my friend, then your family members are trying to tell you something.
I think suggesting that Valve need any given game (CoD) or even genre (“games like CoD”) to remain successful is silly at best. Of course Steam, the Steam Deck, and as a result Valve are only successful or even exist at all because of video game studios and publishers. But Call of Duty specifically? Nah man, it’s a blip on the radar for Steam.
While I disagree with your core argument about the success of the Steam Deck, I absolutely agree that I’d love to see a desktop variant of SteamOS become available for general use. To the point that I’d likely even finally make the leap from Windows.
The article you’ve linked seems to say the opposite of what you’re suggesting — that a second iteration of the Steam Deck is coming soon. That’s not the impression I get from the linked article at all.
But even that aside, I would argue that the Steam Deck has been uniquely successful. Sure, the Deck may or may not end up being a “one and done”, flash in the pan piece of hardware that fades into relative obscurity in the face of competing hardware… but it proved that the idea of portable PC gaming was possible and affordable, and inspired plenty of manufacturers to dip their toe in the same arena. And almost every single one of those devices, whether it’s sold by Valve or Lenovo or whoever, will be running — and selling games on — the Steam marketplace.
That was the goal of the Deck, and in that regard it’s been a great success.
Nah, I think the article and the image are both AI generated, so the “author” of the article really has no idea what the image actually looks like.
I wasn’t even sorry to let Ashley die. She was condescending, hostile, and antagonistic for no real reason. And she’s supposed to be a love interest? If you’re playing anything but a full renegade, it’s hard to imagine she’d even like Shepard.
Kaidan’s characterisation fits better regardless of your Shepard’s alignment, he’s a more useful squadmate in general (especially in ME3), and he’s better voice acted.
Accidentally the whole thing?
As a cishet white guy, I know that such rhetoric is not aimed at me personally but rather the centuries-old cycle of privilege and oppression that I continue to benefit from today despite my personal beliefs and ideals.
We did it, Red-- I mean, Fediverse!
“On mobile, apologies for bad formatting.”
As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can’t be bothered, which means you’re not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.
Same here. Blocking instances seems to be bugged, but following them seems to work fine!
What we need to do is de-incentivize the commodification of housing entirely. Really make it unprofitable to deal in homes while passing the risk for your “investment” on to the people you’re exploiting.
I’m talking about an outright ban on all corporations, foreign and domestic, from owning single family homes — corporations need offices, not homes, and shell corporations and LLCs don’t even need those. Give a one year grace period, then tax all rental income collected from single-family homes at 100%. Maybe fine them each year too until they shape up.
I’m talking about regulating rental prices on short-term rentals, and capping the annual income allowed from short-term rental units to a value indexed against minimum wage (or preferably the area’s living wage, determined not by any level of government itself but by valid third party organizations).
I’m talking an annual federal tax on properties not occupied full time by the owner or their immediate blood relative. Parent, sibling, or child. Something insane, maybe 400-800% of the home’s property tax. Multiply it exponentially for each hoarded home. Throw in an exception for a second home if it’s far enough from the first (people who own cottages aren’t the problem, and shouldn’t be penalised). But only for the second home — nobody needs two or three or four “vacation homes”.
That’s how we force land-rich boomers out of the housing “market” and get homes into the hands of people who need them, who should have a right to stable housing, who are currently being blocked from the market by vampiric land leeches.