No, now you have two more people inspired to shoot Israeli soldiers and civilians. It’s like you don’t even understand how people’s minds actually work.

This is how Russia and China stack the deck against the West. If we want to defeat the world from shitty governments we have to start with our own.

This is just another parameter that will now be built into future chat software; no high level control over channels or groups by any central authority. The Internet will route around all obstacles.

This is the fascist playbook.

Wait until they discover Hamas is funded by Netanjahu. Then the investigation will quietly sputter out.

Much of this is also likely to be disappearing before it even reaches the military; there have been gripes about it on Twitter many months ago already.

Or in the USA. Remember Jimmy Carter claiming the USA is just a collection of oligopolies? Ya.

Correct. In fact, this applies wage pressure upward because employees no longer feel the necessity to stick with a shit-paying job.

Those prices were going to go up anyway. They’ve been doing so for years before and after that credit.

This is a reflection of big budgets for games growing over time. Customers demand more, costs go up.

Just a reminder that unsustainable world population growth is bad. Fewer people is good for everyone and our planet.

Revenue. Doesn’t matter what they’re worth.

If you don’t understand why someone is offended you can’t possibly explain why what you did wasn’t acceptable.

Air Canada does this shit on their flights. Disgusting.

If only it was the jets that are affected!

This was my point. Thanks for expanding on it.

Do you think any indie developer has the means to achieve a lower cost to distribution and promotion if they try to sell and support the game themselves?

Valve solves many problems for developers and these problems aren’t imaginary and free to resolve.

Not saying 30% is justified for all games, but if you want a quality title it’s going to cost more than just development. Since the Unity debacle we’ve seen some developers even say openly that costs of promotion and support dwarf costs of development.

Or use the energy to desalinate sea water or any of a multitude of other uses for spare capacity.

Yes.

That may have been true if this resulted from the operation of a non corrupt free market, but this is instead China.