If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.

That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.

For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?

Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?

Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?

Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.

I have an old DV7 dating back to the Bush administration that I should load Linux on.

It did really well from Vista through 7. I haven’t used it in years, but it would probably do fine with Linux.

My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.

Hating on Apple for their 30% cut is popular.

Hating on Google for their 30% cut is popular.

Hating on Microfot, Sony, and Nintendo for their cuts is popular.

But somehow hating on Steam for their 30% cut is going too far.

I’m 41, and you’re putting a lot of pressure on me for the next 3 years.

I miss Sierra.

Roger Wilco

The concept of an afterlife consisting of Heaven and Hell absolutely existed in Judaism prior to Christ.

That was the primary difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees. Pharisees believed in more of the supernatural and the afterlife, whereas Sadducees were a political class of priests with no interest or belief in the supernatural.

I use lots of FOSS software. I work in a municipal government job where I have to fill a lot of roles that aren’t funded as separate positions, so I use GIMP, Inkscape, and QGIS daily because the professional software isn’t budgeted. I also use OBS frequently, among others.

But GIMP is by far the worst FOSS alternative I’ve come across when compared against its paid competition. I hate Adobe the company, but Photoshop really is the gold standard.

I use both heavily. Oddly enough I use GIMP at work and Photoshop for my personal use and side gig.

If it’s more difficult to set up, then it may not be better for everyone.

Like it or not (I do not), the most important determining factor in American elections is people’s feelings about the economy. The horrors being done by our government are easy to turn a blind eye to. But the cost of living is something that can’t be avoided or suppressed.

Economic ruin is how we beat these motherfuckers.

But before if you didn’t want Windows, I think Lenovo just pocketed the change.

And OEMs don’t pay anywhere reat retail for a Windows key.

I don’t think they did it at a $200 discount before.

This may help them absorb the tarrifs by advertising it at current rates while raising the price by 200 bucks.

That would make building a $2500 iPhone in the US even more difficult.

Because of the child laborers making 85 cents an hour?

Name a job where interrupting a CEO’s presentation in public wouldn’t be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says “If you’ve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the company’s direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there won’t be consequences.”

If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying you’re okay with taking blood money as long as you’re saying it’s bad.

While I wholeheartedly agree with her message, the reality is that any employee that interrupts a company event to criticize the company until they are escorted out of the room is gonna be fired regardless of the accuracy of their statements. We should be appalled at Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza, not that they fired an employee.

I applaud her for her stand, but she and everyone knew this would result in her termination.

Software mainly. Apple made software companies pay a license to release software on the Mac, so most companies chose to release on PC exclusively.