My crackpot theory is that we’re 10 years away from e-ink displays becoming the new hot thing. The clarity of looking at something that isn’t backlit is great. If they can solve refresh rate and resolution, we’re there.

I think you’re probably right. I still think it’s important to point out that this lawsuit, even if successful, won’t take down Valve. Steam and CS2 will still be around. If it is successful, it might force other platforms to change how they handle lootboxes too. Singling out Valve won’t mean that steam is down and we all need to use the Epic store. The flaws of this lawsuit and it’s motivations don’t mean that we need to excuse Valves bad behavior. You aren’t doing that here but many people feel the need to pick sides. We can call out the lawsuit for being largely a political stunt and call out Valve for profiting off of child gambling.

Billionaire owned tech companies that controll a market so tightly they pretty much have a monopoly shouldn’t be anthropomorphized so fondly. I want you to vomit up that Kool aid.

Again, those other marketplaces are bad too. Saying Valve is bad isn’t saying another company is good and calling another company bad doesn’t mean I have to say valve is good.

Village toymaker? Wow.

Not everyone, but plenty of people in this thread do. And plenty of gamers in general excuse their bad behavior.

In this thread: a complete lack of moral clarity as gamers simp for one of the most profitable companies in the industry. Valve was a pioneer of loot boxes. When they got in trouble for CS:GO skin gambling, they did the minimum to make it look like they didn’t allow it and allowed it to make an easy comeback. They sit back and make 30% off the sale of every game on the platform. People should be saying that Valve is very bad and Epic is even worse. Instead gamers feel this strange need to pick sides with a giant company that controls almost all PC gaming. No, we can easily say they’re all bad.

I wonder if this will actually be any good. In general, you want to let air out of tires when driving off-road so the tread can confirm to the terrain. This tire will be stiffer and likely won’t have as much traction. It will be more resistant to the tire getting blown off. I guess time will tell if that compromise is worth it.

Why is a college football player eating lunch with high school (?) students?

Made weekend plans with friends

Honestly give me a knife to slice things with and that’s a half decent meal

I’ve only lived here for 2ish years. I didn’t know about it.

Nice. I’ll keep this handy when I get my ballot

You can not evolve out of a clade. Any way to group dinosaurs must include all of their descendants.

It’s crazy to imply that electoral politics (especially in the US) represents the will of the people.

You don’t pass them? When cars pass me and then get stuck at a light, I always pass them and then pull right in front of the light and block them. I want the futility of passing me to be super obvious.

High halls has some tough parts but it’s nothing crazy. The hardest part has a short runback. You’ll be fine.

I’m no Epic Games fan, but this is an overcorrection. Valve makes money hand over fist and they aren’t making those products simply out of passion. They’re doing it to make even more money. The company are pioneers in micro transactions and loot boxes. The other large game companies (and especially alternative storefronts) have just been so shit that gamers feel a weird attachment to this company.

No. The trick is to have 2 roommates that work at Red Lobster, get high as hell and wait for one of them to come home with the goods.

Gmaps also seems to think I ride like a grandmother and so the eta is always way off.