Russia just beat us in a war and didn’t have to fire a shot. They’ll have to beat Russia at the disinformation/planting assets game first to win the war with Russia.

Agreed. For me it’s very hard to feel the same about software projects that are like “fuck the corporations! Learn more on our discord.” Because the mental gymnastics are wild

The worst part about discord to me is that it’s used as a knowledge base for open source projects and games and such. This puts things in a walled garden. I instantly get turned off by a thing when the homepage is “join our discord” or I see a comment like “oh it’s explained in the discord.”

It’s only a matter of time before discord becomes paywalled, and all the knowledge out there ceases to be public.

The article certainly outlines a few reasons:

1. Target “embraced” the idea of rolling back DEI policies more than many companies, furthering its weird cultish “belonging to the bullseye” internal culture.
2. Target’s customers are more progressive than Walmart, John Deere, or Ford, so more of them actually care about what the company is doing.
3. Target previous embraced DEI more than other companies. Them previously doing so and then promptly shedding it seems that their corporate culture is one of quarterly gains rather than giving a shit about anybody. While that’s true for pretty much all publicly traded corporations, see point 2.

It’s another tech bubble like the dot com bubble. But at this point, the AI bubble, the crypto bubble, and the capitalism bubble will all crash at the same time as the world economy falls apart and we end up in another global war. I guess the accelerationists that survive will get their wish and see what remains and if it’s the neofuedalist white supremacy utopia they dream of

Unfortunately this isn’t about you, but the 90% of people who don’t understand what AI is at all and don’t give a shit where the responses come from as long as “scorpio dream meaning high school teacher truck” and “can you gregnant with cousin?” Give them answers they like

/s to an extent, but here we are

Ah yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

Yeah as a web dev as well this seems like a pretty neat alternative:

https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

Ah that’s good to know, thanks!

Can’t argue with that, it would be nice for GOG to have:

• Cloud saves
• A controller pass through with configuration as you described

Those are really steam’s best features, and if GOG had those I’d likely stop buying steam games

I doubt it, if you are concerned if I’m the person you’re thinking of you should tag me, or go through my post history.

That being said, Gabe owns 50.1% of the company. If he dies, and transfers that to one person, it doesn’t matter what his employees think, public or private, unless the bylaws for the corporation (yes, a private company like steam is still a corporation) state otherwise, the majority shareholder can vote on future direction and win.

Additionally, you underestimate tech employees and their willingness to exit on the right terms. If valve becomes valued at 100 billion dollars, and they can exit with their 1 percent stock at 45 years old, neither them or their family will ever need to work a day again and they can exit the global firestorm and live on an island somewhere.

You’re putting far too much altruism on everyone.

I really hope Gabe lives for another 20+ years. Steam has its issues but they are few and far between in comparison to the alternatives. And I’m afraid that when he passes, whoever takes up the mantle will go public, or sell, enshittifing the platform.

Trump is a Russian asset. The point of the deal was to fall apart but allow Trump to save face and say “well you know I tried to offer him help but he refused it” and his followers will lap it up. 90% of them won’t watch any of meeting between he and Zelensky. And the 10% that do will only see a carefully curated cut on Fox new, Facebook, Twitter, or truth social.

Well, they’re doing what they already have been and absorbing it into teams. Teams video chat is littered with the bits of leftover Skype tech references, they’re just making sure it’s an enterprise product they can bill monthly for instead of a free consumer product

Well, he should have been president years ago considering his grassroots support, but since the dems also serve capitalist oligarchs they forced Hillary Clinton as the candidate which vastly moved toward Trump being elected the first time. Which is why Bernie is registered independent. Bernie proposed the actual solution, which was to stop our government from being bought and sold, and here we are.

Well yeah “shutting down” here is more like “absorbed” into teams. They don’t make “enough” money from consumers to keep it going, but they do from their teams subscriptions. The tech is and will further be ported to teams and the branding changed.

Yeah he’s just a puppet of the oligarchy, and it’s far too late. His “benefactors” have been sending him instructions on judges to hire, people to promote to his cabinet, executive orders to sign, etc, and he does it all and then spews some nonsense in interviews. Pretty incredible how easy it was to buy the US government.

The funny part though is when the plan starts to fall apart because a party based on distrust can’t function.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-files-pam-bondi-sends-fiery-note-kash-patel-accusing-fbi-withholding-docs.amp

I’m sourcing Fox News on purpose here. The Trump puppets are now bickering and it took like a month. The collapse is imminent unless some strong judges stop sending strongly worded letters and what’s left of the congress that cares begins voting unanimously and proposing bills unanimously to block what’s happening.

Hopefully Europe and the other NATO nations don’t succumb to fascism/disinformation in the way we did, or else they’re just another item crossed off Russia’s playbook like the US. In fact, it will be very important they shore up their defense spending.

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

Makes sense, that’s probably why the highest quality cutscenes are the ones from the PS1 port (retaliation) of the counterstrike and aftermath expansions, since the roms are so well preserved. A good example of how game preservation can help both the gaming community and the companies that make said games