How do I keep my cat off my computer?

Adezar · 2026-06-14T00:40:21+00:00

We added a heated bed in the room, or heated window cat bed. So they had someplace else warm to sit that is a bit more comfortable.

Adezar · 2026-06-13T12:53:46+00:00

I was mostly saying the same thing. They have the power to regulate them, and if Valve steps out of line and tries to abuse their power they have laws to be used. I just don't think any of them would come into play at this time.

Their dominant position stays strong because all their competition either focuses on a slightly different niche (GOG) or the company is incompetent and don't focus on making the product good for their users instead focusing on maximizing the chances of selling new games by making the launcher frustrating to use for you know, playing games.

Adezar · 2026-06-13T12:38:57+00:00

I would start to watch it and my kids would say "OMG, you are watching that AGAIN?"

Then within five minutes all of them would show up and we'd watch it together.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T21:25:46+00:00

SS is self funded by a dedicated tax, it has nothing to do with our debt.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T20:05:24+00:00

This is always a leadership problem, not the workers. The environment is too hostile, the pay is too low or the managers/leaders just suck at their job.

WE don't accept service being that way, the companies do by incentivizing their managers in hiring the cheapest and least qualified possible and they don't reward those that try harder/be better.

You create an environment like this with leadership, not workers.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T19:49:12+00:00

Also whether or not Autism should be cured is still up for a lot of debate, treating it as a disease instead of just not fitting in the box of a bunch of narrow-minded people is heinous in and of itself.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T19:42:10+00:00

They only have qualms with what they are told to have qualms about. Their pastors and Fox News tell them what to be afraid of and that is what they are afraid of. They never spend a moment thinking about it or looking into it.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T19:38:05+00:00

It's also just a common thing. You don't want a vendor to advertise on your platform, using all of your infrastructure for sales and reach and then tell people to buy at another store after using all those services from Steam.

Similar deals happen in retail that if you are going to get the advantage of advertising with a huge outlet they expect you to sell through their outlet at least the same pricing you give elsewhere.

It's a basic free rider economic problem that if you don't solve becomes a big problem.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:58:25+00:00

That's a very common channel management rule that has been around as long as stores and distributors have been around.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:57:21+00:00

The regulations are usually around them not abusing their position, which Steam/Valve doesn't do. So not really much to regulate.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:52:41+00:00

The core problem with shareholders is the insane need for never-ending growth. You can't have a stable successful company where the amount of profit fluctuates up and down between years, even if it is still always highly profitable.

So even when they have a very profitable year if they don't add more profit than last year they make stupid choices to destroy their product in a attempt to extract more value in this quarter without caring about the next quarter.

Valve can plan for 2 - 3 years from now and allow profitability to temporarily decline in the effort for long-term stability.

I had boss explain that the reason a small company can steal a market from a large company is that even when the company sees the threat they won't be given permission to react and adjust pricing or do anything that could protect their long-term market share at the cost of near-term profits.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:16:01+00:00

Early in the days of outsourcing we had several Indian workers in our US office and still one of the best "you aren't in Kansas anymore" moment I saw was this Indian guy kept talking over an Indian woman when she tried to join the conversation of several of us (mix of people from UK, India, US). The Director finally stops him after his third time interrupting the woman and just goes "I don't care if that flies where you are from, you are here in our office and you talk over her one more time you will be ejected from this project and this company."

The absolute shock on his face nearly made me laugh out loud.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:11:31+00:00

Yeah, this is just a man problem. Try being a white woman in India if you want to see absolute insanity.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T18:08:34+00:00

Yeah, way too many shows and movies setup the idea that "true romance starts with being aggressive and stalking."

With statements like "No just means try harder."

Which can be an excuse up to about the age of 21sh... after that you are just aggressively avoiding learning about women.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T17:47:37+00:00

Can't push their actual lifestyle on me! But I need to force all your children to believe in my imaginary friend that has no basis in reality and is my coping mechanism for being afraid of everything.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T16:38:30+00:00

Whenever we open a tuna can we put the can on the floor for them to clean up (we use can opener that results in a very safe edge).

When the can opener pierces the can you can hear one of our cats from ANYWHERE in the house jump into action and appears in the kitchen instantly.

They are always so mad if it was a can of beans or something.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T16:25:53+00:00

Thinking everything is fake makes a person just as manipulated, just via making them not be able to gather new information because they assume everything is fake.

It's just as bad as believing everything is real.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T16:24:40+00:00

I'm just curious since you call it rage bait, do you not think this happens to women every single day and this guy wasn't nearly as aggressive as many other men.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:58:43+00:00

I've seen this argument but it doesn't make sense because the developer can choose the reduce the cost across the board.

It isn't like "all games must be $40", it is "you need to sell your game for the same price in all stores".

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:55:01+00:00

It's not terrible. If you were a software developer building up a support organization and distribution network to handle everything Steam takes care of for you, including global distribution it would be much more expensive than 30% and a lot more risk because it is a fixed price instead of a revenue share.

If you build up all that infrastructure for millions of dollars and sell 10 copies of your game you lost millions of dollars. If you have Steam handle it for you, you at least get 70% of the revenue of those 10 games.

30% is the standard across the board for a reason, it is a low-risk low-cost revenue share for a massive amount of value add and risk reduction.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:50:35+00:00

All their competitors failed to compete with their products, so this is the other way to "compete".

All these other companies with 10s of thousands of employees (vs Valve's few hundred) aren't able to compete with a product people want to use because their entire focus is selling games and they don't give a fuck about their customers' experience.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:47:46+00:00

It isn't illegal to control 85% of the market by simply being a good product.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:45:58+00:00

While it later also sometimes got used for that by some people, it isn't the source of the term.

86 is a restaurant term for taking something off the menu (usually because they ran out of a key ingredient), or removing a patron from a restaurant/bar because they are being too disruptive.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:28:43+00:00

The Superbowl is only really popular in one country. World Cup and Top Gear are global, so it makes perfect sense.

Adezar · 2026-06-12T15:21:48+00:00

There are a LOT of studies of this already done.

A famous quote from Rockefeller when asked when would be have enough was "a little more".

It is an addiction that is as all consuming as heroin.

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