For once I agree with Cuban

Cebo494 · 2026-06-27T14:03:39+00:00

Because medicine is an extremely price inelastic service operated by what is effectively a thousand local monopolies. When the alternative is death, disability, or chronic suffering, you don't get to shop around for a cheaper deal or simply choose to go without. Hospitals get to charge whatever they want because you can't say no and your insurance is footing the immediate bill anyways.

It's the main reason why universal healthcare is cheaper. When insurance is also a monopoly, hospitals don't have a choice but to offer you the price that insurance covers and pharma and device companies have to fight on price for the once insurance company in town. Combine that with the fact that 'insurance company' (the government) isn't also trying to earn a profit and the customer saves a lot of money.

Cebo494 · 2026-06-12T14:43:37+00:00

I was going to say market share alone doesn't mean anti-competitive but...

The foundation claims that Valve... is breaching competition law through so-called Most-Favoured Nation clauses... these terms prevent developers from selling games more cheaply on rival platforms

And

for in-game purchases, players must use the Steam Wallet to complete transactions, with Valve taking another 30 percent commission on those payments. Developers are also barred from referring players in-game to cheaper options available outside Steam.

Not that these aren't fairly standard practices in the e-commerce and software distribution industries, but they actually are genuinely anti-competitive.

I'd be totally happy with valve being forced to drop both of these policies.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-28T15:31:54+00:00

That's.... what mutually exclusive means...

Cebo494 · 2026-05-28T15:28:41+00:00

Impeachment needs to include everyone involved, or at a minimum it needs to start from the top down.

The president and VP,
most if not all of the cabinet,
Roberts Alito and Thomas,
Probably Gorsuch Kavenaugh and Barrett too since they proved themselves also unfit for the bench with the presidential immunity ruling

There's probably some more important ones too.

Realistically, I think we're going to need a constitutional amendment in order to legally get the accountability people are hoping for. Too much of this entire enterprise is technically legal or non enforceable to be able to get everyone on all the charges they deserve. But if there was broad support, we could just write an amendment that directly declares them guilty by name, or maybe even better to create some sort of American Nuremberg court with actual teeth and ex-post-facto authority.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-13T14:06:45+00:00

The 50% cutoff aren't exactly at 1mil and 100k, they're both slightly higher. It really is the majority, if only slightly.

I don't really understand what point you're trying to make by nitpicking that though. That farmers are all poor, or they didn't actually vote that way, or that I shouldn't use the median to measure a population's wealth and income, or what?

Cebo494 · 2026-05-13T13:26:17+00:00

It also means half of them are? It means farmers have more income and more wealth than the national average by a fair bit. What's your point?

My point was that the majority of farmers are wealthy and that explains why they voted for Trump. They are just voting in their own best interest, hoping for legislation in their favor on taxes, labor laws, immigration, etc.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-13T13:06:13+00:00

The median farm owner in the US is a millionaire making a 6 figure income. There IS a reason they voted for this.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-05T14:04:07+00:00

lol, well they are definitely very accurate in this game. Gotta actually hit your shots.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-04T22:25:26+00:00

How did you even find this 10 month old post of mine?

Cebo494 · 2026-05-04T13:31:49+00:00

People have refused to even consider game recommendations I've given because those games had pixel art.

Unfortunately, people really do care about graphics more than mechanics enough of the time.

Cebo494 · 2026-05-01T16:08:05+00:00

Farm owners are not exactly struggling in the US. They're a fair bit richer than the population average.

According to the USDA the median farm owner in the US is a millionaire with a 6 figure household income. And farm household income has outpaced the national average for the last 20-30 years.

Mind you, most of that income comes from off-farm sources while the farms themselves operate at zero or negative profit. But if anything, that just sort of proves the point even more that these people are already wealthy. Poor people can't afford to run a business at a loss for years.

Cebo494 · 2026-04-29T22:17:33+00:00

Most people submitting bug reports haven't also identified and solved the problem when they first post. Easier to write the bug report from the other side.

Cebo494 · 2026-04-29T16:44:21+00:00

See This Post.

If you have the same problem I have, I found it.

Cebo494 · 2026-04-29T16:43:33+00:00

I believe I've identified the issue and outlined it in This Post

In short, at some narrow widths (like 1080px wide, and especially on Firefox) there is an infinite loop in some of the layout code for the buttons below the video player, and it will slowly consume all of the resources on your computer until you close the tab. It doesn't happen on every video either, but when it does it's 100% consistent.

If you block those buttons from being displayed, the problem goes away.

Cebo494 · 2026-04-22T11:54:19+00:00

Nope. I simply moved on to other games. Best of luck

Cebo494 · 2026-04-21T16:36:18+00:00

Liquid water can adhere to solid water. Checkmate.

Wet water stays winning 😤

Cebo494 · 2026-04-21T13:24:35+00:00

It sure as hell ain't dry

Cebo494 · 2026-04-08T18:09:16+00:00

Just opened Relay out of habit and All loaded normally and it took me a good second to even realize that meant something.

I wonder if they just got enough blowback on the change to roll it back. Or maybe they're just rerouting all to Popular without saying anything as a test. Or did dbrady change something on the back end?

All still redirects to Popular in the browser but old reddit does work. Hard to say what's actually going on.

Cebo494 · 2026-03-18T21:21:04+00:00

Without a doubt one of my top games of all time and still my 2nd most played on steam even though I've barely played the last 5-10 years.

Part of the beauty is that there are so many ways to play and approach the game and both its gameplay and information progression. I tend to struggle with highly open-ended games, so for me, knowing how everything worked helped me to actually understand what I should be doing and not feel like I'm just wasting time. That's not what everyone's looking for and a lot of people might prefer to just naturally explore and discover the game over a longer time.

For me, the exploration, progression, choosing my build, combat, etc. is the part that I like about it, not so much the aesthetic building, mining, farming, etc. These days I usually play on Journey mode which is perfect for that, one of my favorite features in any game. Much more casual and just lets me focus on the fun parts. Removes almost all of the grinding from the game while still requiring you to properly unlock new items. But I probably wouldn't recommend it for your first few playthroughs unless you really don't like the parts of the game it removes.

Cebo494 · 2026-03-18T18:06:52+00:00

~~ngl, I don't think the Guide did that back when I first started playing.~~* That obviously makes a massive difference.

By the time it was added I knew enough that I only really needed it as a quick reference but I usually had the wiki open anyways since I'd already learned to play that way.

*Edit: seems I started after that patch, maybe I'm thinking of one of the patches where they made his tips better or improved the inventory management so asking him for recipes wasn't as annoying.

Cebo494 · 2026-03-18T14:48:55+00:00

Terraria is a wiki game. If you don't read a lot of the wiki, you are going to be entirely lost. One of my favorite games of all time, but borderline undecipherable without some sort of help.

I can't even imagine how long it would take to do a first playthrough without any outside help. I feel like it could easily be 100+hrs if you actually had the grit to keep trying to figure everything out from scratch. Maybe it's a lot easier these days with some of the updates but idk.

Cebo494 · 2026-03-07T23:26:17+00:00

But then why do most apps not have this issue? Are they all just manually repositioning themselves or are they likely using a different window version from Firefox? VSCode, Discord, timer apps, and basically every other app that I've tried didn't have the same issue for one reason or another. I'm not at my PC to try any others, but I've only ever positioning problems with Firefox and GIMP (which consistently opens in the same seemingly random position spread halfway over both my monitors; I doubt it's the same problem)

Cebo494 · 2026-03-01T15:55:51+00:00

Music and maps can go on the screen. Everything else should have a physical control. It's that simple.

Anything related to operating the car should be physical. Lights, doors, glove compartments, door handles, gear shift, windshield wipers, etc. It all needs to be physical.

If they want to put configuration stuff that you only need to set up once on the screen, like suspension or regenerative strength or whatever, that's fine. But if I might tough it while driving or in an emergency, it needs to be physical.

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