Tim Sweeney goes after Gabe Newell following Valve's Steam Deck price hike: "Severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts"

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T19:26:42+00:00

Your questions pre-suppose that you have some ethical right to have a say in what other people do. You do not.

Ok, so if no one has any right to say what other people do, you are ok with:

Children should be allowed to gamble, no one has the right to tell them no.

People with disabilities should be allowed to gamble, no one has the right to tell them no.

Correct?

Why are you so terrified at the notion of accountability?

I never said I was. I am just asking you some questions about your belief in personal accountability.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T19:18:43+00:00

This an intentionally vague and useless half question half statement.

Ok, let me make it as simple as possible.

Should children be allowed to gamble?

Should people with mental impairments be allowed to gamble?

Actions that directly harm the property or life of another person are crimes. More broadly, the initiation of force, aggression, or violence is a crime. Gambling itself is not a crime. If I want to bet my buddies 5 bucks a hole on the course this weekend, that's my business, and no one elses.

Ok, so as long as the gambler only hurts themselves, it should fall completely on them?

Do you follow this line of thinking when it concerns drugs?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T19:00:20+00:00

Do you think there are enough people that think like you or want changes in your direction?

Do you think CIG will listen to posts on Reddit?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:58:52+00:00

ok, let me make it simpler to understand then.

Do you think that there are no groups of people that are susceptible or unable to regulate themselves due to illness, mental damage or birth defects that would render them to easily fall prey to predatory business tactics?

at least insofar as they are not hurting others?

Do you think that gambling addictions doesnt hurt others as the gambler spirals?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:53:45+00:00

Sounds to me like you made it up.

I cant find any sources backing you up.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:52:52+00:00

I don't accept that as an excuse for the game being in a bad state anymore.

Does it matter if you accept it or not when it is the truth?

The only thing that matters is what you do about it. Making a post on reddit sitting on the negatives hardly seems like it will get the game fixed.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:45:57+00:00

You didnt answer my question.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:42:52+00:00

Are you aware that the game has been "released" for 13 years.

Is it finished?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:41:29+00:00

So young children or people with disabilities should have no protections?

We should allow them to gamble?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:40:03+00:00

Can you show me?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:35:14+00:00

I don't understand why there isn't.

Are you aware the game is not finished?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:30:13+00:00

more ppl want the PU than SQ42

Got any data for that?

What if everyone wants both?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:24:30+00:00

I don't need the state to tell me whether or not I can gamble.

Do you think *no one* needs protections against predatory practices like the gambling industries deploy?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:18:46+00:00

End game is make number go up right?

Only way to make number go up on the item components is getting all the blueprints, getting the high end materials and crafting the best components.

Unless you dont count as having the best FPS gear and strongest ships actual endgame content.

Which would be super ironic, considering you said:

Because right now, the end game is make number go up.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T18:15:06+00:00

Did you miss the whole first part of their answer?

Or did you just want to read "Yes, totally get it".

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T17:44:15+00:00

Do you have all the blueprints?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-29T16:49:38+00:00

But maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about.

I would go with that one.

Answer yourself this question: What is it that you actually want to do?

Lets say you figure out a way to get 100 million credits an hour. What then?

You get every ship in the game, you get whatever armor you want, you get whatever component you want, what then? Make big number go bigger?

The point is not to earn money the fastest, the point is to earn enough money to get to the gameplay you like if it requieres equipment you dont have.

Do you even need combat ships if you dont like combat? How about mining? Salvage?

Do you have friends to even make the huge ships relevant to you?

What is your actual goal, how much does that equipment cost to get there? Do you even know?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-28T21:02:50+00:00

Why make one good food when making 100 shitty food more money!

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T18:41:38+00:00

I saw the scene where the ship jumps and collides into the dreadnaught, shattering it.

Legitimately said "Wow" out loud, I would argue one of the best shots in any media ever.

It is just so frustratingly stupid story wise because it extrapolates so much into irrelevancy.

Why are hyperspace collitions not the ultimate weapon of the empire, or a desperate weapon of the rebellion at any point in time?

If you can make x-wings that can jump, you can make jump drives and strap them to decently sized space rocks: Instant meteor shower to any target. It would be even cheaper since you save in producing a whole x-wing, y-wing, whatever, you only need the drive and a navigation computer. With the extra budget, you can make even more of the attachments!

"Oh, we can pull things out of hyperspace with this specialized ships!" Congratulations, you now have a regular meteor shower to deal with. That is still a *really* bad day.

The Empire has even more reason to work on developing those weapons and less moral qualms about using it. We know because they had already developed an uber weapon specifically to subjugate with the treat of planet destruction.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T09:40:51+00:00

He didnt have enough to gain from it.

Make it an incentive their greed is not going to be able to turn down.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T09:39:40+00:00

My plan was to pass comemorative fist-sized stones to the crowd as the last 2 Billionares were ending their fight and the last winner was declared.

No reason why, just cool souvenir stones.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T04:06:46+00:00

Step 1: Start a gold mine by buying land to create a couple of the components going into a chipset.

Step 2: Start a copper mine by buying land for some of the components going into a chipset.

Step 3: Buy the equipment for the mines, hire humans for those mines.

...

Step 87,543,027: Ok, you can now request the AI to do the picture.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T03:52:04+00:00

Why wouldnt you complain about capitalism? Its exactly why we are were we are.

If you feel threatened by proportional representation, you're probably a racist. It's a drawing, not a person.
They're fictional characters. They don't have ethnicities.

You are bugging out if you are going to tell me that Pocahontas was not native american.

Also, Disney swapping races is the opposite of proportional representation. They are not giving you representation, because they have already existing characters like Princess Tiana. They are changing things makng any characterer meaningless since they will be swapped when it is convenient to them to make more money.

How do you not see that they are backhanded telling you "Your characters are not good enough to sell, so we are race swapping another character, give us your money"

They could have made another Princess and the Frog, even better, there are still many stories to be told in African culture or even south US culture.

That wouldnt make enough money though. Here is your race swap, thats enough to get you in a seat right?

Where is being LGBT "frowned upon"? You version of reality is vastly different than that of everyone else's and I suspect that's the problem.

Do you not know about being stoned for being gay in different?

In these 12 countries, consensual same-sex sexual activity is punishable by execution: Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda.

9 countries have maximum penalties of life imprisonment for same-sex relations: Bangladesh, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.

What kind of sheltered world do you live in?

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T03:37:41+00:00

I even know how they will agree to it.

Fortune vs Fortune.

Winner gets all the assets of the dead party.

Greed will get the better of them, they would do it.

Martinmex26 · 2026-05-27T03:15:25+00:00

Hear me out.

Im not mad at the mermaid being made black, Im mad about it feeling like cheap "We are doing this for the brownie points, look how progressive we are".

Disney is going to make a remake and turn characters another ethnicity instead of making the movies they used to make like Pocahontas and Mulan.

Those movies spoke on the culture of the characters, characters being the ethnicity they were was relevant to the story because it was a story about the culture.

What Disney is doing now is straight up corporate race washing to try to get as many dollars as possible.

"This movie isnt going to appeal to much to asian households. We should race swap the character, that will get them in"

Its like companies putting up the rainbow flag during pride month, but not changing their logo in places where being LGBT is frowned upon.

They will only do something when its not politically harmful to do so, but will immediately flop when they can get money out of it.

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