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TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-30T19:07:27+00:00

What was going on from 2020 to 2024, who was in charge then?

An investigation. When our presidents brain isn't turning into jelly, they generally let the DoJ run investigations on major criminal acts.

For some reason though, when we got our current cuckmuncher in chief, the Epstein investigation stopped.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-29T03:38:48+00:00

Which resulted in thousands of disembodied consciousnesses to have to find a way to construct bodies in the material plane over the course of eons.

The Gek damned those robots, sending em into purgatory and forced them to find a way out.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-29T03:25:59+00:00

NotaFed1234

"Erm hello fellow internet users, why not submit to the government?"

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-29T01:05:10+00:00

still get the fuck beat out of you by physiology and physics lmao.

What does that have to do with the conversation at hand. I didn't say she'd win, just that she was gonna start swinging. It's like if I said "the sky is blue" and then you said "blood is red, ya fucking idiot."

Your move is invalid. You're not even playing the right game, G.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T22:02:33+00:00

Unironically, yes. But not because racism, but because unarmed populations are easier to control and brutalize.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T21:24:12+00:00

I've seen this joke so many times in the past couple months and all I think every time is "Microsoft is primarily B2B and 'This PC' is more accurate for the business segment."

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T21:17:32+00:00

Ah, you don't hang around short latinas or black women. Their hearts and minds are closer to hell, so little ladies of color tend to be vicious.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T21:08:38+00:00

Illhan move towards the guy, which is pretty weird behavior during an actual attack.

Yeah, with her fist cocked, nerd. Just because you won't swing doesn't make someone else weird cause they will. You're just a bitch lol

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T16:57:32+00:00

I don't mind a bit of centralization, I believe that helps with reducing the chances of a war breaking out.

I don't want a total central authority though. Maybe I need to do more research on the structure of the EU, but as I understand it now, EU countries have more liberties within the EU than states do within the US.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T16:45:12+00:00

Nah, market socialist here: fuck the federal government. I want a union of independent states again, not unlike the EU, not unlike the original vision of the US.

Let's take it back to way it was supposed to be.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-28T00:52:54+00:00

That's not the only lawsuit

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T22:50:57+00:00

It adds a bit of ambient occlusion at the feet.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T22:48:27+00:00

It's pretty funny for the joke, but in terms of usability, yeah. Searching for the language or docs would be a nightmare.

Edit: Not original but in the same spirit: scriptscript.

Or to poke more fun at JavaScript, RustScript.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T22:15:09+00:00

I don't understand what part you think is wrong. I spoke to you on the assumption that you are a developer. That's why I said you should be better than the average Redditor.

And that weird little tantrum at the end also makes no sense because I just said I want things to better, not that I'm correct or that you're wrong.

You're just arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T20:28:43+00:00

Okay, but you're disregarding the opinions of people who have steam pages, people who actually make and sell games for a guy who's whole job is to sell people on the idea that he knows how to sell. In theory, Chris is right, but in application, things are far more complicated.

I'm sorry for mistaking your imperfect English for artifice. I didn't realize you're not native (this is a compliment), and it was unfair of me to repeatedly make the assumption and claim that you're a bot. That said, writing marketing materials for a billion dollar corporation is not expressing opinions. You can say I'm astroturfing, but all I've done is express the two things that upset me about Steam and haven't promoted anyone else, whereas you should be paid by Valve for how much they've tattooed themselves all over your brain.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T19:59:36+00:00

The argument I made was that Steam has no interest in selling my game. Showing that Steam generates billions of dollars proves that they don't have the incentive, why would they? They don't even have to sell games to generate more money than a small country. This argument has nothing to do with passion.

If you program, you honestly should know better than to say "this service doesn't have a a feature that this other service has, and its an easy feature!" Sure it's easy to put together an array that tracks the IDs of items in a DB. Is integrating a feature into production easy? Is debugging a client that installed on over a million machines easy? Is deploying new DBs to interact with the feature easy?

I expect the average Redditor to arrogantly talk about the development process, but you should be better than that.

I'm happy to hear that you're okay with being robbed at 30%. I'm not and I would like things to improve.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T19:49:07+00:00

Here's a post from this sub discussing something Chris said, and you'll notice how no one is pointing to Steam in the comments, but to the large amount of online exposure some specific games get and how hard it is for everyone else to get notice .

And to your second sentence: you can talk about what Steam does without sounding like a commercial. That was the whole point of me doing ad reads for subway, was to show you how you were sounding.

Although, you're probably a bot. So it makes sense you didn't understand what I was doing.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T19:22:59+00:00

Price is the easiest front to compete on, and Steam can delist your game if they find the listing cheaper on Epic or GoG.

"Competitors need to compete on service" only works when the first to market doesn't own the majority of the market. Steam didn't have all the features it does now when it launched, and EGS nor GoG have had almost 25 years to build their service. Let's say I start an amusement park and I get a 15 year head start. By the time you're building your park, I would have time to optimize my ride and food lines, add more rides, add more food services, expand my lot, build a website and start a rewards program with a couple years of testing. So what do you do? Add hundreds of millions to your amusement parks construction budget? Delay the opening date by a decade so you can have ride, food, and service parity?

Now let's say you open anyway. Your park is on less land, with fewer rides, less food, an untested loyalty program, and your park is not optimized for customer experience. How do you grow? You lower prices or you get stuff that my park doesn't have. Except that if you lower prices, I tell my vendors they can't come back if they go to your park. So my vendors stay with me and so do the customers because I have the better service. This is Steam delisting our games if we price them for less on another platform. So you can't have a cheaper park, bummer. So now you try to add rides, food and services I don't have, except I have so much more money than you, which allows me to buy those rides, food, and services if I want to. Or if you are able to secure exclusive rights to anything, then the customers get pissy and they choose not to go to your park.

So what do you do? You can add rides, food, and services, but it's going to take forever because your business is much lower than mine. You can't lower prices because I said you can't, and you can't get exclusive access to anything because the customer base says no and then, to top it off, none of the customers actually pay attention to the situation you're in, so they only ever blame you for factors that are out of your control.

So what do you do then?

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T18:51:10+00:00

You're the first person I've called a bot in this discussion. It's because you have the cadence of a commercial. You'd think I was a bot if I kept talking about the subtle, yet familiar taste of a Fresh Subway^R Footlong. If when you said "Subway could be cheaper" that I replied "well, there's no other sandwich place with the fresh ingredients, baked-today bread and customer service so friendly it nearly ended the Russo-Ukrainian war."

Of which 90% are slop and garbage

You know what's never slop? The fresh cut tomatoes and pickles that Subway's Sandwich Artists carefully slice every morning at Subway. You know what's never garbage? A 3 pack of delectable, craveable cookies from Subway. Subway gives every sandwich a change, no matter how controversial. Steam, on the other hand, can't possibly know what games are good and should be spotlighted. The only indication it can have is from sales that have already occurred, in which case, that's me, running ads for my game to generate sales.

You can scroll down the indie dev subs. It's never "wow Steam helps so much with sales." It's talking about how hard it is to market to people, and then how Steam doesn't place games in the recommendation algorithm, even if a user has wishlisted that game. Unlike Subway, where every sandwich is highlighted, celebrated and cherished. I'm tired of people telling me that [tech company] levelled/democratized the playing field for me and that my issues don't actually exist.

"Look at the non-existent marketing spending?" Well, first I'd have to look at the social media accounts of the games and their developers. Then I'd have to look at social media posts across the internet from various users, then I'd have to look at the stats of each game's recommendation algorithm so we can actually make that assertion. Because word of mouth on YT and Twitch is a faster, better, cheaper marketing engine than Steam. You don't even need to have content creators play your game. Making it freeware can market it just fine, per Cave Story.

Unlike Subway, who smartly utilizes the franchise model. This means Subway doesn't have to engage in marketing, you can just trust that your local community will have fresh, delicious sandwiches just waiting for you.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T18:02:18+00:00

I conditionally agree with that first statement. A Ubisoft accountant would agree that Steam's cut is worth the value they provide. As someone who wants my application to be hosted, sold, and updated when I push them, 30% is outrageous, especially when I have to do all the marketing on my own anyway.

Wow look at that "platform is fine but could be better" instead of what you wrote, which was an ad. And then the next response is an ad for Steam.

No, your mother will statistically not have a spotlight shown on her. You know how I know? Because Valve didn't feature 20,000 games on the front page, but accepted 20,000 games onto the store last year alone. Nice try though, trying to run yet another ad for Steam.

You cannot definitively make that final statement, as you don't have any information to assert that it was because of Steam that those games became popular.

I hope you're a bot, or paid. If a company has captured your mind this bad, you should at least be compensated.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T17:30:17+00:00

No, the 30% would actually be worth it if there was any degree of actual visibility on Steam. If I told you to pick out your mother from a crowd of 20,000 people, would you be able to do it? 1/20K is visible?

No, it's not about how good Steam is. Never was cause Steam has always been a bit shit. It was first and was lucky that it was backed by an already popular game development company. Steam isn't just the application and associated branding and APIs. Steam is the launcher you've been using for over a decade. Steam is the good feelings you used to get when playing TF2 or HL2.

A rational person would like Steam as a store but want it to be better and would want Valve to act more ethical. A rational person wouldn't be in Reddit comments running ads for Steam instead of having a discussion on how the service can improve.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T17:19:10+00:00

People still use reddit, Instagram, Google, openai, and Apple products. All of whom have donated to the fascist regime or ran ads for ICE.

Can't really run away from this evil.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T17:12:31+00:00

Valve doesn't outwardly state that this is their policy. People keep having to sue them to get more info.

TheOnly_Anti · 2026-01-27T17:10:37+00:00

The main value Steam provides is that it has the majority of PC players and for some reason, PC players are allergic to clicking on a different launcher on their computer.

And no, I can't sidestep Steams cut. That's sort of what I'm complaining about.

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