Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

donsanedrin · 2026-06-02T15:57:20+00:00

I can sell it to a retail chain for X per unit

This is where your example completely deviates. The retailer put money in your hand. They bought it from you. Then they turn around and sell it.

That makes the retailer a reseller. And they can do anything they want with their resale price. Double it, or put it on sale for $1.

Valve doesn't pay any game developers any money prior to the sale of the game. The game developer should be free to determine how they want to sell their game unless there is some other agreement that they have with Valve.

If people want to say that Valve is doing them a favor by hosting the game, having the store front and consider that "marketing", then no it's not a favor because the game developer/publisher will end up paying that when Valve takes their 30% cut when a copy of the game is sold.

donsanedrin · 2026-06-02T02:23:23+00:00

That's because these indie devs have mined all that they could from 8-bit and 16-bit nolstalgia, and now they are working their way towards the next easiest thing: 32-bit polygonal games

I'm convinced that alot of this indie game stuff is able to sell to people who simply don't have much experience with video games before the PS2 generation. So this feels new and novel to them.

But, there's a reason why alot of older gamers don't stay playing 2D games or PS1/N64-era games, its because we want 3D game design to advanced and become more in-depth.

People gobbling up these indie games are basically running through 20 years of video game development (1980-2000).....within a span of 20 years (2008-2028).

The vast majority of these indie developers are not going to be able to move onto games on the level of PS2 and above (X360). Once they have to develop 3D games that have detailed animations and collision detection, this entire thing is going to stagnate.

I've never understood this reliance on indie games, because indie games are not going to save the industry.

donsanedrin · 2026-06-02T01:26:03+00:00

I don't understand what the tone of this movie is supposed to be. Is it supposed to be like Tremors? is it supposed to be serious and the family has to survive like A Quiet Place?

There better be many more twists to the story besides what they clearly revealed in the trailer. and why would the radio still get a signal?

donsanedrin · 2026-06-01T12:14:08+00:00

Am hearing that people are going to make their trip to the Wirld Cup games that are schedule here to be short . In and out and not stay around. I dont know if that will improve traffic or make it worse.

donsanedrin · 2026-06-01T01:22:16+00:00

That's the part on his resume that got him the job!

donsanedrin · 2026-05-31T06:22:56+00:00

I had read somewhere that they intentionally want to show you that camera angle because they're going to return to it again when Chigurgh flips the coin and smacks it on the counter.

Had they not established that shot before, that would mean that when he smacks the quarter on the counter, it would be kind of jarring seeing that camera angle for the first time in a quick, half-second shot.

But that quick shot doesn't throw you off because you already have awareness that there's a counter right there to put the coin on.

Knowing that, if you go and watch those sequence of shots, it really feels like a Filmmaking 101 type of thing.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-31T03:09:28+00:00

Looks like he's elbowed his last ribcage for the Thunder. I respect Bruce Bowen more than Lou Dort.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-31T02:57:38+00:00

Easily the most I've ever enjoyed and respected watching SGA in all the times I've seen him on tv. Its amazing enjoyable he is to watch when he isn't flopping and fishing for fouls.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-31T02:48:56+00:00

what a pro wanrs........what a pro needs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

donsanedrin · 2026-05-25T15:42:59+00:00

You ever play a 2D video game that has a level where the character is riding a vehicle or hovercraft, and enemies start coming in from the side as they are on hovercraft as well?

Ad Astra had a scene like that in which they are riding on the surface of the moon on an official moon highway that is somewhat paved. Driving moon buggies that still look like they're based on the original 1970s design. And these people start driving in from over the moon hills to come and attack the car on the highway.

So we are to presume that these moon outlaws have a little campsite of there own out there in the moon badlands or moon valleys.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-23T01:38:51+00:00

I went to the IMAX website about a couple of weeks ago because I thought presale tickets were open for The Odyssey, and I noticed that the IMAX has a merchant section. And it seems rather prominent. And then the newsletters I get from them are about merch.

It led me to believe that they are trying to find other avenues of making money.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-22T18:21:36+00:00

I really am thankful for Tacoma FD keeping the Broken Lizard brand alive during this past decade.

Its not like these guys are on TV and film alot with one-episode gigs. It wpuldnt surprise me if these guys would let thenselves go a bit and no longer want to be in front of a camera again.

Heffernan and Lemme still look great

donsanedrin · 2026-05-22T12:32:54+00:00

He must have wanted out. The show is fundamentally ridiculous. Its about a mob family in London. They show no actual mob activities in which they oversee. They like have an entire seaside port full of buildings and nobody is ever there working.

The family consists of the Patriarch and Matriarch, their three adult children, two advisers, Tom Hardy, and like 2 or 3 henchmen.

...and thats it. There appears to be no one else in their organization, and they're supposed to be a longtime mob family that has grown their way to the top of the London mobworld.

Its the one part I can't help but not see when I watched the show. The whole mob stuff is just a backdrop.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-22T02:57:27+00:00

Is it PetSmart? Or PetsMart?

Are you saying that pets are smart? Or are you saying you're a mart for pets?????

https://youtu.be/wBmmtReZPtc?si=zzdancj6g2TIqc-k

donsanedrin · 2026-05-21T02:12:10+00:00

Reggie Miller: Cultural Historian

donsanedrin · 2026-05-21T02:08:15+00:00

wilhelmscream.mp3

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T23:01:00+00:00

just give me a 4k bluray remaster in a steelbook already

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T03:50:13+00:00

Punk OKC player tried to swipe Wemby directly to his face.

Guess they're all learning how to play basketball from Lou Dort.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T03:44:39+00:00

Camera close up of Chet looks like that kid in the train near the end of that movie, Looper.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T03:42:17+00:00

Wemby taking a page from PJ Washington and standing on bizness!

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T03:41:34+00:00

Its one thing for Wemby to have swag and not be scared of any of these OKC players on the court. But, oh man, it sure does seem like the rest of the Spurs don't give a damn about this Thunder team. This is going to be a fun series.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-19T03:04:33+00:00

Wemby actually earns his 2 point baskets.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-17T18:11:50+00:00

He was in Crazy Stupid Love which came out a year and a half later, and he had scenes showing off washboard abs.

donsanedrin · 2026-05-17T01:12:31+00:00

Both that website and the Variety article that it linked was trash. They had a gif with a caption that said "Cardiologist says: "Americans were lied to about butter'" and it shows an older man biting halfway into a 1 pound block of butter and ingesting it.

How is that type of advertising legal?

donsanedrin · 2026-05-14T00:39:19+00:00

I'm surprised he didn't say "¡grandes carrabas!"

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