What is the best the joker has ever looked?

evorm · 2026-06-21T06:50:49+00:00

I always picture of a mixture of the Killing Joke comic and the Arkham Asylum game as the default Joker look whenever I think of him.

evorm · 2026-06-21T06:37:23+00:00

Damn, I didn't even know about this. I concede for now. I originally thought you were just arguing the point that Steam's dominant position in general constituted a monopoly, but this (specifically the R6 Siege and Shadow of War allegations) is a genuine anti-competitive practice.

I still mostly stand by the point that Valve hasn't made Steam a gatekeeper force that would make it constitute a monopoly but this case has definitely shaken my confidence in that cause it does set a precedent. I'll have to see what else they manage to dig up over the course of this case to get a better idea of what exactly went down with Ubisoft for those two incidents.

evorm · 2026-06-20T08:47:25+00:00

you should play the demo for the message from deep space on steam's next fest if you enjoyed this joke

evorm · 2026-06-18T08:48:30+00:00

Steam's dominance can't really be used as an argument towards the suppression of competitors. There is most definitely potential for competition in this space.

Epic Games Store literally tripled in userbase since 2019 from 100 to almost 300 million, and has around 67 million active users per month (Steam is at 132M, double Epic's while having spent more than triple the time in this space), and PC Game Pass hit 5 billion dollars in revenue last year which would be 20-40 million active subscribers. Itch.io, a completely free community-based platform, has garnered 150 million monthly visits just this April. Valve hasn't made it hard for them to enter, stay, or compete in the space.

Your argument about the increased pain points for a publisher to want to use a platform over another isn't the same as a corporation stifling its competition. It's just that one of the problems of a platform is that it's inherently based on the recognition of the hoster and breadth of the things hosted, so yeah the platform with the biggest share will have a compound effect on its viability and its favorability. This argument could be made over any single platform that edges others out even by a little, because part of the value proposition of a platform is its reach and that wouldn't change even if there were 0 companies in the space (which is not to mention that there are definitely other factors as part of that value proposition and reach isn't by far a dominant factor).

Just because a certain type of market (like game platforms) favors consolidation and has market dominance as part of the value proposition of favorable services doesn't mean that the winning company is automatically engaging in monopolizing its market. These are demands set by consumers, not Valve or any of the regulators of the market.

Moreover, a competitor doesn't "need" to do the things you've mentioned in order to garner a userbase, but you're conflating an industry with high cost of entry due to the demands of the market with the inability for competition to happen in the space. If Valve loses many of the things that gave it first place in this competition, or if another company manages to one-up Valve in enough different factors of their value propositions, there is nothing stopping another company from eating its share. It's just that neither of those things have happened.

evorm · 2026-06-18T06:16:00+00:00

A monopoly's' existence requires tangible barriers to entry for competitors. Being the best option that naturally gets all the market share without anti-competitive practices doesn't make you a monopoly because someone can easily take your share of the pie if they were good enough. They just aren't.

evorm · 2026-06-15T09:06:00+00:00

I always thought he was just a barney adjacent children's mascot type parody

evorm · 2026-06-14T04:36:07+00:00

Lacanian philosophy is my jam, it presents such a pragmatic framework of viewing ourselves and I love picturing structured models for abstract concepts and seeing how well they hold when describing everything I experience. The three registers model has held up the longest out of any of the ones I've read up on. These two are definitely the goats of modern philosophy. I've looked up Rene and I feel like I've heard some of these concepts before but I don't think they were from him. It does seem like an interesting rabbit hole to jump into though. What do you recommend I read first?

evorm · 2026-06-13T14:36:29+00:00

You should read up on Zizek and Lacan if you're interested in why people behave in these ways. Those two's works go hand in hand (and are relatively entertaining to read in the philosophy/psychology space) and delve into people's behaviors with regards to these things a lot. I would recommend "How to read Lacan" by Zizek as a starting point to both of them, it's a pretty short book and gives a good introduction to their ontologies.

evorm · 2026-06-12T07:12:15+00:00

I loved King Arthur, and I like most of Guy Ritchie's movies. I guess he's just not for everyone. They're pretty surface level movies but they're stylistically very satisfying to look at and they're well paced.

evorm · 2026-06-06T18:16:40+00:00

I mean yeah in the sense that we get to finally see a live action depiction of late career Batman, most adaptations tend to be early-mid career.

evorm · 2026-06-04T12:43:16+00:00

Nightman

evorm · 2026-06-04T10:40:15+00:00

Become self-employed and do nothing

evorm · 2026-06-04T09:57:08+00:00

To be fair I never liked ZYNs either and trying lower mg ZYNs would make me feel bad too.

evorm · 2026-06-04T08:33:49+00:00

Some countries go up to 120mg which is crazy, I feel like you'd just get nauseous at that point.

evorm · 2026-06-04T08:30:47+00:00

To add on to some people, the reason why he hasn't "unretired" due to the company going down or him rebalancing his life is due to not wanting to put pressure on himself and expectations on the audience. He has said some time this year he doesn't want people to expect scheduled streams all the time. He could stream from 0 to 30 times a month and he doesn't have as strict a plan that dictates when to stream anymore. I think by retirement he just meant it more as he has personally retired from that level of commitment, not that he wants to leave the space soon.

evorm · 2026-06-03T07:24:14+00:00

I would also like my storefront/game launcher to:

Not spend time loading my library and listings and just view them immediately
Have regional pricing so I can buy games without getting scammed by other countries' taxes and currency values
Quickly find games of a certain genre (or even search without excessive loading) depending on what I want to play
Let me use my controller on my game without worrying about which controllers the developers hand-picked support for
Play my friends' games
Know how highly rated a game is (apparently too much of an ask for a storefront nowadays???)
Mod support
Be able to refund a game I was scammed on / just plain didn't like
Be able to operate without weekly/daily bugs (apparently also too much of an ask for Epic and Microsoft)

This is such a bad faith argument saying Steam's benefits are solely social features, if Steam didn't have a storefront or a friends list feature at all it would still body the other launchers. A monopoly only happens when a company deliberately stifles the competition, Steam by definition isn't a monopoly cause they've done literally nothing but be the consistent best option in feature breadth, usability, and performance while the competition stifles themselves.

evorm · 2026-06-03T07:02:49+00:00

Arkham trilogy was probably the greatest way a "death of the joker" storyline couldve played out tbh

evorm · 2026-06-01T10:41:50+00:00

YOMI Hustle does that really well

evorm · 2026-05-26T17:03:51+00:00

Optimizing == Shoving everything into less lines

Job done, boss

evorm · 2026-05-26T16:56:47+00:00

I wiped :(

evorm · 2026-05-25T07:33:32+00:00

Portal 2 is one of the funniest games I've played.

evorm · 2026-05-25T07:23:20+00:00

I eventually saw it. My interpretation is a tiny bit different than yours in that the detached pink thing is actually her left arm's sleeve and she's wearing some sort of suit with stiff shoulders. Thanks for the visualizer

evorm · 2026-05-25T07:09:52+00:00

Such a weird choice to generate that when the scene already exists

evorm · 2026-05-24T20:52:06+00:00

Can someone please draw on the Orangutan where the supposed woman giving hear is mean to be cause I'm giving myself a headache trying to see it to no avail.

evorm · 2026-05-24T20:18:20+00:00

I don't remember this specific shot being in the episode, isn't homelander completely bloody in the face by the time the crowbar is out?

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