No you do not, lying ass bitch

No its not OK you deserve whatever you get with your data bullshit

Get bent

Ooh look I’m so stable and secure (your not or you’d read shit) and your so mad someone owned you you decided to fuck with them all polite like

Your award is in the mail 👍

Talk about the ick

Fuck off back to obscurity you game playing ass

Influence isn’t what was being pointed out you disingenuous coward

They ARE extremely powerful, they are extremely wealthy. That much is concrete

Less influence then a king isn’t suddenly make you a peasant.

They have slightly less power and influence, displayed in places you can easily witness it, since the 1800s. But wait! They also have a fuckton more money then they had (which by definition, is power and influence)

Huh still on top of the world then? Thanks for coming in you silly little man. Woman? Nonbinary person? Doesn’t matter really

Fuck you im not your god damn dancing internet monkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family 😎

You made claims man, now you give me a source of how it hasn’t consolidated. (Even tho that doesn’t matter in the slightest when it comes to modern day wealth empires like this but who cares its the about the principle now)

Now dance monkey. Dance.

Its not about consolidation man its how its grown from what it was over the course of time and how its grown enough to keep up with any dilution they may have experienced as time passed

And they don’t just let anybody walk around with their name man. They take their shit seriously. Its a pretty serious family there you are acting like is some scattered diluted group like some old royals that fell out of favor and died out or something

Its grown and grown and grown over a loooog time and historically NOT reduced hence them being such a prime example of this type of wealth and hence my commentary about you being intentionally obtuse

This guy:

Being intentionally stupid for some reason

So are you like trying to win a contest or something?

Really not surprising but ofc you wouldn’t

Read/hear words? About ME? That aren’t in blind agreement? Not gonna do that shit

Well its up there and its scathing but thats how you stay ignorant you got that down pat 😎

Clearly self-reflection isn’t something you can handle so I wouldn’t, for your psychological wellbeing and all

And why did that change your mind?

The abuses they did do with it and could have done with your data before ai weren’t enough to concern you but amalgamating that data with countless others to have it abused that way is too much for you? Even tho they literally already were doing that exact thing before AI was available with basic data science?

Using your data to take advantage of every human weakness they could figure out was already happening but NOW your not OK with it? Like has it made you rethink everything or just nah turn you off now cause your ingroup doesnt approve of it coward bullshit?

The law could have changed at any time to turn you into a criminal based on the public data you intentionally gave away. They could have arrested you for supporting the wrong cause, emailing the wrong person or exploring the political ideas they didnt like or arrested people in your network because it gave them access to THEIR data as well (google android push notifications, messages, emails stored on their networks like your friends replys, Facebook messages, snapchats, all for sale if they wanted it to be)

And its not sounding like your reflecting on it so much as your simply moving on from being a blissfully ignorant, happy and from the sounds of the comment, enthusiastically willing participant in it all despite all the evidence to the contrary the entire time? That’s fucked up beyond the usual

Like its already fucked. We needed you to not sell us all out cause your ingroup was into that shit at the time and just changing teams suddenly doesn’t mean your not gonna fall for it all over next time. (unless you know WHY it was fucked up to begin and this doesnt sound like you know that)

Fuck yeah, also theme music and the CSS loader is insanely dope (custom CSS layouts for the steam deck, all in little easy to install packages). Don’t like the info popped up on the main screen, now its bellow, want more games on the menu? Done. And OLED black for the themes is kick ass.

There’s music control for playing songs and controlling them in a … tab menu basically

OpenGOAL is a decomp of Jak 1&2 and runs through decky to do the building which I thought was cool too

But TabMaster is the shit. Customize and control over tabs, hide, change order, create new ones. Display hidden games from multiple specified collections all in its own brand new tab? Go right ahead and do that

Makes the steamdeck better unlocks its more full potential and who tf knows what else is on there there’s a bunch. But it can cause issues and is worth that too

Sorry for hijacking your reply

Nice history lesson, again, did not request that that’s all you

I am aware of its history, it made a at the time dead game come back, sheerly due to the stupid colossal failure of a moral decision you claim they made. It made a bunch of hyper-competitive and underrepresented at the time, new, cosmetic focused collector-type YOLOFOMO gamers both shit and cream their goddamn pants.

This was a stunning stupid punt to make enough money to keep the game they, and many dedicated people, wanted to stay on, yet wouldn’t or couldn’t foot the bill, for. This was a morally just cause in many eyes. They INSPIRED bad companies. They didn’t design it in a laboratory to mislead you you fucking dunce, it just happened to be, at the time the quintessentially invisible, psychological vulnerability of the time, that was, exploited for an, at the time, entirely morally justifiable cause. Because we literally didn’t know that it was predatory, which was, SPECIFICALLY avoided by Valve all over the fucking highway but it was seriously what pays the bills and they’re not fucking immune from competitive business practices working in a system of both exploitive labor and business practices so expecting them to suddenly foundationally change their funding and put them in an easy place to be taken over and corrupted by the same shareholders and executives that own companies that ACTUALLY do that shit just because its works and they just think if it works its their fault but let’s try REALLY hard to exploit the shit outta them on purpose people must sit there and laugh, which is entirely against the fucking spirit and sentiment of the OP statement. So fuck off with that.

One, because fuck that, and two because fuck misdirecting that outrage and making things all around worse off. Well meant for sure, but destructive and undeserving of moral praise or claim IMNSHO

So yeah, back to the purpose of the entire essay, because that’s what this fucking became.

Was that I gotcha supposed to save your shitty take or something? Because it does not.

See I’m not defending lootboxes or the companies that use them. I’m seeing a criticism directed at one of the LEAST offending players in the industry as if they are some cabal of assholes, like its hilariously under informed and your fucking YouTube video preying on your desire to have a boogyman is being pushed as if that isn’t the same level of bullshit.

They get paid to push bullshit. You don’t. So you don’t get that excuse here.

The point is the lootboxes are the canary and not the fucking toxic gas.

Yes, it is lame that they unwittingly legitimized it. Free to play isn’t something that had been done successfully for games like that, large scale, hardware dependent. But they had no idea how that would go. How in the world were they to know what that would do to the industry at large? They fucking didn’t that’s how. League was still being openly mocked for its fiscally stupid “free-to-play strategy” and expected to fail just as so many games before them. Which became the free-to-play MODEL after the RESOUNDING successes of both League and Fortnite, and was seen as much more exploitative (locking characters and thus most of the game not just cosmetics) and though inevitably it became the literal industry standard after DayZ/UnknownPlayers: Battlegrounds came around and was FAR more influential at every conceivable level we still had no knowledge yet of it being a real problem (in psychology) That didn’t come till well into Mobile Gaming coming up.

What exactly were they supposed to do instead? GoFundMe and Patreon? Barely existed and NO one smart would have trusted them at the inception. Especially for a big company.

So EA and Activision/Blizzard and dozens of other players make entire series of games built around taking advantage of every aspect of human weakness. Catalogues of max exploitative schite. Then you have Activision and Take-Two and now even Sony and Microsoft and a half dozen others who buys up every developer and game rights then produces the same underwhelming but palatable crap or strait exploitative slop while exploiting the workers to the extreme, in both pay and insane time crunches, while holding onto fantastic franchises because theyre not what boils down to easily exploitable and really just don’t like risk and/or competition and you whine and complain about this? Seriously you moved past the low hanging fruit and strait into the branches for some reason.

I just want to hear more about how Hitler isnt bad because he didn’t INVENT genocide or something its using your logic and its fucking ridiculous.

Don’t care about fucking lootboxes with all the bullshit that’s worse that I lined out being way more prevalent. I wasn’t having a discussion till you showed up. Just pointed out that point. No one asked for your essay you got from a internet influencer masquerading as legitimately formed opinion coming about the place. Its attracting others doing just about the same thing, not thinking and upvoting common positions in leu of using their heads

Surely this criticism is founded in an informed set of facts not ooooh the corporation. Which is doing surprisingly well despite all the pressure, isn’t your friend ah ha!

You tire rationality constructed sayings and subvert the very essence of what it meant and then, hold the applause, you resent people not liking your clearly look at me, its LEVEL headed and applies to other things (def not this but WHO CARES amiright guys?), Dopey, pick-me, bullshit.

No way I’m taking your false equivalent shit here, there’s nothing about Valves lootboxes that put it NEAR the industry standard of make shit game look good make money, lootboxes with GAMEPLAY mechanics locked behind, forcing dlc for basic features and micro transactions for consumables and to level up bullshit.

So suck my d*ck

Tf you talking out your ass fr