Concord remaster when?

They’ve decided who their customers are, and it’s not you

Since FF is free - isn’t that a given?

Meatn’t

That’s a free-rider problem. As an individual, you don’t want to rent to a convicted criminal. But as a society, we want criminals that served their time to be able to rent, because if they can’t they’ll be forced to squat, which will increase the probability they’ll continue to do more crimes (they already broke the law by squatting), so we do want people to rent to them.

What good will it do for you to avoid contact with landlords? If you need to rent, you have to rent from a landlord. If you can afford to own your own house, you’d prefer to do that to begin with.

Because they should be allowed to vote in general, or because felons should only be allowed to vote for other felons?

Sorry. Terrible wording on my part.

My argument is that instead of attacking Valve for being big, you should attack them for doing bad things. Your “other comment in this thread” (I assume https://lemmy.world/comment/10668748 ?) describes an aggressive practice done by Valve. Why not lead with that? The problem is not the size of these companies per se, but the way they’ve reached that size and the way they weaponize it against competitors. Focusing on attacking the size and the monopoly status of the companies is just saying “it’s not okay to be successful”.

Attack from that angle then, not from something that strongly correlates with it.

Maybe not financial, but intrusive thoughts are a thing…

Yes. The subtle distinction between having physically fit legs capable of kicking babies and actually kicking babies.

I think the whole “monopoly bad” notion is a bit off. You start opposing monopolies, but then people realized that duopolies are also bad, and next thing you know we talk about triopolies and centiopolies and whatnot.

So I think the actual number is not the thing that matters, and instead the thing we should be worrying about is cartels.

The defining feature of a cartel is the ruthless action it takes to kill competition. The monopolies everyone are so mad about are cartels of single companies, but the bad thing about them is their cartellic behavior - not the fact they are along in the market.

Steam is not a cartel.

My headcanon is that they are still there, forced to watch as Musk personally “improves” their code.

I think said “most people” will care once the game forces them to register for a PSN account.

According to the article, these were threatening messages (one about potential viruses, another about legal penalties). It fits gender stereotypes perfectly for women to seek to mitigate risks while seek someone to hold their beer.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/18/fallacies-of-reversed-moderation/

I wish Lemmy showed you more of the context than just the last reply.

You can keep pressing on “Show context” to load more replies, up until the top level one.

Since when does “plastic and fake” means it’s not social media?

Now imagine having to do this under literal pressure while trying to configure the Logitech controller for your submarine.

That number actually seems pretty low now, considering the number of Instagram accounts is already in the billions. Maybe they didn’t activate all of them to make it seem more believable?