You are not required by Steam to use their DRM, it’s a service they offer. Publishers make the choice to use the DRM.

Culprit in what way? It’s the developers and publishers that put the DRM on the games, not Steam.

I don’t think they, there is nothing stoping anyone from selling their game through another means. It’s possible to build your own website, take credit card payment, and distribute a game that way. People don’t do that because it whole lot of extra work and it’s easier to pay some 30% commission to sell it for you.

This is not just a Steam issue, I have games I bought and will never be able to play because of DRM. Until laws change, this won’t change.

That’s not an issue with Steam that is an issue with consumer protection and copy right laws.

I now just throw random shit at my players and see what the engage with. Last week they decided the frog must be up to something so the frog lead them to a boy full of bog mummies. Anyways I almost TPKed the party and now they are hell bent on killing all the frogs in the swamp.

You lost 60% when selling physical media in stores, 30% was an amazing deal when steam launched

Are you looking for content for the sake of having content or does the content fulfill a purpose? Being intentional about the media I consume has improved my life and reduced the amount of content I consume.

Following creators on emshitified platforms is the problem. We need to support creators that are using independent and opensourse platforms

Your better off getting 10 people and starting a commune

Why are they all playing with there junk?

I’m talking about people that are accountants that now thing they can create software. Or engineers who think they can now write legal briefs for court.

I don’t have a problem with LLMs as much as the way people use them. My boss has offloaded all of his thinking to LLMs to the point he can’t fix a sentence in a slide deck without using an LLM.

It’s the people that try to use LLMs for things outside their domain of expertise that really cause the problems.

There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.

I spent 3 hours editing my bosses AI generated slide deck yesterday. I am really feeling number 9

You’re hired!

We are looking for people but it’s a non profit and we don’t pay.

Does that mean you believe white liberals don’t actually care about minorities?

Are you saying all white people who advocate for minorities are virtue seeking and self congratulating

If it’s intended to call out the vain, why does it say white liberals?