Another thing Valve does which is such a big deal for game preservation and decoupling reliance on Windows and even PC hardware is their work on Proton and financial backing of Fex, which allow you to run Windows games on Linux and mobile hardware (ARM64) respectively.
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we can argue whether the value justifies the take or not (I think it does btw, Steam does _A LOT_ for you besides just hosting and collecting payment for your game), but the claiming that Valve is the _worst_ company in gaming is, to put it diplomatically, unhinged.
Valve is the worst company in gaming. In a world that has EA.
They live off rent - 30% of every sale, paid by the people who actually make the games we love.
They don’t make games. They only make hardware as a hedge against Microsoft. Everything is about defending the monopoly that collects the rent.
The Airbnb/eBay of gaming.
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Valve has developed numerous games including Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2, contrary to the claim.
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twitter is the only place where you can say 'I like to know if a product is made with AI' and tim will hit you with:
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I’ve always wanted a game that feels like a playable version of old CGI renders from the 90s
Part of the reason some streamers end up being such shitty people is because of the parasocial relationships their followers develop with them.
Vivek's hubris over platforming this genuinely evil woman is going to go down in history as one of the biggest political strategy failures of all time.
Mediaite: Amy Acton’s Mother Was Convicted of Killing Kittens
New information about the criminal history of Donna Arthur, the estranged mother of Ohio Democratic nominee for governor, Amy Acton, is coming to light amid the backlash about her appearance in a Vivek Ramaswamy ad — including her conviction for animal neglect after several kittens in her care died in a hot car
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Mediaite: Amy Acton’s Mother Was Convicted of Killing Kittens
New information about the criminal history of Donna Arthur, the estranged mother of Ohio Democratic nominee for governor, Amy Acton, is coming to light amid the backlash about her appearance in a Vivek Ramaswamy ad — including her conviction for animal neglect after several kittens in her care died in a hot car
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Consumers should be allowed to make an informed choice about the games they buy, considering most if not all of the major LLMs people use for coding were trained on copyrighted material without permission of the owners.
Calling AI disclosure "political" is beyond disingenuous.
Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @Filmbot
There is a real economic cost to Valve’s foray into forced political disclosures. Besides taking 30%, they’re also taking a potentially even larger fraction of developers’ revenue and livelihood by undermining their business with these AI hate campaigns.
If as many people were as bothered about photoshop usage as they are about AI usage then yes, absolutely. This example only seems silly because it's something that concerns very few people, but if it did, then it would be a legitimate reason.
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I really, REALLY dislike the use of Photoshop. Should I demand every company to disclose their use of Photoshop?
I'll never stop marvelling at the evolutionary process of camouflage. It's such a perfect demonstration of natural selection.
BABY CRYING COUNTER inside a TV spying on you ffs this shit has to be regulated out of existence
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The guy who directed the killing of 250.000 trees in Finland for Google now with a nopology + "We don't think it would be useful to start debating this publicly."
Finns are seething after Google illegally toppled 250,000 trees for a data center motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Arguably my favourite of this
Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule bbc.in/4jAIj9J


































