support for Russia is strategic, support for China is because they are an actual socialist country.

This sentence here invalidates anything else you might say. If you “strategically” support the imperialist, authoritarian capitalist power just because they are in opposition to a different imperialist capitalist power, then it’s not actually about oppossing imperialism or capitalism is it? You’re just being a contrarian.

Same with China, it’s not a socialist country is it? The workers don’t have actually power, the party does and the workers can’t chose the party, china still has it’s Uber rich capitalist class that profit off the back of the workers. In fact it’s more of a capitalist hellhole than many western nations, but again tankies will ignore all that and blindly support then because of Pure contrarianisn to US bullshit.

So you guys are just raging hypocrites that will support whatever bullshit, no matter how bad as long it’s vaguely anti-american/anti-western. So you’re as opposed to ACTUAL progress as even the most diehard neo-con, the only difference being how smug and holier than thou you lot are about and the fact that you really should know better.

I mean I expected this when I decided to engage with a .ml but still, it’s like you’re reading a completely different comment from the one I wrote.

So against my better judgement I will try to engage you in good faith for a bit longer:

I specified tankies and purity test leftists as different entities for a reason. Tankies do often make good points about western imperialism, the problem (and what makes them tankies) is there blind support for anyone and anything that opposes western imperialism, no matter how bad they are, which is usually support for russian/Chinese imperialism/authoritarian regimes.

Then the purity testers are the ones who will just pointlessly infight about semantics in theory. Like for a real life example, I got purity tested earlier this year for saying I think there’s a difference between systemic racism and an individual act of racism, and anyone can be the victim of an individual act of racism. And apparently that makes me as bad as the KKK.

So in summary I’m happy to talk to you guys about the how bad the effects of western imperialism is and how we to actively fight against it, so long as you don’t claim Russia and China are the good guys, in spite of all the evil shit they do, simply because they are a force that isn’t western.

I mean, you can view it that way if you like, but I feel like if you’re being an actually reasonable person, you can acknowledge there is a big difference between a purity test that about some politicians policy on benefits for homeless people not being enough, and a purity test of not assassinating political opponents or just straight up being an authoritarian.

Mostly to get away from the liberals, rightists, bots, trolls and capitalists losers.

So while the tankies and the terminally online purity test leftists are shitty, it’s at least not as bad as all the bullshit on Reddit and they are a small minority.

Cope

This whole thread is just more evidence for why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of Brits for our food.

In the middle of mine rn, shit is going great I have like 5 social events lined up in the 2 weeks after Christmas and 4 dates as well. I feel like I could fight god.

Nothing can possibly go wrong.

I mean I’ve always had shitty supermarket honeydew and it’s been lovely

???

They tought us about imaginary numbers in A levels (16-17) here, do they not even teach them in undergrad in the US??? I struggle to believe that.

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It’s hard to imagine having a worse take than this lol.

Well you could always be writing paragraphs and paragraphs defending a billionaire from mild and valid criticism on the internet.

No. With physical media you owned it and pre steam you couldnt have a licence arbitrarily revoked.

Betas are not early access.

Yes it’s bad for consumers, to release unfinished products, just look at KSP2

Oh yeah steam was just a poor tiny multi billion dollar company and by far the biggest disturber of pc games before 2015. And they weren’t against refunds, hence why they fought tooth and nail against the lawsuit and every individual refund before then.

Cool, the cut record labels take is pretty standard. That doesn’t mean it isn’t predatory.

Tell the TF2 community they support their service games

Abd that makes steams licencing bullshit ok?

This is what I mean, you give any criticism of lord Gaben and people will act like I’m saying steam is “literally satan”

The big ones being the popularisation of the licence model for video games, so you don’t actually own your games and they can pull your licence at any time.

Loot boxes and child gambling, they basically started that with CS.

They’re the ones that popularised early access as a format.

Had to be sued into having a refund policy

Gabe newall is a biollaire that owns a yatch company and a fleet of super yacht, all that money has been skimmed from actual hard working Devs, many smaller ones also have been squeezed into participating in steam sales when they don’t want to just to get steam to promote their game. Even thought they will happily push asset flips slop.

They have also put in place system to protect Devs from “review bombing” when those Devs screw over their olayerbase, then will also allow “legitimate” reviews after a human has reviewed them, that are just culture war stuff that has nothing to do with the game.

Valve layoffs on the internet I can only see that they laid off 13 people back in 2019

Because steam has very few employees and basically doesn’t make games anymore.

You never owned your own games, you just never read the documentation that came with your discs and cartridges before.

??? You think Nintendo was going door to door to pull nes cartridges away from people for violating their tos???

Helping the gaming community by popularising not owning your games, lootboxes and child gambling, early access and asset flips as well as being the first to cave when visa and MasterCard started pressuring companies to stop selling certain games?

Can we stop the steam/gabe glazing?

They are responsible for some of the worst practices in modern video games and are generally not a consumer focused company but you’re doing PR for them for free

You’re average user is not using separate kbm for a laptop, and if they are they using Bluetooth ones. And there definitely not using a game controller, and even then they’re Bluetooth too. Printers are wireless. So only thing is thumb drive which in my experience most people would rather use cloud storage or airdrop

I work in a company that’s a couple thousand people, and the vast majority of them don’t plug anything into their laptops other than power and a phone charger.