Goronmon

This feels like a strange argument given site we are on. "Why are applications so slow and bloated these days" has been a pretty constant complaint around here for many, many years.

Comment · 16 days ago

All I can think with this whole situation is how much time is wasted by people getting angry and defensive on behalf of a Valve. It's almost like people have a parasocial relationship with the application itself.

That's not even getting to some of the "missing" features.

No Community marketplace for in-game items

No Direct player-to-player item trading

No Digital trading cards, levelling, and points shop

I hope more application developers "forget" to add these features.

Comment · 23 days ago

Yeah, I saw this similar "DVD menu" topic come up on Reddit as well.

I was surprised how many people expressed disappointment or annoyance at the lack of these menus when it came to streaming.

While I specifically remember the lack of these menus (and how slow they were) being something I was thrilled to have when streaming was introduced.

Comment · 24 days ago

They can't take the disc itself, but they can definitely stop the disc from being used if they wanted to.

Comment · 1 month ago

Also as much as you might like to punish investors (most of whom just have it in their 401k) because you don't like people with money, there are legal protections and the government can't just do something like that without an actual reason.

As much as you might like to defend the wealthy because the only thing you care about is money, regardless of the human cost, doesn't mean that we can't use the law and the government to limit the harm being done to humans.

I know what you are going to say. "Fuck people! I only worship money!" but I think you need to look beyond just the financial aspects of this situation.

Comment · 1 month ago

So vote for Republicans because while the outcomes are worse, at least they aren't pretending they are going to make things better?

You've made it clear why you think people absolutely shouldn't vote for Democrats, but haven't really stated what people should do instead, just left the implication.

Comment · 1 month ago

I'm not sure "make sure kids have food" rises to the level of "perfection" when it comes to measuring society.

But in my opinion if we try and make life comfortable and easy for everybody, it will break the rest of society to try and achieve it.

I think many would argue that a society unwilling to feed or educate children is pretty "broken".

Is willing to make sure kids are fed bad, but making sure that kids aren't physically or sexually abused fine? Or is that also off the table because we don't want to make life too easy for everyone?

Comment · 2 months ago

As for books that haven't fallen apart from being used as intended and merely are no longer desired, my local library generally sells them off at bargain prices.

What happens when the books don't sell?

Comment · 2 months ago

Libraries tend to regularly destroy books as well. And they aren't scanning them first either.

Doesn't that make them even worse?

Comment · 2 months ago

$1.2 billion of costs on revenue of $1-$2b certainly seems like a big concern.

Comment · 3 months ago

There are plenty of laymen that think "AI bubble pop" means that "AI" usage will go to 0 and then all of a sudden all these hardware and datacenters related companies are buying will become totally unused and flood the market.

Comment · 3 months ago

Microsoft EEE at its best: gobble up all game studios and then kill them.

"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" isn't applicable at all in this context though?