turns out that mixtape game was connected to megan ellison, daughter of larry ellison. one billionaire gets 10/10s, the other can't catch a break. big *** swinging left and right
Wonder how licensing is handled with this title when it comes to streaming. Videos of playthroughs can be found on youtube but I assume they'll be demonetized?
If my position is steam/valve/newel aren't the saints they get portrait as and back it up with a example that demonstrates that they are just as bad as their competition and your retort is their competition does it too then I'm not sure what you've debunked there.
Here is another example: Valve has been, and still is, pushing unregulated gambling in it's games, which are also marketed at minors. Please remember if you want to debunk my take then "their competition does so, too." doesn't cut it.
Sounds like Valve is the trendsetter. The other e-shops decided to follow suit. Epic Store has an interesting model about how games must make X money before the dev pays up, and the games made with Unreal still get sold on Steam. Go figure eh. Its almost as if they know Epic Store is ***and they said to gain more by selling on Steam.
Speaking of “unregulated gambling”, Fortnite (Epics flagship money maker) also has unregulated gambling, does it not?
Whales are everywhere, its not exclusive to Valve, sorry to burst that bubble. You cant say “REE VALVE BAD GABES EVIL” when the competition does the exact same ***. People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones or something like that.
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I didn't narrow it down to just Humble Bundle.
I narrowed it down to the ones you listed. I didnt cherry pick jack ***.
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Lets take the second example on your list. According to steamdb Pragmata never went for less than 59,99 on steam. If we look it up on ggdeals we see multiple offers for 50 and less. Fanatical, which is similar to Humble Bundle, is among those sub 50 offers.
They sell you a steam key. I dont know the process how they get their stock but my guess is theyre resellers who bought in bulk at discount.
turns out that mixtape game was connected to megan ellison, daughter of larry ellison. one billionaire gets 10/10s, the other can't catch a break. big *** swinging left and right
I remember when psyops were convincing and made you think for a hot minute if its real or ***.
Whales are everywhere, its not exclusive to Valve, sorry to burst that bubble. You cant say “REE VALVE BAD GABES EVIL” when the competition does the exact same ***. People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones or something like that.
Your trying to re-frame my position, here is a reminder of what my position really was:
my position is steam/valve/newel aren't the saints they get portrait as
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Please remember if you want to debunk my take then "their competition does so, too." doesn't cut it.
As far as I understand it your position is contra to mine so your take is valve/steam/gabe still are saints and deserve all the worship they receive?
I think we can agree that being on par with the rest isn't worthy of worship.
In order to debunk my take, burst my bubble or how ever you want to phrase it, you'd need to show where Valve does significantly better than their competition.
I went to Humble Bundle to see if I could buy Crimson Desert. Oops, cant find it. Maybe its too new.
Lets see what other big 2026 games there are:
Pragmata: 79.99 on Humble Bundle, 79.99 on Steam
RE:Requiem: 94.99 on HB, 94.99 on Steam
Nioh 3: 90.99 on HB, 90.99 on Steam
Reanimal: 53.49 on HB, 40.11 on Steam
Any other 2026 games you want to look at? Did I cherry pick to suit my narrative?
You did cherry pick, it just doesn't suite your narrative.
Third entry on your list Resident Evil Requiem so far never went below 69,99 on steam according to steamdb. On ggdeals there are currently 10 offers listed that are cheaper, 2 of them below 60 bucks.
I'm starting to see a pattern here. Shall I continue or can we acknowledge that the pricing argument doesn't always play in steams favor?
anybody look through the ufo dump? saw a few cool things but its harder than ever to know what to believe these days.
Looks all like useless/pointless stuff to me, a bunch of nothing that keeps coming up every 6 months. I really doubt its aliens at all.
The weirdest part is the bot campaign that goes to every instagram or youtube reel/story about it and posts "WHAT ABOUT EPSTEIN". Like I'm sure there are real people posting that, but the amount of people posting the exact same things makes me feel like its a bot campaign. Then you have another bot campaign that posts stuff saying its biblical and they are not aliens they are demons. IDK, maybe the internet lately has made me feel everything is a bot campaign, but we know that happens.
I seem to remember a marketing Email from Squenix about this product a year or so ago. It was way cheaper then. Still an eye popping price just not THIS eye popping.
Yeah that site has become quite annoying. I used to buy almost all official stuff there except imports. The stuff from Japan gets hiked up an insane amount on their site which makes no sense when you can go and order it from japanese sites like amiami and pay much less. I don't know why they do it, but its kinda predatory if you ask me. Don't bother importing them if you are gonna hike the price that much. They even increased their flat shipping fee they've had for years, only two dollars but still.
They are also now tacking on "tariff impact fee" to literally everything, even things pre ordered prior to any tariffs. Of course once these businesses manage to get a refund or something after that case, they won't pass it on. Frustrating paying 10~20+ per item but they arent the only ones doing it.
You did cherry pick, it just doesn't suite your narrative.
Third entry on your list Resident Evil Requiem so far never went below 69,99 on steam according to steamdb. On ggdeals there are currently 10 offers listed that are cheaper, 2 of them below 60 bucks.
You ninja introduced gg.deals into this conversation after I made that post. Regardless, I've already covered this one too:
Newspapers and sandals just encourage bad behavior by giving the dog more attention. Don't fall for it.
A couple of things I hear Steam users talk about frequently are the refund policy, reviews, and forums. Every new game's performance that comes out is measured by peak users on steam even if it is multi-platform. Excluding mobile Steam has the biggest library and of course people will gravitate towards that.
Every new game's performance that comes out is measured by peak users on steam even if it is multi-platform.
Is it because "PC Master Race" or is it because theres no source of active PS5 / XBOX / Switch player count?
The latter, don't think anywhere else makes the data public.
Oh here's another opt-in feature they are adding to compile info about how games perform on various hardware. Video explains it much better than I can.
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I was wondering about all those charges because Con Ed is vertically integrated, as in they own it all from the generators to the transmission lines to the meter. But then I got my electric bill from my PUD, also vertically integrated and this bill I have all those lines too!
Looks like they now have to put more lines in the bill but my costs are the same.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.