Ninmi

Hype. Thanks for the continued maintenance and improvements.

What you're saying is "inevitable" hasn't happened for the entire 20+ years of Steam. I'm going to guess Valve is going to continue being a private company and doing whatever the fuck they want, without investor pressure towards enshittification.

Steam's monopoly is actually what's holding PC gaming together. Other types of digital distribution services are so fucked up by exclusivity deals that any "competition" is always going to mean "megacorporation uses existing wealth to deny competition".

Epic is trying really hard to bring the exclusivity nightmare over to PC gaming as well, but so far Valve still holds.

Qtox should work? It's not a very good chat software and a bit cumbersome, but it allows direct file transfers.

I'm not being entirely serious here, but a click saver is revealing what's behind the click bait so people don't have to click the bait.

Remember to add click savers.

I do wonder if it's going to be HC viable as well.

Sad to see 'cause it feels like we need Pirate Parties more than ever.

I'm glad there's finally some real backlash for this shit.

The same old, tired and stupid control layout and no trackpads. How do you even begin to make a PC handheld and not offer any mouse cursor controls? All the Steam Competitors do is up the specs to stupid numbers and appeal to familiarity. It's both disappointing and something should've expected.

I remember watching V for Vendetta when Obama was president and I actually can't believe the US went from the Obama era to being on the brink of becoming a christofascist nation.

Even if we choose to ignore how unethical and self-centered this argument is (for any country), a lot of US influence, affluence and indeed global stability right now hinges on the US military might being there to reliably challenge authoritarian aggression on its allies and partners. The second US starts showing cracks in that reliability (with the extremist MAGA wing and all), authoritarian leaders start seeing opportunities to test the waters, literally as well.

This notion somehow assumes that the US achieved and can continue its status disconnected from the rest of the world's security and it's bonkers. Even the otherwise sound argument for increased defense spending in Europe is made moot by the Russo-Ukrainian war as it'll obviously increase spending in Europe. Spending that could be largely funneled in to the US military-industrial complex, recouping from what gets sent if they signal their commitment and keep sending their late cold-war era kit to grind down one of their two most serious threats. Without a single US troop on the ground.

It's hard to think of a bigger foreign policy W for the US with its otherwise controversial bloated military and more fitting use for what's already built for this exact purpose, but it doesn't seem important to the extremist wing.

The Finnish populist right wing has generally been very critical of Russia, especially the leading figure Jussi Halla-Aho. Even though I think some of them have sympathised with the "conservative values" that the Russian leaders like to represent.

The topic of continuing Ukraine support didn't even come up in any debates during elections 'cause everyone's on the same page anyway.