Schmidtster

@Schmidtster@lemmynsfw.com

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Schmidtster ,

If someone were to look up images of a Japanese person, they would be very confused to find pictures of a white person. Yes they are Japanese culturally, but not physically or genetically. These are what the pageants are about, not everything needs to be inclusive of all aspects. It ruins the intents of it.

Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed ( www.mediamatters.org )

Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of...

Schmidtster ,

They used to disallow adult games, they don’t allow NFT or crypto.

They have drawn plenty of lines, and moved them when it benefits them. They are just like any other corporation, they just hide it really well and the fans forgive or hide the rest for them.

Schmidtster ,

They also told a dev to stop developing a game since if they gave the go ahead Nintendo could potentially go after them.

They care about money more than anything else, just like any other corporation.

Schmidtster ,

Portal 64, they used the non open source code/tools, so Nintendo does have a bit of a case, hence why they are hesitant to give permission after the dev asked them.

One of those if they never asked, probably wouldn’t be an issue since valve never “knew of it”.

Schmidtster ,

They could have given a different answer, or worked with them to find a solution, but they went with the cheapest and easiest.

As I said earlier, fans excuse and hide the rest.

Schmidtster ,

There is open source tools, but to port everything over would take too much time.

Schmidtster ,

The issue is the dev asked Valve for permission, so if they give the go ahead Nintendo has a case that valve condoned and allowed it.

If the dev used the open source tools it wouldn’t matter, they used the proprietary Nintendo tools that aren’t publicly available.

Schmidtster ,

It’s already in some games unfortunately…

Schmidtster ,

It is, but steam does have its own form of advertising. Their front page is all ads for games and sales, go to your library there is ads for updates for your games.

It just seems to be acceptable since it’s their ecosystem content, but it’s still ads for all intent and purposes.

Schmidtster ,

Ads are ads, just because it from the same ecosystem is moot. I don’t need the steamdeck paraded in my face on every page I view. It’s ads

Schmidtster ,

That’s an apt comparison actually, since yeah stores do have ads as well as products….

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Schmidtster ,

If people bitch about ads, than they shouldn’t find those acceptable either. You can have a store and showcase products without the additional ads.

Schmidtster ,

Except it’s for any “game news”….., so if they are peddling another game of theirs, it shows up there as well. Or we are selling a plushie, it’s there in the same place. It’s not just patch notes dude… and never has been either.

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ ( 7news.com.au )

Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’

Schmidtster ,

So it was resolved instore to their even better benefit, AND the person still went and posted a false story to shame and blame them?

People are fucking weird.

Schmidtster ,

Funnily enough humans have been scamming them at checkouts for decades. Adding stuff to the the scales for example, wrong fruit codes, lots of options.

Schmidtster ,

Things misscan all the time, they are using a hot topic to make an agenda.

They could have spun it as a good story with the ending they got, but they choose to focus on a technical glitch that occurs with human cashiers as well.

Schmidtster ,

So no software has ever glitched before and output a wrong result? What world do you live in?

Schmidtster ,

In-store is, and language is fluid. If you understood what I meant we succeeded in communicating, anything else is you just trying to be better than someone else.

Schmidtster ,

Yep rounding errors occur, manual changes need to be inputted sometimes, display errors, sales mistakes. Nothing weird about that. In fact their policy probably has specific points to deal with discrepancies between list, scanned and total prices.

Schmidtster ,

Okay Luddite.

Schmidtster ,

So where do we draw the line on when new words can’t be created anymore? Shakespeare? Wassup? Crunk? Your username even has LOL in it, I don’t think we should be taking language lessons from someone who parades that around….

An online forum lacking in content and engagement isn’t the place to make a stand against minor mistakes that don’t detract from the conversation.

Schmidtster ,

If it gets in the way of communicating, sure. Butobviouslythatwasn’ttheissue here.

Schmidtster ,

I believe they are what people call a hypocrite, they have LOL in their username.

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