Do you need help?

If that is what you truly believe then I fear that you are a danger to yourself and others and should not be trusted to be alone or around children. There are a lot of resources available to use, even in the U.S.

I implore you to seek help from professionals.

Easy. They are not mutually exclusive?

How many TP Link routers, were found to be compromised by China and had to be removed from U.S. infrastructure?

Salt Typhoon hack?

Why does China restrict access to the internet without massive censure?

Your link just takes me back to your parent comment.

Your entire argument is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you were just discussing the shitty things the U.S. is doing, I would be in total agreement, but you are trying to shoehorn “How great China is” into the discussion.

No matter how terrible the U.S. is and gets, it will not erase all the terrible things China has and is doing too. No matter how much you argue otherwise.

No one is giving the U.S. a pass. This is a deliberate mischaracterization.

Until this regime, the U.S. had some of the best solar subsidies on the planet.

The U.S., as a surveillance state, is still in its infancy when compared to China. So it is laughable that you are using China in any comparison to the U.S., in almost the same breath.

“Carceral State” is a tanky propagandist dog whistle.

Why don’t you debate faults on their own? Because you are deliberately trying to use current bad conduct, of the U.S. to whitewash another country’s bad conduct.

“Oh hey, the U.S. is super shitty, but we have made so much solar in the past year so we’re all about global stability.”

Ignore EVERYTHING China has done though, only look at the bad that the U.S. is doing.

I’m sure you have plenty of arguments that support or claim how China has been with: Taiwan

Uygher people

Support of North Korea

Support of Russia against Ukraine

Tibet

The horde of nonsense “technological breakthroughs” that seem to come every month but never amount to anything and just disappear.

The pollution that has been produced by Chinese industry that pretends to adhere to global standards but get busted when college students use basic satellite data.

Suppression of Hong Kong

China’s state sponsored industrial espionage.

China’s disregard of human rights abroad when kidnapping Chinese dissidents from foreign countries.

(This is just me pulling the random items I can just immediately recall)?

But that is all Western propaganda I’m sure. Feel free to break out your playbook responses.

I didn’t use bad language this time for you to get my comment deleted, since suppression is one of your biggest tools.

This guy would probably argue that the protest at Tiannamon Square was a CIA funded false flag operation. If he was allowed to even discuss it in a way that implied it really happened.

Don’t waste your time talking to tankies

At least this one gives it away with his name. Usually their simping for China gives them away.

They only accept their little cesspit of information as facts. Everything else is conspiracy theories or state funded propaganda.

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I think we’ve stopped at the “wrong things” part and just refuse to move on.

Motherlover or Dick in a Box could both work here.

I mean isn’t this post kind of giving consent?

I’m afraid if I offer suggestions I’ll start getting knocks on my door at 2am.

So my experience accounts for nothing?

So even though I’ve lost access to multiple titles because other software companies can’t get their shit together and were a terrible experience, I’m not allowed to use that as an example of why Valve has become the standard?

But any argument against your opinion is “simping”.

Do you even hear yourself?

What you are doing is a form of manipulation and gaslighting.

Those things Valve was sued over were also industry standard practices.

Your argument is awash with emotional outbursts which tells the real story here.

You’ve picked a side for one reason or another and just make bad arguments, trying to support it.

Show me a single game company, of that size, that HASN’T been sued. Since that seems to be your metric of what makes a company so evil.

Same as how they passed prohibition.

It’s actually quite fascinating even as it is disconcerting.

They lobbied state by state, and focused on a few key legislators, threatening their seat, until the rest fell in line.

They didn’t have to fight them all at once, so they could focus their resources.

This is a very narrow viewpoint that is borderline disingenuous.

You blame OP for being a simp, BECAUSE OF A MEME, then argue the plaintiff’s narrative without any critical breakdown or context.

You are not any better.

There is a lot of nuance here that you just ignore.

Valve is not using their resources to prevent/undermine competition.

Valve’s percentage is absolutely worthy of debate, but does not make them a monopoly.

I will state that I support Valve when it comes to the big releases, but definitely wish they tiered their fees to support smaller developers.

I get why they do it, but I wish they were a bit friendlier to the smaller developers

If the other companies used a platform that was even remotely close to the ease of use as Steam, I might feel differently, but they don’t

I have lost access to several titles because of these companies’ “competing” platforms.

Valve provides a service that is critical and beneficial. And in a way that these other companies seem incapable or unwilling to provide.

They are not preventing them from doing it in any way.

They just don’t want to get undercut on products that use their service. That is a valid argument.

Maybe if other companies didn’t create such bloated, underperforming crapware, they wouldn’t feel forced to use Steam.

And smaller developers aside, these companies already suck so much money out of the user/buyer as they can and are not passing that revenue to the actual software developer, while Valve does share its revenue with its employees, despite your claim that Gabe is buying his “27th yacht”.

Can it be any worse than what we have going on right now?

Do you want fat bees? Because this is how you get fat bees.

Ok~maybe I want fat bees.~

Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.

His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/

Right.

And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

Wake up. The decline has already happened. It’s now a game of compromise.

You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

It’s ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y’all look petulant.

My point still stands.

You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?

Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!