So basically this for a modern age?

… quicktime still exists?

Why so creepily smooth…

and play your games with friends

Thats part of what “community” is.

Regardless, just because it’s not your reason for using it doesn’t mean it’s not a major factor in why it’s successful in general.

… I feel like that’s how a lot of jokes are made, actually. You have a funny concept, you just need a way to set it up in a good way.

One is a bunch? It also seems as though that particular game wasn’t even on any other storefront, just their own website. Hardly seems comparable.

Itch is also a much different beast, it’s less a storefront and more a platform for developers to promote and sell their games independently. The pages seem designed and run by the devs and not Itch. It would make sense to not have a cart with that kind of decentralized design. You’re not buying from Itch, youre buying from developers themselves.

Im glad to see you only care about your own word battles instead of epics. Weird that they seem so parallel, though…

Valve paid a bunch of publishers to sell their game exclusively on steam and refused to implement basic features (like a shopping cart) in their UI? Then bitched about how everyone more successful than them was evil and wrong?

And yet they still push innovation, both in software and hardware.

Theyre certainly not angels, but they’re far closer than just about anyone else at their level.

Probably because Valve didn’t, some guy who used to work for Valve did.

I mean, imagine all the AI slop game companies that would go out of business cause they couldn’t sell on Steam anymore…

The politicians and billionaires actually have decent Healthcare, so they live longer than the voting boomers as well.

I yell at people online who refuse to even vote regularly, that’s something right?

I recall a YouTuber who used their cats butthole for their fingerprint sensor to unlock their phone. It could be that they wanted to try it but never did, though. It’s been like a decade.

Its because they would rather be reactive rather than active. They would rather the ones be on an individual improve themselves with little to no outside assistance, then be punished if they dont. Not as a lesson to that individual, but to others.

Shockingly, it doesn’t really work very well.

I had a coworker who would say “scroll up” or “scroll down” depending on if he wanted the document/content to move up or down.

… is that not typical?

Are they full, or is there a small subsection that has them and we’re giving them undue attention? I rarely come across such things myself, though that’s obviously anecdotal, I feel that at least means there’s plenty of space that isn’t dominated by what you speak of.

Valve chip fabs coming to an industrial park near you.

I’m talking about a cultural problem started by Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line. Where you only have one job to do and you do it over amd over with little variation. It started in industry, but shows it’s face in every profession.

Im glad your personal experience is better, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a very dangerous trend in most professions that this entire post is literally complaining about.

Yes, situations should be more ideal for the worker. But they’re not. That is my entire point.

Why is diversity bad? Shouldn’t we want multiple avenues, as long as competition is fair?

Of course! It can and should be something that is encouraged in most, if not all, workplaces.

Im saying that’s not the case, even going outside engineering. The emphasis is on learning and polishing your primary skill, not tertiary, or even adjacent skillsets. If it happens and improves workload, great! But if we catch you doing it when you could be making money instead, for shame…

I would say in professions like engineering, where you are doing more problem solving, there is a higher tolerance. Especially since a lot of PMs and supervisors are or were engineers themselves. But tolerance is not acceptance.