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GameStop CEO Cohen spurns $35 billion pay plan to focus on plan to buy eBay

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When I say shit the bed, I don't mean from a business perspective, I mean I think he's a toolshed for the crypto stuff, so in my eyes he shit the bed.

I think crypto is a cancer, so anyone that's creating coins and actively pushing the tech is a douchebag. Even if they abandoned the idea, that doesn't do anything for me. I'm assuming they dropped it because it wasn't benefiting them enough to keep at it, not for some altruistic reason. Trust is hard to earn back. Wasn't also NFTs not just crypto? NFTs are the dumbest tech ever invented, so anyone that was apart of that, on either side of burning or selling, is a dumbass and makes bad choices.

On top of all of that, the worst part of all of it, is he's a Trump thumper and endorsed him. Anyone in that boat is bottom shelf trash, regardless of their business practices, and I will do everything in my power to not only not support them, but to lambast them at any opportunity. Shaming pedophile supporters should be an American past time, and I'm here for it.

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Trump angrily cancels signing housing bill over voter ID ‘national emergency’

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He can try, but elections are a state level thing that he can't stop. If red states want to abstain, more power to them, but there will be lawsuits, and the citizens will win. Maybe some hopium in there, but most of this stuff is pretty clear cut, and there have been a lot of judges siding against Trump recently, so there's strong precedent.

Also, god willing, he will be fucking dead by then.

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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’

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If there is a demand for ram, which there is in the consumer market, then it shouldn't be a risk. If DCs get cancelled, then they should have contracts in place for at least a minimum buy, which should offset cost risk. If they don't have that, then that's just shitty business. Even still, they can just as easily slow down production if needed. If the bubble pops, either they'll have inventory that the world will buy and they can throttle back prod, or they don't have inventory and they will have to throttle prod anyway since demand for DCs as a whole has to be more than just the consumer market.

Idk, it's probably just the cynic in me, but I think it's likely this is just manipulation of the prices, especially given the history of these companies doing just that.

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22 Best Free C/C++ IDEs and Editors for Linux in 2026

I'm primarily c# and typescript. At work I have Visual Studio and VS code. At home I use jetbrains Rider and Webstorm. I personally prefer jetbrains, but I can't give a reason. It just feels better to me.

When I did try to learn a little C, I used neovim for everything. Partly because I wanted to force myself to learn vim commands, and also because I wanted to just try coding in my terminal.

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Trump angrily cancels signing housing bill over voter ID ‘national emergency’

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That's not true. Once the bill is passed by both chambers, enrollment is handled by the clerk of the house and secretary of the Senate. Johnson has no power over their actions and can't block anything since it's now past his control. Now, that's not say say he couldn't try to convince them with the no power he has to hold it up, but I don't know who the clerk or secretary are, if they would capitulate, or what the ramifications could be if they declined to do their duties.

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Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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Completely fair. Some fights aren't worth fighting, especially since there's no guarantee they'll recoup the losses. I buy a few games a year on Steam, almost never at full price. It would take me a very long time to cover any subsidized machine, and I'm surely not the only one.

Honestly, a steam machine was on my radar because for about 10 years now, me and some friends have traveled to Dreamhack Dallas, and packing 5 men and our computer equipment in a big van and driving 13+ hours isn't ideal. Something a bit smaller would be amazing. The price is a bit too rich for me since I do still have a functional computer.

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Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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My first thought was scalpers. But other than that, I agree with you. I think it would be good to limit sales to 1 or 2 units to prevent that and to give people that want to pay games a chance to buy one, then the people that want to cluster them or whatever can get their fix later. If someone wants to buy just one and modify it to do damn near anything, more power to them.

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Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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What you read may well be correct, but I wonder how that legal battle would play out. There are other PC manufacturers that can definitely build a competing product. Also, what sets this apart from being another console? It's a custom built machine designed to play games, specifically from Steam. I'm not sure how that's different from an Xbox that has access to GamePass being the only console that can do that. If Steam sold this as the Steam Machine Console, would that change things?

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Donald Trump to present World Cup trophy to winners, says Gianni Infantino

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In 1994 during the Caribbean cup, Barbados was playing Grenada and needed to win by 2 goals in order to advance. They gave up a goal late making the score 2-1. They had a golden goal rule at the time where any goals scored in extra time counted as two. Barbados scores an own goal to tie it and push for extra time. Grenada was in a position that if they score in either net it's a benefit to them, so Barbados had to defend both goals until the end of regulation.

It's not quite like playing to lose, but it's pretty close and super entertaining.

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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

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Just block the dumb fuck. There are a few accounts that I'm not convinced aren't the same person. Every post they spam dumbass shit like this that's not at all relevant to the discussion. They use the forum to just talk shit about stuff that happened hundreds of years ago. Best to just not engage and block.

Honestly, when they're this open and stupid about it, I prefer that because it's easier to pick out bad actors for the blocking.