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EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption attempting to neuter SKG.

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Take a look at stuff like Vintage Story and Bellum...or og Minecraft lmao. Did you think your comment through at all?

Edit: And Guild Wars 1+ 2 (soon to be 3 as well), and shitloads more I don't even remember. There's tons of games I buy directly from the devs. Or hell even join a patreon and support development like with Glory To The Heroes.

Edit 2: Tarkov and Ashes of Creation for some examples of shit games that offered direct transactions, don't want to misrepresent this lol.

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TIL that in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has admitted 6,066 South Africans, 3 Afghans and nobody else

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Because for some reason everyone always collectively agrees that it's absolutely unacceptable to ever punish racists. Didn't happen for the Confederacy, or for the lynchers, or the anti civil rights adults who attacked children for simply attempting to attend school, not the actual Nazis or the American Nazi party nor it's predecessor (look that one up). Everyone collectively agrees we must punish everyday people for everyday crimes but never ever can we even consider punishment for the richest and most powerful commiting the most heinous crimes at national or even global scale...no that would be too "cruel", so we must allow them to fester and destroy every bit of progress our species ever makes no matter how many millions of us had to die for that centimeter of progress.

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Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US

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Valve doesn't have 50+ years of hardware experience though. Sony, Nintendo, and Msoft can all swing their big dicks all over that industry and get whatever the fuck they want, Valve cannot.

Valve can and does strongarm the software side all the time, the gaming industry would have died instead of exponentially surpassing the film industry if it weren't for Valve setting strong precedents.

And finally how in the fuck are you blaming AI at the same time that you are trying to defend Sony? The company that's adding AI to PLAY THE FUCKING GAME FOR YOU?