The component price changed, what was Gabe supposed to do, start manufacturing its own RAM?

They are swimming in billions, they could easily lower the profits they make and give it away for cheaper but that's not their goal.

…in the universe you live in, is there cheap ram?

Private yachts aren't cheap either. To buy an entire fleet of these you need to boost your profits as high as you can.

Valve and its ceo decides the price of their products. Considering valve is a corporation making billions and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, arguing that they are directly to blame for the high prices doesn't sound stupid at all to me. If they are literally swimming in billions their profit cut is high.

Why shouldn’t they?

Because they are a for profit company with a billionaire ceo. Making profits it's their job.

BTW, try putting together a same or better spec build yourself and get back to us with the cost.

The price you pay for something in a store is not the same price valve pays for a stock of parts. They buy the same stuff for a lot cheaper and resell it at an higher price to make profits.

If you disagree on valve share in publishing a game on steam it would pretty much be the same story. Valve is a for profit corporation whos ceo own an entire fleet of mega yachts, they are just as shit as any other corporation.

"deliberately targeted palestinian children"

We are ruled by criminals, this is no order, the governments and the people in charge are shit

but there’s also likely no way they could make it cheaper.

Valve ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts, i'm sure there's a lot of room to cut profits there and make their products cheaper

Would be nice if it pushed back 20 years before steam become so popular

Their goal is to maximize profits, if they get more money by selling costly units they will stick to these

What makes you think he's being blackmailed? War is a business, they don't care about people, they are fine with what israel is doing and supporting it, being able to blame someone for it is a bonus point.

They are not trying they already control it.

With the current hardware prices there isn’t much profit to gain here.

Valve is a for profit company, they sell their products at the highest price the can get away with.

The prices are also so high because Valve is a for profit company and the ceo owns an entire fleet of mega yachts

The ceo of valve has more money than sam altman, valve is a for profit company, what makes you think they want to sell you something for cheap?

I would argue that praising soldiers for their bravery and calling them heroes is a bootlicker thing to do.

Sad how much propaganda there is even on lemmy, i've seen multiple posts about this recent attack but none seem unbiased, one one hand you have people spreading pro russia propaganda and on the other people cheering at what looks like the matrix plot.

Nothing is more patriotic than wanting your country to do better.

Is being patriotic and wanting your first world country to do better something heroic?

He did good and did something heroic but the title of hero should be reserved to actual heroes that never chose once to side with scum. Before turning out as good this guy was serving in the US army

This is the third post i made today related to the wedding protests. I hope you people enjoy. I'm sharing these because many of the protesters behind it are getting arrested.

If authorities are so concerned with CSAM why do they work for a pedophile? (donald trump is in the epstein files)