Message from @Eccles
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it isn't even in the same ballpark.
But it is
no it isnt, you dont need game 'launchers' at all, you just require a way to download the installer. now if someone decided to write their own html version and you needed a special vendor specific browser to download it, then you'd have an analogy to work with. that isnt what i suggested or anyone would do though in the case of steam
and its a million miles away from basic shit like "oh, my entire windowing toolkit doesn't work"
Sure you don't *need* them, but in this current age of PC gaming, they are necessary to actually play said games.
Often times you can't play games without some form of DRM, which is bundled in that launcher.
I'm not talking about the ideal.
I mean realistically.
Steam is like a water or electric company. Having 5 or 6 different water companies in a moderately sized town will only serve to confuse and agitate the average consumer. They sell a product, a commodity, in this case water. The only thing they do different is the methods and the chemicals used to treat the water. Online vendors sell games to play. They might have different methods of achieve that goal but at the end of the day, a copy of For Honor sold on steam, is just as playable as a copy sold from Ubisoft or EA or whoever the fuck sells it.
only ones you bought via that proprietry delivery system. you can still buy games on dvd. you can still buy software from the makers on shop sites, etc. is steam your entire gaming life or something? its the only way you could come up with such a myopic analogy
definitely strayed into 'lol whatever', ill get back to my game
It's not my entire life, no.
But it certainly is the most dominant presence in my gaming career.
And frankly as much as I hate a single company having a monopoly on the market like they do, it's kind of necessary to be feasible. Lest you have to go through the hassle of swimming through bookmarks to get updated versions of games or some other method to get updated, especially if those games don't include a launcher in the install (a game launcher, not the storefront). All I'm saying is that steam brings convenience to the table, and just like Eccles doesnt want to fuck with Linux all night long, I don't want to have to spend all night manually installing updates for the games I want to play every time Christmas comes around.
Only beef I had with Steam was their EOL methodology. As a time-poor boomer and sperg, it should be obvious to understand why. It's a shame you and Coolitic were so antagonistic
But I still use Steam, and am reasonably content with it
Yeah forgive me for that.
I sometimes fly off the rails. It isn't healthy for me
I'm sorry for shoving a EULA up your anus
I give, friend. Never receive.
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Ok wow lol
I don't give a single fuck about the JQ but this is hilarious
@Miniature Menace ~~they made it so Clinton's also mentioned as going on the jet~~
If the allegations of him using his plane so Bill Clinton could diddle some kids, Christ Tucker is more than likely FUCKED (due to also going on Epstein's plane)
okay nvm, it seems the "26 trips" stuff has been up for >20 hours
https://www.politiscales.net/
post em fuckbois
lets see what most of us qualify as
> Progressive nationalism
Oh that's gonna make the compass test implode
Nationalist right-wing progressive, you're a special snowflake
Apparently I hate constructivism and progressism. Lots of centrist white area since I wasn't sure about some of the economy-focused questions.
https://archive.fo/mh2Hp
>Productivist Free-Market Capitalism
why cant I hold all these essentialists
So we've got a nationalist laissez faire capitalist progressive
A nationalist conservative
A complete free market capitalist
Complete?
i mean
*BRUH*