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New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits
  • If you do it that way you are importing a good.

    The end of this would not be that Steam relenting enables folks to start using foreign currency to get cheap games on a publicly traded space.

    What will happen if that goes through is a swift increase in taxation of export of digital goods. You'd have countries fighting tariff wars over video games.

    The idea that you can use foreign safe spots to buy and sell goods at a cheaper cost is something that only rich people get to do. As soon as it becomes broadly available to the general populace the governments crack down on it quickly.

  • New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits
  • Discrimination only applies if the two parties are similar. In this case the location makes these parties dissimilar due to the inability to just go from one place to the other legally. Brazil gross national income is 1/3rd the US. It makes sense to price things at 1/3rd the US price.

    Steam taking 30% is a better deal than any other form of media gets by a mile. It's crazy folks complain when it is so easy to self distribute a video game, people have been doing it for years and years. Steam doesn't even require you to sign up for exclusivity like basically every other distribution/marketing service does for all media including other video game services.

  • Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate
  • Yea but moving out of country doesn't normally come with you also getting to work less hours for more pay. Leaving Amazon for a competitive offer does.

    High performers can do whatever they want, giving them a reason to leave like this is silly. Treat your employees like they are too immature to balance their work and life and you will end up with immature employees.

    At the end of the day the question is do you want results or do you want butts in seats. If you run a factory it's fair to want butts in seats. If you run a creative endevor you should want results.

  • Chappell Roan Says She’s “Voting For F@cking Kamala,” But No VP Endorsement & “F@ck Trump, For F@cking Real”
  • This is why I used Spotify listeners and not plays or ticket sales or album sales. It's a metric that doesn't really require a band to be currently active. New hits will clearly improve the metric but we're talking here specifically about a person's outreach today and influence on a voting population.

    The idea that more individual people listened to her music than had a single Beatles song in their playlist or a single Michael Jackson song in their playlist is pretty insane. I know I listen to at least one Beatles song a month, it doesn't matter if it is new.

  • ReBoot s1e1 - remastered and uploaded by Mainframe themselves
  • The intent is to make the distributed version more true to the real original. None of us got to see the original. The original is a bunch of data on various machines. What we saw was a low quality save file of the original, cut down and watered down to the specs of 4:3 CRT televisions and broadcast hardware of the time. That version develops artefacts not intended when distributed on modern media.

    Now this probably isn't using original source files but it is possible. Remaster as a term also is used when they take the final master copy and rerun it through more modern technologies to get a cleaner output which is what I expect happened here.

  • ReBoot s1e1 - remastered and uploaded by Mainframe themselves
  • Remaster doesn't change the original art or animation. Sometimes it is a rerender of original source files. Sometimes it is a treatment of the existing master files. It just adds fidelity to the picture and sometimes audio. Fixes things like low framerate, weird lighting effects, that kind of thing.

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    Does Amazon really think anyone out there wants a PC with AI bloatware on it?
  • Every PC will be using AI as we move forward and thinking they won't seems as head in the sand to me as thinking the Internet would be a fad. Remember how awful the Internet was in the 80s and 90s? AI is in a similar spot today.

    Why would I read a manual when I can ask an AI to summarize it and give me pages so I can confirm? If I'm trying to do a task I know a million people have solved like Python code to translate XLSX and CSV to JSON and back, why wouldn't I use AI for that?

    Trusting AI outright and not reviewing the answers is silly, but doing research with AI is soooo much faster. Also the majority of articles and manuals you find online written in the past year used AI and you can have CoPilot spit it out to you WITH the original sources that the website/blog hides.

    The idea that AI isn't trustworthy is silly, because no one is trustworthy. You should always have been double checking things for yourself, but sitting and struggling through something for 2 days is foolish when AI could do 80% of the work for you in seconds.

  • I wish there were more like him in the industry
  • Your original source is is that DeuxMoi was unwilling to publish the story? The bar for them to not post something this juicy is pretty low so the fact that the source didn't clear it is telling.

    It is clear just watching the show that the show runner and some writers didn't care about the source material. The characters are all weaker in the show on a moral level, they have less depth of personality and sometimes come off high-schoolish. I don't even think the original source material is THAT highbrow and still sometimes I feel like The Witcher gives CW show vibes.

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    How do people fall for believing in socialism, despite its downfalls?
  • For the US the pretty well known policy bangers are The New Deal and The Interstate Highway System both which are not just socialism but Federal level socialism.

    All state run armed forces are by definition socialist in nature. Mercenary armed forces have been used many times to great effect but the backbone of most armed conflicts are the most socialist structure you could create.

    Every large modern religion (abrahamic, hindu, buddhist) is socialist in nature and got to the level they are now due to socialist policy.

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