I’d heard this happened but I didn’t believe it until I moved from Maine to Massachusetts and went back to visit for the first time. Got pulled over and ticketed for doing 59 in a 55, on a road I (and everyone else) used to drive 65 on every day. Only difference was the MA plates.

So at what point (in your opinion) does it become okay to discontinue a paid game? Are they supposed to still be running servers for games from 1997, so the 2 people who still remember it can occasionally log into the dead matchmaking service for nostalgia? Obviously this is a ridiculous example, but if your answer isn’t “Yes, they should”, then that means there’s a point somewhere between that and now when it’s okay to shut down the service, so where is that line?

Why curate your Steam store when you can allow utter garbage into it that just effectively steals people’s money?

What’s the solution here?

They used to curate everything heavily, but new studios and indies had a tough time getting their games reviewed and added. So they implemented Greenlight, their user-curation platform so users could tell them what they wanted to see. It just became a huge popularity contest, and getting your game on Steam became about how much marketing you could afford to buy. Now, they let anyone with $100 in, and it’s very easy for an indie studio to get their game on Steam, but it’s also easy for all of the garbage to get onto Steam.

What solution would you propose, that both lets legitimate indie studios get their games on Steam, especially studios producing games in less popular / niche genres, and also edges out the objective garbage, while not incurring huge costs on developers or using a bunch of Valve employee time to personally curate every submission?

Edit: For that matter…

Why have a sensible customer service when you can blame customers themselves and offer no refunds, you know, despite the fact the refund wouldn’t be necessary if you curated your store?

Steam’s refund system is one of the most generous, if not the most generous, in the industry. What are your complaints with it? I’m legitimately curious.

Why do anything people are asking for when you can nickle and dime them with dumb shit like trading cards?

I’m not going to defend trading cards, because they’re stupid as hell, but how many have you ever been forced to buy?

Gabe is just as bad as every other CEO. Arguably he’s worse.

You know what Valve hasn’t done? Gone public. It would make them - and Gabe personally - an incredible amount of short-term money, but they haven’t done it, and thank fuck for that, because it’d be the beginning of the end of the PC gaming industry as we know it.

Edit #2: If you’re one of the people downvoting and not commenting, you’re a coward.

Night shift sucks. I used to do 10 × 12 hour shifts in a row, then flip over to days on my next set.

I think that’s just your particular job’s shifts that sucked, not night shifts in general. I couldn’t imagine switching between nights and days, fuck that noise. Normal 5x8 or 4x10 night shifts are great (for some people, if your lifestyle can support it).

If we say “Capitalism is ruining our lives”, it’s fine, but if someone from Russia says “Capitalism is ruining your lives”, folks are ready to throw down.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about America, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit about America over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” meme was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Thought it was supposed to be some Bigfoot style monster at first, then realized, nope! Just racism!

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So strong, being unashamed to proclaim your belief in the dominant religion in the country. So brave.

I wonder if they’d be so willing to advertise this if they were, for instance, in the middle east.

[3, maybe 4] / 16 seems like a reasonable porn ratio.

I am happy to have inflicted this on you. ;)

For the longest time, I thought this lyric in The Decemberists’ Annan Water was:

“…though my mother cries, that if I try, I sure will drown in pee…”

They repeat it 4 times; the last one, especially, I just can’t hear otherwise.