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    Steam is still basically the only option AND they are actually helping Linux a lot with game compatibility. Altough, if I need games specifically on steam I’ll be buying the key from Greenmangaming (UK) or GamersGate (Sweden). If anybody has more alternatives feel free to let me know so I can add them to my list.

    GOG sadly misses a majority of games atm so I just can’t replace steam with it yet.

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      Third party key market places are kinda iffy, and there have been numerous cases of the keys being offered on there having been bought with stolen credit cards, or otherwise generated in ways that aren’t quite above board.

      I remember one interview with an indy dev in which they said they prefer people pirating, because chargebacks from stolen cards are actively costing them money.

      For people who feel they need the entertainment games provide, but can’t afford current prices, I feel pirating games from conglomerates, and buying from smaller studios and indies is the most socially responsible way to do it, but I’m not your mum.

      Edit: Huh, looks like greenmangaming gets their keys directly from the publishers. Didn’t know that was a thing. Guess I was a bit quick on the trigger there, should have checked first. Sorry about that.

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        G2A is probably the big example of Devs prefering you pirate instead of buying.

        Only use G2A if you actively wish harm on the company making the game.

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          Don’t use G2A even if you wish harm on the company making the game, it’s still supporting scammers and thieves, just pirate the game.

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        See you already found the reason it is ok, but yeah what you are saying is completely right when talking about sites like G2A, Kinguin, etc where YOU can sell your keys as that opens the gates for illegal stuff

        Hence I mentioned legit resellers (from the EU) that do support the publishers.

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      I don’t believe gog will ever have a full library. They require all their games to be DRM free. Until corporate gaming changes GOG won’t.

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      Huge plus that they aren’t publicly traded and forced to chase profits above all. Plus their employees are far and wide the best paid in the industry, and they never do mass lay offs.

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        This is a somewhat naive view when you consider Gabe’s multiple super-yachts.

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          The guy could be more charitable, but aside from that, what do you want him to do? If he lowers the cost of steams cut per purchase he’ll get in trouble for monopolizing the industry. Yeah, he’s too rich, but he got there without exploiting or hurting anyone. Even after he passes away, the company is already employee owned.

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            You’re missing the part where they make the vast majority of their money from the gambling, not from the cut they take from sales. They don’t have to run the gambling service. But they do because it’s a money faucet.

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              Two things: First, they very likely don’t make most of their money off of their loot box sales from the few games they own that have them. (CS, Dota 2, TF2).

              Secondly, you’re just full of shit and making up that “fact”. As a private company, none of their stuff is completely public record, but using various trackers and estimates and sales numbers from game studios, Steam sells north of 700,000,000 games a year and makes a $billion or so from cs and tf2 stuff.

              Since the average game sale amount is around $15; $15 X 700,000,000 = 10,500,000,000 ÷ valves cut of 30% = $3,150,000,000

              Now not all studios pay that 30%. Some have lower deals based on volume and notoriety, but it’s still safe to assume that their game sales make over two billion a year. AKA well over their loot box money.

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              I like how when valve does it, it’s ‘gambling,’ but every other company out there it’s just ‘microtransactions’ and ‘monetization.’

              Valve somehow gets 99% of the hate online for lootboxes, despite having one of the most transparent and fair implementations of them.

              Like, have you people never seen a gacha? Half of them don’t even fucking publish the rates for what you can get, and make far more money than Valve does.

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                No, there are actual gambling sites for counter-strike items that are run by scammers who hire a youtuber, give them a huge (deliberate) win to entice kids to bet their parents wage on some stupid cosmetics’ slot machine.

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      Wait what exactly is the purpose of buying a steam key from a third party? And how is that profitable and not tos breaking?

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        Keys can be cheaper when there isn’t any ongoing steam sales. Some website are shady and should be avoided but some are 100% legit. Any reseller listed on isthereanydeal is safe to use, they get their keys directly from publishers.

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        Good question! Real resellers (so NOT g2a, etc) get their keys from publishers directly (so they pay for them). The publishers get these keys from steam for free and by buying them from a reseller steam takes 0% of the money. So by using an EU reseller more money stays here.

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      You are still fucked then if Steam decides to take out a game you purchased. Again the whole “you’re not buying a product but a license for the product” debacle. Other than not giving Steam any money, this doesn’t change much? Could just pirate games instead.

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        I never said I cared about that in the first place. But even after games are removed from Steam they still allow you to download it whenever. Its only really an issue should Gabe choose a replacement for him that isn’t as pro gamers as he is.

        This community is about buying european, not complaining about having DRM.

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      Steam is still basically the only option

      When cornered people finally admit that steam is a small monopoly

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        Steam isn’t a monopoly, there are other choices but they just suck. Epic games in terms of game availability already replaces a good 80% of my active library, itch, ubisoft, ea, etc also exist but are just so bad as well.

        Steam is basically the only option… That cares about gamers and actually provides a good service.

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        people finally admit that steam is a small monopoly

        Yeah, no other company gives a fuck about linux gaming so… I guess.

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      It does.

      Private companies are - often - not driven by pure greed. The people work hard for their company to be successful and they are much less likely to fuck it all over with a stupid move.

      Public companies, however, are controlled by a bunch of money motivated monkeys that couldn’t give a rats ass about a company’s future. They’ll bleed it all dry and go to the next company.

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      Koch Industries and Purdue Pharma salute you in your service to attempted sanewashing of private corporations.

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    You are allowed to say Fuck on the Internet. Why are you following the self-censorship rules for Instagram and other social networks if you are making a joke about them?

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      Most important of all they compensate their employees like they are actual humans.

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          Honestly, that’s really smart. It shows which businesses are playing the long game and which ones aren’t.

          When democrats are back in office and businesses start re-instating DEI, Costco can always say they never got rid of them.

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            Also, probably ones that are more global and less willing to be pushed around by a dumb ass and his followers. I bet such companies have better quarters for a while too after that.

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      Costco can be cool all they want once the federal government of the USA tells them to fuck over Canadians they will. It’s a very dangerous game to rely heavily on American companies in Canada right now. No matter how ethical they might be. The trade war has already begun and the USA will use any lever available when the time comes to annex.

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        The issue isn’t the federal government tells them to fuck over Canadians (or anyone else). It’s that they don’t tell them anything. They just make Canadian goods cost more in the US. They don’t have a choice. Most businesses would rather the cost stay the same, but we have a dumb ass president who’s fucking us all over for no good reason.

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          for no good reason

          Well, the reason is to destabilize the west because Putin wants a new Soviet Union

          It’s certainly not a good reason. But it’s not just “dumb trump pulling levers he doesn’t understand.” It’s “dumb Trump pulling the levers he’s told to. He doesn’t understand what he’s doing, but those planning the lever pulls do”

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    I sometimes feel an anxiety when pondering what will happen when daddy Gabe isn’t here to keep the wolves at bay.

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    me: steam is terrible; it’s just drm with a nice bow on top

    steam: steam visual novel fest starts now

    me: i love steam stuffs more items on my wishlist

    (for real tho itch.io and gog are much better use them - and download the actual offline installers from gog don’t use galaxy)

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      GOG Galaxy isn’t bad to use. It has cloud saves, and update checking - which is useful for some people. And games installed using the offline installers still show up in galaxy (and can be updated etc.) In fact, you can download the offline installers from the Galaxy app itself if you want to.

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      Heck, I just cut out the middleman and go straight to torrenting.

      Wish I had thought to do this sooner. I would’ve saved a lot of money that really just ended up in the hands of landlords.

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        yeah it wasn’t necessarily an alternative; i was just saying they’re better because they tend to support indie devs and/or are more drm free than steam. i didn’t know of a purely non american one that i use :(

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    Steam may be a very successful business, but they’re still the seed crystal for a whole ecosystem of gambling that preys on addicts and children with the whole CSGO loot box thing. Take a wild guess what forms of addiction have the highest suicide rates?

    Fuck Valve. Fuck all Corps. No business has ever nor can ever, genuinely give a shit about anything other than increasing profit.

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      On the other hand, Valve wishing to seek an alternative to Microsoft’s poor decision[1] making has been a great boon to the Linux community. Valve was also there at the start of Vulkan[2]. But is “funny” that Gabe Newell started off as a Microsoft employee, in fact the one that led the team that ported Doom to Windows with Doom95 and in turn also helped launch Windows (95) as the gaming OS for decades to come.

      As much as I distrust and hate corporations, Valve isn’t in it for the shareholders, you can’t buy Valve stocks and that means they at least have a bit more soul than a lot of other corporations - even though they are profit seeking.

      What I don’t like about them is how they sell you a service, not an actual game. You technically buy a lifelong lease on each game, never ownership. Your shit can be gone in minutes with nothing to prove for it, except for bank statements saying Valve took your money.

      Which is why I’ll always buy on GOG[3] if possible. DRM free and European.


      1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)#cite_note-cvg_newell_linux-2%3A~%3Atext=upon+the+release+of+Windows+8+in+2012 ↩︎

      2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan#History ↩︎

      3. https://www.gog.com/en/about_gog ↩︎

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        Does everyone just keep glossing over the ‘they enable the abuse of addicts and children” part?

        I’m not saying I disagree with your other points I’m just confused.

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          Because it’s a weak-ass point, quite simply. Capitalism itself does that shit, not gonna knock Valve for something every game company does, if we play that game with everyone it gets exhausting

          “Wont SOMEBODY think of the children?” Is literally a Simpsons meme

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            Every game company does not operate a gambling system that is the center for a literal whole ecosystem of predatory shady businesses. But that was a halfway decent try at a whataboutism argument /s.

            Yes that quote is at the heart of a Simpsons episode. And it’s about people using moral panic crusades as a means of enacting draconian measures of control based on a fear based in falsehood. Valve demonstrably engages in the practices I mentioned so I think your point kind of falls completely on its face. I am glad to see you recognize capitalism as inherently exploitative though.

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              Every game company does not operate a gambling system that is the center for a literal whole ecosystem of predatory shady businesses.

              Making a more specific point after the fact doesn’t change the original point.

              whataboutism

              So busy trying to sound smart you proved you weren’t worth engaging with

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                This reads like you took in all the words I wrote and then responded to them without actually understanding or comprehending any of the content.

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          I was playing around with things, noticed that at least my instance supported citation of sources. I normally do [](). But now I know that not every instance supports if you couldn't see it.

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        Valve is a privately owned company.

        Publicly owned companies want more prodit because well we want out interest and return on stocks and a stable pension etc as well right? That all pushes publicly owned companies to get more and more profit every year.

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      No business?

      I work as a software developer for a small business and they do care about us and not just profits.

      Recently we were all given a pay rise and a reduction in hours as they can afford to support that.

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        Correct, no business. That same business will lay you off in a heartbeat if they can. Businesses do not care about you.

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          What a myopic view of the world.

          Anyone can start a business and treat their employees and customers fairly. It’s just that in our Stockholm Syndrome Society, the businesses who abuse us are the most successful.

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          Also, not true in my case.

          They do care and have shown on numerous occasions my supporting me when I have needed it and instilling in us that we come first and the business is secondary.

          Like the owners literally do the same work as us and are far more accommodating than they have to be for us.

          How else would you get a pay rise and a reduction in hours, able to work from home when having car trouble, not having a good mental health day fine take it off, etc. We also don’t have any targets or KPIs and don’t actively seek new work as our clients are loyal.

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          No that’s what Angelosaxton (American) companies are about.

          Most privately owned companies don’t care about making as much profit as possible. They want a healthy company that can pay them their salary and save up money for their pension.

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        Also an entirely voluntary issue with viable quality alternatives that exists solely due to people not chosing FOSS video games to play.

        Examples:

        Platformer- Super Tux

        FPS- Xotonix

        Strategy- Beyond All Reason

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      Depends if the business it publicly owned.

      I think valve are mostly fair to consumers. The money they make from gamers is doing some good in the linux sphere.

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        I thought it was pretty well known Valve is privately owned.

        They make money selling off of gamers by selling games. They take advantage of and enable systemic abuse of, I’ll say it again, addicts and children. I’m not saying they aren’t also fair to their customers in most of their dealings and that they aren’t doing good things for the Linux ecosystem. But we’re also talking way more money than I bet you’re thinking. Gabe’s uber rich person kink is super-yachts. Multiple, super-yachts. You can appear and behave with decency and still contribute to the detriment of society at the same time.

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          Get lawmakers to make a law about it and properly work it out. Valve is banning loot boxes even for people who are legally allowed to gamble.

          The issue is that it is hard to legally define whaf a lootbox is and stop it without stopping things like TCG drafts and RGB loot from bosses or enemies on games.

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        Hey both things can be true. I feel like at this point though the only reason they haven’t stopped the whole gambling thing is because it’s basically a money faucet and in a monetary economy who’d ever turn off a money faucet? But that’s the rub, greed is inherently incentivized.

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      The crates where fine in TF2 …. Before CSGO got made, but due to CSGO and other games it’s an issue.

      But while you consider it gambling, most laws don’t. It’s currently only banned in NL and BE to open lootboxes on Steam and in NL we have legal online gambling for 18+, but Valve won’t gives you access to the lootboxes.

      The point is that one laws need to be more clear about what is gambling and what isn’t without ruining anything that uses randomizers and/or loot and there needs to be a better way to validate people’s age without hurting their privacy.

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    I wouldn’t have started even dual booting Linux if it wasn’t for Steam after being pleasantly surprised with my Steam Deck played most of my Steam library. It’s the primary why I intend to get AMD gpu next time around for the better driver support, but that won’t be for a few years.

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      Yep, if you want a reason why Valve are “less evil” than other companies, one big thing to point to is the huge investment they’ve made into the Linux ecosystem. Even though it’s in their own interests (Microsoft locking out steam would cripple their income), we can see with Epic suing Google/Apple that there are other, shittier ways that they could have attempted the same thing. The investment they’ve made into Linux, Proton, KDE etc benefit everyone and can’t be taken away on a whim.

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    i wont delete my steam account, but lord gaben wont get my money anymore, even if hes awesome. :( sorry gabe.

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      Just buy future games from GOG. No need to delete Steam or already made purchases.

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      I’m still gonna use American stuff that’s good if they keep DEI. brb checking up on Steam.

      Edit: it’s not looking good tbh I think I’ll switch to GOG / physical media as much as feasible.

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          They seem to have a track record of lukewarm responses to social issues, lax content moderation, and a combo of flat corporate hierarchy and a complete lack of diversity in their team that have made it difficult to lead any efforts to improve the situation.

          My read is that Gabe is not evil, just a comfortable old guy who, like many comfortable old (white) guys, has bought into the myth of the great meritocracy as a self serving narrative, which is really just a post-hoc mythology of success in most cases imo.

          I’m reading deeply into a lot of skimmed clues, so all of the foregoing is subject to revision if I see anything compelling in the opposite direction.

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              I knew I smelled something.

              Well hell, I hope Gabe eventually meets enough libertarians to become disgusted with himself. Penn Gillette recently did, so there’s always hope.

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                Penn was an actual libertarian, not an american-style one. when listening to the things he actually believes, rather than the label he used to ascribe to those beliefs, that is very clear. the reason he turned away from the label itself was that he realized he wanted nothing to do with the people using the label because he didn’t share their beliefs.

                it’s probably better if gabe never meets a single one of those guys.

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        I wont use it if it has an extreme form of DEI in it. Im somewhat in the middle with this DEI Stuff, idk so much about it yet to really form my opinion.

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          There are no extreme forms of DEI because DEI is just making sure that everyone is able to be included and to discourage discrimination.

          An all black college for example is not DEI. It is trying to counter systemic racism by providing opportunities to those that have historically and currently been excluded, so the goals are the same but it isn’t DEI.

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            I disagree, there are definitely extreme forms of DEI, namely when we’re talking about forced equal representation. Pools of potential employees are rarely perfect representations of society, for many different reasons. So if a company forcefully tries to have a perfect representation of society, that means they will discriminate against certain groups and hire less capable workers on average.

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              That opinion assumes the people who weren’t being hired due to discrimination are less capable. Which is the kind of thing people use to justify discrimination.

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                Let me explain it with a theoretical example: you are a company and the field you’re hiring in consists of 90 women and 10 men. You need 10 people for the job and want the most capable. Statistically that would mean hiring 9 women and 1 man on average, giving you the 10% most capable employees. But since you want equality you want it 50/50, so you hire 5 women and 5 men. That means that for the women you hired the 5,6% most capable employees, but for the men you hire the 50% most capable employees. So you get less capable employees this way, assuming both groups are equally likely to be capable.

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                  Are all of the people qualified? Then everything past that is likely to be subjective as to what ‘more capable means’.

                  If so, odds are pretty high that what the hiring person thinks are more capable are just people that fut their preconceived notions of who is likely to be more qualified. Generally that is tall, white men.

                  Not to mention there is a lot more to being effective workers, like communication and collaboration. A more diverse workforce tends to increase communication and collaboration when being diverse and inclusive are goals.

                  Not to mention people can grow as they get experience. So even if they aren’t the most capable at the time of hiring, they might be in a few years. And if people don’t get any experience, they will always have a disadvantage against even less capable people who have more experience. It is a feedback loop that makes even a small amount of discrimination have a mush larger effect.

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                  Let me stop you here: You seem to lack the pre-requisite knowledge of laws, and the understanding of what HR departments and DEI departments do.

                  What you’re describing is absolutely, totally, illegal and has been since the 1970s. This was decided in Griggs v Duke Power Co. The phrase you can look up is “Disparate impact” and in particular the “adverse impact” and tests.

                  DEI has big problems, but most of them stem from businesses just slapping in a 60 minute micro aggression course from a third party service and calling it done

                  https://hbr.org/2022/12/the-failure-of-the-dei-industrial-complex

                  What DEI is supposed to do is stuff like:

                  For example, a purposeless unconscious bias training required for all employees is almost certainly less effective than an unconscious bias training deployed specifically for decision-makers like hiring managers or supervisors, to increase their familiarity with newly implemented bias-interrupting practices like hiring panels and scoring rubrics after an audit found evidence of bias in hiring and promotion processes.

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            an all black college is discrimination of other people imo.

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              All black colleges exist because blacks were excluded from existing colleges. Not because there were all white colleges, but because they were excluded from the vast majority of colleges.

              They have remain because of ongoing racism at other colleges. A group that is discriminated against by society as a whole limiting who can join their spaces is not discrimination.

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                im euro and i dont discriminate against any people. i dont care what colour you have as long as you arent criminal or bad to me and others. bad people are everywhere. there are many white or asian people that dont want or are to untalented for college. i would only let people pass classes in college if they pass with a pass grade. shoving anyone trough because of colour is not good.

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                  Grades have not depended on race in mainstream or HBCUs. Admissions however have not ever been equal, and DEI initiatives were created with the idea of counterbalancing that - or in lieu of reparations, which would be a real attempt to correct the inherent issue.

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                  Europeans pretending they don’t know about discrimination is always so funny.

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            There are no extreme forms of DEI because DEI is just making sure that everyone is able to be included and to discourage discrimination.

            An all black college for example is not DEI. It is trying to counter systemic racism by providing opportunities to those that have historically and currently been excluded, so the goals are the same but it isn’t DEI.

            So, there’s no countries of majority black people on Earth? Don’t you mean a majority black college in the USA? But wouldn’t that majority by definition exclude other minorities like east asians, south asians, native americans, Hispanics et al? And what is a white person? A person from the south of Spain is indistinguishable from a person from North Africa, yet both originate from completely different backgrounds and neither would be white passing in the US. What about poor white people, do JayZ’s children deserve a pass because they are black but the children of a Ukrainian migrant do not because they are technically white even if they are from a refugee family with little financial means?

            What you said is myopic, nonsensical and a perfect example of an oxymoron, I’m going to go on a limb and guess you’re US american. Congrats, it’s regardation like the one you spouted that got Trump elected.

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            idk, must be a little one that isnt yet big enough to be in the news or whose product is not good enough so i didnt yet use or buy it. these small firms are often extreme-non-DEI/extreme-DEI. but as i have written, idk too much about this stuff. its not in the news in europa.

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                proud boys is a weird thing, afaik they are extreme-non-DEI so i dont like them.

                a bit DEI or anti-DEI is alright.

                EDIT: explain the downvotes. am i to moderate for both farleft and farright??

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                  explain the downvotes

                  Based on the way you’re talking I don’t think you understand what DEI actually is, and yet, you remain committed to saying how much of it you want. Having a center opinion isn’t a virtue; if you don’t know enough about the subject, you should have no opinion, not advocate for a central one by default. Didn’t downvote but I see why people are.

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                  I don’t see the equivalency as valid though. I am white, but that’s not something I’d ever be proud of in itself because it’s literally just pigmentation alone. I’m so ethnically mixed and Americanised that I can’t really claim the English, Croat, or Scottish heritage I have got - despite being a British citizen living in England who eats haggis with enough frequency to disturb my family. I very much appreciate my heritage but it has no hold on me as an in-group identity. They don’t claim me, nobody needs to.

                  If I was to take the stance of being “anti-DEI”, which lets face it, it’s just white supremacism with updated buzzwords, I’d be taking the stance that my literal mere pigmentation is an equally valid source of pride as a black woman’s history of oppression, or a trans man’s struggle to be treated as their true self.

                  I’ve struggled, but I haven’t struggled from being white or cisgender. I’ve walked alone at night wherever I liked ever since I was barely a teen with hardly so much as a glance over my shoulder. Gone to other countries where I barely speak fifty words in the local tongue with nary a care. I’ve spent my whole life being given credit as the person I present as. I’ve been unafraid to take risks, and it gives me hell to know others haven’t been able to enjoy those things in life. It’s not even a huge amount of empathy we’re talking about here.

                  So that’s my story. Anyone who reads this and thinks I’m a self hating white is probably in need of a smack. I’m fine with myself. I want others to have a taste of being okay once in a while like I have, is all.

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                  As for the downvotes I don’t know I’m just talking here. I can’t speak for them. In America, this issue is often played to ‘both sides’ in bad faith, and far right ideas are given more than equal time in ways that have normalised fascist tendencies for decades, leading to the current situation (more or less a coup in progress). It’s a difficult needle you’re trying to thread at the best of times, and right now an “even handed” stance feels a lot like cities trying to solve traffic by adding “just one more lane” to their already massive highways.

                  As ever, this is just me talking.

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      Presuming you can’t get a game on GoG (which is European), check if the game is still from Europe.

      Bit of a compromise, but this is for the people who can’t give up on Steam.

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      Yeah, I haven’t bought a game in years. Wish I could refund or resell most of the games I bought on Steam, but oh well. Live and learn.

      Sailing the high seas has been a breath of fresh air. It’s nice to have greater ownership over my software than the rubes who pay for theirs, lol. And it’s cheaper!

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    I’m just happy to see a meme template from Half Baked.

    Chappelle’s old stuff is fire

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    I love my Steam Deck and Proton, but it pisses me off how many Steam games are spyware / DRMware and won’t start without internet on this PORTABLE console, and especially that Valve allows this kind of toxic shit.

    So, my Steam Deck stays blocked from the internet in my firewall and I buy from GOG when available or get them from other places.

    Also, Gabe can STFU about piracy being a service problem until Steam bans DRM and spyware.

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      TBH operating systems are like tools, and if windows isn’t too intrusive and neutered, it can be OK.

      I use Windows for gaming/media, for performance reasons, and (CachyOS) Linux for GPU compute stuff, dev work, office, pretty much anything else.

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        Well, yeah, I get that… Still, there’s quite a bit about Windows that annoys me, and there’s really nothing I do on Windows that Linux can’t handle. I’ve already looked it up, and the little gaming I do does work pretty well on Linux too, reportedly.

        So I find myself thinking… Why am I on Windows? I could be on Linux and ditch Microsoft. It’s just some anxiety, fear that things’ll break. At the end of the day, I have more confidence that, if something goes wrong, I can fix it in Windows, but may not be able to fix it in Linux. Hope I’m making sense here.

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          Again, you can always dual boot, just in case.

          What I do is dual boot and “share” a partition between them, so if windows or Linux breaks I can just swap to the other, no problemo.

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          As somebody who really recently migrated to linux, shit will ‘break’ and part of the fun is scouring wikis and random forums to get things working and the absolute rush that comes when you figure something out

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            Look, I enjoy fun with computers as much as the next guy, but if I need to get something done I don’t want to go scouring… If I need to get in a meeting and the audio is fucked or the bluetooth broke or something, that’s a big problem…

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              lol, ya that’s totally fair, bluetooth for me so far has been total fuckery, this is my personal pc not my work one.

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    How Newell’s latest yacht? They still allow gambling in CS? Cool cool, nothing to see here.

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    I never gamed, so…

    • Fuck gambling
    • Fuck walled gardens
    • Fuck billionaires (nobody needs that much dough)
    • Fuck Valve/Steam (it’s easy for me to say)
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      Steam isn’t perfect and I sure as shit won’t be the one defending a corporation, and this isn’t a good excuse at ALL, but if you’ve never gamed you wouldn’t believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).