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rbuchanan 4 years ago

Steam is your anathema; GTK3 is mine! Valve's accountants wouldn't coincide that it's at all a blunder, but I agree -- it's a good idea poorly implemented, and its exclusivity is really baleful. Much of this is imputable to the incipient obsolescence and sequent productive decrement of optical discs in all media, which is a horrid trend to be blamed primarily on our respective generations.

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rbuchanan 4 years ago

Moreover, Steam's failings and abuses are microcosmically symptomatic of so many godawful trends: corporate overreach, exclusively non-physical distribution, and the commercial redefinition of ownership. You can blame Jobs, Gates, Ballmer, et al. for that latter. Crapple and Microsoft pioneered the corporate subversion of proprietorship, which is sick and unnatural.

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lolwut 4 years ago

Maybe "blunder" wasn't the perfect word, because in the business world it can imply something which caused heavy financial losses, but I was of course viewing Steam from the perspective of the consumer. I agree that online distribution is not inherently bad; it can be done well, and it can be done poorly. It is a shame that Steam and many of the other platforms ended up being done poorly and restrictively.

lolwut 4 years ago

I wrote this to try to turn other PC gamers away from Steam, as I believed that the arguments for doing so, when weighed against the reasons to stay, are very compelling. They have been for me, at least, as I have largely been able to avoid Steam. Also, don't say bad things about Gates and Microsoft! >:(

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rbuchanan 4 years ago

Accumulation of 100 rings earns one a new life, right? I haven't played any of those games for a quarter-century.

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lolwut 4 years ago

Yes, at least in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

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frogesay 4 years ago

Hannah Montana? More like Hannah Non-tana. Because she was born in Tenessee.

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lolwut 4 years ago

Hmm, I'm curious now: have you ever watched the show, even for a little bit?

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rbuchanan 4 years ago

Were you a playtester for the new movie?

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lolwut 4 years ago

No; I like the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and I've played a few games from it, but I would not consider myself a dedicated fan. (Besides, Sonic looks odd in the new movie, which is surprising, given the fact that he's been rendered in 3D for many years; they could have simply re-used an existing model of him for the film.)

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TAKE ME BACK TO THE 2000S, PLEASE, SOMEBODY
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encounters-ltd 4 years ago

it'll cost ya

lolwut 4 years ago

Money is no object

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