Marriage is human nature? Legal documents providing specific legal protections in your specific country is human nature?

It’s not OPs fault they live in an underdeveloped nation, they’re just trying to get by.

“You shouldn’t use marriage to stop yourself being legally chained to your parents. The purpose of marriage is to legally chain you to your spouse.”

If people could “divorce” their parents you wouldn’t have to worry about this.

Where I live you can freely use your maiden name or your spouse’s name and switch between them whenever you want.

We didn’t like either of our last names so before getting married I legally changed mine so my Spouse could adopt it after the wedding, instead of both of us legally changing it after the wedding.

They’ll ask the AI what to make then ask the AI to code it and use AI art.

We had that in November

Ah yes, the healthy Democracy of a developed nation…

I was doing a school project about ants and SimAnt had “Ant facts” you could only access during game play. I started a “quick game” so I could write them down and I won the game before I finished with the Ant Facts.

Okay, but as I understand PlayStation and Xbox do not have easily accessible drive ports at all. Or am I mistaken?

Nintendo bad for making QoL console releases? Again, Nintendo is not the only company to do that. PS4/PS5 Pro, the recent Xboxes, etc

Nintendo has a history of doing something different each hardware generation: Snes had the 4 button + shoulder buttons controller. N64 controller was designed for someone with 3 hands, DS had 2 screens, 3DS had 3d without glasses, Wii had motion controls, Wii U the tablet controller, Switch is a console and portable… Every system had something that made it unique. What’s unique about the Switch 2?
Nintendo is not able to compete with other consoles on power, it’s the unique hardware that gives a reason to own it over something else.

They’ve put basically zero effort into shutting down emulators for consoles they don’t sell anymore.

Technically correct. They may not be shutting down emulators, but if they hear a whisper of a ROM for Mappy Land on the NES they have their lawyers on speed dial. ( Me typing that sentence means someone from Nintendo is now watching this thread to see if anyone links to a ROM.)

I’m personally surprised by Nintendo continuing to include user accessible SD cards in their consoles from the DS through the Switch. It becomes incredibly convenient for piracy and I would have thought they were doing it on purpose to at least sell the hardware if it wasn’t for all the evidence you the contrary.

“It doesn’t work when I make no effort to look up the simple solution that would make it work.”

Excuses for what? I still don’t understand what you’re expecting people to do seeing as “not buying the thing” doesn’t seem to be good enough for you.

Do nothing and be rude to the people trying to do something

Got it.

Companies will do something if they have a profit incentive to do so. They will not do things if they do not have a profit incentive to do so. People voting with their wallet creates a profit incentive.

So your issue is with launchers then, because that does not describe a monopoly.

You argue like a libertarian, too. As in naming off logical fallacies while completely missing the substance.

I don’t know what makes me a libertarian in your eyes and I don’t care. The point of the discussion has been about Steam being a “monopoly”, and whatever label you apply to me does not discredit my arguments nor distract from the fact that your posts have no substance other than trying to apply a label to me instead of addressing the arguments being made.

If store B is shit, and there isn’t much else, then everyone flocks to store A. Then store A will be a monopoly.

If Store B is shit so everyone flocks to Store A then:

1. What exactly is the problem? And
2. What do you suggest people do about it?

“I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that’s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”

It was done for profit. The exact thing I’ve been saying.

None of that explains how “devs make more money selling on Steam” makes Steam a monopoly.

Your attempts at Ad Hominin in no way argues that Steam is a monopoly.

“People shop at Store A instead of Store B” does not necessitate that Store A is a monopoly. Maybe Store B is shit.

Crying “fanboys” does not make Steam a monopoly.