Also, I know it’s subtle, but they did use the 2e logo in the original post.

For whatever reason, on my Pop!_os the app store didn’t really work. Maybe I just used the command line to install things improperly, but I switched to mint a while back and everything’s been going great so far.

You asked where someone was getting 30% from. They were getting it from sources like the article I linked.

Not much, but the 30% you were asking about was the cut Valve takes from sales on Steam.

Article from 2021 confirming it in a court case and another article from 2018 detailing how super successful games actually have a lower cut going to steam.

Yeah, society, as it is now, is designed around cars. That’s kind of the entire point of the fuck cars idea. We shouldn’t have built our society with the assumption that everyone should need a car, and we should start transitioning towards something more efficient and sustainable.

Kung Fury is just on youtube, and apparently Kung Fury 2 is supposed to come out in November.

Also consider your local library for books (and other media I guess). I think a lot of them have some kind of deal set up for ebooks too.

As much as I want the US to leave Syria, I’d also like Syria to cooperate with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and get rid of their chemical weapons already. I’m not saying one should be contingent on the other, but maybe appealing to the UN when you refuse to cooperate with the UN on a different matter isn’t the best strategy.

The predatory game monetization tactics of today began with Microsoft. After experimenting with paid DLC for its first-party titles on the original Xbox, Microsoft planned to launch the Xbox 360 with a storefront populated by the newfangled “microtransaction.” Speaking to WIRED in 2005, Microsoft described the microtransaction system as one that would provide a profitable new revenue stream for publishers - one they would be foolish to skip out on. According to USGamer, Bethesda was the first third-party publisher to accept Microsoft’s idea, offering a pack of in-game horse armor for Oblivion players at a $2.50 price point. Oblivion Horse With Elven Armor

This resulted in outcry from fans who found $2.50 far too expensive, especially for a cosmetic item in a single-player game, where no other players would even see it. Speaking about the issue later, Elder Scrolls director Todd Howard claimed Bethesda had tried to price the pack lower, but someone at Microsoft insisted on $2.50.

It seems like the only thing Microsoft really forced onto Bethesda was the price tag, Bethesda was all too willing to start loading up their game with microtransactions.

You should start be reading about the Paradox of Tolerance, which pretty nicely describes why you shouldn’t be so accepting of bigotry.

I still don’t see what warrants the hatred you and others spew on Empress, particularly when you do so because you deem awful the hate for a marginalized group.

Why are you so eager to defend bigots? Do you really not understand the difference between hating someone for their beliefs they hold versus hating someone for who they are as a person?

Have you seen her SPECIAL MESSAGE that was attached to the crack of Hogwarts: Legacy? There’s an awful lot of hate there, too. What was the need to pointlessly insult an entire group of already marginalized people? Pointing out someone’s bigotry and disliking them for it is nowhere near as bad as spewing bigotry, but that might just be my opinion.