Why is the artist’s name scrubbed off?

*Edit: Then down voted for this question?

What the hell?

Do you need help?

If that is what you truly believe then I fear that you are a danger to yourself and others and should not be trusted to be alone or around children. There are a lot of resources available to use, even in the U.S.

I implore you to seek help from professionals.

I think we’ve stopped at the “wrong things” part and just refuse to move on.

Motherlover or Dick in a Box could both work here.

I mean isn’t this post kind of giving consent?

I’m afraid if I offer suggestions I’ll start getting knocks on my door at 2am.

So my experience accounts for nothing?

So even though I’ve lost access to multiple titles because other software companies can’t get their shit together and were a terrible experience, I’m not allowed to use that as an example of why Valve has become the standard?

But any argument against your opinion is “simping”.

Do you even hear yourself?

What you are doing is a form of manipulation and gaslighting.

Those things Valve was sued over were also industry standard practices.

Your argument is awash with emotional outbursts which tells the real story here.

You’ve picked a side for one reason or another and just make bad arguments, trying to support it.

Show me a single game company, of that size, that HASN’T been sued. Since that seems to be your metric of what makes a company so evil.

This is a very narrow viewpoint that is borderline disingenuous.

You blame OP for being a simp, BECAUSE OF A MEME, then argue the plaintiff’s narrative without any critical breakdown or context.

You are not any better.

There is a lot of nuance here that you just ignore.

Valve is not using their resources to prevent/undermine competition.

Valve’s percentage is absolutely worthy of debate, but does not make them a monopoly.

I will state that I support Valve when it comes to the big releases, but definitely wish they tiered their fees to support smaller developers.

I get why they do it, but I wish they were a bit friendlier to the smaller developers

If the other companies used a platform that was even remotely close to the ease of use as Steam, I might feel differently, but they don’t

I have lost access to several titles because of these companies’ “competing” platforms.

Valve provides a service that is critical and beneficial. And in a way that these other companies seem incapable or unwilling to provide.

They are not preventing them from doing it in any way.

They just don’t want to get undercut on products that use their service. That is a valid argument.

Maybe if other companies didn’t create such bloated, underperforming crapware, they wouldn’t feel forced to use Steam.

And smaller developers aside, these companies already suck so much money out of the user/buyer as they can and are not passing that revenue to the actual software developer, while Valve does share its revenue with its employees, despite your claim that Gabe is buying his “27th yacht”.

Can it be any worse than what we have going on right now?

You had me at Cavill.

Do you want fat bees? Because this is how you get fat bees.

Ok~maybe I want fat bees.~

Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.

His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/

Or,…orrrrr, you can own the fact that you’ve let a bunch of Nazi storm trooper wannabes kidnap/terrify innocent people, break the law, murder people, create concentration camps, (the list goes on), and allow controls to be put in place to prevent this bullshit.

If you were on the street,Ted, they’d dump your ass in a camp too.

This made me wonder what it would actually look like.

It would be so big, would it curve around with the Lagrange point?

Would it be significant enough to see with the naked eye?

Would we see ripples or waves cause by other gravitational forces. Could it be used to detect gravitational waves?

That would be cool. Except the whole, “not seeing the moon anymore” thing.

Can you imagine the energy you would need to keep something like that from drifting off and or bunching up under its own mass?

Exactly.

It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.

But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.

Judges others

Gets mad when others do the same to them

That’s actually pretty ignorant and judgemental. That statement sounds so MAGA.

Setting aside the U.S.'s current political disposition for the moment.

The U.S. has always been a huge melting pot of different peoples of the world. A lot of those people would stay together, creating little islands of culture all over.

They would celebrate their culture and often celebrate other people’s culture along with them. (I have been told that the U.S. celebrates Cinco De Mayo way more than Mexico ever did.)

A lot of it comes from asserting your own culture identity against this broad mixing pot. Or even asserting it against active suppression. Some of it is evolved tradition over the generations.

Many people value their ancestral roots and like to celebrate it.

Saying America has no history is so ethnocentric.

The U.S. is made up of immigrants from the entire globe. The U.S.'s history shares its history with every other nation of the world.

I love that there are so many different festivals, from different cultures, all the time. Houston is in Texas, but it is a massively diverse city. We named a highway after a Sikh policeman who had been murdered in the line of duty. The city (county maybe) even lets us sell fireworks for Diwali. There are Greek festivals all over. (Yes it has a terribly racist past, and it is considered the human trafficking capital of the U.S., fuck you big oil.)

I have never had someone introduce themselves to me as a <culture>-American. But plenty of people will talk about their ancestral culture if you ask.

I guess if you live in a monoculture, then you may not value that culture identity as strongly as you might when your ancestral culture is just one of a thousand.

Diversity is king. If someone wants to let their cultural freak flag fly, who the hell are you to judge?

Right.

And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

Wake up. The decline has already happened. It’s now a game of compromise.

You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

It’s ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y’all look petulant.

My point still stands.

You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?