Yeah it’s arguable that Steam is a monopoly but somehow billion dollar publishers can’t create a store to sell their own products without fucking it up with annoying bullshit. Pay the 30% to protect you from yourselves.

Great response. So much of a purchase is the product aligning emotionally with my hopes and dreams of what it will provide me.

Google has been kicking the can on ending third party cookie support for years. Chrome has such a large market share that whatever they decide to do has a huge impact on the ability to monetize content with ads.

There’s no clear direct replacement for identifying users for ad targeting outside of 3pty cookies. Lots of competing ‘privacy preserving frameworks’ but they all need buy in from many players at scale to be effective.

Oh fuck me book marking this comment for later.

You cannot get water from southern Oregon into California by any practical manner. Same as the person you replied to, the Central Valley and coastal regions are inaccessible except from the Sierra Nevada or Colorado River.

Much of the agricultural land would be fine. However the population centers in SoCal would have to make drastic cuts without the Colorado River.

Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.

If you got physical before they identified as police they would subdue you and then identity. That’s why there’s 8 of them for one arrest.

I think you’d have a good chance of getting off the numerous charges against you after sitting in jail and incurring thousands in legal fees.

Unfortunately shift + enter is too advanced so we get the AOL instant messenger experience.

Ah i forgot it was Pterodactyl specifically, thanks for confirming!

P.S. to my handler at the agency, please forgive my search history this morning. The video above is what I was trying to find.

I swear there’s a video out there some where of multiple dudes in dinosaur costumes replaying this exact scenario. It’s ancient.