Rentlar

Your use of Liberation Serif will not go unnoticed.

President Biden deserves way more credit for getting what he's done this term despite the GOP's best efforts to hamstring it in every possible way.

I can't deny that Steam has a large marketshare over the digital video game distribution market, and that it could abuse its position, and that the 30% distributor cut is steep. All true. Is it currently abusing its position? Arguably yes and no.

Looking through the evidence document provided in the video, the alleged link between decreased % of multihoming indicating the enforcement of a PMFN is weak IMO. Steam's support for Linux, its own Steam Deck, good customer service, return policy, family sharing and remote play are major reasons to be a Valve patron, not always about price.

The evidence at 9:05 in the video that suggests Valve says they "stop selling them altogether" was in response to a Steam Key inquiry. The other quotes were related to removing it from the front page and sales feature pages (not delisting but not there unless you search for it). That's not delisting but perhaps it is anti-competitively deranking it. I'm not sure what the rules are though, like a grocery store doesn't have to put a product at the front of a store when a rival has a steeper sale for it, but they could ask for the same discount while offering to make it similarly visible. Overall it's not nearly as serious as OOP makes it seem.

The 2 reasons you provide are actually why games that offer an offline mode functionality (more specifically that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet) are exempted from needing to follow this law.

I don't think this is a preemption of the SKG campaign but actually one of the realistic goals of that campaign. I don't think the ability to rent software for a limited time is an issue, but tricking people into thinking they can use something they purchased forever, to have it unilaterally taken away due to 3rd party licensing, decommissioning servers or other excuse is the problem.

I think this idea is good. I remember seeing those domain names last year. At the time it seemed muddy and uncomfortable to me, since there was a whole scheme of Reddit ghost accounts posting, while I understood there were good intentions behind it, mirrored posts were flooding users' All feed to the point I started blocking a bunch of subs, and many admins defederated.

If we can promote the community first approach where the domain is the space for discussion to be held and stored, with users connecting from across the Fediverse, this would be excellent, a good alternative to massive centralized Lemmy servers. Collective ownership would ensure preservation of content if one or more go offline.

Compared to other national and international chains, I'll pick Dominos. Here in Vancouver there are just so many local pizza shops and smaller chains to choose from, even the cheaper/quantity over quality chains taste better than both Pizza Hut and Domino's (I'm thinking Freshslice for the Western Canadians in the room). Even corporate pizza events here don't go with Domino's, which was the go to when I was elsewhere.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying "anything goes if you agree to it" this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

Ok thank you CBC for not bending over backwards for the Conservatives. This is a proper title.

I'm expecting PostMedia oligarchs to publish "Trudeau just barely squeaks by relentless motions of non-confidence"

Thank you to everyone in this community that filled out ISED's consulatation survey I posted last month

Ubisoft might have to get used to not owning high value stock, if they keep pushing through anti-consumer bullshit in their games.

Yeah media outlets need to start saying "Conservatives bring up this week's false outrage, moral panic and pearl clutching"

Steam is in a rightly deserved position of good reputation.

I am amazed that they have not entered the "squeeze every dollar out of the good reputation and brand we built" phase that so many companies have gone through in the past decade. I hope Newell can keep it this way for a long time.