Watch the anti plastic straw movement have been a comparative-trivialization by big-pollution. Give us shitty paper straws, and suddenly everybody wants plastic everything again.

Cold drinks that have to be cold to be good, are bad.

If you want your drink to be good, it has to be competitively good at room temperature, first.

Barium Pupitar Kupfer

Asking for a friend

The Christian god, no less. The one that’s supposed to be forgiving and understanding and no fucky neighbor’s daddy before him or something

Oh fuck I didn’t see what comm this was. Brb editing

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Spending time with your dad

Valve largely stands as one of the last vestiges of consumer positive industries, save for stuff like this, which I think everyone agrees is not good. It’s definitely gambling, and it definitely eroded and continues to erode gaming and civilization, in general.

However, in a world of cutthroat wolves and truly evil entities and secret boards of oligarchies, Valve alone sits as a private company, not behaving primarily as a dark pattern machine.

Attacking them needs to happen, but in a political time of rising fascism around the world, and especially as it takes hold in almost all of the federal government and many powerful institutions have recently taken radical nosedives, a power vacuum where, at WORST a grey company once stood, is the last thing we need.

Attacking Valve should happen. But not right now. “My enemy’s enemy is my friend”, and valve has historically stood protecting gamers, and business and industry, against many of the worst behaviors, as basically a grey paragon of hope.

Tearing them down right now is such a fool’s errand where the best outcome is unfortunately a weakening of the company that gives SO MANY PEOPLE hope and peace at the end of the day.

You obviously aren’t a fool, and seem quite aware of the dynamics, both legally and really. But, going off the average .ml values and rising industry of communist country gaming companies, I can only assume a motive to weaken the most powerful and successful institution that stands in the way of foreign entities gaining more momentum, be it deliberate or not.

The damage and negativity of allowing the structuring of gambling in this past time is undeniable.

But cutting off one of the hands of one of the few institutions and leading companies that isn’t a brazen flagrant late stage capitalist machine, bowing and tithing the fascist federal government is fucking stupid.

Sue EA or an actual auto shitty company instead. Valve will take notice. And if they don’t change their ways, wait until there isn’t a Nazi sympathizer as president who’s being very successful replacing the heads of all information and power throughout the country.

But until then, people need to see attacking Valve for what it really is: attacking virtually the last industry leading and extremely powerful company that stands against everything Trump stands for. As grey and imperfect as they are, they, alone, stand above as a Paragon against the darkness.

Yes, I understand what makes it legal and the commonality of the legal dynamic. It just feels like very inopportune infighting.

More like ffmpreg amirite?

Maybe I didn’t articulate very clearly…

It seems an odd time to attack Valve when there are more egregious companies doing much worse of this sort of thing AND worse things happening in the world.

An extreme analogy would be like when Nazi Germany was rising to power and you sued the Jewish public transportation and train industry for false advertising of their fares.

Does that make sense to you? It’s a bit complex, so I can understand if maybe that’s a bit tough to fully comprehend.

Bidets traditionally do to my knowledge. Mine doesn’t, but I don’t have the space to get one of those nice, porcelain standalone ones with the dedicated soap and dedicated towel that I’ve seen in videos online.

Someday… 🥺

I think for those people that’s like a fine developed umami

Pits strong and vulnerable and powerful and flexing bicep and posing and ribs and waist and little hairs and smelly warmth gahhh i need to sink my teeth in

Like… The state of New York? Is suing the Bellevue, WA gaming company Valve?

Scratches head

…In 2026?

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And this is why legacy media is legacy media.

Oooo, I didn’t know that. That’s fancy

It absolutely was not.

Yeah, that’s dishonest and malevolent or straight up negligent and ignorant

You think she currently works in the walking programming dept of Microsoft?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation