Aaron M. Long

Network Engineer, Hacker, Avid Gamer

[Aaron M. Long @AaronMLong]

@SwitchUpG That's not "without makeup" you retard. That's shitty art direction. Do you know understand the difference between a photograph and a 3D model?

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@MeghanEMurphy Now I want you to ask yourself, the next time you turn him down for sex: "Is this where I want to burn my relationship capital? Is this more or less pleasant than cleaning the bathroom?"

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@MeghanEMurphy I'm going to give you some free relationship advice. Your man doesn't really care if you don't do the dishes, or wash the laundry or change the sheets, or any of the other myriad household factotum chores.

If the sex is abudant and good, he will let all that other shit slide.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti So when the court acquitted OJ Simpson of the murder of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman, just because the police fucked up the evidentiary chain of custody, did they come back to life? Laws do not manufacture reality or govern morality.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti No, the court will not decide who is right. They will decide who wins. The consumers have *ALREADY* decided who is right, which is why Steam is in the dominant market position, and why its rivals are resorting to lawfare to hobble it.

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@japan_nobunaga The reality is that Japan is low violence because Japan is a culture which places a premium on orderliness and consideration for others. This is not a policy outcome which can be engineered, it's the result of generations of families teaching their children.

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@japan_nobunaga Nothing to do with gun laws, or indeed laws of any kind. A casual glance at the rates of homicides against the rates of civilian gun ownership shows no correlation whatsoever between gun ownership and violence.

https://t.co/dqE5Omt58V

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti Yes, because Steam serves their *CUSTOMERS* better. When Steam stops being a good deal for customers, then customers will leave. What you're seeing is the outcome of competition, not the lack of it. Steam is a better product for the user.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti It's not. Target, Wal-Mart, Kohl's, literally every retailer on the planet has the exact same clause in their contract. It's just the reality of living in a world with online retail where the competition is one click away.

Your manifest ignorance is showing.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti That is a perfectly normal retail price matching contract. No retailer on Earth permits their suppliers to undercut them. NONE. I work for a company who runs an online store, and one of our idiot VPs made that mistake and it cost us *MILLIONS* of dollars we paid to retailers.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti Keep doing that, and in a few years, you won't even miss your old Steam library. What's the oldest Steam title you have installed right now? Sure, I have games from 2004 in my library. I don't play them anymore. So what's the "price" of leaving them behind?

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti Switching to a different sales channel as a user costs next to nothing, too. Nothing prevents you from discontinuing your *PURCHASES* from Steam, and only launching Steam to use games which you purchased in the past.

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@gabefollower Those are completely normal retail terms. There is no retailer on *EARTH* which will carry your products and then let you undercut them.

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@beyond_fps @GiusCaminiti No, it's not. That is not what a monopoly means. Literally anyone can make a competing launcher.

The whole reason we regulate and block monopolies is because they abuse customers. But if Steam starts abusing their market power, suppliers and gamers will leave.

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@bolden46 They pay MORE in taxes than the average wage earner. The average taxpayer pays a real rate of 14.5%, a billionaire pays a real rate of about 23.8%.

https://t.co/m0i5YfJi5L

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@downbadcomment "This has been an issue for years".

Then *WHY THE FUCK DID YOU MARRY HIM?*

This is the thing I can't understand: You act like having sex is this tremendous, troublesome burden, like someone is making you power-wash the house. It's sex. Seek help.

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@TheIroncane More insane pro-industry takes from subsistence-level Twitch streamers. Get a real job, brev.