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  • I got my friend a job at my company. He met one of my coworkers, a guy we’ll call Frank. I told him Frank has led a very interesting life (not a lie - he has). I said before becoming an engineer, Frank was a male escort. And that he probably shouldn’t bring it up because I don’t know if that’s common knowledge in the office. I quickly forgot I even told him that.

    A couple of months later he made a joke to me about it and that’s when I told him the truth: Frank was a Presbyterian minister for years. He was never a gigolo.



  • I want to start by saying I’m not a hater - I quit reddit and have been very happy here. These are just my biggest complaints about the fediverse:

    1. The heavily-fragmented communities and the cross posting that it leads to. Lots of people posting the same thing on 20 different boards…kind of annoying for people browsing All

    2. Tons of communities copied the name of subreddits but didn’t bring over the rules/spirit that made those subreddits great…so there’s a ton of homogenous communities

    3. The mastodon/similar users using excessive hashtags and pinging everyone in a thread when they reply. Also I haven’t seen it recently (was there an update?) but the god awful post titles they make

    4. When a server is having issues, the posts show up in your feed but the comments section just spins so you can’t interact

    5. There’s a lot of terrible bots on here. The autotldr bot is only accurate half the time yet it’s usually upvoted…even when it makes no sense. The other bots I don’t like either repost shit from reddit or post every “article” (ads. Most of them are ads) from a few websites. The latter I can’t bring myself to block because there are some worthwhile posts once in awhile…



  • The product stays the same if we bring down their revenue to 1 billion, they aren’t close to bankruptcy. If they took 0.5 %

    So? I don’t care if they’re forced to lower his salary. You said nothing differentiates Steam enough and I’m saying it does so by being good.

    They are rivals but they don’t actually compete or strive to give their customers any kind of competitive prices.

    The majority of customers on all storefronts are fine with the pricing as-is. Steam’s competitive advantage comes from being the best storefront with an amazing library and . That’s why it’s the top dog

    And yes, you are defending a billionaire.

    I’m clearly not. I’m defending the service itself



  • There is absolutely nothing that differentiates valve from the other stores front to justify this.

    The “justification” is that Steam is a good storefront and others kind of blows. There’s nothing stopping other companies from making good software…they just haven’t.

    it’s clear collusion.

    That’s not what collusion is… Steam doesn’t sell Nintendo games and is Epic/Microsoft’s rival.

    Can’t wait for all the downvotes and simps coming to defend him

    To be clear, I’m not defending billionaires. Your talking points are just kind of baseless.