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I’m mostly using Tempest and Dani these days but Helix on a Woodwynd with Armored Cap was the best tasting of all manual vapes I owned and I think that was thanks to Helix tip. It made me believe there’s actual difference to DynaVap pieces and experiment more. Enjoy!

PC gamers are stuck because Steam is a self-perpetuating monopoly. If your entire library is on Steam, and Steam has almost all of the games you’ll just keep on buying there for convenience (and that’s what happens, analysts estimate 90% market share). Alan Wake 2 wasn’t profitable until EGS exclusivity expired because gamers opted to wait rather than buy this gem of a game on a different platform (that gives away games like candy).

Even if you think that Valve are just the best, aren’t you worried that having one good option is being one good option away from having no good options?

Prime where, catalogue is different in different regions.

So because Battle.net failed to predict market correctly 100% of PC gamers are stuck with Steam until the end of the world. That doesn’t change the fact that Valve lucked into the position they are in and was paid billions for this already.

Valve will never IPO, why would they? They own a money printing machine that doesn’t need any more capital. They will print money until the heat death of the universe if we let it. Moreover, since they’re not a public company they don’t have to share their financials and if they did that people would be likely to sing a different tune.

I’ve never seen a conceivable scenario where anything else can happen unless Valve does something mental on purpose.

Some people here raised they concern that they don’t value Valve input to merit 30% cut and would take lower price if it meant it didn’t have features they don’t use. What’s happening now means there’s no real free market or competition.

Yeah, fuck Jeff Bezos, maybe not to death because that sounds like a good time. Big tech is obviously bad but you can paraphrase „every empire is evil but not everything empire does is evil” for this context. Personally I recommend getting a Kindle while in deep discount and then using it with your own books via Calibre because Amazon subsidises them and must be losing money on this kind of thing. Hardware’s not bad.

You’re still hung up that there’s consensus on anarchism and libertarianism being so generic terms that they’re near synonymous? I mean, if you made some arguments to the contrary then this comment would carry some weight. Other than that, please see comment you responded to again, it’s applicable to you too.

Amazon adaption is pretty cool too. James S.A. Corey was involved.

I really like The Expanse, you?

How does that relate to Kindle getting new text formatting options though?

I’m having fun because I don’t need to make up things to compensate for debilitating cognitive dissonance.

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