You’re not allowed to do that. Women are a protected class that cannot be made fun of. Men on the other hand…

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But crossposting requires an account on the target instance, doesn’t it? I can’t crosspost on my peertube instance to a community in lemmy/piefed/mastodon/fedia can I?

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Well, I’m not buying Steam games anymore, so I’m doing my part 🤷

All those stores just sell the game on steam, so we’re back to steam being the cheapest. This is why the lawsuit exists.

I looked at the examples you gave and in all of them, Steam has the lowest price . I added an example of Doom Eternal

Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn’t the goal here. If it were, I don’t even know how they would approach it, because from what I can tell, Valve owns the market so much because it simply is good.

But yeah, Valve going bad would be a catastrophe for gaming.

Could you share an example of a deal that is less than on Steam? I couldn’t find one.

No need to put monopoly in quotes. Owning 85% of the market is a monopoly. Do you want them to reach 100% for you to go “yep, now it’s a monopoly, now we should do something”?

A monopoly doesn’t need monopolistic behaviour to be a monopoly. The monopolistic behaviour Steam has is what’s being targeted. If Steam were impeding competition in other ways, those would have to be dealt with too.

Just because you have a favourite friend, doesn’t mean they can’t do wrong.

Infect everybody in the manosphere and watch them deal with it.

People in the comments are vehemently supporting a monopolist because the monopolist is currently good. No wonder people are so easy to control. If you keep them distracted for long enough, you can take everything they own and they’ll only notice once the lights go off and the chair stolen from underneath their fat asses.

We deserve Trump and every single politician we get because we’re such a bunch of idiots.

Maybe if you read the goddamn article you’d know of one?

The foundation claims that Valve holds a dominant position in the market, estimated at around 85%, and is breaching competition law through so-called Most-Favoured Nation clauses. According to the complaint, these terms prevent developers from selling games more cheaply on rival platforms like the Epic Games Store than on Steam. This, they argue, keeps prices across the PC gaming market artificially elevated.

Arsenal fans are gooners. Very interesting term.

Countries are just made up and this /c/Greentext . Nothing is to be taken seriously here

I make no claims about other gemstones.

What do you think the article is about? Read the headline.

TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most common

That doesn’t refute my statement in any way. We’re talking about diamonds vs other gemstones. Had you said “gemstone X is valued more than diamonds both in monetary and world-wide cultural sense, here is a source”, I might agree, but all you’re saying is “we are mining more diamonds than other gemstones, and we could be mining even more but aren’t”. That says nothing about whether the are more gemstones out there than diamonds or not.

Imagine we had 1 billion gemstone X , 10 billion gemstone Y, and 100 billion gemstone Z, but gemstone X was the most culturally and monetarily valuable gemstone and the others were worth a fraction thereof. Gemstone X would naturally be mined more and thus be more prevalent. If you mined 1k of gemstone X and held back others from mining to control the number on the market, sure, you could say “we could mine much more, therefore it is incredibly abundant”, but that would be false because Y and Z actually are the more abundant gemstones.

The article doesn’t reveal any numbers whatsoever, so simply saying “it’s the most abundant gemstone out there” is a valueless statement.

The article makes the claim but doesn’t back it up with anything. I could also write an article and say “although many people wear diamonds, the most abundant gemstone on the planet is rutile” without providing a single source.

This is what it says:

However, diamonds actually number among the most common gems. Ask yourself this: “How many people do you know who own at least one diamond?” Now, ask this question about other gems, like rubies, sapphires, or emeralds.

While we have much to learn about the Earth’s interior, our current knowledge of gem formation indicates that diamonds are likely the most common gem in nature.

That’s it.

Surely that’s because we value them more and they are thus mined more.

Danes have to be proud of fantastic stories written by somebody who never even set foot in their country because they don’t have any impressive architecture to have survived thousands of years.