Don’t take pics of random people minding their own business and post them on the internet without consent?

I know what you mean, but I get the impression that you and OP are using hate with different levels of intensity and specificity.

This didn’t feel to me like the ‘oh I hate Joffrey and can’t not-see him when I see Jack Gleeson’ type of “hate”.

Honestly, I kind of hate these memes for this reason, I emphasize deeply with his emotional state, which is why I know I would hate being photographed every time I feel like that. Just let the man just live his life.

If you “hate” a random actor, then that’s kind of a you problem, and you should probably consider therapy, or at the very least, spend less time online.

He’s never done anything to harm you, he’s just lived his life. He may not be a perfect person but no one is.

No, the number one cause is not building efficient high density transportation networks.

If you build efficient high density transportation networks like streetcars and subways, then people plan their lives around taking those forms of transportation, and thus will gravitate towards living near the stops and you naturally end up densifying housing around your network.

Endless suburban sprawl is caused by only building road networks so everyone plans their lives and housing around owning and using cars.

And at a fundamental level, corporations building out and then operating high density towers, is not building out a pleasant future to live in, it’s building out a cyberpunk dystopia where the municipality expands vertically but cedes control of that expansion to exploitative corporations.

Canada has the existing space in our cities and towns and should be focused on turning more communities into Toronto’s relatively dense ‘streetcar suburbs’, where you have a mix of lots of townhomes, semi-detached housing, and short apartment buildings, where people can for the most part actually fully own their property and building, while still supporting a relatively high density of housing. But we need to build out actual streetcar networks in cities other than Toronto for that to happen.

for building most of those games

providing an engine does not build the game.

Well good thing I said “most” of a game. Go ahead and write your game logic and then tell me how you get it to render graphics on a screen without any engine code.

Valve has recieved 30% for doing fuck all. Why are you so adamantly defending them?

I’m not defending valve, I’m attacking epic

Yeah, in the context of a discussion about whether or not Valve is overcharging customers.

Jesus Christ, keep up.

Yeah, for building most of those games. Valve has recieved 30% for doing fuck all. Why are you so adamantly defending them?

If you’re building a game, and you build it on Unreal engine, so it’s handling literally all of the rendering, development tooling, animation engine, game logic engine, etc. etc. you’ll pay Epic a smaller percentage than you’ll pay Valve for hosting your exe file in cloud storage with some reviews and comments.

Think 5% vs 30%.

Given that they offer half the fees of Valve, it’s more like 'we don’t want to keep having to pay Valve 30% of our entire Revenue on every game we want to sell when we can make a profit charging half as much.

Lowering fees would have resulted in everyone liking them even more.

You’re thinking of revenue, not profit. Profit is revenue minus costs.

Hot damn I want to see what modders do with this game.

Saber’s really showing itself to be a great studio.

So is your solution to have Valve hire more people and be less profitable? That would justify their fees?

No, they should have charged lower fees.

You talk like a shill.

You’re literally defending a billionaire who made his money overcharging gamers for decades.

Because per employee, Valve is one of the most profitable tech companies ever. That means they charged far higher fees than their costs.

Oh yeah, let’s all repeat the playbook of GoG, first you just have to spend a decade establishing yourself as the only publisher able to get former Soviet gamers to pay for games rather than pirate them, then turn that trust that you built with two third party developers into a storefront selling their classic titles for them for 6 years, then use your established customer base and goodwill to try and transition into being a proper AAA storefront.

Totally viable business strategy /s

Another thread where gamers praise Valve for ripping them off for years, and think Tim Sweeney is the devil for trying to break into the market.

Valve never had to because they established a monopoly so developers did that on their own without Valve paying them. Meanwhile Valve has ripped off the entire gaming industry for its entire existence, charging absurd fees to gamers and developers and you guys are all so bought into their monopoly that you blindly praise them for it.

Gabe Newell is a billionaire. No billionaire earned their money. Every billionaire exploited people for it.

The epic launcher is exact as spyware filled as the steam launcher.

And Algonquin Park would never have existed, and or been completely developed over.

Elbows up, long term.