Valve buys up dev teams that are about to shake the industry up. Valve haven’t actually been the ones to make something new in a long time. TFC, CS, Portal, DoD, L4D, Alien Swarm, Dota 2… were all made by outside dev teams that Valve absorbed and put their name on. The only things Valve have actually made, themselves, in the last 5 years are Alyx and CS2, neither of which brought anything new to the industry (although they are wonderfully-executed games) and are both sequels of existing franchises.

Personally, I’m not a fan of this practice, because I feel like Valve inadvertently stifles these studios after they bring them onboard. For instance, the team from DigiPen that Valve bought for their Portal tech? Imagine if they were still able to make games. Imagine if they were still able to stretch their creativity and create new tech and ideas. Instead, their intellectual properties are all tied up at Valve and they got to release two whole games in the last 20 years. Who knows what we could be missing out on from these guys if they were able to actually still make stuff.

Liberal voters wanted Bernie. The DNC did not.

Pretty sure the only thing this is meant to accomplish is annoying Elon and his fanboys.

It looks like Helvetica to me. What’s wrong with that?

Liberals already tried to get Bernie on the ticket in 2016, but the DNC fucked us on that.

Bluesky is not decentralized, stop calling it that.

Yeah you know me

It’s what she would have wanted.

I’ve legit seen somebody wearing JNCOs within the last couple months. I think some people are trying to bring them back into style, and while I still won’t wear them, I’d love to see them come back, anyway.

Honestly, I wanna see a lot of late 90s/early 00s fashion come back. I miss some of those looks.

Good people don’t necessarily make good games. They should be asking themselves why this team of great people spent so much time and money working on something that nobody asked for, appealed to nobody, and offered nothing new in the space it was trying to compete in if they want to know why the game failed.

You know what? I’m starting to think that a nazi might not be a good pick for Defense Secretary if he can’t respect women.

Somehow he used the wrong formula but got the right answer.

It’s insane, honestly. An old coworker of mine who I sometimes stay in touch with is Muslim, and a Trump supporter. I’ve tried to figure out why, since Trump has never shown any meaningful support of Muslims, and all he could say is that the economy was good under Trump. Like… was having gas be $0.08 cheaper really worth having your actual family banned from entering the country? Not only was he already living paycheck-to-paycheck under Trump and still under Biden, but he was literally directly affected by Trump’s Muslim ban. I don’t know how you justify that with yourself.

If only there was any way to have seen this coming based on literally every single thing he’s said and done over the last decade!

Unlike older Trump voters, younger supporters prioritize economic issues over immigration, are concerned about climate change, and favor more government involvement in health care and student debt forgiveness.

They are also less supportive of fossil fuel expansion, hardline immigration policies, and tariffs.

“Gee, if only there was a party whose platform actually focuses and aligns on these issues. Guess I’d better cast my vote for the candidate who wants the exact opposite of the things I want.”

-These kids, probably

Maybe this was Trump’s bigger plan for fumbling the pandemic response; cause a bunch of high school kids to start missing/failing school so they’re too dumb to understand how ballots work once they’re old enough to vote. Might explain the first round of gut-punches he dealt to the Department of Education last time.

Not with two dipshits behind the wheel, it won’t.

Well, Lemmy isn’t really in the running since it’s a link aggregator, and not a microblogging platform.

But that said, it would be nice to see Fediverse platforms mentioned. Mastodon and dozens of adjacent platforms exist, too, but never see a mention in any articles.

I really wish somebody could get a decent, populated Misskey instance spun up. I think that would be more attractive to people, due to the features more closely resembling those on Twitter than Mastodon’s do. It seems to be doing pretty well in Japan, not sure why we haven’t picked up on it as heavily in the west.

And here I was thinking it was just a fun username.

If by “big” you mean “inflamed”.

Trans erasure in action.

I hope denying healthcare to children was worth owning the libs.