problem is pc gaming never died and has been healthy all along but when retailers stopped selling cause they made more profits with consoles or we stopped buying. the industry or more like the suits and media made a native that pc gaming died. we just went to the guy that respected us and now he has a dragons hord of wealth and moved in beating the consoles at their own game by respecting is with an open platform.

yeah that's literally the definition of Cold War. The biggest lie we were told is the cold war ended, it didn't. Think about it the US defeated an economic system Reagan didn't give two shits about the Authoritarian Mob that took over after the fall. As long as capitalism won the US called it a victory. I'm no tanky by any means but it's plan as day where the US priority was when it came to the Soviet Union.

i agree with all of that but everything you have listed is voting which I already said you should do without question and really should be the bare minimum of civic duty and as you have said not very effective. Plus that only affects domestic policy and you have to change a lot of domestic policy to even scratch the surface of changing foreign policy.

By no means am I saying give up but the more you look at foreign policy and spend your mental capacity. The more they distract you from changing the local that will change very slowly the domestic that will change the foreign. the powers at be want you terrified of the things you can't change to distract you from the things you can. so they stay in power.

It's the same thing with terrorism conventional warfare doesn't work against an irregular force. It takes slow moves at a very local level like like we leaned from FM 3-23 assuming you are US military, forgive me if you already not.

I was in the military as well but other than voting and writing your local and regional Representatives. Which everyone should be doing no mater what. what do you suggest the avg person do to affect geopolitics other than stress ourselves out. Let me know what we should do and I will be there.

There is no morality in Foreign Policy it all about power be that soft or hard power. That machinery of that power goes back hundreds of years ago. Do you know what I worry about?

I worry about if my neighbors have enough food to eat. Do the teachers have the supplies to teach our kids the best they can. Building a community support network. These are things I can affect change.

The sad thing is climate change will take us out and cause more suffering than a true WW3 will ever do and I'm not just talking about the heat. I'm talking water wars that have already started happening. Supply chain issues caused by climate stopping people getting the right medicine another pandemic.

The rest is just Saber Rattling.

if it helps give you any comfort WW3 has always been around the corner in one way or another for as long as most of us have been alive. if you are reading articles about it. Then it's not going to start and if it does start it will all be over before you even hear about it. So try your best to just live the life you can.

if history of the world part 2 is anything to go by having Mel attached is definitely not reassurance off quality. but hey good on him for getting a payday.

this is what i have been saying all along

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of-unplayed-steam-games-really-19-billion-probably-not/

yeah or black towncar not all taxi companies are yellow with checkered stripes. they will have all the logos on the outside or in the window. Uber, Lift they run them all. They run fleets with exploited immigrants and take their cut just like the mob is known to do.

agreed but barely touch is not the same as never touch that's why I think they are looking at play time as some kind of real metic where it's been broken from the beginning. You make a really good point as well about offline can also impact that as well.

yeah as in the same taxi companies and their drivers use the app as drivers on top of taxi rides.

the other issue that Uber helped with in the beginning was mess with Mob controlled taxi cartels that used regulation as a shield that's why service was so poor. By skating those laws it put some market presure to improve slightly. but now that they got so big it's back to being cappy again and the mob has moved into that market as well now.

alternative headline "steam users have a ton of games they got from a humble bundle for super cheap and we didn't take that into account and used the msrp value of each game for this shocking headline."

Also some games don't count time on older games. i know I have games like half life 2 episode 1 that i have beaten that show I never played them since I played them before they started tracking time.