Fair point, with Steam sales, I don’t really feel the need to resell.

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Corrupt:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-and-epic-look-to-bury-the-hatchet-with-new-app-store-settlement/

That’s just the annoying American style of corruption (I say this as someone who is not American but who has lived in North America for ~10 years).

Dishonest:

https://www.thegamer.com/tim-sweeney-grok-controversy/

Specifically:

This is a vile lie by PC Gamer. I criticized a government official for pressuring Apple and Google to block a speech app owned by their political opponent, deplatforming 500,000,000 users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from distributing disgusting content.

This is clear bullshit aimed at local (i.e. American) degenerates.

When Elon Musk went on a crusade against texty (a tiny Ukrainian new source), did genuine free speech believer Tim Sweeney care? Of course not, because American polemics about alleged beliefs in “free speech” are lies.

Bullshit! You have no fucking clue about the meaning of human rights. You’re just reading some stuff online and you have no understanding of how the real world works.

The truth is you don’t actually care about “international and humanitarian law” beyond acting out online. It’s purely an aesthetic thing for you.

You quote the universal declaration of human rights without even considering how to truly implement it and the kind of choices society would have to make.

All that shows is that you don’t actually care about about the UDHR. You’re out of your depth and you know it (you wont admit it here and you’ll keep “fighting back”, but we both know the truth).

All the best!

So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money

Do you know how international financial shemes work? Without a web search can you explain what a dutch sandwich is?

News in Ukraine would never report on Mélenchon’s commitment to russian genocidal imperialism over a period of ~10 years? Right? Why would they even mention it?

No wonder western “leftist” always fail.

If you bothered to read russian military policy texts (as far back as from the 90s) on management of international attitudes, you would understand it is shilling.

But chances are you don’t even speak russian and don’t know what you are talking about.

You western “leftists” are such an embarrassment. No wonder you always lose.

Your location and proximity to a conflict has no bearing on your comprehension of international legal systems.

Totally!

Too bad you wouldn’t indulge me, the rest of our mini convo is pointless. This would actually be something new and interesting (if you actually answered in good faith, which based on your most recent reply, you are not willing to do).

You can’t leave someone stateless

And when it does happen (de facto or de jure mind you)?

We have to deal with our own trash, even if it’s polluted from afar.

In principle, I agree.

Typical western keyboard lecturing. You’re out of your depth. Sitting in Australia talking about things you don’t understand.

I stand by what I said.

If you don’t mind indulging me, why did you reply what you did?

Did you assume I didn’t know that? Is this a “moral lecture” of sorts? Have you ever considered weaknesses in what you seem to be arguing for?

Genuinely curious about this.

I may be from Ukraine (living in Kyiv), but that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve never left Ukraine or that I don’t speak other languages or haven’t lived in many other countries, including non-western countries (and encountered similar argument to what you are pitching).

You’re welcome to assume that’s the case!

Being from Eastern Ukraine (with my home town occupied by the russian scum), I totally would not understand the topic!

I also have to pre-qualify anything I write for the benefit of randoms on Threadi!

This is not copium, this is propaganda.

I am not a Valve fanboy.

They are only sort of OK when viewed in comparison to other American technology oligarch groups. I even hesitate to use the term “OK” in this context.

Yes, a fake leftist.

Western countries would really benefit from cancelling the citizenship of supporters of russian fascism and deporting them to russia.

That’s really too bad, he is a fucking russian shill.

Sweeney is such a dishonest and corrupt piece of shit, a very typical retrograde American oligarch.

I was talking about data storage on optical discs, not DRM free installers. :)

That may be true, I just don’t see the point of storing the DRM free installerі on an optical disc, something like an SD card which can be easily updated seems like a much better fit.

Most computers don’t have optical disc drives (I do have one, but I am exception and I don’t use it for data).

No, physical media is not useful for PC games, you want a DRM free installer (preferably with all relevant patches applied, both game patches and compatibility DLL/mods for older games), not the physical media (which may or may not have DRM).

This ship has sailed a long time ago on PC (~15 years ago).

Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was a smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.

That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.