In Canada they absolutely are lol

That would be so unfortunate, I would definitely hate that!

Plus, there's always piracy. With that said, I generally prefer the older games anyway.

I don't think this is going to be just cutting fat though. They're going to have their desperate and least-talented employees working in the office while their most talented employees will end up finding remote employment elsewhere. That's how RTO always goes.

It also depends on where you live. Where I live, if you are working a fully remote job, and your employment contract doesn't specify that you need to work in the office, if they try to force you back into the office then you can quit and go on employment insurance since it would be considered a constructive dismissal.

I bet that's far from the only case, unfortunately.

I'm pro-NATO and also concerned that Trump will disband NATO, and even I think that guy is a complete nutcase.

That's not what they are discussing, though.

People aren't eating PETS, as in, animals who have an owner that takes care of them. That's the part you don't understand.

They should have added a battle tower, that'd add a lot more replay value and keep people coming back years later.

Source: Pokemon games like the DS generation of Pokemon games.

Enshitification is a very, very real thing. GitLab did something similar with raising pricing by 5x a few years back.

Gabe is helping, sure, but he isn't holding up gaming. People were gaming on Linux before Proton even existed, myself included. Also, even if Valve went away completely, Proton is open-source and there are people like GloriousEggroll who work on Proton entirely as a community member. Proton will live on, specifically because it is open-source. All the progress made on Proton won't suddenly disappear, all the games that were previously playable on Proton will still be playable on Proton.

It's a somewhat reasonable fear but it's not a realistic fear. Proton isn't going anywhere.

Nah, I won. We won. We found better platforms like Lemmy, Mastodon, and KBin.

I'm not going back to reddit, there's simply no need.