eventually I should read the source material, but the maxims are a pretty great list of rules.

from the maxims of maximally effective mercenaries.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I was going through my own comment history, sorted by "controversial", and found this. Wish I saw it at the time it was relevant, we could have had a conversation about this.

I stand by what I said, but I might not have said it very well.

There's no reason why League of Legends could not have a "capture the flag" or "king of the hill" mode. There's no reason why DOTA2 could not have a deathmatch mode. There's no reason why Super Monday Night Combat couldn't have any of these. And there's no reason why Halo or Unreal or Call of Duty could not have a MOBA mode.

The fact that nobody has done it is not evidence that it cannot be done.

I tried to tolerate .ml because they've got some good linux and foss focused communities. Ultimately I decided it wasn't worth it.

They could literally just copy steam, add their "we take less of a cut" thing, and be in a good place.

Instead, using their storefront sucks, their customer service sucks, they lack features you'd expect of a major platform, and they're pretentious dicks about it. Instead of fixing these obvious problems, they're bribing devs for exclusivity, pumping their marketing with bullshit, and litigating apple over their app store (actually that last one is kinda great). The epic store today would be competition to steam if steam was still as it was 20 years ago when everyone hated steam.

epic can have a seat at the table when they actually start competing with valve in terms of features and customer service.

100% of $0 is still $0.

I'll spend my money on platforms that have proven to respect their customers.

baseball.

The average American could be expected to already know how to throw a baseball, so it was easier to change the equipment to fit the user than to train every fucking soldier how to throw a lopsided stick.

starlink wouldn't have a leg to stand on (in the US, can't speak for elsewhere) if isps were held to installing/maintaining/upgrading infrastructure that was already paid for by the federal government decades ago and then the isps just didn't do the work.

Reminds me of land o lakes butter. They got rid of the indian but they kept the land.

Regardless of your opinions about her specifically, it's a simple fact that positive societal change doesn't happen by asking nicely. Look at every civil rights movement ever. Nothing got done until people were inconvenienced and companies lost money.