More like people tried to boycott Israel and the US (land of the free) made it illegal.

What exactly are you trying to say? Why do you think this isn’t news?

This is my fear too. No doubt there are great people working at Valve, but Gabe is responsible for how customer first the company is. I too worry that Valve will fall when he’s gone.

Valve is my favorite company. Not just because I like video games, but I love the way Gabe runs it. Valve is so customer focused and deserves the “don’t be evil” slogan. I am very scared of the day we lose Gabe because it’s his vision that drives them. Selling to Microsoft would destroy everything that makes them good.

I think he’s referring to your draconian punishments. It doesn’t give you much high ground.

Very well said. As a fellow vegan I wish more of us took an approach like this. Too often I see the militant side focused on shaming and I don’t think that works. It raises people’s defences, gives the movement a bad name, and puts them in fight or flight mode.

I actually had a lot of fun in that game as a kid. It had the opposite effect though and made me never want to join the army. You die… a lot. Doesn’t work that way in real life.

The only downside to something like this would be electrical surges if you leave the drives plugged.

That touch pad does not appear to be in a usable area.

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I can’t see how they will be. We know the performance of the high end is not a large generational improvement and they can’t compete with what they’ve already launched. That means what’s left is to release… a 7800 that performs about the same as a 6800? Wow.

All they can do is price them aggressively so that they are more appealing than the 6000 generation, but I would be shocked if they do. It hasn’t been their MO recently.

A few of my friends got the Autonomous ErgoChair and really like it. It’s not at high quality as a Steelcase or Herman Miller, but it’s a lot more affordable. I’d rather it than one of these gaming chairs.

4mil sounds like a pretty good deal. That’s just good business!

I wouldn’t have a problem with round robin if you could still manually choose an instance, had the ability to move your account, and the servers were vetted and in good standing.

I was incredibly confused as to why we were talking about Bill Cosby now until I saw you edited your post. You’ve haven’t provided an example of his attack and doubled down on your position. I didn’t come here to lecture you or argue and that is what this is turning into, so this will be my last comment on the matter.

Take care

Actually, they’ve been attacking me and vegans who care about animal liberation, but that’s invisible to you.

Please quote where in this thread he attacks you. I’ve read it and it’s not there. You are the one that is coming off as opinionated. He’s been nothing but polite.

I haven’t been attacking anyone, just accurately describing that they’re harming others and politely asking them to choose not to harm others.

You’ve been nothing but accusational. If this is what you think polite discourse is then I don’t know what to say.

You don’t care bc you sympathize with the oppressor

You got me. Did you know I have friends who aren’t vegan? I talk about it whenever they’re open to listening and I try to promote my morality in a positive way. I did consider the alternative of yelling at all of them and never leaving my house, but I decided against it.

You are attacking him and driving him away just as I asked you not to. I agree with you. I’m a vegan. I don’t like it that vegitarians turn a blind eye to suffering. But this bombardment of moral superiority DOES NOT WORK. It trips a part in the brain that makes people get defensive and shut down. It drives them away and gives us a bad image.

I suppose you have to take a step back and think about what you want. Do you want to win an argument and be right? Or would you rather have a chance at bringing more people over to veganism? I personally want the latter.

Well, you’ve done it. So much for my fresh start idea.

I agree with literally everything you’ve said but the way you’re saying it is insufferable. I understand you feel passionately about the cause, we all do. But lashing out and lecturing people who are trying to talk to us in good faith will not get them in our side.

I implore you to think about if what you’re about to post is constructive or argumentative before you post it.

Looking at the downvotes on this I don’t think we should be so hasty to dismiss this olive branch. Let’s try and give this fediverse a fresh start and leave all the negativity behind.

I’m pretty sure all us vegans agree that vegitarianism is somewhat of a halfway point and we’d really like it if they came fully to our side. We’re not going to get that done by rejecting and berating them, not that I’ve seen that happen yet.

I think cross-posting vegan recipes in a vegitarians sub is a great opportunity to show that vegan food can be just as tasty and I hope that will encourage more of them to come over to our side.

Just my two cents, take care everyone.

Thank you for the clarification. It’s most likely the battle pass that he bought.