Perhaps the next protests that people have against the fascist in chief need to be outside some of the news organizations that keep incorrectly painting him in a sane light, asking for integrity in news reporting. Put on the protest in a place they can't ignore and demand they accurately report it. I get the feeling that alot of news organizations are afraid of Trump at this time. But just like us, if they don't stand up to this shit they will suffer too. It is an uphill battle to prove actual malice and accurate level headed reporting can be a shield against spurious accusations of defamation. I shouldn't have to add this on but any such protest should be peaceful. All of us are in this together and if we work together we can push back against the senseless greed and hatred of this administration and those that continue to back it.

So I keep seeing people accusing valve of monopolizing the market for game storefronts. I would argue this is the fault of competing stores not offering the same variety of features etc. that 30% goes into a lot of things such as making a good community and store platform with features that help devs and players, it has good game recommendation and friend features and many other things that it offers along with committing large amounts of money to linux and vr gaming. #gog and #epicgamesstore cant hold a candle to what valve offers the consumer. Of those two other stores only GoG is worth considering because of the no drm stance they have that is very pro consumer. Epic just tries to buy exclusives and give free games away to draw us to their bare bones store front that if i recall correctly didnt add a CART for THREE YEARS! The problem isn't valve in this. It's just that bigger devs don't wanna go drm free on GoG and that the Epic games store just sucks from a consumer standpoint. Sure epic lets devs keep more but their platform sucks so bad most of us would rather never buy a game than buy it there. Also, as long as we are getting so much reinvestment in vr and linux gaming I feel that that 30% isn't that much to ask. Perhaps they could offer a somewhat sweeter deal to indies that need an early cash infusion but other than that, this percentage has been well use by valve.

Started up this classic from my childhood on a whim again, ended up blasting through the early levels again. Was relaxing and nostalgic. I missed Ape Escape.

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