Your argument doesn't represent "effort" anyway. We have protestors against Israel because we are funding Israel. We aren't funding Putin yet. When we are, we can have protests about that, too.
Your whataboutism is whataboutism because you're ignoring obvious facts in order to support your argument. What about this? The answer is obvious. But you're sure that there's some other answer.
Face it, we're well past the moment where we need to worry about whether or not government and military data is in the hands of big tech.
It's really whether or not government is in control of corporations, and of course the answer is yes. And that's where the "both sides" argument becomes non-fallacious: both Democrats and Republicans are united on giving them that control, and capital doesn't maintain the commons. It only wants to exploit it.
Granted, there were always ties between government and tech, we're just busting down the myth that those ties didn't exist, and giving much fuller integration rights to the tech elite.
Indeed: The military-industrial complex has been the home of technology since time was time. Many technological developments have come out of military research. The space program is also essentially military, so its developments can be counted here as well.
You're asking Valve to cut itself off from sales, and make itself unfriendly. What makes Valve appealing to gamers and license holders alike is that games can be on it almost no matter what (they even allow adult games) and there are only some labeling requirements.
What would be more beneficial to me than banning games is to provide in-app compatibility information, so I don't have to go to protondb.
why cant we have a consistent base API rather than compatibility layers...
We got here from somewhere else. But for the record, I blame Microsoft, and I blame 3dfx for enabling them. If 3dfx had done MiniGL from the start instead of GLIDE, then we would probably have never had Direct3D. Microsoft had a basic, software-only OpenGL renderer which was famously used for screensavers like "pipes" and would have likely gone with OpenGL if it was already dominant.
But in the early days of PC video accelerators, everyone had to have their own API, and there were a ton of competing GPUs. There were around half a dozen versions of Mechwarrior II which supported different video cards — I had at least two of them, as I bought a whole bunch of those different cards to try them out. Besides VooDoo 1 and 2 in their times, and then eventually tnt, tnt2, and a gf2mx which are all kind of after the period in which this story occurs, I had a Mystique (ugly), and a PowerVR (slow), and a Permedia 2 which was actually the best of all of them at the time but just a little slower than 3dfx. I know I'm forgetting another one that I had as well, and I didn't even have all of them! Now we have all of three GPU makers, and Intel is looking shaky again...
I'm super thankful that we have Vulkan now and didn't start going back to vendor-specific standards. I think you can chalk this up to complexity. Nobody wants to have to support such things when it takes so much work to switch APIs.
Nobody said it was an invalid comparison. That is not what defines whataboutism.
It's whataboutism because the comparison is not relevant to the conversation.
You don't get to decide what is or is not a mic drop when you don't understand the words being used.
In fact we had that here fairly recently, some older people who lost their home and had nowhere to go squatted in it and burned it down with a candle, with themselves inside of it.
Wars they didn't start, except with terrorism?
What you said didn't contradict what I said in any way, so it was purely worthless whataboutism.
I learned to recognize that kind of shit in grade school.
Wise up.
You're trying to imply that the dude smeared fake blood on his face, and that it was all a setup, including the poor fucker turned into hamburger
Why don't you try learning to read without making things up sometime? I never claimed that the poor fucker turned into hamburger wasn't killed. What I said is that you're a gullible toolbag because you believe that Trump was shot with no evidence.
The way Trump got elected is that republicans have been fucking up education since Reagan. You want to blame the Democrats?
Cold doesn't burn down buildings, and unless they are in the path of a glacier... Ok, that's snarky, there's hail and snow and such. But go ahead and price insurance for those.
You can also dual boot Windows on the steam deck. Presumably you will soon be able to dual boot steam OS on some Xbox branded hardware like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally (do I have the name in the right order? Whatever.)
Now, no. That would allow competition and they still sell hardware at a loss.
Eventually, probably. All the console makers will probably be forced to open their platforms sooner or later, at least in some markets.
So far they have moved away from console exclusives to publishing almost all of their own titles for at least Xbox and PC. They are headed that direction as slowly as possible.
"They know exactly what the risks are."
That in no way excuses Israel deliberately sniping journalists and your whataboutism is also irrelevant.
Oh look, an AIPAC shill. I never would have thought they would spend money on this dying hobby site.
Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
