At this point when I’ve heard it said so many times for anything that isn’t just cheering on or silence that I usually expect those saying it to be racist and certainly Islamophobic and very likely genocide apologist

Back in 2009 I was a lot more naive and optimistic. I really believed Steam needed competition to improve and needed major competition. I was pretty excited to see Amazon doing a store and Microsoft doing Games for Windows Live (until I learned they were charging to play online multiplayer and had a 3 time install limit until you had to call support to get that reset). I was excited for EA Origin. I kept Impulse installed. The only store that got better was Steam. In the case of Origin and Uplay, they got worse. GFWL died and the Windows 8/10 Store was worse. EA never changed. GOG at least released GOG Galaxy. Amazon never improved. Desura died. Bethesda Game Launcher and Rockstar Club were trash since day one. Battle.net/Blizzard was stable but just Blizzard games and I think a CoD showed up one year. EGS came out without a shopping cart and no user reviews. Steam kept getting better

That just sounds dumb. Amazon has been selling digital PC games since 2009 and it’s just about the most bare bones digital PC games store out there. Luna from my testing has great quality but a puny library. For local download and install gaming, it’s barely any more convenient than like itch.io. It’s takes the top spot as the most comically poor run digital games platform across consoles, mobile, pc because they been at it for 17 years while being one of the worlds largest companies all that time that also happens to specialize in both physical goods and digital goods retail. It’s incredible how bad they are at this and how few people actually know that Amazon has been selling digital PC games for 17 years

Anti-steering stuff again. Besides that I’ll always be a bit annoyed with Mozilla both with their design decisions for FirefoxOS and then how much they bungled it. RokuOS is still highly relevant while FirefoxOS descendents are real niche. Firefox is usually the default on Linux distros. Mozilla should have at least been pushing Linux distros that shipped Firefox on laptops/desktops since FirefoxOS was announced

Deja vu

I don’t care how much they try to make TV show seasons into events, they’ll never really be events like in the past. Same with movies. Like if movies aren’t hitting event status anymore, TV sure isn’t and that’s the key to this. FOMO for popular traditional media (Im including stuff like Netflix here as a successor to TV) looks way down to me compared to the pre-mainstream internet culture era.

The last huzzahs for event FOMO media to me seemed like Breaking Bad season 5, Game of Thrones, and Endgame. After that it’s been a rapid progression to everyone watching/listening/reading whatever they want at whatever pace they want. I don’t need to be rolling media subscriptions every month. Some months I’ll be busy doing outdoor sports or gardening. Then some months I’ll sub and bing stuff. Then off to something else. Thing for me is the amount of months I want to binge TV/movies has been in decline for years now

Social media also for me broke my ability to have any sort of idealism towards performers. Actors are stupid assholes. They’re athletes with better vocabulary and image maintenance. I used to watch a lot of boxing and MMA, no surprise that these guys are incredibly stupid and often terrible people. Athletes and wealthy/rich artist/performers are leftist by word and image, conservative to hyper conservative where it actually really matters. Not even just the super rich ones, the ones with power like film societies that run big film festivals and art galleries. Leftist persona, operationally conservative, in a voting booth conservative

People constantly dooming steam are punching themselves in the face instead of pushing for anything better. If they wanted a more competitive market do two things. Buy games on other storefronts. They exist. There have been digital storefronts since before Steam. Second is direct your complaining to competitors to improve their services. Like go complain on every EGS press release for Linux support and a gamepad friendly interface. Something equivalent to Steam input and remote play that isn’t using third party software like Sunshine/Moonlight. Something like steam curators and other social features. User reviews. The complainers of Steam are pretty much campaigning for Steam to be worse so others can compete without having to improve as much