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It's just another case of him having a hate boner for Valve. Years ago, he asked Valve to do something via email and Valve ghosted him while doing the exact opposite.

His behavior and attitute towards Valve, in my opinion, is consistent with somebody who has hurt feelings and a grudge. There are actually legitimate things to criticize Valve over, but him having a go at the things that benefit consumers instead of devs just makes him look like a giant anti-consume douche.

or buy it used

I'm not sure how you plan on doing that with the "physical edition" being a digital download code in a box. And, that's probably the point—to drive more sales by eliminating the used game market.

No one is buying this to not use it for gaming under a subsidized price because there are much better options for that purpose.

If it cost a few hundred dollars less per unit than comparable small form factor PCs, then small businesses probably would. When you only need something that works and don't care about support contracts or having a standardized hardware fleet, anything cheap will do the job.

The gateway to hate is contempt, and the gateway to contempt is grievance, and grievance comes from externalizing blame for things not going the way you want and not having the character to deal with that properly.

Very well said.

The incel mentality is, at its core, a victim mentality.

It stems from a victim mentality, envy, and ego.

When they're chronically online and immersed in social media and entertainment media, they're surrounded by portrayals of happy couples, love, and romance. Eventually, it skews their perception into thinking that they're the only ones who are missing out. They start to feel like life is unfair to them, with love and sex being out of their reach.

That grows into envy and hatred towards men who have experienced it, and especially those who have above-average success with their romantic lives. They compare themselves to those men, convincing themselves that the reason other people are more successful is because of superficial traits like conventional attractiveness or money.

While all that happens, they refuse to consider that their lack of success could be due to their own behaviors or negative attitudes. It's always something else that is stopping them from experiencing love; their ego is protecting themselves from hurt, avoiding the necessary but painful introspection that would snap them out of it.

It culminates in the belief that both women and other men are the reason for their nonexistent love life. They become openly mysognistic, but they also think poorly about attractive men—they just don't show it outside of incel communities because they're afraid to get their ass beat.

And all of that was before this red pill shit. The red pill movement exacerbated it by catching them at various stages throughout their incelification process, affirming their beliefs, and then hooking them in further so shitbags like Andrew Tate can profit off of them.

Manufactured pretext. It would not surprise me if the 51st State rhetoric comes back soon.

Yeah! Jump out of the frying pan and into the deep fryer!

Out of all the distros, NixOS would actually be the easiest to convert to Arch or some other distro. Other than /etc, it doesn't use the standard FHS paths so you're free to use some other package manager to install whatever you want under /bin, /lib, /usr, et cetera.

If you only care about running containers, containerd and nerdctl should be sufficient.

If "everything" means your personal information and data, sure.

It sure is a good thing that we don't have "age verification" laws that require devices to self-report the users age, because when those checks get inevitably bypassed the solution would be upgrading to vendor-attested tokens that are tied to Google/Apple/Microsoft accounts.

Oh, wait...

You're looking at it like the goal is to increase revenue while the actual goal is to increase user counts within their walled garden.

More users makes the investors tingle, and especially when those users are giving 100% of the purchase price to Sony for first-party titles and 30% for third-party.