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[Dinner]

Steam, GOG, Epic, G2A, Origin, EA' s PC Games, Ocean of Games, Softpedia, Skidmore Reloaded... There are probably ly a dozen more. Going on a whine about capitalism because a company decided to get out of the game development business and instead become a platform developer is as dumb as it gets. Especially when there is so much available competition thanks to capitalism.

[N35t0r]

If he seriously thinks that steam is 'nothing original', he's welcome to drop it and use, say, Epic's storefront.

[Meticulous Man]

https://theweek.com/articles/844962/how-capitalism-killed-best-video-game-studios

[Uncle Sparky]

It really helped my rancher cousins move their emotional support herd to market...

[Uncle Sparky]

Trump wanted to bomb Iran shortly after he lost the election as a revenge/distraction. The military said, No. Sir! He still would like a war big enough that he can refuse to relinquish power. The real Pentagon won't play.

[Dinner]

This has been extremely abused.

[BeBMan]

US airlines will no longer be required to transport emotional support animals after passengers insisted on bringing on board their horses, pigs, peacocks and turkeys for psychological reasons.

Wednesday's rule change by the US Department of Transportation now says only dogs qualify as service animals.

The agency said unusual animals on flights had "eroded the public trust in legitimate service animals".

(...)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55177736

I guess that means no snakes on a plane anymore

[pchang]

I believe Trump agreed to try and shield Israel from sanctions/diplomatic fall out as pay back for various Israeli peace deals. Once that was given, Israel did it on their own.

[N35t0r]

Parting gift from Trump, or internal power struggle?

[Uncle Sparky]

Anyone know what Tom Cruise has been up to lately?

[pchang]

Head of Iranian Nuclear Program assassinated with the help of a remote controlled machine gun. Sounds right out of the plot of a Mission Impossible movie.

[Uncle Sparky]

SCOTUS rules super spreader events can legally take place in NYC - Huge victory for the rights of COVID-19!

[Uncle Sparky]

I wonder how our Libertarians would handle this quagmire. I suspect this is why they spend so much time on 4Chan -

[BeBMan]

2001 anyone?

Utah helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-art-trnd/index.html

[BeBMan]

Always good to offer choices.