ShaggySnacks

I player character who is being an asshole can be a lot of fun to weave a great story. I played a huge asshole of a character, who was not afraid of being an asshole. I've also played characters who did not trust the group at all and was already to kill/back stab everyone.

My last character was wearing warpstone armor and was slowly going paranoid. I made it clear to the table that at somepoint, I was going to have to fight everyone. My poor character died in a 1 v 1 fight against a wizard.

It is a fine line to play these types of characters cause it's easy to affect everyone's else enjoyment of the game.

Now, an asshole player has no spot at the tbale.

Are we sure we were watching a cooking show and not how to summon bougie demons?

And while many like our Steam benevolent (almost) monopoly, I do wonder how would the market look like if we had 20 competing companies that cannot gain more than 5% of the market share. Can you imagine the competition between them and how would that benefit us, the consumer?

More comptetion wouldn't just benefit consumers, it would benefit devs. A dev could shop their game around go with a store front that suits their needs better.

Your lemonade stand would be more like if there was a stand on every block: By virtue of the scale of their business they could afford to undercut any competition that tried to start up. If they did that they could be slapped on the wrist for being anti-competitive.

Cough Walmart cough

Walmart has been accused of selling merchandise at such low costs that competitors have tried to sue for predatory pricing (intentionally selling a product at low cost in order to drive competitors out of the market).

In 2000, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection accused Walmart of selling butter, milk, laundry detergent, and other staple goods at low cost, with the intention of forcing competitors out of business and gaining a monopoly in local markets.

Crest Foods filed a similar lawsuit in Oklahoma, accusing Walmart of predatory pricing on several of its products, in an effort to drive Crest Foods's own company-owned store in Edmond, Oklahoma, out of business.

However, in 2003, Germany's High Court ruled that Walmart's low cost pricing strategy "undermined competition" and ordered Walmart and two other supermarkets to raise their prices. Walmart won appeal of the ruling, then the German Supreme Court overturned the appeal.

Walmart has been accused of using monopoly power to force its suppliers into self-defeating practices. In 2006, Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation (a think tank), said that Walmart's constant demand for lower prices caused Kraft Foods to "shut down thirty-nine plants, to let go [of] 13,500 workers, and to eliminate a quarter of its products."

Canadians “That is risk that we will take with not surrendering.”

The fact that after two paychecks, government employees are looking for new work says a lot about how fucking underpaid government employees are paid, how many are living paycheck to paycheck, and how there is a best a threadbare social net.

Ah yes, this is how it could play out.

MId term elections - Democracts take the house.
Republicans "We had to shut down the government because the Democrats won't give us what we want."
January 2027 rolls around.
Democracts "So when are going to get the new congress sworn in?"
Republicans "We never formally closed the previous session and since the government is shut down. We can't do that. So, we're just going to stay in power."
Democracts "You can't do that."
Republicans "We are and we already showed you that will do it with Adelita Grijalva."

Cornell's endowment is approximately $10 billion.

Capitalism demands that Walmart goes out and gets that $2 billion back even if it is chump change.

$56 million is a lot to us to plebs. However, to billionaries that's pocket change.

According to https://www.news18.com/world/billionaires-who-spent-a-fortune-to-keep-zohran-mamdani-from-becoming-nyc-mayor-ws-dkl-9685336.html. The total spent by billionaires was $8.6 million. That's couch cushion money to a billionaire. A billionaire wouldn't even notice the money gone.

If anything it shows how cheap it is for billionaires to buy politicans. Billionaries are throwing pocket change at politcians going "Dance for us".

Please, keep your car in their car bedroom at all times.

Yes Inquistor. This one right here. This believes that we shouldn't die for the Emperior.