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ashok36 , to news in US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan

Economic imbalance is baked into the games.

A runner that trains in a state of the art facility with a nutritionist and physiotherapist on call 24/7 will inherently have an advantage over a runner from a poor country that trains in their spare time at the local high school track. Acting like air conditioning is a step too far is silly.

ashok36 , to retrogaming in Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot

He also has a company that does anti drone tech for the Department of Defense.

ashok36 , to science_memes in Science is more like a conversation.

I would highly highly doubt it. He’s just the “science man” of memes so he’s used as a stand in for all scientists, or at least science communicators.

ashok36 , to asklemmy in What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

There’s a word for alternative medicine that works. It’s “medicine”.

I forget the attribution.

ashok36 , to news in Pornhub drops some shocking gay adult content data just for Pride Month 2024

You should know more people.

ashok36 , to games in $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players

Yes. You understand how pricing works. The stores charge what the market will bear. That’s why games had been stuck at $60 since the 360/PS3 era.

ashok36 , to showerthoughts in With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

American ninja warrior has had more and more women making it farther and farther in the competition every year. There are still handicaps in place to make sure at least some women make it to the finals but after that there are no handicaps. At this point, even if they removed all the handicaps there would still be women that reach the finals, just not as many. It’s been very interesting to watch.

The announcers still try to hype up the women’s achievements but at this point most of the big barriers have been broken. They’ve had to resort to stuff like, “if she gets a buzzer here she’ll be only the second mom to get a buzzer in qualifying!”. It’s kind of silly at this point.

ashok36 , to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

I think we’re talking past each other. By ‘popular’ I do not mean ‘well liked’. Just that it was used by a lot of people. 2004, in my opinion, was when steam took off and the downloading updates from random websites phase of pc gaming died. There was a transition, to be sure, but the writing was on the wall. We just didn’t know it at the time.

ashok36 , to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

We can argue all day over when steam “got popular”. For me, I’d consider the launch of HL2 to be the most reasonable point in time to choose.

ashok36 , (edited ) to aboringdystopia in Saw a nazi today

I wouldn’t read too much into his YouTube handle. He’s a chode but I don’t think he’s a nazi simp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was auto-generated.

ashok36 , to aboringdystopia in Saw a nazi today

Maybe they just really like Boogey2988. In which case, yeah, report them.

ashok36 , to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

I think I just have responded to the wrong comment. My bad.

ashok36 , (edited ) to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

That’s a valid opinion. It’s not one I share but if you preferred that situation then that’s fine. I feel pretty confident saying you are in a pretty small minority though.

-edit I just realized what you said and if it’s true that you did most of your pc gaming before steam got popular, you may be out of your depth in this conversation. It’s been like 20 years. If you did most of your pc gaming more than 20 years ago, I don’t see how your opinion is informed at all.

ashok36 , to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

No, the problem steam was originally created to solve was distributing updates for pc games. Before steam getting updates meant visiting shitty dev websites or ad farms that also hosted update files and manually patching your game.

It was awful.

ashok36 , to pcgaming in Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'

Again, you are very naive. What you’re describe is cost-up pricing which hasn’t been a generally used method of pricing goods and services for decades at this point. The reason is that doing cost-up pricing is a really good way to go out of business.

The way pricing works today is that sellers set pricing based on what they believe the customer is willing to pay. From there you work backwards accounting for retailer margin, cost of goods, transport, discounts, etc… To find your maximum cost per unit. If you can’t produce the product for less than the maximum cost, you either need to scale back your features, add a feature that would justify a higher sell price, or abandon the project.

Your notion that companies would lower prices if they had to give retailers a small cut is not borne out by theory or by observed real world outcomes.

You’re wrong. Doubling down won’t make you less wrong.

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