If you look at Costco’s actions in the past they have been pretty fair for their customers. Costco is actually in a very good position where they know exactly who bought what and Costco can issue refunds to their customers based on that data. Even if they just do it as ‘store credit’ it would still be very welcome to most of their customers and that would help to offset Costco’s administrative costs of determining the refund amounts for everyone.
It’s so fucking exhausting.
I don’t know what we’d do if we didn’t have corporations to tell us what it is that we want.
Under what charges could they give him that would call for the feast penalty? It’s my understanding that the only non-homicide crimes that can have the death penalty are treason, espionage and drug trafficking.
When they seek these trumped up charges all it does is increase the chances that the suspect will walk.
Whenever she’s at our apartment, she either sits down crying quietly to herself
That’s not your apartment, that’s her apartment. You are her guest and the fact you are still living there like nothing happened is absolutely baffling.
You watched for 2 hours while 2 guys sexually harassed and abused a woman in her home and you did nothing. Yet you claim that you love this woman? I think the first things you need to do is realize that the feelings you have for her are nowhere near ‘love’. The fact that your concern is what you’re going to tell her parents is pathetic.
Leave. She hates you and sees you as one of her attackers. There’s no repairing this, you’ve destroyed the relationship and you are only making it worse by staying around. Pack your things right now and go. Don’t talk to her, if you must then leave a note, but she doesn’t owe you anything at this point.
Learn from this and try to be a better person in the future.
Fake it 'til you make it!
I was going to just downvote and move on, but you seem unable to properly understand that a lack of a reply can mean different things, and you just assume that the person not replying to you agrees with you and is just too afraid to say so. Let me be clear… you are moving the goalposts and I see no point in having a discussion with someone who is not just dishonest in the conversation, but insists that it’s others who are acting dishonestly.
Steam does not have a monopoly on gaming. If you want to narrow that down to PC gaming then you’re changing the subject, but even then, they do not have a monopoly on PC gaming because they are not the only sellers. They don’t even have a monopoly on Linux gaming because they have put their resources there into open source projects which others have also benefited from, which is how I’m able to play Rocket League (yet another wildly successful game not available on Steam) on my Linux computer. Bringing other ‘classic monopolies’ into the conversation makes no difference on the discussion we’re having. And those other monopolies were not taken down because they were monopolies, they were taken down due to their anti-competitive practices - something that Valve has actively and successfully tried to avoid.
And no, I don’t think that because you feel that one number is ‘quite close’ to another number that they should be equal. I think that’s just another sign of you being dishonest and moving the goalposts and then assuming that you’ve made a valid point.
And finally, respond to this or not, I don’t care, but I said, multiple times, all that I need to say on this subject and to you.
The gaming market is much larger than PC gaming.
And Steam does not have an 80% market share on PC gaming, so who’s lying?
And finally, who the fuck do you think you are that I owe you a response?
You are equating “monopoly” with “abusive monopoly.”
No, I’m not. I’m saying they aren’t a monopoly by the simple fact that they aren’t the only providers of the service they sell. And while they are currently in a position to use their power to make themselves a monopoly, they are not doing that and instead are playing fair with their competition.
I know! There’s this great game called Fortnite that no one has ever heard of because you can’t get it on Steam. /s
Treat customers right and you get rewarded. They are the majority market shareholder because they have earned it, not through deceptive business practices but through being a great company.
If they were a monopoly they wouldn’t allow other game catalogs on their systems, yet I have GOG and Epic on my Steam Deck. In fact, there isn’t even a requirement for me to have Steam on my Steam Deck. Just because a company is the market leader doesn’t mean they got there through unethical means.
And Steam controls 80%-90% of the video game market?
Mono=one poly=seller… and last I checked Steam is not the only seller of video games. They aren’t even the only seller of digital video games. They aren’t even the only seller of digital video games for SteamOS.
They are the largest because they do what’s right by their customers and employees. As a ‘for instance’, I bought Portal 2 for the PS3 many years ago. I no longer have my PS3 but I can still play Portal 2 (as well as Portal which was just thrown in for me) on any PC.
Andor and Rogue One are some of the best Star Wars stories yet, and they flow so great together.
They put Mon Mothma at a rave… and it was great!
I mean, that’s kind of the point of having a quick response team.
The problem with this trend is that should someone decide now to go attack a lawmaker at their home then the police response might not be as quick.
Cool.
Now, now have the house denounce fascism and white supremacy.
I’m loving these comments, so many great albums! And a ton I’ve never hear of and will need to check out.
I have a few of these, but two that really jump out at me are
These are albums that you’ve just gotta let play.
e: can’t believe I forgot Shatner!
My daughter learned that lesson when she was around 3 years old, the first time we let her shower by herself. She washed her long hair with her wash cloth. It was a miserable night for everyone that night.
But yes, I love discovering something that you feel is something you should have already known. I had a realization in my 30s that maybe not everyone gets little sores all over their body all the time… I changed my body wash and the problem went away. I feel like most people would have known that was a problem much sooner.
I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing. But their whole launch was so bungled that by the time I actually got it I was so disillusioned with the whole company that I couldn’t enjoy it. It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered. I had mine for a couple of months before reselling it at a loss.
Several years later when Stadia was announced I felt that little familiar glimmer of hope pop up, but I didn’t let myself get too excited for it. I did eventually get a couple of Stadia controllers and really enjoyed that service (and I still use those controllers today).
And it worked.
It’s be a real shame if the violent left were to firebomb the houses of those who changed their votes. A real shame indeed.
December 4th is just around the corner.