foxes-but-furrier.bsky.social
Evil macrofurry alt. Posting my way through a backlog of comms.
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One of my all time fave pieces. Something about it!
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would cause the price of TVs to increase *year over year* unless the sales tax were also increased year over year…
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I don’t see the relevance.
That’s a chart of prices over time.
Televisions have gotten cheaper, but I don’t think anyone is disputing that the sales tax you have to pay when purchasing one makes them more expensive. And yet nobody who accepts that sales taxes raise TV prices would think that they
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Correct. The agreement doesn’t mention that requirement.
If you lower prices off-Steam afterwards, Valve will contact you (usually over the phone instead of in-writing) and let you know that you will be removed from Steam unless you offer the same price.
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1) It is explicitly not part of the agreement. Again, this is in the screenshots.
2) Agreements and threats are not mutually exclusive.
3) That is, rightfully, not how monopoly power is defined.
4) They would not be free to do so: there is established case law showing that it is illegal!
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The screenshots are explicit examples of Valve threatening developers who try lowering their prices on other services.
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Epic gets a bad rep from gamers but they're very pro-dev, and even that bad rep is mostly entitled hyperbole. Exclusives are hardly egregious in a market full of compulsory DRM launchers and consoles.
Such is the grip of Steam's appeal in the market.
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Gamers pay a 43% tax on every game because of Valve. It’s brutal.
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There is a 43% tax on games across the industry attributable almost solely to Gabe Newell and nobody can do anything about it because he uses his monopoly to threaten game devs who try going elsewhere.
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We should obviously do stuff to fix homelessness, but this is just a bottom-of-the-barrel attempt to find stupid estimates to support an otherwise dumb dunk.
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This is a napkin estimate that assumes that requires you to assume either that the housing supply is perfectly elastic or that you are ending homelessness in some meaningful sense if you get to subject the homelessness to prison-like housing condition and lack of economic opportunity, which, lol
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When housing prices were 30% lower, an acting assistant housing secretary made an informal comment that he does not stand by, not speaking on behalf of HUD, and that he claimed was a napkin-estimate with no depth behind it.
You claimed it was the cost of a new plan to end homelessness. Where is it?
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I don’t even own anything by Meta
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Just following along:
- You made up a statistic to try to dunk on some company
- You made up an attribution (citing “Department of Housing”) to try to dunk on me
- You invented political positions I don’t have and attributed them to me to suggest that I have motives that I also don’t have
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I could not tell you the last time I was in VRChat and have played, maybe, 100 hours of VR in the entirety of my life.
You can just admit you were wrong without resorting to personal attacks.
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I don’t like mark zuckerberg try again
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they were not? what you’re saying is just outright not a thing that was ever said by HUD
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there is no “department of housing” it’s housing and urban development and the numbers you’re giving are not only not from HUD, they’re *less than what HUD spends on ending homelessness*
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if more than a few people were interested in it it would not have been discontinued
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we spend $32B/year on ending homelessness at the federal level and plenty more at the state and local level and it doesn’t make much of a dent
facebook did not spend anywhere near $100B on horizon worlds
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they have almost certainly spent a tiny fraction of what vrchat has spent on development, on the development of horizon worlds
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It was probably like $10M or so and a lot of that was probably stuff like UX studies.
The $100B is mostly R&D and hardware. If you were to take that money out of the VR ecosystem it would be pretty apocalyptic.
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I mean the money Meta lit on fire was almost entirely on subsidizing the VR ecosystem so that e.g. furries can build and deploy stuff at low cost.
If meta feels the need to pull the plug, it will be really, really bad for us.
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Enjoy!