One thing I’ve noticed from using Twitter’s auto-translate feature: Americans seem to bring up the atomic bombings of Japan far less often than I expected. Honestly, that surprised me.

BREAKING: most male animals that are not high-performing specimens of their species do not get to mate either. Stop crying and acting like human females are being unreasonable here.

Fuentes has told his audience to: 1. Not work out 2. Not get married 3. Not get involved in politics He wants his audience not to improve themselves, not to find meaning in family, and not to work to improve politics. He wants them to be resentful people who sit at home.

As if women on the home front didn't suffer during rationing in WW2. Not fighting in war does not mean women or others at home don't suffer from the effects of war. Let's overlook all the women who worked in factories because the men were dying overseas.

That’s retarded reasoning. You don’t punish people by giving the subversives exactly what they want

I have been wondering for many months now about the pro-Steam bots that come out of the woodwork the moment you say anything negative about Valve's store. I am not generally a conspiracy theorist but having experienced them, there is something unique here that I do not see in other patterns of user swarms on things like anti-AI games or Playstation physical discs, which I think have a larger percentage of real people to bots. Pro-Steam swarms have: 1. Many accounts with little-to-no followers, most unverified, most not following you 2. Instant community note swatting by an AI noter (says so in the descriptions of the notes) which abuses the notes systems; the bots coordinate to upvote the note so that it quickly appears 3. Absolute focus on incredibly minor, dumb points that only an LLM would care about (gross revenue of steam versus not; ironic given Steam's AI data labeling. Whoever is running the farm should label themselves!) At first you would think this would be a Valve-originated initiative, but this makes no sense. Gabe was one of the Microsoft OGs and has been a wealthy man since the 1990s. Valve is a tiny company that does no marketing because it has a printing press of money, and twitter doesn't really matter to them. Finally, and most importantly, they would never want to do something that could be traced to them. So it's not Valve. But who has financial incentive to put the money behind an operation like this? I think a lot about the large percentage of Steam usage that is in China. The Steam userbase that has Simplified Chinese as a default peaked at 54.6% of all Steam users in February 2026, though it ebbs and flows and can dip down to 30% depending on the month. The normal global client for Steam is not allowed in China; they have a China-specific version of Steam that is far more limited, and so many Chinese users access global Steam through VPNs, paying through local payment processors. I estimate that at least $30BN dollars has been spent by Chinese Steam players over the last decade, making it a huge part of Valve's business. I have always been surprised the Chinese government allowed these loopholes, as many other global services are normally unavailable, and the domestic client is so limited because it follows local laws, meaning that the government are permitting their populace to skip it. It would be very easy for the government to tell Alipay or Wechat Pay to stop processing Steam payments and the money tap from China would go off in a second. I suspect there is some financial incentive coming through here (whether the Chinese VPN networks or other places down in the payment chain) to quash any competition that would threaten the revenue coming from these Steam loopholes. I can't come up with a better theory, but am open to others from people; you know, ones who who aren't Steam bots.

Brazilians' blind spot is the hypothetical "eternal American empire". It's not too dissimilar to rightoids who believe America never won any wars because "it doesn't want to" or "we just have to try harder". The truth is, the American Empire is already on its twilight years. It has lost its leverage in the Middle East. It's abandoning NATO and the EU. Even in continental US, living standards are decaying day by day. Even the supposed military prowess of America is nothing more than a husk, a falsehood. As @imetatronink and others put it, America is incapable of fighting a peer adversary in the 21st century. And economically, it is gradually losing its grip on the world through the dollar. If Trump decides, in a flight of fancy, to freeze Brazilian assets, it will only serve to accelerate dedolarization due to American volatility. The fantasy of "resuming" American hegemony is just that: a fantasy. Trump surely has such ambitions, but many seem to be unaware that what he is doing is merely accelerating the end of the American Empire. Brazilians need to understand that America is not the mighty titan it once was. And perhaps even its "might" was fragile and illusory.

Disagree with Sweeney all you want, but here’s my reality: Steam takes 30%, then US withholding takes 30% of my remaining share on US sales. I’m left with 49% before covering development costs. I fund the game and take the risk, yet more than half is already gone. Feels like getting robbed, tbh.

Steam really should have much much lower fee tiers that would benefit most small indies developers. It would be a rounding error in terms of profit for Valve. Scale from something like 15% on the low end (or even 10%) then 30% at a million bucks. Valve already offers the uber high earning developers a lower rate because they want to keep those people happy. Valve offers nothing for small indies who need a break the most and where every dollar counts and is significant. Again, any fee discount here is an utter rounding error to Valve profits. They would not feel it. EVEN APPLE offers 15% until you hit $1 million in revenue then the 30% kicks in. Apple! Before you say "Valve offers you access to their users", like a Muppet, consider that this doesn't concern you (a user) at all. You pay no more and no less for a game. Why do you even have an opinion here?