What the fuck do you think you’re saying rn?

You’re still wrong even if it made sense to suggest those aren’t interrelated. They’re of course free to have that opinion because they’re just taking the creator’s own words as honest.

Dude…it isn’t an “opinion.”

https://80.lv/articles/nexus-mods-owner-acquires-steamdb-after-co-founder-struggled-with-burnout

https://kotaku.com/nexus-mods-steamdb-steam-2000730486

https://www.techspot.com/news/113712-steamdb-acquired-nexus-mods-after-13-years-independent.html

Guy was even apparently looking for a replacement for himself for years before deciding to sell after burnout. So yes, saying it is because people did not donate isn’t really consistent with the evidence and explicit reasoning the owner gave. You are not only expressing an opinion, but an unsubstantiated one.

Also, yes, it is hardly fair to say that people don’t have a right to feel upset that a free service has the potential to no longer be free. In fact, what you’ve described, the need to spend money to do so, is antithetical to the philosophy behind that model. Chill out and adopt a more understanding perspective, it is seriously less work and more effective.

Right, did you look up if they sold because of financial hardship? Pretty sure everything I’ve read has been about its owner personally suffering burnout and disillusionment with the current tech and internet landscape.

Fuckin finally, the Android app is garbage.

I mean, if you’re able to find one, I don’t think anyone is going to think it’s weird. The owner and employees would also likely just be glad that they have someone coming in.

That it is just the demand in itself and the stupidity or “greed” of AI and chip manufacturing companies, rather than the inevitable trajectory of a capitalist economy where infinite growth subordinates the real material limitations of production (which includes the limitations of computation in general). So, they produce the conditions where profit increases by cannabilizing the market, which is a different thing than them just being some particularly bad acting individuals.

Does anyone have a non-paywalled source on the lawsuit and article that references it which is linked at the top of this article? This is an interesting development that also makes much more sense than what is typically accepted as an explanation as it alleges the price inflation resulted from capitalistic imperatives of profit maximization (prioritizing high-demand production) as an act of purposeful collusion, apparently with successful fines enforced by both the US and China in the past. Would be interesting to see the specifics of that, as I wonder how much the rapidly shifted legal landscape in the US has enabled this.

Jesus Christ, it is seriously like you lack object permanence specifically for what your words mean. OK lib.

Y’all get pissed any time that your words or actions demonstrate your values unintentionally. I guess just shut the fuck up about these things and have fun with what you have chosen:

“I won’t change how I think until someone promises to be my mommy and fix things for me” is very liberal.

The reality is you know the problem, but you don’t want a solution. Private property, extractivist relationships with land and people, and hierarchal organizing are all fundamental elements in this system, and people like you hate it because you don’t benefit from it, not because it is harmful.

You want a handbook? There’s dozens of’em written by socialists and anarchists who use direct action and mutual aid to produce some kind of fundamental change in people’s subscription to this system. Why haven’t you tried that yet? Why would your concern be so shallow? Is there maybe, something you benefit from that you do not want to discard? Maybe some…privilege?

Sorry that you are responsible for how you think and liberals have not so far achieved full control of public spaces to the point that their ideas go unchallenged.

Stfu about it if you don’t care to learn how to change it, including the specificities of how language shapes your own understanding. Making it about “greed” distorts the reality of why this has happened and portrays our current conditions as the result of natural human immorality and not like, a very specific set of events over the past five centuries and the system that emerged from them.

Love it when I have libs mansplain shit.

Hey bud, you ever think about why you believe the conditions we live under are natural and inevitable? I wonder who it benefits to think that way and whether you have arrived at this understanding through passive exposure to some kind of contrived network of institutions that both produce and distribute knowledge and whether those institutions are subject to like, some kind of hierarchy of power. If that was the case, I wonder how that power is achieved and maintained… Perchance, is there some fundamental element from which the entirety of that…system…is orgnnized around…I wonder if anyone else has thought about this ever.

The smugness on you motherfuckers who pretend to want change but clearly have not taken the time to learn about what the fuck you’re even talking about. Vibe-critiques from y’all.

Maybe a system where greed is less relevant than like, how resources are understood and distributed? There’s no exceptional level of “greed” that makes this system stop working, it has never worked to the benefit of the overwhelming majority of people.

Right, so maybe there’s something more than just “greedy bastards” that’d need to go.

Just the greedy bastards?