And what does that have to do with the price of eggs in China? And regarding the claim in your parenthesis, wrong again. Limitations on how steam keys can be sold through third party vendors is included in their terms of service very explicitly and it is in no way illegal for them to do so. If they are strong arming companies trying to sell games without steam integrations to be the same price as those with the steam integration, well then that would be illegal and the court case is actively determining if that has occurred.

The plaintiff has to show the court there’s even a case to begin with.

Yes, and during that process, there is no evidence that is considered. Essentially, the judge takes every claim of wrongdoing at face value, and then determines if there is a law that applies. Basically checking to see if the outcome even matters in the worse case scenario. That works the same for both criminal* and civil cases.

*EDIT: Criminal actually goes to a grand jury and does look at some physical evidence, but only enough to establish probably cause. To over simplify, that the state isn’t completely make stuff up just to harass someone. Not to show guilt, but to show that a crime was even possible to have been committed by the defendant. Like, that an alleged stolen object was actually stolen and that the person was approximately on the correct half of the globe at the time.

I hope you never get picked for jury duty if you genuinely believe that, because that the opposite of how both criminal and civil trials are supposed to be conducted.

Hot sauce: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_404

Sort of? It’s mostly just used by western protestant groups. It’s been around for about a hundred years. It’s a little bland from a vexillology standpoint imo, but it gets the job done.

Not that I disagree with the point you are making, but yes, I distinctly remember people complaining about monopolistic practices for each example you gave XD

And this is exactly why other ongoing cases are, generally speaking, not admissible as evidence. Someone doing something bad once doesn’t mean that they did it twice. Multiple accusations doesn’t mean that they are guilty. Otherwise, a simple conspiracy to bring multiple charges at once would be absolutely damning to a defendant.

Also the pre-trial stuff is pretty much just to show that there was an applicable law that may have been broken. It has almost nothing to do with whether or not the defendant is guilty, liable, or otherwise found at fault.

It’s the same product.

This is the part that is holding me up. Is it actually the same product? The version on Steam comes with server hosting, achievements, voice chat, etc. If I purchased the game through Uplay, would I still have access to those services on Steam? For example, many years ago, I bought “Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale” at Walmart, but it basically just came with an asset disc and a code to register the game on Steam. So buying it at Walmart gave me access to the same features as if I’d bought it directly from Steam. Does Uplay do the same thing?

Does R6S use steam integrations if bought through Uplay? Based on what I can find, the answer is no, and therefore valve shouldn’t be setting the price because, at that level, they have no involvement with the product.

Based on your take, I agree with you. If valve is providing services, then developers should not be selling steam keys for cheaper elsewhere. It dilutes trust in their business model too if people start assuming that they can get the same services, provided by valve, for cheaper elsewhere.

However, is that what this article is talking about? The games mentioned, specifically R6 Siege and SoM, both appear to run stand alone without steam integration. I’m not intimately familiar with either one, just what I can gather based off the article and a pair of quick online searches.

I thought they were the same thing. What’s the difference?

Is your joke trying to be funny? No one writes funny jokes anymore. You should just use the funny.js library, and also kys if you aren’t using JavaScript. Just write an API wrapper for it you fucking noob. Someone ban this idiot!

Bruh, let me introduce you to civil asset forfeiture

Agreed, we don’t know that they are racist. Like most anywhere, you are very likely to find a mix of both racist, anti-racist, and everyone in between. However, given relatively recent historical context, they are likely to have a higher proportion of racists with a higher degree of severity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

OMG, that reminds of one of my first little hobby projects. Using a serial port to light up an LED whenever I had a new notification on… good grief was it Myspace or Facebook back then? Around that transition period at any rate.

The weird text the main bird is rattling off it something called “Assembly”. Many programming languages don’t really tell the computer what to do, they more or less outline the behavior they want, and then another program called a compiler turns that into 1s and 0s that a computer can actually understand. If you’ve ever heard of binary, that’s what these 1s and 0s are. Assembly is one level of abstraction* above the 1s and 0s. It is a good way for humans to understand what a computer is actually doing without having to look at the original programming code, and without 1s and 0s. So the main bird represents a computer doing it’s thing, running some program.

Then comes the crow with a “Hello It’s me. The Keyboard! Someone pressed the letter e.” The crow represents something called an interrupt, which is exactly what it sounds like. It interrupts the normal flow of a program to signal to a computer “Hey, you need to deal with this. Like, now.”

The reason why he is a keyboard is because that is how old keyboards used to work. Before USB ruled the world, mice and keyboards used something called a PS2 port. If you ever saw an old mouse or keyboard with a green or purple plug on one end instead of a USB, then that’s the old style we are talking about.

Modern USB keyboards are a little more polite and will wait in a line until the computer is ready to deal with whatever the human just typed, but old PS2 keyboards used interrupts to demand attention. This was really important for old slow computers that needed to respond to user input ASAP. Modern computers can handle that sort of thing a little bit better.

I think that is enough context to understand the meme.

*Not really: see ISA layer and micro-ops for more information

Hello it’s me the keyboard

Isn’t that congress’s choice, not the white house?

Whatever makes you feel big, buddy

Why are you choosing to be so confrontational?

What do you specifically mean by putting people in quotes like that?