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@ValHighwind
FFXIV - DRK/SGE/VPR/DNC/RDM (Omni) - Degree in music theory I guess - Usage of GenAI is being proven to decrease critical thinking and brain activity.
🇺🇲 가입일 Ekim 2015
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Woah Buddy! Insane LEGO Corruption!
The American Fork Police Department just "accidentally" released 50gb of unredacted Body Cam footage reguarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs, but deleted it to late before the internet grabbed them.
In the media dump the Joshua Johnson asks to see the legal court papers but the officer refuses to show it to him because it would count as a legal service and says it would "place him in a bind"
This police department, Joshua Johnson and Ammon McNeff are all toast. I've never seen the internet unanimously come together in unison on anything like this in my life.
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Val ⚜️ 리트윗함
Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.
*wheeze*
“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”
Mostly itself.
You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.
*wheeze*
In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.
As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.
The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.
* wheeze*
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.
Hah hah hah…* wheeze*
So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”
The answer is:
“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”
* wheeze*
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.
maro@ProofofMaro
If Earth is $350 trillion in debt, who do we owe money to?
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Precisely. Let's use Lego as an example. Lego is *the* building brick toy brand. Most people who like building bricks will pick Lego because it is the most well known, has the best themes, and has a quality pedigree, but then there are companies that offer the same thing, just with different themes and licensed brands like Mega Bloks or Brickcraft. Steam is PC games Lego brand. It's just the best one and the most well known.
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Este tema recurrente comienza a cansar.
Como desarrollador: elijo Steam porque, pese a quedarse con un 30% (que dicho sea, es lo mismo que otras plataformas como GOG o Google Play) me ofrece muy buenos servicios.
Como jugador: elijo Steam porque, también como jugador, me ofrece muy buenos servicios.
Es cierto que la pescadilla se muerde la cola: como son buenos, casi todo el mercado de PC gira en torno a Steam, aumentando las fricciones a cambiar de plataforma.
Es esto un monopolio? No, para ello tendría que tener alguna ventaja externa al mercado, como ventajas legales o parecidas.
Es una dominación, simplemente porque hacen las cosas mejor que las demás desde hace muchos años.
Y esto pasa en CUALQUIER sector. Cuando hay una empresa muy establecida es difícil competir con ella, sobre todo si intentas competir al mismo nivel en lugar de intentar ocupar los huecos donde ella lo hace mal.
O acaso es fácil competir con Google, Inditex, Amazon etc?
Si quieres hacerte un hueco, empieza por aportar valor al consumidor en lugar de tirar fango encima de la competencia.
Dexerto@Dexerto
Valve's Gabe Newell believes Steam doesn't have a monopoly, saying that gamers have “enormous choice” about where they buy games “Whether they buy the game on an Xbox, or Steam, or Epic Games Store, or whether they buy it directly from software developers”
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Epic Games is the platform equivalent of a drugged out rich kid that did bad in highschool, but still got into a good college (PC games) because their rich dad (Tim Sweeny with Fortnite money) paid to get them in.
And now the parent is mad that their kid is failing, while also failing to understand that paying the college off doesn't mean their kid will succeed.
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@old_dwayne @tehshaprr The previous owners were forced out of the franchise by the new owners threatened via litigation before they could even do anything about those sets. There's audio recordings and video.
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@tehshaprr they dont have them, the previous franchise owner stole them or sold them, no one wants to hear it but its true, everyone involved including ben has handled this like an idiot
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So why KEEP THE LEGOS? If you NEVER PAID for them???
That is by definition, STOLEN.
eBuck@activistJ741
The CEO of BAM released this statement and it just comes off as pretentious and pompous. BAM 100% tried to say they don’t do consignment even though it’s clearly in the Franchise Contract. Unfortunately BAM is now a party to the Am Fork PD corruption. It’s too little too late.
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Take your damage control back to Mecca, Brickem Young.
Val ⚜️@ValHighwind
As someone who lives in Utah, the American Fork Police department has a notoriously bad reputation that is well known across the state. Other police departments across the state make fun of them. Take everything they say with a grain of salt or just dismiss it as lying. They never hold themselves accountable.
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You get to the place where Steam is by providing a quality product. Valve earned the market share it has by earning the good will of PC users.
You then come in, with an underdeveloped launcher, and also bring exclusivity to the PC platform which is why a lot of PC players hate consoles, and dangle free games over people like jingling keys, and wonder why people hate you.
The 30% cut is industry standard, Tim. Xbox, Sony, and Nintendo as well as other PC platforms take a 30% cut, so why not go after them? You are only a monopoly if you have cornered the market making competition impossible.
There are more choices for gamers to pick from than just Steam, and it isn't impossible to compete with Steam either, no one just wants to risk nearly going under like Valve almost did to bring a competitive and quality product to compete with it.
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles? If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.
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That's fair, plus Ben has some of the most damning video/audio recordings on both the AFPD and BAM/B&F. I'm sure they could slap him with some small charges but it's going to be hard for his opponents to wiggle out of this especially with a massive public eye on this one as you said.
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@ValHighwind @HaloFollowercom Its different and much more difficult when hes got good lawyers and the eyes of the public on him
I come from a small town so I know what you mean but I also know they can only do that shit when no one's watching
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1. You are using AI to think for you. Stop it. It's stunting your ability to use your brain.
2. Monopoly means that there are no other options for consumers to use. There are multiple on PC.
3. The 30% cut is industry standard, if you are going to get upset at Steam for this, do the same for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.
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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…
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@splattersmot @Hammerman7015 The worst part of it, is that the Book of Mormon isn't even a Bible, it's a secondary text that is meant to 'contextualize and supplement' the Bible, which is an overt blasphemy.
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@Hammerman7015 @ValHighwind Dude you believe in a man who looked into a hat to make the Mormon Bible.
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As someone who lives in Utah, the American Fork Police department has a notoriously bad reputation that is well known across the state. Other police departments across the state make fun of them.
Take everything they say with a grain of salt or just dismiss it as lying. They never hold themselves accountable.
Dexerto@Dexerto
YouTuber Reckless Ben responds to American Fork PD's video on his arrests over a $200,000 Lego Star Wars collection dispute "Stop lying about the facts ... unredact the audio ... some of the best lawyers in the US are reaching out to me"
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It's most likely not anything monetary. The problem stems from Mormon protectionism, which is one of the main reasons that AFPD has the reputation it does. They have a very tight-knit community there, and the community protects each other against 'outside influence' all the way up to the judicial level, so we rarely see the AFPD actually face any accountability. Just so happens that BAM is headquartered in Utah, as well as the owners of the franchise that caused all these issues being American Fork citizens.
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@ValHighwind I wonder how much Bricks in Minifigs is paying the American Fork PD. Probably a lot more money than that. Lego collection is worth
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A lot of it is overblown, I have had plenty of good experiences from the Layton and Logan/Cache County PD's, plenty that I have had no experience with, and several that I have had bad experiences with, like West Valley PD. American Fork PD has had the reputation it does for a long, long time.
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@ValHighwind Are Utah cops in general that bad or close to it? I've been hearing a lot of people from Utah say that Utah cops are the worst
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The current (conspiracy) theory is that since the FBI and CIA overwhelmingly hire Mormons... well, I'm sure you can connect the dots on that. Realistically, the feds only really investigate for federal civil rights violations or unconstitutional conduct. They have been held 'accountable' for previous scandals, but pretty much immediately reverted back to old habits.
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@ValHighwind Is there a reason no federal agencies hold them accountable for how prolific they are?
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@AA712_Beam @Hammerman7015 Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at this point
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@Hammerman7015 @ValHighwind Hey guys, I found bricks and minifigs burner account
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@ValHighwind Interesting, as someone who also lives in Utah I had never heard or thought once about AF’s police. But after watching the videos it would appear merited.
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@Dr_Sinister187 @Mushgamer99 Maybe don't bring the reason PC gamers hate consoles to the PC platform and you will get better perception of your product. Dumbass.
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@Mushgamer99 Lying piece of shit. It's called timed exclusive and you losers review bombed the shit out of it for it. Get fucked
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Your compamy has actively delisted games from steam while also forcing developers to exclusively sell on your platform (Alan Wake 2)
I don't think you're in any position to criticsize Valve. Maybe sit this one out Tim. We get it that you hate Valve but this is poor showing
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles? If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.
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@ReviewsSpa63271 @ArcadeValentine Sounds about right for Utah-based authorities, so I am inclined to agree. I can say the only police I have had zero issues with in this state are Layton PD and Logan/Cache PD.
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@ValHighwind @ArcadeValentine (another Utahn here) It comes across as a situation where the guy lied to police, they believed it originally bc of the community vs outsider mindset here, and then it escalated so fast and hard that they're embarrassed and closing ranks to avoid doing what they know is right.
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@Hammerman7015 salembusinessjournal.org/2026/03/30/kei…
Ben has only been involved for a week by the way, this article is two months old.
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