Yes, while its generally common on this platform, we are early adopters for tech so we understand it first. The general public gets exposure much slower, especially when there is efforts to subvert it for profit.

Attention and time are limited, those that focus on tech know things first. Its the same as a chef knowing about food more than the average person.

I dont understand the alarm thing. My sister did that when I was a kid, extra loud alarm 6 inches from her face and she sleeps right through it. I dont understand how its even possible.

If the policies were effective, they wouldnt have voted for trump.

You vastly overestimate the impact of democratic social policies in those areas.

Hand masher is bestest boy.

I literally dont text chat with anyone because everyone treats them as forever chats. Like we need to learn how to say bye to each other again or something, see you later.

Good idea, bad example considering how much people love to eat raw cookie dough.

Find something that reduces your stress without increasing weight. There’s tons of options ranging from healthy to ridiculously dangerous.

A product so nice you pay for it twice!

I didnt know about bypassing the launcher, I’ll have to read more about that.

Its simple advertising. If you have to log in once a week or month or however often, and scroll through their store to click on the free games, a good percentage of those will actually buy something based on what they see. Whether its purchased at egs or somewhere else makes no difference.

Besides all that, having it installed on a device means epic can gather information about you while its running, even if you only open it to collect free games.

Thr bottom line is if it cost epic money to give away free games, they simply wouldnt do it, but as it stands it works out fantastic and a bunch of gamers have no idea they are being tricked at all. Thats more than enough reason to simply avoid egs altogether in my opinion.

If steam goes down they aren’t going to mass delete everyone’s libraries. I’ll still have terabytes of games that just need a crack now.

I understand people like free stuff but how does it not immediately draw comparison to drug dealers giving out testers for free. When is free shit ever not nefarious?

Even on one of epics own games, Rocket League, the experience is far better on Steam if you were lucky enough to buy it when it was still listed there. Epic launcher is a piece of hot garbage, and the free game aren’t worth it to me. I also wonder if there are other consequences to this pricing model, similar to concerns about gamepads.

Comparing NATO to Jews is absurd and you should know that. You might be able to convince me that Russia is a fascist regime, as I am not as familiar with their country, but I would not agree that America is currently under a fascist regime.

The exact same way it was, which is to withhold violence unless you or an ally you have sworn to defend is attacked.

I consider most data on my devices as replaceable, I would only back any of it up if the effort to replace it was much harder than the effort to back it up.

“I’m gonna stay angry and uncompromising, just like I planned.”

You can’t coexist with them because you label them as fascists whether it makes sense or not. You sound just as unhinged as the caricature of others you are describing as fascism.

They are similar in american society because both would argue they have a right to exist, and both are targets for violence in public if they are overt about it. I’m simply saying neither should be attacked, the whole point is to coexist. People need to learn how to de-escalate and create bridges, not hit each other in the face with bricks.

Edit to answer your question: Obviously not, black people don’t want to be white people. Trans people do want to pass as a specific gender.