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  • Director: Blue, I need you to work on a patch for the suspension barrier, it seems to have a memory leak.

    Blue: I could if I wasn’t allocating so much time to holding together a patchy framework, if I drop it now the whole system will break, what we need to do is re-build the entire thing from scratch in a new entirely blue framework, if we did that we wouldn’t have to allocate so many resources to patch work.

    Director: that sounds like it would cost money…

    Blue: it would now but in the future it would save us so much more.

    Director: couldn’t you just work harder for less pay?

    Blue: no I literally couldn’t.

    Director: Green seems to be holding it together well.

    Blue: that is because Green is at the bottom of the stack, he doesn’t have to deal with it he makes it our problem.

    Director: I don’t know, sounds like a skill issue to me, no vacation time until it’s fixed.

    Blue: Like I even get a vacation anyway.









  • They have a functional monopoly on game launchers, but it isn’t illegal to have a monopoly — it’s only illegal to use that monopoly for anti-competitive actions.

    A monopoly in law doesn’t mean total (100%) market control; it means having the power to control prices or exclude competition. Courts often refer to this as monopoly power.

    A monopoly could exist with as little as 50% of the market, or even lower. Steam has around 70–80%, which is easily enough to be considered a monopoly. However, you could argue that despite their large market share, they can’t truly control the market, since it’s their goodwill and consumer-friendly behavior that earned them that share in the first place — and if they ever tried to abuse it, people might go elsewhere.

    Personally, I don’t really believe that. Considering your entire library is tied to their platform, they could pull all kinds of shady tactics if they wanted to. But it’s an argument.

    As far as I’m concerned, Steam is the least evil of the major corporations. I can overlook the secret gambling ring and possible dark-money smuggling complicity because they seem to be a net benefit to consumers, and the harm mostly falls on those complicit in the scheme — as well as on China and Russia.

    Edit, fixed spelling.