"Trump is living in a Russian 'disinformation space' says Zelenskyy"

(Note, I'm using the headline for this that appeared in my Google News app and which appearsed in the tab on a desktop browser, not the headline that appears on the article if you click that link, which is a much blander "Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbs as US-Ukraine relations sour over the war with Russia.")

"Zelenskyy also said he would like Trump's team 'to be more truthful'..."

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Asking for Trump, or anyone within smelling distance of Trump, "to be more truthful" is kind of like asking for the oceans "to be more dry." Trump isn't (just) living in a "disinformation space," Trump is a "disinformation space." Trump's face-anus is a turgid "disinformation space" that constantly spews disinformation the exact same way a diarrhetic anus spews shit.

Anyway, yeah, no fucking shit, Zelensky. Only took you three months to figure that shit out? But you still haven't actually figured anything out yet, if you seriously believe that there's even the most remote chance in hell that Trump will ever "be more truthful" about anything, at all, ever. In any case, as I predicted, this is you, now, getting bit hard in the ass. If only you read my Dreamwidth blog. *eye roll* Oh well.

"Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve"

Full headline, because the whole thing didn't fit up there: "Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'"

"That's not to say the assessment that Valve punches above its weight is inaccurate. ... It's more the naive fascination Evans has with the idea that Steam is good that baffles me."

It's not even so much that Steam is good, really. There is an awful lot about Steam that I absolutely loathe.[1] Steam was simply lucky enough to be the first (well, no, but it was the first to actually get huge, anyway). It's just that, so far, to this day, everything that came after and tried to ride on Steam's coattails has been and is absolute rancid dogshit.

At least this Evans guy is, kind of, being self-reflective about Amazon's failure in particular, sort of (even if most of it is just "inspirational LinkedIn corporate speech"). Meanwhile, we still have fetid horseshit like Origin/EA App and UPlay (or whatever it's called now) and Epic Gluttonous Shitpile and so many other flavor-of-the-month, Johnny-come-lately digital storefronts still plodding along like they're each the hottest thing since sliced bread (and, well, since Steam), when they're actually worse-than-worthless, each and every one of them.

My own personal history with Steam is that I basically avoided it like the plague, up until the point where a game I wanted to buy was only available on Steam at the time I wanted to buy it. So, I finally bit the bullet and installed Steam. And now, today, I still occasionally might buy a PC game (and PC games are all I buy these days) if it isn't available on Steam (like, say, if it's some retro/nostalgic thing on GOG, or maybe some The Sims related thing on the EA Store, maybe), but much more often than that, I take the view that if it isn't on Steam, it may as well not exist at all (e.g. all the Epic Grotesque Scuzz "exclusives," most of which end up being properly released on the personal computer six months to a year later anyway).

[1] - All you have to do is look at my "steam" tag below to see what I'm talking about (well, the posts that are actually about Steam itself, anyway, and not just about games that happen to be on Steam or whatever).

"Dear Donald Trump Voters: His Actions Are Going To Hurt You Too - SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. Donald Trump's relentless executive orders and illegal slashing of federal funding are already hurting Americans, including his own voters."

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No Warmbo, no finger puppets, no "evil Katy jumping in via a video call" or whatever, no corn slop dripping from the ceiling, no time travel, no multiple versions of Cody, none of that shit in this video. Just Cody Johnston sitting in front of a camera for an hour and twenty minutes (minus however much time the ad breaks wasted, since I skipped past those, as I always do). The only "bit" in this video was Cody refraining from saying any swear words at all, until the final minute or two of the video.

I wish all SMN videos were like this. (Aside from, perhaps, the no swearing thing, because as he proved by almost breaking that no-swear rule at several points during the video, a lot of the goddamned fucking dumbshit that Trump and Elon and their criminal co-conspirators are currently doing can only be adequately described with the involvement of intense profanity.)

(EDIT) Oh, right, I didn't note it at the time as I was watching the video, but JD Vance was apparently a person who benefited from DEI. How about that. (And, no, that wasn't a JD Vance/Peter Thiel joke.) (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) Just a reminder that, seriously, Trump has not been in office for even a full fucking month yet. (/EDIT 2)