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This monument was paid by indulgences. ADs on top of it are free money for the church they can spend brainwashing people into their cult.
This monument was paid by indulgences. ADs on top of it are free money for the church they can spend brainwashing people into their cult.
Religious monuments in italy are owned by the catholic church. If they are in need of money perhaps the pope could sell same of their golden gauntlets or their apartments in london
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano
The italian goverment doesn’t lack money either, politicians just raised their salary.
The really essence of this building is to be an AD for the church, which by the time it was build was a state with an army.
“democracy”
Stop advertising this game
At palestine@lemmy.ml there seem to be many news but not many videos
I doubt the reason “why” the west is supporting a genocide is a promise the current ceo of usa made as a child, especially given that the same policy has been going on for a century. I also doubt it has much to do with them being old since again the same war policies have been applied for a century.
Let’s not just blame it on someone being old. They know exactly what’s going on they simply don’t care about a bunch of poor people dying when these are in between their ambitions.
Ukraine is usa “ally” now, they must do what usa says
Yes just like any other ruler they play risk with real people
Again, and for the last time, you have a problem with the industry.
Again, Valve it’s part of the industry and one if not the biggest chunk of it.
You are saying lootbooxes are an issue the government should regulate and you are spending hours defending the forprofit company of the people who pioneered lootboxes and made them popular among kids more than everybody else.
You’re yelling into the void. Enjoy that.
I don’t enjoy it much but you seem confused and i’m trying to help you figure out that valve is yet another evil forprofit company and that defending them doesn’t bring any justice into the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#Player_expenditures_and_gambling_concerns I personally believe that micro transactions shouldn’t be outlawed, you cannot ask everything to the law or expect to be a law for everything. It’s people that should open their eyes and stop defending scum companies promoting them. Valve has it’s own games with lootboxes. They are both to blame as developers and publishers.
A monopoly eat the whole market. Proprietary standards and walled gardens too threaten the whole community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
When someone get all your informations you indeed are getting doxed you are just not aware.
I blame the scammers and the people defending the scammers, like you, shame on you for defending greedy ass companies like valve who profit out of kids.
Valve promotes lootboxes and even add them in their own games.
You don’t need a third party launcher to use Blender or Krita, neither to play Minetest, Mindustry, Endless sky, 0ad, Wesnoth and many other games.
Why are you so paranoid posting your name, address, credit card number, e-mail, age, IP address, device unique id, chat logs, forum posts, voice chat recordings, hardware enumeration, browser history? Never mind if you don’t want to share these information, my cousin work for Valve i can ask him for these anyway
4/5. Valve is not a machine, they are humans, they are not forced to be scummy just because everyone does it. Valve is pretty much a monopoly, they shaped the industry as it is more than everyone else. Who should we blame for lootboxes? 10 years old kids because they are stupid and buy these?
Maybe the money they spend on ads don’t go on billboards but on fake online reviews.
When i was a teenager on steam i was a 40 years old guy born on 1 january 1970
Let’s take this point to point yeah:
“Loot boxes are considered part of the compulsion loop of game design to keep players invested in a game. Such compulsion loops are known to contribute towards video game addiction and are frequently compared to gambling addiction. This is in part due to the use of a “variable-rate reinforcement schedule” similar to how slot machines dole out prizes. While many players may never spend real-world money in a loot-box system, such addictive systems can bring large monetary expenditures from “whales”, players who are willing to spend large amounts of money on virtual items. Gambling concerns are heightened in games that offer loot boxes and are known to be played by children. Loot boxes also feed into the social anxiety around the “fear of missing out” (FOMO), as some random drops from loot boxes may be available for only a limited time, and players will be more inclined to spend money to obtain loot boxes so they do not miss out on these items. The use of pity-timers in loot box redemption also can feed into the gambler’s fallacy, appearing to give credence to the player that they will be assured of a high-rarity item if they open enough loot boxes.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#Player_expenditures_and_gambling_concerns
Simply allowing DRM in your proprietary platform, advertise product with these and locking your games in a library is more than just promoting DRM. Still i’ve only said they promote these.
Name, address, credit card number, e-mail, age, IP address, device unique id, chat logs, forum posts, voice chat recordings, hardware enumeration, browser history. Go ahead and type all these information here for the public since it’s not big deal, if you are afraid keep in mind that i can just pay Valve a bunch of money to get these anyway
What you are saying is that since everyone does it than it’s ok. Fine than what i’m going to do is pick the biggest company in the market that does that and call them out for being the scammers they are. I never said that kids shouldn’t be allowed to play videogames you made this up yourself. If anything shouldn’t be allowed it’s these greedy companies to trick kids. One thing is to market games to kids another to target them with shady and hostile business practices .
There’s plenty of better companies and developers that make games that don’t exploit you. https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/
every country supporting israel it’s also an example of what countries shouldn’t be like
Once the job is done.
Valve abducts kids into gambling, mine people data, promotes DRMs and proprietary software. All of that out of geed and seeking profits.
Especially to kids videogames are really alluring, it’s important to warn everyone against evil and greedy companies.
Kids (the majority of steam customers) are really easy to brainwash and manipulate. Valve probably also spends millions on advertising
They have the spine to laugh at all the peasants below them, i think it’s someone else lacking spine