Beyond initial development costs, it didn’t cost Valve anything to ship the Index with Alyx though. Bundling in a $200 voucher would be increasing the system price by $160 in direct cost to Valve for no reason, as consumers are likely to spend that after purchasing the system, but might be dissuaded by a high initial purchase price.

A more apt comparison in that scenario would be Valve bundling their entire software library with the Steam Machine, or developing a new game to bundle with it as a means of adding value.

And the average Trump voter will just accept that happily.

Because Valve would have to pay out 70% the value of the vouchers to developers in game redemptions; the break even point would therefore need to account for that amount being subtracted first (i.e. for $900 including a $200 voucher, $760).

At that point, Valve would likely have higher sales if they didn’t include the voucher and reduced the price by the 70% in voucher value it would have cost them otherwise.

but then offer a $100 - $200 Steam voucher along with it?

Then the same thing would occur—buyers not interested in using Steam would sell the vouchers or the accounts those vouchers are tied to.

Trump is just trying to bring more people onto the side of supporting his illegal war on Iran by proposing an unrealistic risk of danger to the U.S.

They shouldn’t be allowed to relocate the entire executive branch to Mar a Lago just because Trump feels like it; it’s financially wasteful and a mockery of responsible government.

Targeting civilians is a war crime, but Israel is not in need of financial assistance; they could redirect $180,000 from their genocide campaign without batting an eye.

Fediseer perhaps?

Is a tock what you get after shorting a stock? /s

The Supreme Court has been packed with religious nutjobs who don’t give a damn about the mental health of transgender students.

Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

Israel and the U.S. shouldn’t be engaging in illegal regime change. With that said, you should post the news article under the title it came with.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as foreign policy tools.

Your game has malicious ads:

Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

The Iran regime is despicable, but Axios shouldn’t be reporting on Trump’s illegal regime change efforts as a fait accompli.

Any competent antitrust regulator would block this without second thought.

American antitrust law is a joke.

Not sure how; it’s also not by defederation date, otherwise feddit.org would be at or near the bottom of the list for dbzer0.

The best tool I know of is the Federation Checker, but something like it should definitely should be built into clients.

Notably, Beehaw is defederated from .world and sh.itjust.works, while dbzer0, quokk.au, and anarchist.nexus are defederated from feddit.org.

Hopefully after kicking out the 30 Hungary-equivalent states that would obstruct any and all progressive policies.