That would be our corporate overlords wanting to keep corn farmers employed. It’s not like we have bottles of it at our table. Companies just put it in everything since it’s cheap, and since we don’t have an effective government that stops capitalism from killing us, it gets put in everything and we die from heart disease.

Nope, just you for not understanding my point.

From the OG post:

EO’s are not laws.

Let me make it really fucking clear for those in this thread that ride the short bus:

Because of Trump v United States, EOs are now above the law.

So yes, EO’s can and always have had the ability to undo previous EO’s. I’ve literally never debated this, so please get better reading comprehension.

However, never in the entire history of the United States have EO’s been used to illegally override actual fucking laws, or take the balance of power from Congress to control federal funds.

Specifically:

https://www.uclawsf.edu/2025/02/28/experts-examine-legal-limits-of-trumps-sweeping-executive-orders

… the federal government’s spending power, which is controlled by Congress. He pointed to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which restricts the president’s ability to withhold funds authorized by Congress, and the Supreme Court’s 1998 ruling striking down a presidential line-item veto enacted by lawmakers.

So, to be clear, it’s completely fucking illegal for a president to withhold funds authorized by congress. That is the law, it’s quoted above. Look it up.

Okay. Cool. So now here are several of trumps EO’s completely breaking that law:

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/trump-funding-freeze-faq/

On Jan. 21, 2025, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget issued memo M-25-11 to pause all green energy disbursements previously approved by congress.

The Jan. 27, 2025, memo M-25-13 (“Federal Funding Freeze Memo”) implemented the federal funding executive orders and placed a government-wide temporary pause for distributing grants, loans and other financial assistance on the related subjects Trump didn’t like despite being approved by congress.

President Trump’s executive order titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Initiative” required agencies to review all contracting policies, procedures and personnel; prepare guidance on efficiency; stop new awards; and expanded DOGE’s authorities to examine, cut or modify federal spending across agencies despite being approved by congress.

So, ALL of these EO’s are completely fucking illegal. Period. Read the above law.

Trump has now used dozens more of them to completely bypass the impound Control Act of 1974 and hold funds from Congress to distribute as he sees fit. That check and balance no longer exists. That function of Congress is now a function of the executive branch because of a fucking EO.

How can these EO’s bypass the law if EO’s are supposed to be beneath it?

You need to have an actual answer for this question to have a point. Otherwise you’re just stupid.

From your own links:

His administration also has been hit by more than 100 lawsuits as of Thursday, contending that the president has overstepped his authority under the Constitution, according to ABC News.

This is because Congress are the only ones that can approve budgets. Not a president’s EO, that’s blatantly unconstitutional. As I have now basically drawn in crayon for you.

Trump can use an EO to do whatever illegal thing he wants. So it doesn’t really matter that undoing previous EO’s is completely legal does it? Because even if that WAS illegal, he could still fucking do it because of the power his EO’s have from the Trump v United States ruling.

How are you all too stupid to understand this basic logic?

Congrats for having the profoundly naive ability to look exclusively at the few EO’s Trump has legally issued while ignoring his dozens of others that hundreds of lawyers agree break the law and our constitution.

Believe it or not, I do understand Trump can actually follow the law with an EO, but my point is how that doesn’t at all matter when he can, has, and will continue to overwhelmingly use them illegally. Your point is completely fucking moot given these facts. Which indeed makes look stupid for not understanding mine.

You might as well point out some things Hitler did legally while you’re at it, seeing as you’re already making the same kind of stupid argument here.

Which President before Trump had complete legal immunity and unlimited executive authority as granted to them by the Supreme Court in Trump vs United States?

None of them.

Which means, very fucking plainly:

Trump’s EO’s are not the same as ANY PREVIOUS EO’s made by any other president. Period.

So he can do this:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798?ref=am-quickie.ghost.io

Or just take control of congress to control their purse to defund entire institutions. Something clearly illegal but was done immediately with no questions so the courts could be tied up for years.

His EO’s are a literal excuse for crime and the dismemberment of constitutional checks and balances and you want to compare them to EO’s being used legally before this case altered their power forever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States

• No president has had this power before.
• So no president has issued EO’s with this power before.

Trump is the first. And if you think his EO’s are limited to the same legal scope as any previous president you are a fucking idiot.

This isn’t a copy paste. This is a basic understanding of American politics and law. Enough to know Trumps EO’s can exceed their scope of power, enable illegal and unconstitutional behavior, and have been used that way now for months.

To make it clear for you who have red hats where you used to have brians:

The Supreme Court has said it’s okay for the felon president to commit literal crimes while in office so Trump is using that power to use EO’s criminally.

EO’s after “Trump v US” are not the same as any EO before it. You are incredibly naive and stupid if you believe otherwise.

Respectfully, you’re an idiot, and don’t know what you’re talking about.

Trump has been acting like his EO’s are law for almost a year. He has used them to illegally seize control of congress to control their power of the purse. He then used them to take over the FCC, the SEC, and any other Independant agency.

Before Trump, EO’s weren’t laws, now they have enabled literal tyranny by its actual definition.

Go open a dictionary if you know what that is, and look up what Tyranny means. It perfectly describes what Trumps EO’s have granted him. Which proves you completely fucking wrong that they aren’t “laws.”

Under Trump, EO’s are above the law. They let him close USAID without Congress, killing millions, and then concentrate what used to be a seperation of powers exclusively in his hands. The small hands of a diaper wearing, dementia laden, child predator who wants to start international wars while charging citizens the highest tax rate of all time with Tariffs.

Please read some fucking books instead of banning them you uncritically thinking tub of paste. The fact you can see EO’s as not laws before this year, but can’t seem to process the last 10 months of reality means you buried your head in the sand or your own ass. Pull it out if you want to make a point, otherwise you’re not living in fucking reality of you think EO’s under Trump are anything like they used to be.

They don’t, and historically never have. So it’s about to get Mario Kart 64 versus mode in the States with the amount of Luigi-ing that is likely going to happen soon.

Oh man, I wonder if it has anything to do with the US government completely failing to ever provide any of the following for millenials:

• Raise minimum wage even once in our entire adult working lives. (20 years)
• Reduce Healthcare costs and make insurance affordable.
• Pass some form of gun legislation to prevent Columbine style school shootings that now happen weekly, and have been becoming more regular since '99
• Maintain the quality of public education.
• Make higher education affordable.
• Stabilize the economy so it doesn’t fail evey decade since 2008

Basically, we’re the first generation of Americans to not have a functional government of any kind that has done anything to improve the quality of our lives. All we have gotten from the decades of our tax dollars going into our bullshit corporate capitalist system is the literal worst Covid response on the plant, multiple bank bailouts, the worst education, the most costly Healthcare, and now for the salaries of actual fascists.

Fuck any American too stupid and selfish to move left enough to save America. Hope owning the libs was worth getting our Democracy inverted, our Supreme Court destroyed, our justice system shredded, all to get a president that shits himself, insults everyone, and diddles kids.

It’s that or voting left, and somehow we have that. It would be embarrassing if it already wasn’t so fucking cruel. Millenials aren’t moving left, they’re getting pushed to the point of just not caring for a country that clearly doesn’t care for them and literally never has.

At any given time, there’s about 400 million people playing game on the planet. Of those people, only 14% play NEW games released within 12 months.

It used to be 30% 10 years ago. Now it’s less for a variety of factors, but one of them is less people have the income and budget they used to.

You are in that 14%.

Which is great - but the games you buy as part of that 14% are based on your taste. Not if they are exceptionally good, only if they are exceptionally good to you.

So making games that are “exceptionally good” for an audience isn’t easy because your audience doesn’t even know what they want beyond a genre. I’m sure you could tell me about the games you like and prefer to play, possibly even a genre of games you love.

But if I asked you to tell me what game COULD be exceptionally good in that genre, you might not have an answer. Just other games to compare it to. And if you do have an answer, there’s no telling if it would actually be popular with a bigger audience that genre enjoys.

Making “exceptional games” isn’t a bar to be crossed that makes a game money. Rather a game is “exceptional” once it finds an audience that feels that way about it. Games that have broad appeal have broad audiences like Call of Duty who all feel that game is exceptional too. Many who play it would argue which one in the series was the most “exceptional” and wouldn’t have a great answer for what to make as a better version of that game.

People like what they play, and exceptional games are only exceptional to the audience that plays them. So it’s not so much about making something exceptional, but making something that has an audience that thinks it’s exceptional.

And finding that audience is the hard part. Especially when only 14% of people who plays games are even looking at what you’ve made.

But it’s not impossible. Just difficult these days.

Based on what? Your opinion? Or is there a profit analysis and breakdown you want to pair with that to make a point?

My dude, I’m very familiar with the 14% of videogame players new game devs are vying for. And every one of the games you mentioned launched at that price because they were developed by a single dev (two at most) who could profit off of the $10 - $15 dollar space that was below the smaller studios putting out games like Shadow Complex, or Mercenary Kings, or Shank 1+2 for $20.

Now all of those spaces are being crushed together. Mostly due to economic factors. Thats where the biggest problem really lies, in the fact that people just have less money to spend on all that entertainment. Just pointing out that it’s competitive at all is obvious my dude, but the direction its going in is one in where there’s less anything being made (including games) because not as many people have money to spend on anything but necessities.

That’s why AAA is now scavenging at the bottom of the totem pole, and pricing their older games at $10 or less on sale, it’s because the few people that have money find that price point appealing. So it’s now one that not just the people who made Terraria, Braid, etc compete in. The money those devs made previously in that space is now up for grabs to AAA companies that never had anything to sell at that price before.

Theres a very tried and true formula for any business, including making games, and in the last 2 years it has completely broken apart. Mostly due to the Embracer group merger failing, combined with AI, combined with economic uncertainty, combined with AAA companies stabbing indie creators in the back (Subnautica, Disco Elysium). Your game doesn’t have to be a massive hit to be successful, it just needs to have a big enough audience to be profitable. But that audience has shrunk over the years as economies have tightened, and the companies getting squeezed have been invading markets they never had a presence in before.

So it’s just desperate times more than anything. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make a living off of making games. I know dozens of small teams funded by government grants making small games you’ve never heard of to help kids in hospitals learn about their cancer. Or teach kids in underprivileged schools about resource scarcity. Making games as a business goes far beyond entertainment and the hopes of narcissists. It’s an artistic medium like any other, and as such benefits society by making the toughest parts of it more accessible.

There’s plenty of ways to run a company doing just that - and just because the world economy is in free fall doesn’t mean the entire business of making games is something for the lucky few. It’s just for anyone that wants to learn how to run a game company. Which isn’t easy, but extends far beyond the simplistic view you are portraying.

Thanks! 🙂 Appreciate you confirming that. We actually changed the price of our latest game to $10 (from $20) because we launched last December and got buried by AAA selling for $15.

Almost every dev team we talked to this year felt the same about the $20 price. That is, it’s much better to go out at $15 or $10 as a LOT of people see indie games at that price as better than modern AAA. (All while still holding out for classic AAA that go on sale for $20.)

And that being said, I’m totally cool with losing a sale to MGSV or Witcher 3 😁 Just wish the $20 space wasn’t getting so crowded. It’s making it rough for the smaller teams to compete at that price too now.

As an indie dev, this article is fucking stupid.

Want to know why indie games are priced at $10 to $15? Becaue AAA has been putting everything they’ve made in the last decade on Steam and it’s all going for $20 - $25.

Indies can’t launch at that price point anymore because they’re competing with AAA games from 10 years ago that have been discounted to death.

The Steam winter sale is the best example of this, where most people will buy RDR2 for $19 instead of the new mega hit indie that’s $20. So indies have been lowering their price to actually get sales. That’s why team cherry priced Silk Song at $20.

Basically, AAA is now just competing with the bottom part of the market they spent that last decade flooding.

They’re complaining about people actually choosing where to spend their money wisely because that means they might actually have to make a good product if they want to sell a game for $70.

People are just monkeys. Monkeys do what they see because they’re stupid and a product of their environment. Billionaires now control everything in that environment, so US monkies mostly see what those billionaires want.

FOX NEWS. Paid for by billionaires so USA Monkies want Citizens United, No child Left Behind, the Patriot act, and Trillions in the national debt for the first time in 200 years of being a nation. Bush W is now okay despite being an idiot because he’s surrounded by smart people. But smart people are definitley bad.

FACEBOOK ADS. Paid for by billionaires so USA monkies will vote against Healthcare, their own taxes, and educatiom to fight made up enemies like “libs” and “illegals”. Local elections are now won by the dumbest people imaginable that believe these enemies are real. Actual Proffesionals are now suspicious.

TWITTER. Now just owned by a billionaire so USA monkies think Trump is a genius, Fascism is good, and it’s totally okay more Americans died from COVID than anywhere else in the world, a death toll higher than all the wars America ever fought in combined. Trump is great because he punishes smart people, and people that point out his COVID bullshit, as those smart people are now your enemy.

This makes Elon wealthy. Zuckerberg Wealthy. And the Murdochs wealthy.

They covered the US in news that it was on fire and keep profiting off of selling fire extinguishers.

There is no fire. (Illegal immigrants, libs, trans, caravans, wmds in Iraq, war on drugs, war on terror, etc) But now half the country votes like there is because that keeps billionaires wealthy instead of actually taxed to benefit society. They are the problem. They know they are the problem. So they purchase as many media outlets as they can, like Bezos, to normalize their greed and it’s affects on our country. Just about to the point we don’t have one anymore.

Critical of sources? Okay, in that case the US isn’t the country that banned the phrase “Tianaman square 1989” from being spoken online. Nor are they the country that will prevent you from owning a house if you say it enough.

That’s China.

And it exists to silence criticism of them killing a bunch of protestors with tanks:

Then running them over with those tanks until their bodies became a bunch of organic paste, so they could wash their remains into the sewers:

http://www.cnd.org/June4th/massacre.html

(NSFW pictures: mascr014.gif to see what a human body looks like after being crushed by a tank)

There’s more pictures of the dead in that last link - go ahead and be critical of them, seeing as they died fighting for the Democracy you’re now critical of.

Want to be critical? Alright, why do you think the US is the only country that’s capable of bullshit propaganda? It’s so you don’t consider Democracy as viable, rather you’re raised from birth and educated to believe it’s ineffecient. Something I’m sure you fully believe with absolutely zero critical thought. (Despite most of Europe being a dang good example of its effectiveness).

Who do you think was responsible for convincing the middle class to vote against their own best interests?

It was the people who didn’t have to pay taxes after Reagonomics. They used their money to fill television, print, and eventually social media with propaganda. Propaganda that taxes were too high (for them) despite our entire social safety net outgrowing it’s sustainability.

And this form of propaganda was SO effective, the Russians figured they would do the same. Then the Chinese. Now the Saudis. So now we have just about every country in the world that hates America purchasing every second of entertainment they can to make sure we’re always voting against our best interests to the point we just about don’t have a country.

You are correct! And it’s crazy how effective those high corporate tax rates were at distributing wealth to better society and create a healthy middleclass of consumers to fuel an economy and prevent it from collapsing.

Weird how everything’s turning to shit now that corporations don’t pay taxes and use all their earnings to influence government elections instead of needing to actually be accountable to them.

“Too big to fail” was actually just “too big to stop.” So now where there used to be a US government, there is a handful of billionaire cultists.

The middleclass 100% existed. Billionaires just stole it. The money that drove US spending across 3 decades is now all in 5 people’s bank accounts doing jack shit to help anyone but those 5 people.

Higher corporate taxes = a middle class. See most Nordic countries as a great example that still exists.

Thank you for making this point. A middle class is the sign of a functioning society.

Same argument as holocaust deniers. Good point.

I appreciate the clarification. But let’s give the dead the benefit of the doubt before it becomes another COVID that kills everyone’s grandparents. People like you desire to see death first hand before believing it only because you likely have not seen it yet yourself, so through sheer inexperience doubt such loss can be on such a large scale. It is. Whether these stats line up perfectly yet or not. It’s still happening.

And to be clear. This isn’t the first time Trump has killed this many people through sheer negligence.

He does not have the benefit of the doubt here. Nor deserves it. So you should not be giving it. Don’t be the guy that looks the other way from the mountains of dead until someone you know is in the pile. Looking the other way is how they get there.

The real question is how a company accidentally steals something like that for a 4th time. (This was the 4th time they’ve been caught doing this).

https://www.thepopverse.com/gaming-marathon-bungie-art-stolen-fern-hook-destiny-2-trailer-gun

Agreed.

Here’s a way to use crypto to buy from pretty much any major online merchant anonymously without them tracking your user data:

https://paywithmoon.com/merchants

Its a card that acts as an intermediary for crypto.

It let’s you buy from these merchants without giving away your private data or buying habits.

This is a valuable use for crypto for many people. This is a site that let’s them use their crypto basically anywhere without getting spied on.

This fundamentally disproves his first core statments about crypto not having a use case and not being usable at most merchants.

Basically, he immediately reveals he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Trumps literally on deaths door and is the #1 suspect in what’s likely the largest conspiracy in US history involving child traffickers and their political protectors.

He’s been in US politics the last 10 years.

He’s run his course. And no one is left to replace him.

He’s also killed millions with his Covid policy. Millions more with USAID defunding. And now likely even more with SNAP and ACA cuts.

He also likely won by cheating, not by popularity.

He’s just about cooked from every angle imaginable and is not long for this world.

Saying she needed more time is just admitting to not using the time she had well enough. Everyone can use more time. But you get what you’re given, and flagrantly ignoring how precious your time is until it’s all gone is just being bad at your job. No matter what your job is.