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The lawsuit aims to "stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York\u2019s laws."

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're a citizen in a village. The Nazis have come to your village and decide to destroy you. You attack the friendly village toymaker for hosting gambling nights for everybody.

Yes, it's wrong.

No, it's not the time.

Nuance is dead.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

The village must be quite famous and populous to even have one! Perhaps it's a whole ass-town, even!

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What do you think would be a more apt analogy, then? Maybe I'm painting them in an unfair light. But, my point is that they're a toymaker that makes and distributes entertainment for everybody, but also do this thing that kinda sucks.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Billionaire owned tech companies that controll a market so tightly they pretty much have a monopoly shouldn't be anthropomorphized so fondly. I want you to vomit up that Kool aid.