All of that is true, but I still think “monopoly” is not the right word. It’s a bit of a unique situation. Ideally we’d have laws that make Steam provide a downloadable copy of the game that can work without Steam… but we’re so far from that.

What a sick and twisted world we live in. I wish I hadn’t watched this.

A kernel older than a couple of weeks seems old to me…

There is competition. And the term “monopolize” is used as a way of saying someone took action to stomp out the competition so I would say that 99% of people would assume intent whether or not it’s technically a part of the definition, because 99% of the time a monopoly exists it’s not by accident. But again, importantly, there IS competition.

The term monopoly does not apply here. Not only do we lack any evidence of anti-competitive practices, there literally are competitors, they just suck and they are very unpopular.

I appreciate this response. I wish more online interactions with slight disagreements could go exactly like this!

Quality shitpost lol

Yeah, I kinda am on the same page as you but I do think modern judginess in contexts like this can get to be too much. Practically none of the language changes proposed really bother me, after at least a little time to think about them, I just get a little annoyed when some of the more benign ones seem to be pushed as similar to the other more terrible ones. An example would be “master bedroom”. Basically no one would ever naturally think of that as racist or of a racist origin, though it probably is a relic of the slavery era. So while I think it’s good to try and move away from the term, if someone told me I shouldn’t say it in conversation, I wouldn’t find it helpful and I would find it annoying. I think there should be priorities because people do have limited brain space for new replacement terms. I could probably list 20 words that have become unusable in my lifetime so far, and I have no issue with basically all of them, but if every time I say one of the more engrained, less harmful ones, I’m told I shouldn’t say it, my human reaction is to get annoyed. If you had approached it a little more softly here I don’t think I’d mind at all. Like “Just so you know, this term has origins in being derogatory to Asians” for example. Starting off with “don’t say that” without explanation hits much differently imo. So it’s partially about priorities and partially about approach for me.

‘beaner’ is literally a racial slur that I instantly recognized as sounding exactly like what you wrote. Doesn’t matter if you’ve heard of it.

I’m not sure why you’re here trying to scold me for this. I explained what you meant and expressed understanding of it.

I think it gets the point across even if it’s off by orders of magnitude.

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Fair enough. I was guilty of assuming their disinterest in the truth elsewhere was part of a larger pattern. Blocked them though so I won’t make the mistake again.

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Ooh wow such coolness. A user hates me for cryptic reasons. Must also make me a zionist somehow. I take it I’m less credible than neo Nazis in your eyes

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What I’ve seen is that people get called a zionist without just cause frequently so I’m highly skeptical of anyone even using the term without evidence. I myself have been called a zionist a dozen times at least and I have never really even said anything that could be construed that way. The last time I remember it happening was by a user who literally had re-posted a neo-Nazi and was trying to sweep it under the rug. What was my offense? Pointing out that the user was a neo-Nazi. Yeah man sure if you think Nazis are a bad place to get your info you must love Israel and genocide /s

“ricing” comes from people “tricking out” Japanese cars by customizing them. I think most people don’t think it’s saying anything negative about Asians but some people take it that way. I think one similar term that sounds much worse is when people call those same Japanese cars “rice burners”. That one sounds derogatory/racist to me

I might be an idiot too, but I know French and didn’t get it. I think mostly because the image is low res and those “legs” look like rawhide bones for dogs imo