If that was really your concern, why did it start with you saying international sports competitions shouldn’t ban any countries?

Oh so suddenly you found the means of determining what actions disqualify a country now?

What does that have to do with you not knowing that when countries get banned from international competitions, it’s easy to find out exactly why, and that having such policies is pretty simple?

Don’t pretend like you’d read such a list. You just said you had no way to figure out why a country would be banned from an international competition just one comment ago. If you couldn’t even think of reading an official explanation, we’re supposed to believe that a list that would be published in the same place would result in you being better informed?

It’s pretty dead simple to ban a country from competition for being warmongering and genocidal. What would be complicated?

There’s no means of determining what actions disqualify a country?

You really think Russia was banned from IOC participation for no clear reason and that it wasn’t explained at all? There are some very simple means you can employ to determine what actions disqualified them.

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Australian wines are pretty popular in Canada.

That’s California’s problem with the rest of their own country and their POTUS, not Canada’s problem.

What is your point? That Canada should accept Californian wines to stick it to Trump?

You didn’t even open the link to realize it’s not an article huh

None of this affects the fact that, contrary to what the person above claimed, there are games on Steam without DRM.

Tankie saying everyone else is sheeple while espousing conspiracy theory YouTube playlist as objective truth.

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This is the sociopathy.

Since he’s a brown man with Persian name, the big difference is that he has a much smaller chance of getting killed by gestapo on the street in Europe and China than he does in the current US.

They did though by patterning with publishers. Forcing physical releases to go through Steam as DRM. Killing the physical pc gaming market.

Not only does this not describe forced retail exclusivity, it’s three different statements that are all false in their own ways. Distribution agreements aren’t exclusivity agreements, Steam only deals in digital copies not physical copies, DRM implementation is optional, and there are no stipulations barring publishers from making or distributing physical copies.

We’ve gone from one incorrect statement about Steam to five.

They also have their Non-Favoured-Nations clause, meaning a game can’t be sold for cheaper off Steam.

You mean the Most-Favoured Nations clause that five people filed a suit over, based on a a Tim Sweeney tweet from 2019? Not only was that suit silly, it doesn’t even make sense as this sort of clause is extremely common in retail and not at all unique to Steam or Valve compared to other storefronts.

Only as they geared up to sell their own consoles.

You also don’t seem to be fully aware of Valve’s contributions to Linux gaming.

Steam didn’t employ forced retail exclusivity.

You also don’t seem to be fully aware of Valve’s contributions to Linux gaming.

Oh yes, that’s good. Didn’t even think about that. I’m so used to seeing -rf that I didn’t even register what I was looking at for a second.

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Luckily it’s France, not Quebec. France is much more amenable to providing documentation in other languages.

You had 30 seconds? So much for a quick wit.