Valve didn’t “fuck up” […] It is the scalpers and only scalpers to blame.

This you?

It was wrong from Valve to not do the pre-order dance and special ordering process they already did before.

Make up your mind. You said you agreed with the commenter above, said Valve was in the wrong, and then when I suggest it’s okay to be mad at multiple parties, you switched your tune about Valve being in the wrong.

To counter your analogy, it would be a like a shop owner had been robbed before and knows the method by which they have been robbed. They also have, in the past, successfully combated the robbers. Then, the shop owner announced a highly sought after new product and… took no precautions against the robbers. In fact, this is less of an analogy and just… what Valve did.

You can be mad at the robbers and also be pretty annoyed with the shopkeeper for not doing the thing they had done in the past to successfully counteract robbers.

Edited to add, I also kinda hate that analogy because in your analogy you’re painting Valve as a victim (having been robbed). Valve isn’t a victim here; they made bank.

Instead getting mad at Valve, one should be mad at scalpers and UPS.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Your comment admits that Valve fucked up the first wave, then circle back and say people shouldn’t be mad at Valve. You can be mad at more than one thing.

I’m not sure where you live, but in many places it is the legal responsibility of the seller to ensure that the goods you purchased arrived safely into your hands. You do have options.

ProtonPass.

Yep! But there’s typing that out, and then there’s experiencing it first hand, and the latter can be surprising. ;)

Just about that, yes!

I still haven’t gotten around to giving Fate a try, but been on my list a while. Too many games not enough time!

By “new 5e rules,” do you mean 5.5e released in 2024? If so, DM Inspiration is not new to them, and was in 5e when it originally released in 2014. I’m not familiar if there were changes made, though, as I don’t play dnd anymore.

In PF2e, you get Hero Points which allow you to reroll checks. We use a house rule that if you use a Hero Point and roll the same number on the die, you must use that number (no more rerolls) however you don’t spend your Hero Point.

It comes up surprisingly often.

You have had some sad ass gnocchi my friend.

This only reinforces my opinion that the one dev deserves credit, not all of Valve.

Look, Valve does cool stuff but why do they get so much credit and free passes that other companies simply would not?

A dev that works at Valve contributing this does not make this official Valve support as far as I’m concerned. It makes that one dev cool.

The person you’re replying to is not the same person that was originally asked. They are just chiming in with agreement of the first person, stating that they do not use Retrodeck because they do not like ES-DE.

The “It” in “I have avoided it” is Retrodeck, not ES-DE.

That’s not gaslighting. It’d be gaslighting if he, like, died and then came back and tried to convince everyone that he didn’t actually die and that they imagined it. But, his whole thing was like, that he did die and it’s an important part that you do know about it.

Respectfully mate, I’ve said my piece. Have a good one.

That’s an entirely different issue than what the meme, and I, are talking about imho.

If you’re essentially saying “sometimes players need more help than you expect with a puzzle because you have perfect knowledge and they don’t,” then I agree with you.

But that’s not the players “fucking up” a “carefully plotted tale of political intrigue”.

If the player you set it up for isn’t biting though, why fight them on that?

Kinda missing the point of a group storytelling experience if the GM feels like anything was fucked up.

Right, which would happen after the direct deposit, so your entire tangent about taxes and insurance seems irrelevant to the meme and conversation involving the amount in the meme.

If you’re a self employed contractor, you’re taking taxes and insurance out yourself, not from what you’d be paid.