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  • Sous la pression de la FNSEA, et des forestiers, qui accusent notamment les grands cervidés de détruire le forêt et bouffer l’herbe des troupeaux, le préfet a fixé des quotas aux chasseurs avant l’ouverture de la saison il y a quelques mois : éliminer 2000 grands cerfs, 350 chamois, 165 daims et 10.000 chevreuils.

    Pas question d’y toucher, Gilles Kaszuk ne mâche pas ses mots : “Ce serait une erreur, un viol, un crime de prélever des animaux dans le mois de février à venir”. Pourquoi ? Parce que comme l’explique le manifeste écrit par les chasseurs haut-rhinois, ils constatent, avec les naturalistes, les promeneurs, « la diminution notoire de la grande faune », perturbée par le changement climatique mais aussi le retour des grands prédateurs, lynx et loups, la “surfréquentation” de la montagne avec motards et quads m’a-t-il expliqué, et, surtout, le modèle agricole dominant.

    J’ai pas les mots. La FNSEA qui fait pression pour eliminer encore plus de diversité pour surtout jamais remettre en question leur modèle.







  • Sure, but that’s tangential to their market position relative to their competitors. CS2 loot boxes are a problem, but they’re not responsible for Steam being the biggest PC game store.

    You are completely right. What I meant, is that since PC Gaming is only considered a subset of PC & Console gaming market (as opposed to, say, Mobile gaming), if it were to grow in share within said market, it will likely attract the eyes of regulators who could improve the current situation.

    Sorry if I wasn’t clear before.



  • Regulation isn’t just about breaking them up. I was more thinking along the line of applying the DMA and DSA to Steam proper, which would only lead to benefits for us. The presence of the speculation casino that is the Steam Market into the hands of kids without any regulation is nuts, and that’s not saying anything about the current hypertoxic state of the Steam Community forums. That’s not okay, and Valve seems reluctant to fix that (the former becausr it brings them a metric ton of money, and the latter probably to avoid pissing off the gamergate libertarian crowd). Regulation could force them to do so.


  • That’s a good point. The number of Switches sold does nearly match Steam’s MAU.

    Every Switch is handheld, but how many people are they capturing, or will they soon capture, that care very little about Nintendo games and just want to play games handheld?

    Every Switch owner I know has bought at least one Nintendo game over its lifetime, and often several. According to the best selling Switch games list, it’s safe to assume at least one in every two Switch owner has bought Nintendo games for it. Is it due to the marketing and advertisement coming from the fact they own the platform, or that they’re still the kings of both casual and family friendly couch gaming? I suppose indie is strongly catching up, at least on the former but the latter might be more difficult.

    I have a feeling that the “port everything to the Switch” crowd won’t really exist anymore in a world where that game already plays on a similarly-priced PC handheld without having to beg the developers first.

    Wouldn’t that be nice? Given that PS and Xbox exclusives now all make their way onto PC to the point we barely have to ask anymore. Though if we were to reach that point, I’d seriously worry about the centralisation of the Steam market. Hopefully regulation will catch up soon.


  • Nintendo’s unbeatable advantage will always be its first-party games, but the Switch 2 — a device rumored to be a fairly light improvement over its predecessor — doesn’t quite feel like it’ll be as culturally dominant as the Switch was in 2017.

    That remains to be seen. Back in 2016-2017, every gaming media was skeptical that the Switch would be anywhere near as much of a success like the DS or the GameBoy had been, or if it was going to be another failure like the Wii U.

    Why buy a game on PS5 when you can get it on Steam and have access to it on any number of devices?

    That has been one of the arguments for PC gaming in a long time, but it never quite reached the console players’ mindset. Not to mention that, despite its dominance in game distribution, Valve and the Steam brand are nowhere near as recognizable as any of the other ‘big 3’. The Steam Deck may have sold a few million copies (four or five from what I hear?), but it’s nowhere near the hundreds of millions of Switches, even in sale pace nowadays. I can’t see it take less than a decade for that mindset to start changing change and competitors and regulation to get interested, and even that’s an optimistic estimate.

    Still, it’s good to hear the platform exlusivity walls are finally breaking down.









  • 2 ans ? Tu oublies les élections législatives de l’année prochaine lors de la nouvelle dissolution. Aucun parti ne veut paraitre “faible” ou “comprométant” par rapport au soutien de leur base, car ça pourait leur éclater à la figure pendant la campagne.

    Les centristes sont conscients que aujourd’hui, le groupe dont l’unité est la plus fragile, c’est eux. Aux élections législatives de cete année, sans le front republicain, il n’y aurait pas eux de bloc centriste. S’allier avec le NFP pour former un gouvernement ne ferait que les rendre plus légitime comme “la seule alternative au RN”. S’allier au RN, à l’inverse, ferait à 100% exploser leur coalition, et donnerait à tous les membres du NFP une balle gratuite du genre “Macron = RN”.

    Bref, tout le monde joue un jeu de dupe pour ne pas gouverner et apparaitre légitime pour 2025. Et en vérité, si Macron était malin, il nomerais Lucie Castets et la laisserais se casser la geule toute seule avec une motion de censure imédiate pour renforcer sa position. C’est pas comme si il en avait quoi que soit à foutre de la stabilité de notre régime ou de l’inflation aux vue de tout ce qui s’est passé ces dernières années.


  • Yeah, I don’t see the NFP (left alliance) collapsing over this. Both them and the RN rn only has the 2027 2025 elections in their mind and want to break the current stalemate by dismantling the centrist coalition, one way or the other.

    The socialists have zero interest in breaking away from the NFP with whom they’ve only been gaining legitimacy to join Macron’s sinking ship.

    What options does that actually leave? Well, Macron could play coy and the clock by nominating Barnier again (or someone worse, like Manuel Vals, or a member of Cioti (right-far)'s party, which would be the biggest insult to the elections in our history) until he can dissolve the parliement again… or he could resign.

    The next weeks aren’t going to be fun.