Valerian and Laureline seems to fit

Yeah, sure, gamers are politically ignorant and fail to achieve their goals.

But what does any of this have to do with the Pareto principle?

Okay, now I'm extremely confused. How is being aware of the Pareto principle and mentioning it in situations where it applies "political inaction"? And more to the point, how does referencing it in response to reports about game revenue distribution in any way related to a person's willingness to donate to steamdb?

Alright yeah, I agree with all that, but what does that have to do with the users that responded to reports about how game revenues are distributed by accurately associating it with the Pareto principle?

Theoretically even if the donation needs were met, it would be a small percent of users providing the majority of donations. So I don't really see how acknowledging the existence of the principle changes whether it's surprising that no one helped out.

Wait, you link three examples where Lemmy users point out that the Pareto principle explains data showing the way that engagement and revenue are distributed between games on Steam. I'm failing to see how that's relevant to whether people would be willing to assist or take over the steamdb project. Obviously we can see in hindsight that they didn't, but how do these links address whether that's surprising?

I never claimed he said those additional things. You're the one putting words in his mouth by claiming that he was saying the kids deserved it or that the perpetrators were the good guys. "America deserved X" does not mean "the children involved deserved X" and it does not even mean "the people who did X did a good thing". It means only "America deserved X".

I mean "America deserved it" and "those kids didn't deserve it" and "the people who did it are evil" are all statements that can be true. There is no logical incompatibility there.

If a person blows up a building full of people and one of them was a serial killer, it's very reasonable to believe "this was a bad act and most of these people didn't deserve it" and "that one guy definitely did deserve it" at the same time.

He is a fool, and chess is a difficult game, but the reason you've cited here is also true for Go Fish.

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IIRC that same crisis also spurred funding for some of the key initial research that eventually culminated in lithium ion batteries. Considering the various stops and starts in that timeline, battery tech could easily be a decade or two behind where it currently is if not for the oil crisis.

The price might not be worth it, but would be really funny if Valve just delisted the claimed games in the UK and notified the publishers that they need to remove the claimed music or resolve the licensing issue if they want their game back up. Instead of one tidy lawsuit, suddenly these guys are being contacted by the angry lawyers of hundreds of orgs they have existing contracts with.