Sounds great, but as with so many of these projects, they sound overly complicated for the masses. Wero is already a thing and it's straight forward. Even that is too complicated for many people, but it's gaining traction at least.

Anywho, I'm rooting for both!

What benefits would Discover customers get from Capital One's acquisition? Discover acceptance in the US has been almost on-par with Visa/MC for many many years.

Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by... well ... A bank.

Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.

It wouldn't help much with inflation, but it wouldn't fluctuate as much as bitcoin due to all transactions being secret It is relatively stable. With monero you wouldn't have to worry about the value changing a lot in the span of a couple of hours.

I'm not saying there is illegal content. Read my comment.

I'm saying the possibility of there being illegal content only exists if they allow the reintroduction of those titles. They'd need trust in the store moderation, in the lack of bad faith actors, in a lot of things.

And it would be an absolutely stupid business decision for them.

I am NOT condoning what they did, nor what they are doing. I am explaining, from their business perspective, why allowing potentially illegal content back on the platform is a non-argument and you cannot convince them otherwise.

I'm saying the possibility of there being illegal content only exists if they allow the reintroduction of those titles.

Again, no. If there were illegal content before then it's already breaking the rules. If you're breaking rules once, why would adding more rules change anything?

They'd need trust in the store moderation, in the lack of bad faith actors, in a lot of things.

What? Yeah, the store moderators have to enforce the rules. I don't know what this has to do with anything. Illegal or just banned, they have to be removed by the moderators. What difference does it make? This doesn't make any sense. Adding more rules doesn't magically remove the content. Moderators still have to do it. If they weren't doing it for illegal content, why would they do it for only banned but legal content?

The reason they did it is because they were pressured by a weird group who has a lot of influence. It wasn't because they were worried about illegal content, which is obvious because that's not the rule they applied. If the rule was "you're not allowed to sell illegal content" (which is obviously always true) then it'd be fine. Instead they made a rule for not allowing specific types of legal content.

You're not great at risk assessment, are you?

They have a risky move, which in 1/10000 cases leads to an illegal game being paid for through their payment platform.

And they have a safe move, where this never happens. Literally.

If the expected risk is positive in case 1, they will opt for case 2.

You must at least be able to understand this simple logic, right? If not, then I'm afraid this conversation is over because you're not even remotely trying to understand their logic, and you're just looking for a reason to be mad. Your irrationality makes me nauseous.

Let's say it like it is: after the world of hundreds of developers is undermined, and the property of thousands of customers is compromised.

Right, the actual solution is everyone taking their money out of the bank on the same day

They have a risky move, which in 1/10000 cases leads to an illegal game being paid for through their payment platform.

And they have a safe move, where this never happens. Literally.

You're not getting it. They're the exact same risk. If it was illegal, it wasn't allowed before. If you're breaking the rules, you don't care. Especially if you were breaking the law and the rule before, you don't care that there's a new rule that also applies. This doesn't change risk at all. It doesn't make it any more unlikely, and certainly not "literally never happens."

The opposite could be true, if it were just against the rules but then is also made to be against the law. It might dissuade some people who were skirting the rules to reconsider. If they were breaking the law already, they don't care that they're breaking a new rule because they already were breaking the rules. It doesn't make it any worse for them. It's the exact same. If they're discovered, they're removed from the platform, exactly the same as before.

You must at least be able to understand this simple logic, right? Once you're breaking the rules enough to be removed from the platform, why do you care if there are more rules that will remove you from the platform? You're either stopped or you're not, and the platform either stops them or it doesn't. The risk to the payment processors is the same. You trust the moderation or you don't. They aren't going to do a better job because the illegal content is doubly not allowed. They're either stopping content that isn't allowed or they aren't.

Don't be fooled, that's not the real reason. Parents that shove iPads in front of their children are not even remotely worried about what their kids are watching online. This is purely about control, has nothing to do with children.

LGBTQ games love to tag themselves as such even when there's no talk of gender sexuality or relationship.

The number of times iv seen the LGBTQ tag on a game just because the dev is gay or trans or something is absolutely fucking absurdly high.

Honestly it's a huge pet peeve of mine. I don't give a single flying fuck what you are as a dev. I care what's in the god damn game. The tags ARE FOR THE GAME NOT YOU. stop making tags fucking useless by adding worthless tags.

Joke tags can ALSO fuck off.

I switched all my master and visa cards to amex, canceled a visa card and the only have my debit as visa now because my credit union ONLY offers visa for debit

Mate you didn't read the comment right. You might want to check yourself while you reck yourself.

It's more visa and MasterCard are cheaper by abusing their duopoly and connections. While amex is the normal costs.

Diners club hasn't been available to normal people and small businesses for years now. It's basically a large business company card only thing nowadays.

Diner card is fortune 500 company cards only at this point they don't do normal consumer or even small business cards anymore.

Discover replaced thoses with the mergers.

You sound like a bully in some 1980s comedy. Lol

Keep telling me how mad you are. I love it.