notgivingmynametoamachine
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- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 10 hours ago:
I’M not claiming steam pulled it due to pressure from payment processors, VALVE reported it. You’d know that if you read the article I posted.
If you want to participate in the discussion you have to do the reading.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 11 hours ago:
Let’s finish our conversation about steam before we set up a goal post move.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 11 hours ago:
Please actually read my comment and try again.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 11 hours ago:
I regret my short hand of “slippery slope” but it’s not a coincidence that less than 6 months ago payment processors used their influence to get a game pulled from steam and now all of a sudden steam is self censoring based on content.
Whatever the non-fallacious version of “there’s an escalating pattern here” is what’s happening.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 11 hours ago:
Visa and Mastercard literally used their influence to get a game pulled from steam this year. So much for your strawman argument.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 11 hours ago:
Earlier this year steam updated its guidelines to prohibit content that “may violate the rules and standards set forth my steam payment processors and related card networks”
Visa and Mastercard pressured steam to remove a game because they didn’t agree with its content. Visa and Mastercard only care because they believe they end users care - that’s you, a potential end user of visa and Mastercards service.
You saying “I see why they wouldn’t want to sell the game” helps them to pressure steam into self censorship.
You’re speaking with an awful lot of confidence on stuff you don’t see to be very well versed in.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 12 hours ago:
The only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.
You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.
The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.
Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 12 hours ago:
I’m not admonishing the store, as you said it’s up to them to carry what they like. I’m admonishing you and people like you for trying to exert pressure on the store to not carry something you personally don’t like, because again, you’re not intended to be in charge of what others sell.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 16 hours ago:
That’s not how this works, you don’t get to decide what is acceptable for other people. It’s people like you who galvanize Mastercard and Visa in trying to control what kind of content we’re “allowed” to purchase.
To be clear this all sounds repugnant to me, but i realize Im not the sole arbiter of taste and have no interest in telling other adults what (legal) things they are and aren’t allowed to do.
If the game is so bad it’ll tank, it doesn’t need outside forces influencing it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Nail On The Head.
I work in tech. I also have terrible dexterity. While I love my gaming PC, I dread upgrades or things going wrong. I hate applying thermal paste, replacing a motherboard, etc. I’d gladly pay “prebuilt” prices for something from a company I can “trust” (as far as corporations can be trusted).
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
To each their own, but you don’t really need to mess with stuff.
For me, a game like fallout 3 or NV where I prefer fps style controls but don’t care enough to sit at my pc to play, the steam controllers track pads are perfect.
I do get it though, it takes practice.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
I give 0% of shit how it looks, all I care about it ease of use and performance. Track pads at your finger tips takes getting used to, but it’s a game changer for any game that isn’t classically easy to play with a controller.
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 3 weeks ago:
I mean I know “Alleged” has to be there for legal purposes, but what are the chances Rockstar ISNT guilty of union busting?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
Not “needed”, just “cool” in a “ooh, the future!” Sense… at least until you get into all the environmental and sociological issues.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
I won’t lie, the idea of sunlight on demand sounds interesting… but then capitalism ruins it before the environmentalists even had a chance. (not trying to downplay environmental science here, just being cheeky)
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
If you trust ANYTHING Musk has for you well then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 months ago:
Good. Nazi sympathizing shithole deserves nothing but the worst. Fuck spez and every complicit modgoloid and SSAdmin.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 2 months ago:
So you’ll continue being a money sucking ghoul who infects my hobby with more and more micro transactions for things that should have been shipped with the game in the first place?
Phew, I was worried there for a sec I might have to credit SA or a fucking Kushner for fixing one of the shittiest publishers in gaming, nice to know they can remain on “pirate if it looks good” list.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Their heavy “anti violence” push is directed at shutting down dissenters of the current American regime. You can post all the horrific violent things iCE and the admin are doing to your hearts content but if you so much as “hope” an ice agent or Temu Hitler does, some jackboot licking Nazi sympathizing mod comes to remove your post, because hoping that an evil person dies is apparently the same as violence.
They’re eagerly chugging Goebbels cock at the mere thought of an extra dollar, because they’re Nazi sympathizing capitalist scum. The only thing they deserve is a bullet in the Brain and an unmarked grave in a corn field so they can be useful for once in their miserable existence.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Reddits transformation into a Nazi sympathizing shithole was remarklably swift. Don’t get me wrong, that place was going downhill the second they decided their user base was a product, but it pivoted from generic corporate advertising shithole to fascist friendly nuclear waste pit with remarkable speed. So many micro pud incels willying to volunteer for the brown coats, it’s disgusting.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 5 months ago:
Because Reddit is a nazi sympathizing, brown shirt wearing shithole for jack booted thugs and fascists. It all started when some cunt at Reddit thought “what if my user base was a product?”, and thus the en-digg-ification of Reddit was complete.
Fuck that fascist friendly corpo shithole, it belongs in the dumpster next to Digg.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 months ago:
Yar har fiddle dee, 80 bucks a game just ain’t for me, yar har fiddle and fat, I’ll just fucking sail the high seas numbnuts publishers, good job trading the 60 bucks I was willing to pay for the 0 you’ll be getting from me now.
And remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 6 months ago:
Gohans half saiyan, 17 and 18 use infinite energy cybernetics for their combat power - none are comparable to Krillin.
Tien though, totally. Toriyama has come out and said Krillin is the strongest human (I believe), so he either forgot about Tien or were just supposed to understand that Krillin is stronger than him despite Tien being far more dedicated to training and facing down bigger threats.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 months ago:
I was! Thanks for the info, I’ll be checking out Jellyfin instead.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 months ago:
Bye Netflix, hello plex.
- Comment on I love that maga will get the day they voted for and deserve. I hate that they dragged all the rest of us in with them. 6 months ago:
I… cannot overstate the mirth I felt reading “4d8+6 children have been molested”.
Bravo.
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 6 months ago:
laughs in steam deck You know, I didn’t really have a lot of interest in emulating old Nintendo games, but now I think I’ll do it just because Nintendo doesn’t want me to.
Thank god I own a PC and not a corpo platform.
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 6 months ago:
Fair.
I may have been thinking about articles I’ve read about the EU and how they don’t tolerate this particular brand of corpo overreach, my apologies and thank you for the correction.
God I wish I lived in a sane country.
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 6 months ago:
This shit never holds up in court - you can’t just sign rights away by clicking “accept” on a EULA. This is a scare tactic designed to stop people before they ever try because “well it says i can’t do that in the eula.”
If Nintendo give you a reason to sue them, sue the ever loving shit out of those greedy corporate fucks.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 6 months ago:
Not sure I follow sir - are you saying R* doesn’t have to price it at 90$ and they’ll still make money?
I mean that’s true, but publicly traded companies are the devil themselves and are required to make as much money as possible.