I feel like a perpetually online person, but maybe not as much as I think? I missed this one, but I also don’t spend a lot of time on 4chan these days either.
Traditional media likes to call “gamergate” to being called out for “access journalism”. That’s also why they took the uncivility of a vocal few to represent a larger movement that demanded more transparency in games journalism. Turns out, if you have a megaphone, you seldom want to share the power to use it.
Dud you’ll have people posting shit in steam forums who haven’t even bought the game bitching and moaning.
I saw a post on the forum for a game I’ve been playing recently and it was “One Year Anniversary: never forget the dev added a pronoun selector at character creation. Never buying this garbage.”
Game in question is Lunacid, and apparently the dev added the pronoun selector specifically to bait the trolls. And the pronouns are literally never used in any capacity. It’s just flavor text.
ETA: I believe steam forums should be locked unless you’ve bought the game in question and played for at least like an hour or so. The damn points shop makes you play your games for at least 2 hours before you can get any of that useless shit, so why not the forums?
Some people are obviously farming clown awards on the Steam Community forums, probably to distract themselves from their pitifully meaningless existence.
As I’ve said before, Steam needs stronger moderation. But barring people who don’t own the game from the conversation is not the solution. Sometimes you have legitimate questions about a game before you buy. Or maybe you own it on another platform.
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Really?
I feel like a perpetually online person, but maybe not as much as I think? I missed this one, but I also don’t spend a lot of time on 4chan these days either.
Traditional media likes to call “gamergate” to being called out for “access journalism”. That’s also why they took the uncivility of a vocal few to represent a larger movement that demanded more transparency in games journalism. Turns out, if you have a megaphone, you seldom want to share the power to use it.
Anything with a minority or woman in even a supporting role is getting blasted by conservatives.
I envy you. If you search for “DEI”, “Sweet Baby”/“SBI”, or “modern audiences” in Steam forums or on Google, you’ll find it.
Dud you’ll have people posting shit in steam forums who haven’t even bought the game bitching and moaning.
I saw a post on the forum for a game I’ve been playing recently and it was “One Year Anniversary: never forget the dev added a pronoun selector at character creation. Never buying this garbage.”
Game in question is Lunacid, and apparently the dev added the pronoun selector specifically to bait the trolls. And the pronouns are literally never used in any capacity. It’s just flavor text.
ETA: I believe steam forums should be locked unless you’ve bought the game in question and played for at least like an hour or so. The damn points shop makes you play your games for at least 2 hours before you can get any of that useless shit, so why not the forums?
Some people are obviously farming clown awards on the Steam Community forums, probably to distract themselves from their pitifully meaningless existence.
As I’ve said before, Steam needs stronger moderation. But barring people who don’t own the game from the conversation is not the solution. Sometimes you have legitimate questions about a game before you buy. Or maybe you own it on another platform.
If you search for ‘terms explicitly targeted by bots’, you’ll find bots.
Oh, I wish they were bots.