Yeah but he has ties to a known pedophile, and even had art by said pedo on the wall in the background of some videos, so there’s that.

Except for when they’re extremely bad at doing this and use it as a weapon, such as what they did with TF2C.

Which is the outcome Valve wanted, more or less. Of course getting the whole thing thrown out would’ve been preferable for them, but they trashed their arbitration clause specifically so this could go class action, thereby saving them a fuckload of money.

I mean, they have Source 2, but to call it a rival before it’s even made it to third-party developers (Facepunch is effectively second party) is a bit of a stretch.

Galaxy definitely sucks, but to say it’s worse than EGS seems pretty far out there. EGS has been caught snooping around files and taking system logs without notice on top of just being overly resource intensive, totally bare bones and easily broken.

Everybody talks about “why not Mastodon” in the comments of these. I thought about that for a long while back when I used Mastodon, and I have an answer: discoverability. ActivityPub does not make things easy to find, which makes a Twitter-like service even more like screaming into the void. It effectively becomes “bring your own audience,” and tends to only amplify the voices that are already the loudest, though as a consequence of the backend, rather than a malicious choice like Twitter.

The Steam Community is a cesspool, and a good part of that is owed to the lack of any centralized moderation. Game communities are moderated by publishers, developers, or their chosen volunteers or employees. If a game is forgotten, its community becomes totally unmoderated, and there’s nothing like Reddit’s auto-bans to prune these abandoned communities.

Also… pretty sure they just let community moderators do anything they want as long as it’s not outright illegal.

Okay. Firefox Focus is a totally different thing.

I’m on mobile, Firefox Focus. It has a basic adblocker, but doesn’t do anything about shitty design.

Oh my God fuck this site. Ya get to the bottom of the article and a pop-up appears and when you close the damn pop-up you’re automatically taken back to the top of the article WHY

The headline is slimy

Are you referring to the use of the word “killshot”? Otherwise, the headline says exactly the same thing.

Its offline installers ‘cannot be taken away from you’

No implication of outright ownership, just that they can’t take away the offline installers. I mean, I guess it doesn’t outright say “that you’ve already downloaded,” but given the length, I’d say that’s a passable omission.

I would personally recommend not purchasing it. Not saying don’t play it, but there’s no one who will profit from it who should.

Okay, I have no idea what the hell is going on here. I don’t follow this stuff, and last I heard, Sam Altman was the good guy who was kicked out of OpenAI because he was focused on ethics while they were focused on profit.